Heltah Skeltah - "Sean Price"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnMBflYsrQ

RIP

("some say Sean Price is nicest on mic devices")

Yo, NR, did you ever listen to 2014's Land of the Crooks, that double album that came packaged with Guilty Simpson's Highway Robbery? I think I recommended it to you specifically. Anyway, check it if you haven't yet. In memoriam.

(Actually it mate have dropped in Dec. of 2013, but the double album edition I have is from 2014... Happy listening)

you did recommend it to me via PM, and I haven't yet. Kept hoping to find a physical copy. But now might be a good time to give it a spin on Spotify or whatever. Bummer, man. I've been into Heltah Skeltah since they dropped. Loved Price's solo career. So sad.

i don't have Apple Music or whatever.

Nah man, a few of my friends have and said it's very much worth a read. Have you? I wanna read a book of that size but about McCartney instead.

Neither do I. *wink wink*

Its coming out on cd in a few months. I can wait.

I gave it a shot, but it's just fucking massive, and I had some Ray Bradbury staring at me from the bookshelf at the time. I skipped around a bit, but ultimately I tossed it aside. Now it sits on my shelf, forever mocking me.

I almost never leave a book unfinished.

Anyway, I just bring it up because my father considers it kind of the be all and end all of Lennon bios, with plenty of attention paid to the unflattering and oft-neglected truths that his "legacy" sweeps under the rug.

Who cares about John Lennon, why did he get brought up? You might as well have brought up Geoffrey Boycott or Stan Collymore for all the relevance it has.

Yeah, I guess Foo Fighters and Green Day aren't corporate enough. Dr Dre is more like a wife beating Bono.

You decided to mention it when all I asked about was has anyone listened to his album. Point being I don't have to like the guy to listen to his music.

Pretty much.

Violence against women bothers me too much to be able to put it out of my mind when listening to someone's music.
However, even if Dre had never beaten a woman so bad she needed to have reconstructive surgery his music would still be overhyped pedestrian garbage.

Dre owes his milllions to Parliament Funkadelic.

Even The Chronic?!

Ha!

lulz @ Genteel neg-repping this post. I thought "to each his own" was pretty much a shrug.

I'm pretty sure the old "love the music, not the artist" thing goes both ways. Hating the music simply because you think the artist is a cunt has never seemed super logical to me.

but I have to admit, that's some pretty disgusting shit. I don't actually recall the specific incident you're talking about... clearly it's been conveniently forgotten due to Dre's enduring cash cow status. But damn...

I've never been a big fan. I like the Chronic. But otherwise... Blehmeh

Why do people keep misunderstanding his neg rep thing, its his subversive way of saying, "What up yo." I thrive in neg rep situations, i see the charm in it.

I don't think it's that. At all.

pretty sure you can buy it on iTunes. great album, by the way.

he's neg repped me obsessively in the last few weeks. best thing at this point is just to ignore him.

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

hey i just learned a wonderful thing, when you add him to your ignore list you can't see his neg reps.

See SFAD? I really doubt he's courting louder for some kind of cyber bro-ship. He's not saying What up?, he's saying, I'm a 41 year old basement dweller who finds endless entertainment in trolling the Internet for people to be *mean* to ... suggesting that I may derive sexual pleasure from acting like a twat, with only my own stunted, fragile psyche as an audience.

Oh and he's also saying:

...honesty you should probably be a little bit worried about me because I display symptoms of psycho-social maladjustment, major depressive disorder, Internet addiction and a possible latent antisocial personality disorder that could manifest in an outburst of senseless violence or self-harm.

So yeah, ignore him. Hell, if we all put him on our ignore list, he would essentially cease to exist! Though he seems like the type who has multiple user names.

Meh.

Hey did anyone attend or watch the footage from OVO Fest?

Drake brought out Kanye, Pharrel, Future, & Travi$ Scott. I had a last minute chance to go to Toronto for the show, but I was like "nah I'll just relax and catch up on some reading"

Needless to say, I regret this decision.

RE: this new Dre.. what a weird ass album. it uses some obscure samples and artists which make you question how the hell Dre even found them. some parts of it are noisy and reminiscent of Fear of a Black Planet. it actually reminds me how much Dre loves music and sound, after years of dedicating himself to a pair of headphones. it's definitely darker, deeper and more substantial than 2001. Kendrick's appearances are mesmerising and he's dissing the fuck out of Drake on multiple songs. i'm digging the hell out of this album and finding something new on every listen.

Yeah I'm curious. I think I'll buy it when the hard copy comes out just because it's getting positive attention, and it's kind of a big fuckin' deal. I tend to buy albums that are bigass deals with a lot of cultural relevance.

That's basically why I bought Random Access Memories, even though I would have been totally cool just cherry picking "Doing It Right" and "Contact" off of iTunes.

Weird that it's dropping right after Warren G's new EP Regulate... G Funk Era II.

Warren isn't even on Compton is he?

My main concerns are 1) buying an album that features Eminem's bitch ass... Something I haven't done in a long ass while, and 2) Why the fuck is Kendrick tearing Drake apart?

I'm finally starting to NOT want to punch Drake's funny ass head all the time. I've been listening to a LOT of his shit this year, and If You're Reading This... may end up above TPAB if I keep liking it more every time I hear it.

I want to hear Kendrick and Drake get the fuck along. I want "Fuckin' Problems" echoing in the streets.

Yeah new warren g is good tho.

If youre reading this is my fav drake album in a while. A sloppy druggy mess.

apparently Drake was throwing subliminals at him all over If You're Reading This.

He has a verse. But trust me, he kills it.

EDIT:Besides, what's with all the Eminem hate?

been telling y'all since the day it came out.. it is my favorite Drake album, period.

Real talk: it's my favorite Drake album ever, period.

I've always kinda had one foot out the door when it comes to Drake. His first three albums have enough cringe-worthy moments to substantially detract from the quality of the really great moments.
Plus, you know, the whole Canadian-teen-soap-opera-actor-turned-sweatpants-wearing-half-rapper is just a hard ass sell in general. Especially since he rarely really lets rip, and tends to write from the perspective of semi-creepy lover boys who haven't yet crossed the line into stalking. It makes the fact that he's clearly hoping to occupy Jay-Z's former spot as the world's most populist rapper all the more difficult to bear. At least Hov came from slangin' packs in Crooklyn.

But I digress... If You're Reading This... has an entirely different type of energy. I have been to Toronto enough to not buy into Drake's overly embellished depiction of it as some kind of legendary metropolis** ... but whether by accident or as part of some larger plan, Drake dropped the best album of his career in the form of a surprise "mixtape"; the first entry in his catalog that sounds truly original (even though it still owes a lot to The Weeknd production wise.)


** (It's fucking Toronto for Christ's sake... It is the least badass of the Canadian cities... Montreal is the real cultural epicenter, the city with all the class, all the culture, and that strange dreamlike, almost magical vibe that comes from the juxtaposition of the familiar with the exotic.
Vancouver is one of the greatest "hip" cities in North America; progressive and socially innovative. A beautiful and dangerous city that ranks somewhere below Seattle but above Portland in the Pacific Northwest's most desirable locations. But Toronto? Nah. Fuckin' Hockey, maple syrup and polite bearded people. It's like the Cleveland of Canada. I still like the place, but I wish Drake would stop pretending it's the Chicago to his Kanye West.)

From Roger Ebert's 1.5 star review of Dangerous Minds, the shitty Michelle Pfeiffer film.

"Rap has a bad reputation in white circles, where many people believe it consists of obscene and violent anti-white and anti-female guttural. Some of it does. Most does not. Most white listeners don't care; they hear black voices in a litany of discontent, and tune out.
Yet rap plays the same role today as Bob Dylan did in 1960, giving voice to the hopes and angers of a generation, and a lot of rap is powerful writing."

Well, for me it's mainly just that I don't like Eminem's voice, style, flow, songwriting, creative sensibilities, pop culture presence or public persona.

I'm not saying he's not talented, or that people who like him are dumb or anything like that. I mean, he's obviously one of -- if not THE-- single most popular artist in the history of rap. He's worked with tons of my favorite artists, so I'm not not acting like there's nothing to respect about him.

It's just that for me, personally, he is like... offensive to my ears. Not because he raps about smacking female pop stars... Not because of any of the things he does to deliberately offend. I just find him utterly trashy in every way. An affront to my own taste and aesthetic.

He's the reason I will never consider The Blueprint a perfect album.
Also, even when Dre's supplying beats and production, I find his records to be 100% substandard musically. I can think of a hundred mediocre rappers with less lyrical skill who consistently rap over vastly more interesting instrumentals.

So that's the long and short of it for me. He was funny in The Interview though.

BTW: know how I said I'd buy the physical release of Compton when it came out? Well, after reading that it wasn't hitting stores until the end of the month, I got impatient and bought it through iTunes.

And holy shit, it's really fucking good, fellas! It sounds fresh as hell. Vibrant and immediate. It's so much better than I was expecting.