Apr 29, 2015

f--- I'm a teenage rap nerd I'm supposed to know these things, how come no one informed me?

 

Apr 29, 2015

whats wrong with woods?

 

Apr 29, 2015

Are you a pretentious white douchebag?
Thats the people at the top of the hip hop journalism game.

 

Apr 29, 2015

Sadly no I'm just white

 

Apr 29, 2015

oi @Narsh i didn't give a f--- (as in, didn't like him, but didn't go out of my way to make dickhead threads or talk about his talent as if I have heard him before) about Thug till I heard his verse on this

am a fan now.

 

Apr 29, 2015

I just can't get into him. His music bores me. If you have any recommendations that'd be great.

 

Apr 29, 2015

dour candy was my introduction, and I think it's on of the best hip hop albums I've ever heard man

It does take a while to get into, but it's the kind of dense music that's so rewarding with closer listens

Hahah d---, nice man

That verse isn't really that great but it's awesome to watch haha

 

Apr 29, 2015

I'll probably download and listen to it now actually. I'll find the Billy Woods thread and report back

 

Apr 29, 2015

I just enjoyed his voice and flow on this one, which has always been the major turn-off for me. I guess this is just easier listening, I really love the beat too. Any recommendations??

 

Apr 29, 2015

http://www.datpiff.com/pop-mixtape-download.php?id=m9f4c81b

 

Apr 30, 2015

Young Thug isn't for me. I like Tom Waits... A lot of people don't like his music... I understand why and I don't have to convert them.

 

Apr 30, 2015

 

Apr 30, 2015

tell me more about how pretentious i am

 

Apr 30, 2015

 

Apr 30, 2015

Of course it is because it fits your opinion.

 

Apr 30, 2015

i don't think reviews are good or bad based on how close it is to my opinion because i'm not in the ninth grade.

furthermore, almost every major outlet reviewed barter 6 very positively. garvey's pitchfork review is the best of everyone's, probably including mine.

 

Apr 30, 2015

Take "Halftime", the most thrilling technical display here, on which Thug seamlessly snaps into a dozen different flows: casually extending the second syllable of "re-cy-cles" so that it threatens to throw the song off track entirely, pausing a beat, unleashing a quick guffaw, snapping back on beat. It's an almost-reckless balance-beam routine. He pauses only for an ingenious vocoder breakdown that melts his cries of "Havin’ the time of my muhfuckin’ liiiiiife" into semiotic ooze, suddenly giving the blood-red backdrop of the cover art an almost Lynchian cast, like the velveteen Black Lodge interior.

I like the song but this is the type of s--- y'all eat up really? Pitchfork just sensationalizes minute details to make any artist that fits agenda or that they really like seem like a greek god. But when they don't like the artist they make take petty shots and make it personal.

Y'all just overanalyzing but to each his own.

 

Apr 30, 2015

meaghan's giving an example that's emblematic of the argument she's making (which is good argumentation); the argument is that, you know, the rapping on a rap record is done in an inventive way. that's exactly what you're supposed to do in criticism. she's not saying the record is great because of a four-second snippet on the song--she's pointing to the four-second snippet to illustrate the larger point.

 

Apr 30, 2015

And I'm saying I'm not buying her sensationalism. A lot of young thug fans seem to be doing this in general, making a bigger deal out of something they ordinarily wouldn't do for another artist.

Its all opinions though.