Damn, I missed a great deal of this thread. Shame on me.

I got hype as fuck when I seen the Fulton Mall strip... RIP Beat Street.

Fun fact: Gregory "Jocko" Jackson, the "mayor of Brownsville" who managed the BRC was my cousin... RIP Jocko.

mryounggun wrote: »

Not a Kanye Fan and hate the album...but how does sampling a beat and a hook make this nigga a dickrider or a biter?

I'll let the Ruler Zigzagzig Allah explain it for you.

Sunday tho? Do this nigga really think niggas is gonna miss church and Family Guy repeats to purchase an album of Tropical Fantasy and Utz cheese doodle raps? I'd rather listen to 3 straight hours of bodega music. Niggas got better shit to do on a Sunday, cut that shit out b.

za'kiss wrote: »

usmarin3 wrote: »

Like i said, if Will.i.am made this album you niggas would crucify and clown the living daylight out of him. It's Yeezy so everything is good now.lol

This just doesn't make any sense man. For starters, I don't see how - or more importantly why - will.i.am would make an album like this. I don't see him taking up issues of Black identity the same way as Kanye, flippin' Nina Simone and ironically juxtaposing the lyrics about black lynchings with lyrics about the modern failings of superficial black relationships, or drawing on 80s Chicago house as a musical touchstone. It doesn't make sense for will.i.am to make an album like this. It just doesn't fit in his musical lane and personality, aside from some of the dance-beat touches.

Secondly, if will.i.am made this album, it would still be good, but it's also true that it wouldn't be as good. I wouldn't crucify him for it, but there's no way an album like this coming from will.i.am could mean the same thing as it does for Kanye West at this point in his career. But that's no blind prejudice against will.i.am. He's been making whack music for years, but if he put out an album out like this, I'd give him his props, plain and simple. Just the same, if will.i.am sat down and produced My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, good kid, m.A.A.d city, or Control System, I'd have to give the man some respect, musically. But don't you see how ridiculous that sounds? He would never make any of those albums. It just wouldn't make sense for him too. And if he did, it just wouldn't mean the same thing. He didn't go through those experiences that inform these albums. The lyrical content would be inauthentic, devoid of its connection to the artist, and made completely irrelevant. Those albums just ain't him.

will.i.am actually did make an album like this. (I hate myself for knowing this) The Black Eyed Peas's The End was one of the first hip hop albums that had electronic beats of that nature, sampling artists like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Adam Freeland. They had two songs speaking on consumerism and world peace (Now Generation and One Tribe, respectively). The only difference was they didn't have the lo-fi sound or the juxtaposed samples. That album got shitted on by everyone. If we can call will.i.am wack for producing that, we gotta be consistent.

CrookedLetter wrote: »

" If I was a fuck nigga, this would be the soundtrack to my life"

Legendary

And of course "doo doo grits". And the pic, good God.

I nominate that for Post of the Year.