Apr 22, 2016

 

Feb 25, 2017

can't wait until they battle making sandwiches in the kitchen

 

Oct 6, 2017

@50CentSXN

 

Apr 12, 2015

JB was found in a coma leaned over his computer with an open email from IB saying "Knight Rider is a myth."

Bliss is twelve minutes sober

Rae Jean is BrothaMan who is ODB's adoptive father.

Hasman got arrested at Coachella for attempting to break intro Drake's trailer during a professionally sanctioned simp session

Other than that, a--- eating is still in style and Cole is still the guy

 

May 18, 2016

If you want dl link, pm me or like this and I'll pm you, bless.

 

Feb 25, 2017

To be fair, Nicki used to make him do that for spending money

 

Jul 22, 2017

 

Dec 5, 2016

Inb4 She's mine is about the rap game, but Cole constantly refers to it as a female

 

Sep 4, 2016

“That's a pretty f---ing fast year flew by” and within that “year” Jay-Z and Kanye West became fathers, Dr. Dre and D’Angelo both released albums, and J. Cole went platinum without any features. Then it happened. Four years of insurmountable hype was met with four promotional tools: A library card, woodshop 101, Nikes, and a magazine.


On Blonde, when the untouched vocals on Nikes finally come into fruition it’s as if Frank never left. Those 4 years of near silence melt away. You forget about when he said he had #two versions #july 2015 #album 3. You forget the fact that you waited all day Thursday for him to finish painting those boxes only for him to leave for week. You forget that Time magazine lied to you. You’re right back to a particular moment. Whether it is at that very moment you finished channel ORANGE, or when you heard your first Beatles song. Whatever. It’s an album h--- bent on nostalgia more than Frank’s release from 2011 that actually has it in its title.


Blonde is a combination of the old and the new. Pink + White is the Frank you’ve come to love since his emergence with Odd Future. Self Control seems vaguely familiar, but you can’t put your finger on it. It should amaze you that a song like Pretty Sweet that utilizes a children’s choir can coexist on album that has Yung Lean backing vocals.


Nights, copies the formula of Pyramids and the rhythmic change happens exactly in the middle of the runtime. Before the shift in tone within Nights, Frank uses his vocals in optimistic tone. Here’s a guy that has everything in life to look forward too and even with warnings from his beloved mother he intends to experience everything life has to offer.


“After 20 years in

I’m so naive I was under the impression that everyone wrote they own verses

It’s comin’ back different and yea that s--- hurts me

I’m hummin’ and whistlin’ to those not deserving

I’m stumbled and lift every word, was I working just way too hard?”


The second half of Blonde is a reflection on everything that shaped Frank. It’s a lot more pessimistic. White Ferrari is the perfect song that puts you on that road of reflection. If you were to ask me how long the song was, I would have answered at least 7 minutes. To my surprise Ferrari clocks in at only 4:09. At one point in his career the road was running out, now it seems the road will not stop. It’s the epitome of longing and this is what that longing sounds like.

On Seigfried, when the final falsetto hits, it hits hard. The vocals trail off and you’re left wondering about that person that he would do anything for, but then Godspeed comes in sporting the optimism found on the first side of the album. Frank sounds content about how everything turned out in the end.


Futura Free, perhaps the most revealing track blends together Frank’s ocean past memories with his little brother’s bright optimistic future that he possessed in the first half of the album.


“Tyler slept on my sofa yeah.”

As a listener, you’re happy. You remember the come up leading to the mystery that would later be Frank Ocean, but it’s over. He’s the same guy that would Freestyle with Tyler and Earl in 480p youtube videos. It’s the reason why Frank and The Weeknd’s careers went so retrograde. Frank will always be the guy that gets it. The guy that gets YOU. Blonde will be the album that you will remember during the most trying and happiest times in your life. Frank does not end the album with his voice. He ends with his brother, Ryan Breaux. The album is not for Frank. It’s his gift to us and that’s why you don’t care that it took 4 years to make because you’re too busy remembering everything that this album reminds you of.​

 

May 15, 2016

Earlier @Immy suggested that I should write a new review of Recovery and I decided that I wasn't afraid to take a stand, everybody come take my hand.

Please note that I have not written a review in years and I am not as seasoned as our true professionals (@WPG and @captain awesome) but I hope you enjoy my thoughts anyway.

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One of the must stunning things about prime Eminem was just how effortless he seemed. His technical ability and lyrical consistency was so impressive it seemed that he could have churned out classics in his sleep. As it turns out, this was not a correct assumption. In 2004, Eminem essentially DID make an album in his sleep, the rambling, incoherent, stunningly misguided Encore. Encore’s release, marking the artistic decline of someone who just two short years earlier had seemed unstoppable, somehow guaranteed that the reelection of George W. Bush was only the second most depressing thing to happen in November 2004. It slid into the pop cultural ether like the sort of wet turd he probably would have rapped about in a hypothetical fourth verse of Just Lose It, and it marked an album-to-album plummet in quality rarely matched in hip-hop history.


His long-awaited return came in 2009 with the confounding, even more misguided Relapse, an album that was nearly as bad as Encore for entirely different reasons. You could probably write a novel on what went wrong on Relapse and what was going on in his head when he decide to adopt the persona of a serial killer with a middle eastern accent, but please, don't bother doing that. The bottom line is, fans diagnosed the problems pretty quickly. The content needs more depth. The production and features need variety. And that accent has got to go. These were near-unanimous solutions. Eminem heard the voice of his fans and critics and adjusted accordingly.


Good, right? Wrong. Recovery, Marshall’s 2010 attempt at artistic redemption, is a textbook lesson in overcorrection. Improve the content? Check; self-serious attempts at concept tracks should do the trick. Fix the delivery? Check; maybe the way to show a bit of emotion would be to SHOUT THIS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. Enlist some outside help? Check; let’s bring in Pink, everyone’s idea of an inspiring creative muse, to spice things up a bit.


Recovery is dead on arrival not necessarily because he veered in a different direction (indeed, this was probably necessary; the planned sequel Relapse 2 would have likely been an unmitigated disaster), but because he’s trying so hard. On song after song, you can see his wheels spinning furiously to almost no effect. Perhaps the most glaring example is Won’t Back Down, a proud contender for worst Eminem song of all time (over the years this has become an increasingly crowded field). The backdrop is an abrasive, video-game ready DJ Khalil attempt at rock music for people who don’t listen to rock music but occasionally like the guitar riffs they hear in monster truck rally commercials. As that screeches in the background, Marshall drops clunker after clunker in attempts at clever wordplay: “f--- a steak, I’ll cut my toes and step on the receipt ‘fore I foot the bill!” and “I gave Bruce Wayne a valium and said ‘Settle your f---ing a--- down, I’m ready for combat, man!’ Get it, *calm Batman*?” are just the first minute or so of the song. Each line is delivered in an ugly, full-throated roar, and the lyricism encompasses such topics as a) how dope Eminem is at rapping (“I’m an uncooked slab of beef laying on your kitchen floor, in other words I’m off the meat rack” – that’s how raw he is, you see); b) how large his penis is (“f---, my d-ck’s big”; further context not considered necessary); and c) how wacky and unpredictable Slim Shady is (“Fork was in the road, took the psycho path!”).


Similarly disastrous is Not Afraid, the inspirational anthem for janitors everywhere who feel a commanding jolt of rage every time they remember that Mom recently started asking for rent money. Not Afraid resonated with fans in its initial release because it felt like a direct response to their grievances, including an explicit admission of error regarding the quality of Relapse. But upon closer inspection, Not Afraid is a deeply embarrassing song – a manufactured attempt at an inspirational stadium-ready anthem, with a seemingly endless stream of poorly written barbs directed at nameless haters (all of whom, Marshall asserts, "can make like bees with no stingas and drop dead"). Cinderella Man hits a lot of the same marks, proclaiming “f--- my last CD, that s---’s in my trash” mere moments before uttering the words “My filet is smoking weed, yeah fa---- the steaks are high”. Comebacks can often be undermined with a relapse to previous habits (see Jay-Z striking gold with American Gangster but subsequently releasing lazy duds like The Blueprint 3 and Magna Carta Holy Grail), but on Recovery, Em is incapable of even getting through his comeback songs without embarrassing himself.


The examples cited above go beyond cherry picking; they are representative of Marshall’s writing style throughout the entirety of Recovery. The general strategy is to latch on to a metaphor or a turn of phrase, twist it into a convoluted pun about how wild and crazy he is, and then scream the pun into the microphone at Gilbert Gottfried levels of volume and intensity, often using an unnecessary double time flow. He only truly finds success when he veers away from this formula. Going Through Changes is a welcome change of pace, an honest and compelling look at his drug addiction in the wake of Proof’s death. Talkin’ 2 Myself is considerably less impressive, but it earns points for injecting emotional honesty in place of the types of platitudes that litter much of the rest of the album.


Despite these welcome deviations from that formula, however, Marshall largely clings to what he thinks we want to hear. In Cold Wind Blows, he’s the fearless Slim Shady we all love to hate – he’ll go at anyone, even Elton John and Michael J. Fox! ;D On 25 To Life, ghost-written by The Village-era M. Night Shyamalan, he’s the narrator of a Concept Song with a Twist Ending. With the Dre-produced So Bad, over some celebratory “I’ve-had-sex-recently” horns, he pretends that he’s had sex recently – and indeed, in doing so, he inadvertently threw his conquest’s “spine out of alignment” after “getting the pineapple Schnapps going” (I am not making this up). On No Love, he’s not only “standing on top of his Monopoly board” (that means he’s on top of his game) but also “about to spit the greatest verse of all time” (points awarded for ambition, I suppose).


Each of these characters is as implausible as the cartoonish serial killers of Relapse, but the difference is that this time they come under the guise of “the real Eminem”. The truth is that over the album's running time, it becomes clear that Eminem doesn’t even understand what “the real Eminem” means anymore. With every project since his comeback he has been scrambling to recreate some iteration of his former self without any interest in artistic growth. Unfortunately for Marshall, he will never get another chance to experience what he accomplished in 2002 (life is no Nintendo game). Unfortunately for us, too.

 

Apr 27, 2016

As the developer of Atrilli.net I speak on behalf of our entire team when I say, goodnight.
This was a project I jumped into late 2013 with the works of a couple other people to make things right after Bucktrice died, throughout the years I've had the chance to meet loads of interesting people, and probably people who at no point in my life I will regretting meeting how ever with every musical adventure the tune comes to an end eventually.

It's always sad to see some of the best moments of your life, vanish from you because of something silly and I can openly say some of the best moments of my life have been made on that website, lurking that chat-box and voicing my idiotic opinion and having a serious conversation with people who either agree, or disagree on that idiotic opinion.

As of 20 minutes ago? I can say that I am not sure where atrilli stands but after all the battles we've over come this is going to be one of the hardest.

I won't be replying in this thread with anything other then updates, and honestly I think I just need an all around break from the internet.

Thank you to everyone who supported our network, I know loads of you used our service and may peace be with you till the end.

 

Nov 12, 2015

Shadow of a Doubt Tracklist:
01. Rearview
02. Cocaine
03. Careless
04. f---in’ Up The Count
05. Extradite (feat. Black Thought)
06. McDuck (feat. Dana Williams)
07. Packages (feat. ManMan Savage)
08. Mexico (feat. Tory Lanez)
09. 10 Times (feat. Gucci Mane & E-40)
10. Lately
11. Basketball Wives
12. Forever and A Day
13. Insecurities
14. Freddie Gordy
15. Cold a--- n-----

Like this post for the link

 

May 2, 2015

The trip was wild fam. A f---ing 14 hour drive til Zurich with no sleep. I havent slept for about 60 hours til we were on a train back home plus I got sunstroke from sitting in the sun while waiting for the show. Dreamer probably saw the very worst of me and I saw the worst of him

But anyway, it was dope, you can an tell that Cole has blown up Drake style cause they were a lot of 16-17 year old kids at this show. A lot of dudes came to the show 30 minutes before it started, so I was convinced this is gonna be Cole's biggest L of his career, cause we was standing there and waiting with those annoying kids. Omen preformed some exclusive s--- from Elephant Eyes and I recorded it, but s--- was trash as f--- so I won't upload it Cozz was GOAT, "I'm Tha Man" shut the whole building down, his energy is wild. Bas was in another dimension and I really don't care about him, but he did alright. To see Cole live was definitely an experience, and there ain't no competition when it comes to live performers, cause he is the GOAT. Everything was on point, I really enjoyed the show. Dude performed Lights Please and in the middle of the first verse he saw me rapping it like crazy so we looked at each other and rapped til the end of it FHD sounds great live and he finally has some turn up s--- with Fire Squad, Tale of 2 Citiez and GOMD which he didn't have before. After the show, I get to holla at Omen and asked him about Elephant Eyes and he said it's coming soon, and I said I'm patiently waiting and keep doing and being you and he looked humbled and appreciative af and then I took a pic with TDK Got to say what up to Cozz too, he also has something coming up soon, the dude is legendary, I'm a stan.

s--- was an experience and definitely shout out to Dreamer who I met like 2 years ago on this forum and we in the end ended up going to a show together. I don't feel like writing everything we been through but it was worth the money. IB is a fa---- for not showing himself cause he knew he would catch a fade from me. f--- that irrelevant a--- b----.


And oh yea, shout out to Ced too, the biggest loner in the world

 

Feb 26, 2015

To my JCN family, my lil one was delivered today. Mother is healthy. My daughter is healthy and well. Greatest day of my life!! Shout out to @Akaash!

 

May 24, 2018

@KanyeSXN Like for a pm for the link

 

Jun 26, 2017

"Who said I was left off Bad and Boujee?"

"What?"

x 3

 

Feb 21, 2016

asap ferg a real one but can't beat this

 

Oct 6, 2017

If he's serious about this being his last project then I'm in for a classic

 

Aug 20, 2020

many of us are under exclusive long terms contracts with s80