CountBlack
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That's what I was saying.
The singles that were released were the best tracks on the album.
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Oxymoron - ScHoolboy Q |OT| "Tell Kendrick move from the throne, I came for it"
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The singles that were released were the best tracks on the album.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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What you think overall?
Rastafarian42
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Damn these bonus songs are fucking cold espically groove line pt.2 dat beat and fuck la. I don't think the album shoulda ended with man of the year it just didn't feel right at all.
Basically Deluxe = true album.
Basically Deluxe = true album.
Tokubetsu
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The worst song on the album is the one Tyler produced and it's only bad because of the beat. The rest of the album has all this texture that it sticks out in a bad way.
rocketskates
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Yeah. I was definitely hyped for this, but it got put in the Recycle bin already.
I've only heard what's been released but I just hit up Youtube for Prescription/Oxymoron and as someone who's battled prescription addiction in the past from benzos to painkillers it hit me pretty hard.
And what he's spitting on the track from the first half about the battle of the addiction and the pain it causes family members, to how easy it is to get a prescription and start making money is absolutely true in this day and age.
It's almost like the track is flipped. The second half of the song is when he gets the Prescription and the first half is the Oxymoron and the regret and remorse.
And what he's spitting on the track from the first half about the battle of the addiction and the pain it causes family members, to how easy it is to get a prescription and start making money is absolutely true in this day and age.
It's almost like the track is flipped. The second half of the song is when he gets the Prescription and the first half is the Oxymoron and the regret and remorse.
verdict: 2.5/5
keepers: gangsta, what they want, hoover street, P/O, hell of a night, man of the year, break the bank
might chop a part of His & Her Friend into a wake up alarm but i'm not gonna listen to the song.
Fuck LA could be good but the "Pussy Lips" lyric ruins it for me.
i'd be disappointed if it my expectations for this album weren't already in the gutter.
shit just lacks focus. and if your album lacks focus then at least you can load that joint front to back w/ hits and eat off that. but he didn't do that either.
keepers: gangsta, what they want, hoover street, P/O, hell of a night, man of the year, break the bank
might chop a part of His & Her Friend into a wake up alarm but i'm not gonna listen to the song.
Fuck LA could be good but the "Pussy Lips" lyric ruins it for me.
i'd be disappointed if it my expectations for this album weren't already in the gutter.
shit just lacks focus. and if your album lacks focus then at least you can load that joint front to back w/ hits and eat off that. but he didn't do that either.
Lame track. The beat is so generic Tyler crap that I can't do it. Kurupt is weak on it too.
PhoenixDark
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The difference between the drums, bass and/or 808s on nearly every other track and The Purge are pretty stark. I like Tyler's lo fi, simple style but it just doesn't work on that beat.
polyh3dron
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What a shitty album.. only 4 tracks from it that I felt were worthy of being on an album release. Studio, Blind Threats, Hell of a night and Man Of The Year. What They Want was kind of okay and everything else is garbage.
It's pretty disappointing.
With the ridiculously saturated market of producers selling beats out there these days, you really have no excuse as a rapper to pick bad beats. And Q picked a bunch of stinkers.
It's pretty disappointing.
With the ridiculously saturated market of producers selling beats out there these days, you really have no excuse as a rapper to pick bad beats. And Q picked a bunch of stinkers.
Underwhelming. How did this album feel so called in with all those tracks that didn't make the cut, surely there were some better choices in them.
There are just some tracks that are just asking for some (other) features. Los Awesome sounds like something Danny Brown would have loads of fun on and Hell of a Night sounds right up A$AP Rocky's alley. A lot of missed oppurtunities tbh.
5.5 - 6/10, haven't listened to the deluxe tracks but not expecting much. Favourites are Collard Greens, Man of the Year, Prescription/Oxymoron and Hell of a Night.
There are just some tracks that are just asking for some (other) features. Los Awesome sounds like something Danny Brown would have loads of fun on and Hell of a Night sounds right up A$AP Rocky's alley. A lot of missed oppurtunities tbh.
5.5 - 6/10, haven't listened to the deluxe tracks but not expecting much. Favourites are Collard Greens, Man of the Year, Prescription/Oxymoron and Hell of a Night.
polyh3dron
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There usually are.. For some reason lots of rappers overthink the hell out of song selection on their albums and end up putting a lot of garbage on them and leave out really good tracks. Nas is notorious for it.
Ken Masters
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Another corny rapper gets exposed
gutterboy44
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A second listen, while not working made a huge difference for me. I liked all of the singles on the first listen but didn't feel much else of the album. Playing some FIFA listening to it on headphones last night a second time was a completely different experience. I don't like it more than Habits at this point, but I still am really enjoying it.
I've been fuckin around with the sequencing...
things make a bit more sense like this. not choked back by a too long track (that doesn't need to be as long as it does 'hoover') and dumped that terribad tyler track. brought in the deluxe bits and one itunes deluxe track.
I'm sure this will change up when everything is available, but I like this sequencing so far. Hits a better groove while still having the "fun mainstream" tracks. kinda fuckin with the idea of throwin banger on there, but I'll see what next week brings us when everything is out.
things make a bit more sense like this. not choked back by a too long track (that doesn't need to be as long as it does 'hoover') and dumped that terribad tyler track. brought in the deluxe bits and one itunes deluxe track.
I'm sure this will change up when everything is available, but I like this sequencing so far. Hits a better groove while still having the "fun mainstream" tracks. kinda fuckin with the idea of throwin banger on there, but I'll see what next week brings us when everything is out.
Bob Dobalina
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Q was on twitter the past hour. confirmed one of the target bonus tracks is the Rocky collab, and "me and Stanny crown got beef apparently lol"
Syph Medwes
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Man of the Year Toku, Man of the Year
poopninjamvc3mk
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Holy shit a lot of mixed reviews in the thread.
How can you say this with a straight face? That 2 Chainz verse sounds freestyled and someone must have put a gun to his head to make him do Studio.
I've been fuckin around with the sequencing...
things make a bit more sense like this. not choked back by a too long track (that doesn't need to be as long as it does 'hoover') and dumped that terribad tyler track. brought in the deluxe bits and one itunes deluxe track.
I'm sure this will change up when everything is available, but I like this sequencing so far. Hits a better groove while still having the "fun mainstream" tracks. kinda fuckin with the idea of throwin banger on there, but I'll see what next week brings us when everything is out.
I've found that Gangsta followed by Banger is a good opening. I'm hoping that's the last bonus track.
Focus on Drakes last mediocre album breh.
HnC is great.
Yeah, I posted my thoughts on GAF-Hop. Disappointed. Some songs will be bumped for months, but it's too tame for a Q album. Think there is a good album after deluxe and some mixing up, honestly. Prescription/Oxymoron and Blund Threats are really dope. As is Fuck LA. We heard most of the great tracks before the album came out.
This isn't even true. Drake's album was 1000x better than OLD, Oxymoron, and basically anything else that came out last year.
LMAO what the fuck??? This is not even true. Studio sounds like a shitty song that Q would think is hot. He's had plenty of those.
mooooose is drunk, nothing to see here.
breakfuss
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Can't believe ya'll don't like Purge, lol. Probably my favorite. Between that and the bj the kid feature. And I'm not feeling the pharrell track. Ah well. Guess I can't be disappointed with this since I've never been a fan. In fact I think most of TDE outside of Kendrick is pretty weak, lol. They have some good production, but, whoever is writing Kendrick's hooks need to share with the others. I did like what little I heard of Isaiah Rashad's new tape.
OLD was horrible. Being honest. If 2013 wasn't so bad, it wouldn't have been in my top 10. It's some of the most pandering shitty music I've ever heard and the minute I realized that, the entire album was ruined. It's boring, lacks hunger, and pushes no boundaries, has no quotables, it's just bad.
At least Oxymoron has good hooks.
Drake is amazing. NWTS is literally a work of art. Best music of 2013.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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yep. the album is okay on first listen. Lots of hit and miss and some of the music production is atrocious. Kind of a shame the only standout tracks have been the singles.
WanderingWind
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So, it's 2013's Oxy? Nah.
wasn't even commenting on that... all of that Drake shit you just said made me think you were drunk.
No, it's worse. It doesn't even have good hooks.
Wonderbread was a good song.
Drake is our modern F. Scott Fitzgerald.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
It's moooooseboy Q. Of course he's on substances
Wasn't a fan of the album.
Felt like I was just enduring the album without actually liking it other than Hoover Street which I thought was one of the better songs on the album.
Didn't think the features were all too good either, although Raekwon did OK.
I thought Q was going to bring fire, I really did.
Felt like I was just enduring the album without actually liking it other than Hoover Street which I thought was one of the better songs on the album.
Didn't think the features were all too good either, although Raekwon did OK.
I thought Q was going to bring fire, I really did.
haZethew0rld
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This is probably gonna be a grower. Was expecting more tracks like Collard Greens & Man Of The Year. Overall the project sounds really dark, there's some good tracks here and there and some mediocre ones. Still gonna wait ti'll the Target deluxe edition gets released to give a verdict.
Let's just take a minute to analyze Nothing Was The Same, for what it is. It's one of the most melodic and musical hip hop albums of last year, progressive and complex in all the right ways. It makes Take Care, which I hold as a classic next to XXX and GKMC, seem trite and unsophisticated.
First to note is the production. Many of the songs on NWTS, such as Tuscan Leather, are clear call backs to chipmunk soul era beats, but they have progression that make them so much more than the soul loops that plagued that era. The sample is literally deconstructed throughout the song. Many of the songs sound distant, eerie with layered synths and VERY tight trap esque drums. The best produced song on NWTS is Worst Behavior. Worst Behavior is the best song of 2013, across all genres, and a generation defining song. In it's production, from the percussion, to the zooming synth in the background, and the sparingly placed vocal samples.
But besides the production, more importantly, is Drake. The production would be a step towards the right direction to helping hip hop move forward, but for Drake? This is his life's soundtrack, at this moment. He is in a place no one can sympathize with. He is where Jay Z is now, at the young age of his late 20's. He's learning life while literally being one of the most successful men in his craft. No one is touching Drake money while maintaining his sense of responsibility. Drake is so confessional but comes with so much attitude. NWTS is Drake's control response, fuck any verse. Every song is an anthem. Every hook is masterfully crafted. Drake speaks to a generation.
First to note is the production. Many of the songs on NWTS, such as Tuscan Leather, are clear call backs to chipmunk soul era beats, but they have progression that make them so much more than the soul loops that plagued that era. The sample is literally deconstructed throughout the song. Many of the songs sound distant, eerie with layered synths and VERY tight trap esque drums. The best produced song on NWTS is Worst Behavior. Worst Behavior is the best song of 2013, across all genres, and a generation defining song. In it's production, from the percussion, to the zooming synth in the background, and the sparingly placed vocal samples.
But besides the production, more importantly, is Drake. The production would be a step towards the right direction to helping hip hop move forward, but for Drake? This is his life's soundtrack, at this moment. He is in a place no one can sympathize with. He is where Jay Z is now, at the young age of his late 20's. He's learning life while literally being one of the most successful men in his craft. No one is touching Drake money while maintaining his sense of responsibility. Drake is so confessional but comes with so much attitude. NWTS is Drake's control response, fuck any verse. Every song is an anthem. Every hook is masterfully crafted. Drake speaks to a generation.
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