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yeah he def gets in the way. I wish wayne had another verse in his place. same with jeezy on white girl. whatever tho. still fire
BTW - who is that hot chick biting her lip in your sig?
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he went very hard (he has to, every verse might be his LAST! lol) but wayne delivered some powerful lines. Not my favorite style/flow of his though. I’m not as big a fan as others when it comes to the flow he uses on He’s Right, Murda and the beginning of Pull Up… when he said “when I’m naked I got three arms” in that wowzers style I almost threw up. I thought “Oh fuck, this album is about to fall apart” But then he went and turned it into one of his dopest raps on the tape (album, whatever).
As many here know, I like wayne best when he is rhyming steadily over more classic beats. Lucky for me and lots of other fans, he does that throughout most of FWA (glory, heart, London, post, white, livin, psycho, without – even thinkin and feel good also). I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his dopest project in years happened at the moment he decided to go back to his classic style.
Gotta admit though, when he does the double time “trapping” as I call that style of rapping, he has gotten better. I hear IANAHB2 songs and some of those god-awful D5 tracks and it makes me queasy. One of the most important things wayne can do (IMO) is elaborate on his thoughts, which he has started doing again. Don’t just say “my dick is big” --- follow it up with why that matters or make a joke or clever meaning out of it. That’s something he was forgetting about during D4, IANAHB2 and D5 especially. It’s like saying: my dick is big / I have crazy goons / other people are jealous of my drugs / my girl has a tight pussy. Now he is doing what he used to do, which is: giving a bar something more if it doesn’t catch fire on its own. Even on the bonus track, street chains, he says (in D4 mode) “I’m chong and cheech, my blunt long as a speech, roach look like a leech”…. Okay, it’s the not the greatest line, but if it was D4 we probably wouldn’t have gotten that leech line. He’d have been off talking about something else at that point, leaving the listener feeling inexplicably uneasy in the moment because the line didn’t really conclude or the punchline didn’t deliver.
yeah he def gets in the way. I wish wayne had another verse in his place. same with jeezy on white girl. whatever tho. still fire
BTW - who is that hot chick biting her lip in your sig?
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he went very hard (he has to, every verse might be his LAST! lol) but wayne delivered some powerful lines. Not my favorite style/flow of his though. I’m not as big a fan as others when it comes to the flow he uses on He’s Right, Murda and the beginning of Pull Up… when he said “when I’m naked I got three arms” in that wowzers style I almost threw up. I thought “Oh fuck, this album is about to fall apart” But then he went and turned it into one of his dopest raps on the tape (album, whatever).
As many here know, I like wayne best when he is rhyming steadily over more classic beats. Lucky for me and lots of other fans, he does that throughout most of FWA (glory, heart, London, post, white, livin, psycho, without – even thinkin and feel good also). I don’t think it’s a coincidence that his dopest project in years happened at the moment he decided to go back to his classic style.
Gotta admit though, when he does the double time “trapping” as I call that style of rapping, he has gotten better. I hear IANAHB2 songs and some of those god-awful D5 tracks and it makes me queasy. One of the most important things wayne can do (IMO) is elaborate on his thoughts, which he has started doing again. Don’t just say “my dick is big” --- follow it up with why that matters or make a joke or clever meaning out of it. That’s something he was forgetting about during D4, IANAHB2 and D5 especially. It’s like saying: my dick is big / I have crazy goons / other people are jealous of my drugs / my girl has a tight pussy. Now he is doing what he used to do, which is: giving a bar something more if it doesn’t catch fire on its own. Even on the bonus track, street chains, he says (in D4 mode) “I’m chong and cheech, my blunt long as a speech, roach look like a leech”…. Okay, it’s the not the greatest line, but if it was D4 we probably wouldn’t have gotten that leech line. He’d have been off talking about something else at that point, leaving the listener feeling inexplicably uneasy in the moment because the line didn’t really conclude or the punchline didn’t deliver.
think i just realised why you think d5 is wack.. if wayne raps in any other style besides the one pleases you.. you devalue the performance because it doesnt meet your subjective rap standard. i think this is the most harmful way to enjoy music or art in general. oscar wilde has an awesome qoute on it.
The temperament to which Art appeals … is the temperament of receptivity. That is all.
If a man approaches a work of art with any desire to exercise authority over it and the artist, he approaches it in such a spirit that he cannot receive any artistic impression from it at all. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. The spectator is to be receptive. He is to be the violin on which the master is to play. And the more completely he can suppress his own silly views, his own foolish prejudices, his own absurd ideas of what Art should be, or should not be, the more likely he is to understand and appreciate the work of art in question.
that said, i agree. his ability to flesh out his lines, really does a lot for his raps. my biggest problem with the carter 4/ dedication 4 era.. is that his lines were spoonfed, he delivered them slow, and they werent much to think about. pretty straightforward, minimal layers, occasionally corny, mostly lazy.
now hes delivering lines at his pace, hes comfortably moving through his thoughts. if people catch the lines or not, hes not too concerned, hes just getting them out, his wit and creativity, paired w his delivery is in a really good place right now.
I think the album is very good, it met my expectations.
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In addition to my last post, it does hit a slump in the middle, especially with Wiz's verse.
Yeah wiz’s verse blows, but the end of the album has enough energy to keep me enthralled. The song cycle of without you, post bail, pull up, livin right, white girl, pick up is the dopest and the highlight of the album for me.
I feel that the slump of this album is in the middle. I can appreciate I’m That Nigga for its party and trippy elements… and I like the sour cream bar. That’s goofy, but kinda cool. Overall it just has a dope feel to it. Then psycho is obviously amazing. But for me I’m That nigga being before psycho pulls the latter song down in its undertow.
I feel like I’m that nigga begins the quality dip, which continues with murda and thinking bout you. Psycho unfortunately gets dragged down but is amazing on its own.
The high quality emerges on without you and just gets better and better until the end (except for when wayne says “when I’m naked I got three legs” in pull up. LOL. That’s some IANAHB2 shit.)
yeah he def gets in the way. I wish wayne had another verse in his place. same with jeezy on white girl. whatever tho. still fire
BTW - who is that hot chick biting her lip in your sig?
yeah he def gets in the way. I wish wayne had another verse in his place. same with jeezy on white girl. whatever tho. still fire
BTW - who is that hot chick biting her lip in your sig?
In his sig she bad af but otherwise she aight.
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