What happened to Wale after Mixtape About Nothing? Did he sell his soul to Lord Ross?
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More about Nothing was awesome too.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
that Gucci card is fucking hilarious.
i would've put Drake #1 (Ross #2) but hearing the roundtable discussion i see why they put Ross #1.
Ross is definitely in that plat or bust category now so GFID will be really interesting.
i would've put Drake #1 (Ross #2) but hearing the roundtable discussion i see why they put Ross #1.
Ross is definitely in that plat or bust category now so GFID will be really interesting.
Well I thought it was alright not flat out good or great.
DJ Premier Regeneration (rmx) f. Apathy & Nas [CDQ]
its good but i liked the OG beat better
What happened? Ross saved his career.
Tokubetsu
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New Golf Wang video, directed by Tyler:
http://youtu.be/fN-xq7t6pKw
http://youtu.be/fN-xq7t6pKw
I can't tell if I kinda like this, or I just totally hate this.
Emperor Bohe
Member
the OF track is average...but domo seems better than I remember him being.
He's most improved. Been a while since we've heard anything Mellowhype though, I wonder how they're progressing.
New Rittz. Really starting to look forward to White Jesus Revival. That beat is pretty hot.
Oh, AOTY results thread up tonight
Oh boy. This is sick. Love the guitar in the back. Way better than the first leaked track. I need to bump this in the car ASAP.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Fucking awesome.
The tape that got me really diggin Wale was Back to the Feature. The Wale hate on GAF is something I'll never understand. Even if I like a rapper who get's hated on, I can at least see where people are coming from. For the lane he's in, I think he's one of the better poppy rappers. I like everything from Mixtape about Nothing to Ambition. The only tape I couldn't really get into was More About Nothing. I mean, we've got people who like Big Sean.
Rittz is bangin as usual. I only know he's put out 1 tape, but I haven't heard a bad Rittz song yet.
Back To The Feature was ass. So fucking disappointing after Mixtape About Nothing. Ambition was also ass, Attention Deficit was criminally underrated and after its poor commercial outing, he switched up gears and became Ross's boy toy. Fuck Mayback music and Ross titties.
njean777
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/agree I want the old Wale back, but I am sure that will not happen anymore. Ambition has like 2 good tracks on it imo.
PhoenixDark
Banned
BTTF sucked, the first Seinfeld mixtape was good but nothing special; he's always been overrated imo. His first album was horrible, while Ambition is decent I guess; it has some damn good songs like the title track, plus a bunch of generic shit.
I hate his rhyme scheme. It's almost Freeway level of stupidity
I hate his rhyme scheme. It's almost Freeway level of stupidity
Tokubetsu
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I don't think it sounded 80s. It sounded like he was trying to use up all this indie alt production garbage and it failed, miserably. BTTF was good for what it was, a feature loaded mixtape with good production:
http://youtu.be/lzgFnoADa24
I felt it had some type of Miami Vice vibe going for it, but failed horribly. That was my first impression, and i havnt gone back for more.
It's not that Wale is bad, it's even worse than that, he's just..."bleh". I can listen to a wale song and have no fucking recollection of it 5 seconds later. It's not even vanilla, vanilla at least has flavor. It's dried protein paste rap. Even on those rare occasions where I can remember thinking he got a few decent bars out, I can't recall what song they were on and what the lyrics were. All I remember is thinking "that wasn't too bad" and then forgetting what the fuck I was listening to seconds later.
PhoenixDark
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Ambition has some dope beats tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfxHk0RQDM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQcNW_s7fY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPfxHk0RQDM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQcNW_s7fY
Ambition was the only dope beat on the album.
I dont think i have seen you say you dont like something yet, lol.
Haha I really am very open to all kinds of music... Really, the last album I really didn't like was Danny Brown's. I know, I know.
Ambition has the line up for some dome though.
Start off with Legendary - better than going straight to a bitch joint.
Then you get to Lotus Flower - okay, it just came on after Legendary, sets a little mood though. Doesn't come off too try hard.
Then Chain Music - a little more hardcore joint. You can't just let joints like Lotus Flower roll the whole night. It's still upbeat enough to keep her interested.
Focused - OMG is that Kid Cudi? Yeah it's Kid Cudi. OMG I love Kid Cudi! Yeah he's pretty cool. Even more upbeat track kinda loosens the mood.
Boom
By the time you hit Sabotage (feat. Lloyd) and White Linen (feat. Ne-Yo) you're getting brain. It's a proven process. You'll be hittin by Slight Work if you want.
Start off with Legendary - better than going straight to a bitch joint.
Then you get to Lotus Flower - okay, it just came on after Legendary, sets a little mood though. Doesn't come off too try hard.
Then Chain Music - a little more hardcore joint. You can't just let joints like Lotus Flower roll the whole night. It's still upbeat enough to keep her interested.
Focused - OMG is that Kid Cudi? Yeah it's Kid Cudi. OMG I love Kid Cudi! Yeah he's pretty cool. Even more upbeat track kinda loosens the mood.
Boom
By the time you hit Sabotage (feat. Lloyd) and White Linen (feat. Ne-Yo) you're getting brain. It's a proven process. You'll be hittin by Slight Work if you want.
Must be nice, every year the amount of rappers who don't annoy the fuck out of me gets smaller and smaller. In college I loved every kind of rap, every style, every coast, fucking everything. A rapper could do no wrong, if the genre was hip hop, I listened to it. Now I've hit the point where the majority (by a slim margin, like just over half) annoy the fuck out of me. At this rate in a few years I'll hate everything.
lol Left Brain is so ugly he looks like CGI.
You've been married way too long if you think Wale will get you head. And if you claim it got you some you are mistaken as fuck. You got yourself some brain through charm/personality/violent threats. Not with wale's week old soy bean paste rapping ass.
This sounds terrible as fuck.
Album was mediocre as fuck.
my feelings on ambition change day by day. sometimes i like it. sometimes i feel like wale is still finding who he is. i listen to it a lot walking/cruising around campus.
i consistently rock w/ a few songs on it though: dont hold your applause, focused, chain work, focused, slight music & ambition. even the pantydroppers arent terrible. i find myself humming lotus flower bomb a lot thanks to miguel.
add bad girls club (w/ j cole) and tats on my arm which were part of the ambition cycle and its a solid album. 6/10
11.1.11 is full of songs that should've made the album though
globetrotter, bait, barry sanders to name a few.
mmg wale >>> any other point in his career though. he may have been a better rapper in the past, but as an artist, getting under Ross' wing was a great move.
i consistently rock w/ a few songs on it though: dont hold your applause, focused, chain work, focused, slight music & ambition. even the pantydroppers arent terrible. i find myself humming lotus flower bomb a lot thanks to miguel.
add bad girls club (w/ j cole) and tats on my arm which were part of the ambition cycle and its a solid album. 6/10
11.1.11 is full of songs that should've made the album though
globetrotter, bait, barry sanders to name a few.
mmg wale >>> any other point in his career though. he may have been a better rapper in the past, but as an artist, getting under Ross' wing was a great move.
yo for real though swelly express was real as fuck. ill give breakfast a few listens before i give a critique
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