GrimeyHippy wrote:I'm gonna get flamed
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that was my first impression as well. I kept wishing the beats were not so simplistic, but after a whole bunch of listens it started sounding perfect the way it was.drizzle wrote:i think we covered this a few pages back - the album's low-key style takes some patience and rewards an attentive listener. i can easily see somebody being bored with it if they are listening casually, especially for the first time, without immersing fully in the experience.
same subject matter, lazy flow (especially in comparison to his old material and even UN album), and yes the production just sounds like it belongs in '95. I like minimalistic gritty beats but his samples, while dope, don't hold up for an entirety of a song.Haitian Jack wrote:is it tha loops? cuz if its the rappingGrimeyHippy wrote:I'm gonna get flamed but "Marcberg" is a pretty boring album
It's all about subtlety. There's plenty of complexity in the way he puts together words and puts those words against his music. The final result is great to my ears.GrimeyHippy wrote:same subject matter, lazy flow (especially in comparison to his old material and even UN album), and yes the production just sounds like it belongs in '95. I like minimalistic gritty beats but his samples, while dope, don't hold up for an entirety of a song.Haitian Jack wrote:is it tha loops? cuz if its the rappingGrimeyHippy wrote:I'm gonna get flamed but "Marcberg" is a pretty boring album
His lyrics really dont blow my mind all that much, I've listened to this album 5 or 6 times, in ride, headphones, home stereo, each time nothing really grabs me about it. Maybe I need an east coast biased to change my mind
It's all about subtlety. There's plenty of complexity in the way he puts together words and puts those words against his music. The final result is great to my ears.
What lyrics blow your mind, if you don't mind me asking?
Nice try with Supreme Clientele. Name a recording that came out this year with lyrics that blow your mind.GrimeyHippy wrote:It's all about subtlety. There's plenty of complexity in the way he puts together words and puts those words against his music. The final result is great to my ears.
What lyrics blow your mind, if you don't mind me asking?
He's a good lyricist but he's not saying a whole lot I haven't heard before and his flow is so subdued it just gets boring to me. it's standard gangster rap formula, which I prefer west coast if I'm gonna go that route. But really gangster rap hasn't done it for me for about a decade now so if an emcee is only gonna come with street cred braggadocio then he needs to come reeeallly sick or if not, at least have some beats that take me to another level
Supreme Clientele, for example (since you asked what lyrics blow my mind)
I'm not eager to post lyrics at all, because I think comparing written lyrics is pointless. I'm not particularly interested in changing your mind, either. If you don't hear what I hear, god bless our ability to form independent opinions. I just take umbrage with sweeping generalizations and you seem to revel in them.GrimeyHippy wrote:of course there's a gangster rap formula, here it is:
cheep beats
hood raps
slap a pic of urself on the cover
go hustle
Not any lyrics in 2010 are going to be mindblowing and I dont have lyrics from every 2010 release memorized but Roc can barely even hold my attention with his voice/delivery which comes before lyricism, sometimes really dope lyricism can make up for that but usually not.
I can post emcees I'd rather listen to in 2010 but that's going to be a long list
Since you want to post lyrics so bad, go ahead, maybe I'm sleeping on some of his lyricism, maybe some shit is going over my head, I'm open minded. I hear pretty standard street raps from dude, well written, but standard. Change my mind
Thun wrote: Post the emcees you'd rather listen to, starting with the white, bearded, vegan ones.