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Yay or Nay: a new series

Started by RetiredAccount, Aug 26, 2020, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Sep 6, 2020
    "Compton" - Dr. Dre
    worthy addition to Dre's legacy?
    yay or nay



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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Sep 6, 2020
    brother man. you said it. would love @WPG to deign to respond. (this isnt twitter, you can respond, slut lls)
     
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  3. Slyk
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    Slyk God made a prophet.

    Sep 6, 2020
    NAY

    compton took 28 years to come out
    forgotten about almost immediately
    dre is done
     
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    Antman No Cap

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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Sep 6, 2020
    what abotu @hargydon 's point? like it wasnt a cultural MOMENt.... but its a sleeper b-----r no? esp couched as a soundtrack for SOC?
     
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  6. aleeex1923
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    Sep 6, 2020
    I like the album, but yeah a pretty forgettable one so I will say NAY.
     
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  7. Jeans
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

    Sep 6, 2020
    Nay. I’ll never listen to this again in my life
     
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  8. Jeans
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

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    Imagine someone promises you the album of life and then after 15 years they give you this and say “oh yeah this isn’t actually that really good one you wanted but it’s still good”
     
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

    Sep 6, 2020
    This is actually detox but he changed the name because he didn’t want the hype to make you guys be rude to him. Pitiful
     
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

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    ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh bro. thats marketing and internet speak. this wasnt detox, but even detox couldnt be detox. we can appreciate this for what it was, on the musics merits no?
     
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

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    i dont agree.
     
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

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    like this was a career topper, victory lap from a 50 y/o man celebrating his life story - a black mans story, a journey of music - becoming a major motion picture. not detox.
     
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  13. Winter
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    Sep 6, 2020
    Yay, album holds up better than it probably should, it's cohesive as h---, similar to Yeezus in that it's hard to listen to any one song from the album without playing the others. Would even go as far as to say that while it doesn't have the ridiculous highs of 2001, it's a better front to back listen.
     
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    Jeans Joe From Family Guy

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    It is an absolutely fine album with nothin in particular wrong with it that I have no interest in hearing again. I’m sure it was amazing for Dre diehards but in my eyes he didn’t have to release this album and it didn’t really do much for him or his legacy. Glad he was happy with it
     
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    Yay. It's the perfect closer to his career and a worthy end of a trilogy. tbh it's kind of astonishing that we got an album that good from AARP-cover-50-year-old-billionaire Dr. Dre.

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    Disagree. If this was Detox it would have 15 year old Eminem and 50 cent verses all over it lol. Even if some of the beats were created in the Detox sessions and then revived and worked on again later, it sounds modern and most of the vocals were clearly recent.
     
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    No it didn’t as it was recorded in 2 years during the filming of Straight Outta Compton.

    People give Jay Electronica more lenience with his project being completely mid after yearsss of waiting... When in contrast Dre has been making brilliant hip hop for 30 years.

    Show me 90% of the artists featured on Compton rapping better on their own projects around the same time.

    Forgotten immediately isn’t a measure of quality, that’s like using sales in an argument. If a project isn’t marketed & is exclusive to a streaming service that the majority of people don’t have & 16 years (3 generations) have passed since their last project I’m not really going to expect hype or long lasting discourse on it - are you?
     
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    This is my favourite.
     
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Sep 6, 2020
    I'm inclined to say YAY

    Though it didn't have the staying power like its predecessors, it was still a tremendous and worthy addition and possible chapter closer on one of the game's greatest artists discography.

    Dre will never put out a new project.

    And I'm okay with that.
     
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    Sep 6, 2020
    Yay, i really enjoyed it
     
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    skip

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    to answer take care: I’m in a weird position I rly like it and def see its classic contention, but I just personally like his other projects more. Nwts, iyrt, more life, there’s a handful of slightly lower than classic tier projects I find far, far more enjoyable. I still see tc as being a completely fair proposition for being classic and I wouldn’t disagree myself I just have a weird thing where albums I agree may be less technically cohesive just strike my fancy more

    as for Compton I won’t lie I haven’t rly revisited since release, and one of the biggest songs w Kendrick and Eminem I just straight up didnt bump literally cuz this forum burnt me out on it lmaoo (I still to this day haven’t listened to unmastered untitled purely for how discussion soured me on it lol). It introduced me to paak who ended up becoming every bit as relevant as people made him out to be then, which is cool. I feel like there was some other rapper on there who I haven’t heard from at all since then idk. I guess that’s the most damning thing about Compton. It’s forgettable to those of us who don’t have a vested interest in seeing dre’s legacy play out to its conclusion. This album was the musical equivalent of the last 20 mins of Disaster Artist, the peak happened and everyone knows it except the editor.

    and don’t get me wrong I vividly remember growing up on 2001, it’s not that I’m some out of touch zoomer who can’t engage w the art, I’m just engaging w Compton the way I imagine a 12/13 year old might engage with Kanye’s recent work. It’s fine, sure, it’s got some cool tracks but like... eh?
     
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