A great addition to Mike's discography, but definitely doesn't live up to the buzz surrounding this album.
Ups:
-Each song lives off of one another, a very well constructed album
-Unique ( I really enjoyed the "silent like ice bear" line)
-Good features (each artist fits in the world created here)
-Brick Body Complex
Downs:
-Introspective albums should be void of ego, it just doesn't translate well, vulnerability is what is wanted here.
-Humble bragging (some goofy shit just ... read more
J.Tilman's Cancer and Delirium is the standard I uphold this man to, this is some distorted pop-indie-folk, gross
Why must these "artists" add pop sensibility to music, yes it gets your name in the billboard top 100 but it creates such a horrid piece of art, to call this art would be wrong too, this is just a product, the name truly gave it away.
This single marked the return of Hip-Hop as we now know it today, Jay-Z and Kanye West would re-attempt to exert their dominance over the hip-hop sphere and as we know today they were successful.
When the single came out there was a scramble to see whose album this track would be on, T.I won the battle and Jay-Z just missed out, Kanye had just released Graduation and Lil Wayne was about to win the Grammy for rap album of the year followed swiftly by his dismantlement
This was the final sonic ... read more
The most introspective we've ever seen Lil Wayne, this song was & perhaps still is a cult song, which evaded the hoards of YMCMB fanboys (Let us take a moment to be happy that the Lil Wayne mania is actually over) but held many hip-hop heads in discussion as to whether Lil Wayne would crack the greats list, it sure seemed that way at the time.
Flying Lotus has even created a remix to I Feel Like Dying as if to only honor the importance this song once held.
The single which would start the gauntlet styled features which plagued hip-hop as it was struggling to get back on its feet.
This single was DJ Khaled first major splash, created T.I , Rick Ross as house-hold names in hip-hop, it would be Fat Joes last major feature and immortalized Lil Wayne as the savior of hip-hop. Its hard to beliebe, and even more annoyingly, this is actually a good track.
Lil Wayne's verse was named the best of 2007 which admittedly wasn't hard to do, but it sure was a ... read more
While this track went through numerous versions and name changes(Ride 4 My Niggas/Mr Carter etc.) it finally appeared on "Da Drought 3" which has been heralded as Lil Wayne's best mixtape and subsequently "Da Drought 3" is regarded as arguably the best of the millennial hip-hop mixtape era (2002-2013) and this track stands as the mixtapes soul.
While war movies are generally deplorable, this is another excellent entry in the collection of Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross soundtracks and I'm quite interested to see how a soundscape such as this crawls itself across a story as old and propagandized as the Vietnam war.
Stand out composition: Torn Polaroid
Finally, they've released this absolute gem of a track, it was orginally known as the Red Bull Studio song, since that's where the youtube video took place, now it has been christened with the name Confessions Pt.III
This was one of if not my favorite song of 2016 with no exaggerations, please give this a listen its Colin Stetson and BBNG at their best, just FUCKING wow.
The biggest reason for Rocks downfall was the fact that we were unable to praise albums such as Hot Fuss for what they were, masterpieces. So bands moved on, searching for the sound that would be their seminal moment until they crashed and burned. Rock had reached such a plateau of sound nothing was good enough, and here we are now.
A gravitation of sounds we've all come to know as King Krule, all nested together here in this 4 minute and some change track. This along with Czech One, has me immensely excited for THE OOZ-aaah.
Lana has created the most atmospheric pop record I've ever heard, I have no love for pop anything, but this is amazing.
Update 2023: Told y'all
First time I've seen glimpses of why people love Grimes so much, feeds off ofthe album art-work too this music sounds like something out of a dystopian world where pop music is the highest form of art, scary thought.
Favorite Songs: Kill v.Haim , Easily, Belly of the Beat
After the suicides of Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell the plague of depression, has become one clearly not well handled by both musician and consumer alike, therefore this feels a timely release. (From Lil Wayne's musing on Solange's Mad or Kendricks candidness on the topic, depression seems an epidemic in artists more than we know.)
Production follows a soundcloud-y style which should not be discouraged as it is a sub-culture even if that culture is niched and fading, it has produced ... read more
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