Piff Tannen wrote:Mindbender Futurama wrote:meh
i want to like him... but even Lil Wayne is much more interesting than Pusha T is these days
rap wise and life wise
so you are naming your long-awaited debut solo album after a reference from the main drug dealer in 'the Wire'. groundbreaking.
sigh.
this is why we can't have new things.
i think youre being contrarian for the sake of it at this point MB
i dont agree with the diss trac shit, but wayne is dookie right now rap-wise. we know this.
pusha t is part of the clipse. a group that built their name off making awesome
coke rap.
why would he make a album that is the polar opposite of that as his solo? strategically, its a terrible idea.
that'd be like you building your character/name/persona behind free love and finding heaven on earth, and then making your first album about a concept album about neither of those things.
i'm never contrarian for the sake of it. i'm NOT one of those internet douches begging for attention.
I LIKE Pusha T's raps. But I liked him best on 'Lord Willin', when his approaches to coke rap were still cutting edge and insightful. Now, it's honestly played out. Logically, his solo album would be a look into the diverse personality that MIGHT exist behind the coke dealer we have always known as Pusha T.
A REAL songwriter would take this opportunity and show the different chambers of his character. A song about his childhood (that might segue into how he first discovered crack, of course.) A song about his family members (that explains where he learned where to sell crack from, of course.) A song about the sports he used to play when he was young (which gave him the need to be #1 at everything. The hustler's hunger. Of course he must speak on this.) A song about WOMEN and SEX and BEAUTY, perhaps (and please not another trite metaphor about cocaine being a 'white girl'. We have had enough of those. But will we probably get one anyways? Of course.)
I give you ONE example that shall rest my case: O'Shea Jackson goes from N.W.A., to making 'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted' as Ice Cube's first solo album. Do you know how fucking diverse and insightful that album is? Of course you do. Does Ice Cube in 1991
Pusha T in 2012 as an MC? I think so, all things being equal.
'The Wire' is fucking nearly 5 years old. Jay-Z hasn't been really saying much about coke (RELATIVELY) since 'American Gangster', cause even he knows it's played out for these guys to keep living in their past and talking shit that they haven't done in a decade. It's like 50 Cent talking threatening thug shit. NONE OF US are going to get punched in the face by Curtis Jackson. He now has 15 FBI-level bodyguards around him that will fight us first. These guys rap so far from the ACTUAL DAILY REALITY OF THEIR CURRENT LIVES OR THOUGHTS. Shit is disgusting, B.
I would expect to find certain failure at some point if I only spoke on one topic for my entire album. Or career. I say that earth is heaven and i am god and all that good stuff, but i also talk about women, society, religion, government, culture, art, and allllll kinds of other random shit in my rap music. and I can conceptually connect how heaven is a part of each of those things. but i wouldn't rap about the same thing the whole album.
it's just gonna be ~boring~ if it's a bunch of hollow threats, subliminal (and overt Lil Wayne/Cash Money) disses and coke raps. YET AGAIN.
@ SO's excellent use of that Pharrell pic.
