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Watch the Throne, classic or not?

Started by Rodamon, Feb 5, 2015, in Music Add to Reading List

Is WTT a classic?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

    27 vote(s)
    50.9%
  1. Vos
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    Vos

    Feb 5, 2015
    I can see why people dislike the hook on MIA, but the verses are good, especially Jay's.
     
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  2. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Feb 5, 2015
    I prefer Kanye's tbh.
     
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  3. Fire Squad
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    Fire Squad Boss Don Biggavel

    Feb 5, 2015
    Will always remember the first time I bumped N***** In Paris in the whip Goddamm :dew:

    Completely destroyed my poverty speakers :wiggins2:
     
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  4. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Feb 5, 2015
    Murder toExcellence >>>>
     
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  5. Vos
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    Vos

    Feb 5, 2015
    his verse was good, but the South Park jab was silly, and I didn't care for the 'playin in traffic' bit. meanwhile, I can't criticize anything about Jay's verse. It's perfect for the thesis of the song.
     
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  6. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    Feb 5, 2015
    true.... Making me rethink all the songs about who was better on what.
     
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  7. Michael Myers
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    Michael Myers Moderator

    Feb 5, 2015
    I think they were pretty equal, both had great verses and I think it's about even when you compare them on each song.
     
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  8. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Feb 5, 2015
    @Swizz @Joshua Smoses I just checked my iTunes after you guys posted out of curiosity, and I've got 60-70 plays on most songs off of WTT, except Otis is in the 120 range. I didn't realize how much more I'd listened to Otis than the rest, I figure NIP would have it beat for sure.

    For some reason I always overlook WTT when looking at both Jay and Ye's discographies. As people have said, it's a mostly-fantastic album with one or two missteps and a few sequencing issues (really I would just switch That's My b---- and New Day), but all-in-all, it far surpassed my expectations for any collab album/super group project out there.

    This is also only album where I feel like the bonus tracks are really part of the album, as well. That instrumental that plays every so often (like at the end of No Church and at the beginning of Illest MFer Alive) feels like a sort of intermission, which makes the bonus tracks feel kind of like an encore. I love it.
     
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  9. Goku187
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    Goku187

    Feb 5, 2015
    Definitely. I've always felt switching New Day and That's My b---- would've worked better as well. And I agree with you on the bonus tracks - I almost see them as a companion EP, or something. Definitely don't look at them like typical bonus tracks, which so often are just throwaways.
     
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  10. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Feb 5, 2015
    I think you have to -- otherwise why i love you is a pretty weak/off end to the album. not sure why they didnt end with illest mf alive @BigCountry
     
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  11. Michael Myers
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    Michael Myers Moderator

    Feb 5, 2015
    I love WILY but yeah 'this is what the ending of scarface should feel like'
     
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  12. Mikey
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    Mikey

    Feb 5, 2015
    You say Yes definetely. Then mention 2 tracks u don't really like. Excluding the bonus tracks the 2/12 u don't really like. You must consider alot of albums classic.
     
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  13. Big Mitch
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    Big Mitch You never made me ran once

    Feb 5, 2015
    Honestly, WTT is some of my favorite work between the two of them. I loved every single song on the album. Otis is one of my favorite songs ever and is so fun to rap along with. It also put me onto Frank Ocean a lot. I heard some of his music before the album, but I really started listening to him a lot after this. It's a very debatable topic when determining whether or not it's a classic, but for me it's easily a classic. Might even call it one of my fav albums tbh.
     
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  14. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    Feb 5, 2015
    It was a good album but it's no Red and m--- Blackout brahs
     
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  15. Michael Myers
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    I was talking with bonus tracks.. and I like Lift Off, it just could have been better. MIA doesn't have bad verses but I'm just not a big fan of it.
     
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  16. Goku187
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    Disagree, love the way it just ends like that. Sopranos style bruh
     
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  17. lil uzi vert stan
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    lil uzi vert stan

    Feb 5, 2015
    hah, rly? interesting comparison... but its essentially a jayz song?
     
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  18. MS84
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    MS84

    Feb 5, 2015
    no
     
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  19. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Feb 5, 2015
    nice contribution
     
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  20. MT2
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    MT2 Formerly known as M.T

    Feb 5, 2015
    Watch the Throne is not a classic
     
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