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andyrau
Profile Joined December 2010
13015 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-01 23:31:13
November 01 2013 23:30 GMT
#881
how is it 'not fair' if you have the audacity to name it as the sequel

continuations will always be judged by the bar set by its predecessors regardless of the former's quality
"Zai is legitimately not as good as bulba." | kaipi ti3 champions
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
November 02 2013 00:23 GMT
#882
On November 02 2013 07:56 Bunn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 02 2013 07:07 Schelim wrote:
i can't think of a really good rap album that came out this year


Tyler's Wolf, Kanye's Yeezus, Danny Brown's Old. But I gotta agree, MMLP2 is a good album. I think Em's critics will always compare it with MMLP2, which just isn't fair imo. It's a great album, but it will always be compared to MMLP1, instead of other more recent artists/albums.


Run the jewels
yw
DystopiaX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16236 Posts
November 02 2013 01:11 GMT
#883
On November 02 2013 07:56 Bunn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 02 2013 07:07 Schelim wrote:
i can't think of a really good rap album that came out this year


Tyler's Wolf, Kanye's Yeezus, Danny Brown's Old. But I gotta agree, MMLP2 is a good album. I think Em's critics will always compare it with MMLP2, which just isn't fair imo. It's a great album, but it will always be compared to MMLP1, instead of other more recent artists/albums.

Old, Born Sinner, Acid Rap, Yeezus even. NWTS close, especially if you include the promo tracks that didn't quite make it on like 5AM in Toronto.

Action Bronson's new mixtape is out but I haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to it yet.
andyrau
Profile Joined December 2010
13015 Posts
November 02 2013 02:13 GMT
#884
MY NAME IS MY NAME
Acid Rap
RtJ
..

the rest
..
MCHG
"Zai is legitimately not as good as bulba." | kaipi ti3 champions
MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-02 02:31:08
November 02 2013 02:24 GMT
#885
Loads of good to great rap out this year, maybe you're just looking hard enough Schelim:

Doris
Run the Jewels
OLD
Acid Rap
MNIMN
Legends Never Die
Yeezus
Born Sinner
Twelve Reasons to Die
Blue Chips 2
Wolf
Nothing Was the Same
Kismet
Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Long. Live. A$AP
Summer Knights
King Remembered in Time
Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever
Deltron 3030 II

If you can't find something to enjoy out of that (and lots of other stuff as well) then I dunno what to say.
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Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
November 02 2013 04:49 GMT
#886
you missed out Magna Carta Holy Grail. The album is not super solid but suprisingly enjoyable. It's definitely less corny & commercial than some of the track in MMLP2
Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5357 Posts
November 02 2013 05:17 GMT
#887
MGHC was mediocre. Solid beats, but most of Hov's lyrics were average (at best), you could obviously hear how complacent he's gotten.
¯\_(シ)_/¯
Schelim
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Austria11528 Posts
November 02 2013 05:55 GMT
#888
On November 02 2013 11:24 MCDayC wrote:
Loads of good to great rap out this year, maybe you're just looking hard enough Schelim:

Doris
Run the Jewels
OLD
Acid Rap
MNIMN
Legends Never Die
Yeezus
Born Sinner
Twelve Reasons to Die
Blue Chips 2
Wolf
Nothing Was the Same
Kismet
Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Long. Live. A$AP
Summer Knights
King Remembered in Time
Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever
Deltron 3030 II

If you can't find something to enjoy out of that (and lots of other stuff as well) then I dunno what to say.

most of these are good (except Yeezus), but none of them are great imo. MCHG would indeed come close, but didn't that come out in late 2012?
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andyrau
Profile Joined December 2010
13015 Posts
November 02 2013 06:02 GMT
#889
what the fuck?
mchg was by far the worst album release of this year by a major hiphop artist lmao
"Zai is legitimately not as good as bulba." | kaipi ti3 champions
JMDj
Profile Joined September 2010
United States454 Posts
November 02 2013 06:13 GMT
#890
you think yeezus was good but didn't like Magna carta?

i don't even...
DystopiaX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16236 Posts
November 02 2013 06:58 GMT
#891
yeezus was far and away better than MCHG
MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
November 02 2013 09:30 GMT
#892
andryau, you're forgetting how truly dire Wayne's I am not a Human Being II is, but yeah, MCHG (and it did come out in 2013) wasn't good, and I say that as a huge fan of Jay Z.

I thought Yeezus was incredible.
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a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
November 02 2013 19:32 GMT
#893
On October 22 2013 16:39 Spyridon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 19 2013 20:50 JonGalt wrote:
managed to listen to rap god. so good! I am just gonna listen to this bad boy on repeat.


Did noone seriously notice the SC2 references on Rap God????




Go to 3:50... cant believe noone noticed!!.... Immortal... Portal... Time Warp? Plus the sound effects used on his voice during those lines


its not the lyrics, but you can hear the samples that sound an awful lot like an immortal
starleague forever
ZapRoffo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5544 Posts
November 03 2013 04:39 GMT
#894
Yeezus: Daring, challenging, some songs are brilliant, overall an interesting creation
MCHG: Tired, inessential, rather pointless, some songs are ok, overall a boring creation

I guess if you are really conservative MCHG has the positives and Yeezus the negatives...
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man
DystopiaX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16236 Posts
November 03 2013 06:20 GMT
#895
I just feel like Jay-Z doesn't really care about making good music anymore and is just cashing in. Like not only was MCHG lazy but his guest verse in pound cake is just him rhyming cake with cake like 20 times
Phay
Profile Joined August 2010
55 Posts
November 03 2013 06:23 GMT
#896
let it be noted, all roads lead to Kanye

Yeezus is a jam packed 40 mins of cutting edge experimental production by a proven musical heavyweight and if you give it a few more tries and still cant appreciate any of the tracks you just aren't advanced enough.

MMLP2 is classic Eminem, and he always uses the whole CD. There are tracks to stand tall with his classics and goofier ones that will become cult favorites. Since he gives us so much content I tend to overlook a little airiness in Em's studio albums, so a few lame tracks is basically nbd. If the bonus track is good though, MMLP2 will overtake Yeezus for best rap album this year for me.

Kendrick's GKMC is the only other that's in the same league this year.

MCHG very zzzzzz
Schelim
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Austria11528 Posts
November 03 2013 09:53 GMT
#897
meh, i love the production on MCHG and while Jay is not exactly spitting lyrical miracle bars on it, i do think he has interesting things to say on the album that haven't really been talked about much in HipHop cause he's in a very different position now. but i can see how you could think it's boring, and it does have a huge weakness in those last two tracks which are downright terrible. Yeezus... is it creative? absolutely. but i find it totally unlistenable, it's noise and not music to me. and you can't tell me Kanye's lyrics on that one are any better than those of MCHG. saying I AM A GOD 100 times is not dope.

GKMC came out in 2012. but yeah that's clearly the best rap album of recent years.
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DystopiaX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16236 Posts
November 03 2013 10:32 GMT
#898
no but with Kanye at least the subject matter is ridiculous enough and the production is good enough that it covers it up. With Kanye you never really went to him for lyricism, you can't exactly say the same about Jay Z. The production on Yeezus is unorthodox but it doesn't make it bad. I ended up really liking it.
TheKefka
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Croatia11752 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 15:42:37
November 03 2013 15:36 GMT
#899
On November 02 2013 11:24 MCDayC wrote:
Loads of good to great rap out this year, maybe you're just looking hard enough Schelim:

Doris
Run the Jewels
OLD
Acid Rap
MNIMN
Legends Never Die
Yeezus
Born Sinner
Twelve Reasons to Die
Blue Chips 2
Wolf
Nothing Was the Same
Kismet
Watching Movies with the Sound Off
Long. Live. A$AP
Summer Knights
King Remembered in Time
Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever
Deltron 3030 II

If you can't find something to enjoy out of that (and lots of other stuff as well) then I dunno what to say.

like,betteroffDEAD is the best hiphop album(well ok its a mixtape actually but w/e) that came out this year along with twelve reasons to die and doris imo.
but thats just my taste
also Ka's Nights Gambit is really solid as well.
Mellowhigh dropped last week and is okish.
Some people really love Lords of Flatbush but personally I think there are more bad tracks on that mixtape than good ones.

old,mchg and yeezus are my top 3 let downs.
Cackle™
MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
November 03 2013 18:45 GMT
#900
So much to listen to and relisten to. I meant to dive into old, 12 reasons and betteroffDEAD (i've listened to the first 2 once) more, but then I got distracted by MF DOOM and have spent the last month listening to Mm.. Food, Vaudeville Villain and Key to Kuffs. I regret nothing.
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