Nov 28, 2018

I binged through all of LOST a couple years ago and I thought it was pretty good except the whole "we have to go back to the island" thing got old after like the 3rd time

 

Nov 28, 2018

So many of the songs sound unfinished and had the potential to be so much more. The lyrics are also very spotty, save a few exceptions (Real Friends, No More Parties in LA).

That said, the production is still pretty great throughout, and Kanye does enough to make many of the songs somewhat enjoyable. Still feels like a wasted effort. Waves could have been so much better if Kanye added a verse. Father Stretch My Hands, while very enjoyable, has that awful bleached a------ line that I can't not cringe at...oh, and Wolves has one of Kanye's worst verses ever on it.

Ultralight Beam, No More Parties in LA, and Real Friends are all top songs though.

7/10

 

Nov 28, 2018

01. Ultralight Beam ft. Chance the Rapper [10/10]
02. Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1 ft. Kid Cudi [easy 10/10]
03. Pt. 2 ft. Desiigner [another 10/10]
04. Famous ft. Rihanna, Swizz Beatz [man I can understand how this is a 10/10]
05. Feedback [wake up/10]
06. Low Lights [Low lights? more like lowest part of the album/10]
07. Highlights ft. Young Thug [12/10]
08. Freestyle 4 ft. Desiigner [meh/10]
09. I Love Kanye (Interlude) [could live without this/10]
10. Waves ft. Chris Brown [GOAT Cudi hums/10]
11. FML ft. The Weeknd [The finished version AND all 8 of the leaked versions are 10/10s]
12. Real Friends ft. Ty Dolla $ign [I cry every time/10]
13. Wolves ft. Sia [The second coming of Jesus Christ/10]
14. Frank’s Track ft. Frank Ocean [Top 3 moment in Frank's career/10]
15. Siiiiiiiiilver Surffffeeeeer Intermission [respect to Max B but you could scrap this/10]
16. 30 Hours [7/10]
17. No More Parties in LA ft. Kendrick Lamar [9/10]
18. Facts (Charlie Heat Version) [we're starting to fall off/10]
19. Fade ft. Post Malone, Ty Dolla $ign [wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew we're back on/10]
20. Saint Pablo ft. Sampha [nice/10]

 

Nov 28, 2018

This is the album that solidified Hov as a legend and a hip-hop icon. 10/10.

 

Nov 27, 2018

I'd be lying if I said this was my favorite Jay album, but the quality of this is pretty undeniable. Jay's charisma is on full display backed with a soul sampled palette that lends 'grown up' credibility to the album, and the hip hop genre as a whole tbh. This is where Jay transitions from a young hustler (who just so happens to rap) to an elder statesman who can speak from a place of authority. Not to mention the album was already being quoted like a classic within a year and a half - How many times have you heard someone reference "Can't leave rap alone the game needs me"?

That said, I could do without Hola Hovito and Jigga That n----- as they feel lesser than what's around them and don't really fit the aesthetic the rest of the album's going for. And to be honest I find Jay's flow on this album to be overall inferior to The Black Album and Reasonable Doubt, but that's more of a personal quibble than anything else. It's a great album that was almost instantly hailed as an influential classic for good reason.

brb I'm gonna go listen to Heart of the City again.

9.3/10

 

Nov 26, 2018

Classic. 9/10. And that's just because I'm not a really fan of Jay's music at all. Production was great. Used to listen to Song Cry a lot. I love that song a lot. I love this album more than Reasonable Doubt.

 

Nov 25, 2018

8.8

Back in the day i used to listen to this album everyday now it kinda fell off on me cause my taste changed. Nonetheless its one of the best albums of the 2000s and has great consistency

 

Nov 24, 2018

Oh my is the GOAT colab. You even imagining it without quavo offended me.

 

Nov 24, 2018

That is a surprise Mr BC
DBR/rodeo much better imo but I still fw this a bit. he just seems to lack the creativity he did with his earlier work. Songs like 30112, oh my and drugs you should try it are one of a kind.

7.8/10

. DBR > rodeo > astro > birds

 

Nov 23, 2018

Don't make @Squiddie Redd use his brain

 

Nov 23, 2018

Gonna have to abstain on the grounds that you could not pay me press play on a Travis Scott album

 

Nov 23, 2018

 

Nov 23, 2018

TA13OO gets a 7.2/10 from 5 ratings

Next up...

RATING 5: Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD
Release Date: 3 August 2018
Label: Cactus Jack/Epic/Grand Hustle



Track list

01. Stargazing
02. Carousel ft. Frank Ocean
03. Sicko Mode ft. Drake
04. R.I.P. Screw ft. Swae Lee
05. Stop Trying To Be God ft. Kid Cudi, James Blake
06. No Bystanders ft. Juice WRLD, Sheck Wes
07. Skeletons ft. Pharrell, The Weeknd
08. Wake Up ft. The Weeknd
09. 5% Tint
10. NC-17 ft. 21 Savage
11. Astrothunder
12. Yosemite ft. Gunna, Nav
13. Can't Say ft. Don Toliver
14. Who? What? ft. Quavo, Takeoff
15. Butterfly Effect
16. Houstonfornication
17. Coffee Bean

ASTROWORLD is a journey, from the first psychedelic seconds of Stargazing to the Kanye-inspired Coffee Bean. After letting it sit for a while, I've decided that Rodeo is still the better album; Astroworld doesn't feel quite as tightly put together, nor do its individual songs have quite as much staying power (in my opinion, at least). But still, Travis' does an incredible job as "the glue" of the project, bringing in diverse sounds and features from across the map and actually holding them all together with his otherworldly reverb and autotune. It sounds like a celebration; something that we can look back on in a few years as a reference point for the overarching sound of pop rap/hip hop in 2018. Travis is always going to be facing accusations of biting and riding off other people's sounds and styles but hey, its what he does best. And like on Rodeo, there's just enough of his own sound coming through to pull it all together. I'll give it a very solid 7.5/10

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Nov 18, 2018

it’s a 10/10. it’s the best rap album ever made. big was 25 and mastered every popular style of rap at the moment. people are still flipping and interpolating these lyrics 20 years later. the way he frames the beef is like shakespeare. it’s perfect.