Album Rating: 4.0

2/5**

Yeah Take Care is a solid 2/5

Album Rating: 3.5

Hey look guys everyone else thinks it sucks so I'm gonna join the club and just throw a 2/5 on it sweet.

I'm sorry but the only thing I like are the beats

His voice still sucks ass and cmon that song with Lil Wayne is like the worst thing ever

Album Rating: 4.5

hawks is just mad



thats what happens when u listen 2 drayke

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm sorry but the only thing I like are the beats



His voice still sucks ass and cmon that song with Lil Wayne is like the worst thing ever

Album Rating: 4.5

you talkin about HYFR? cuz thats liek obviously the best song dudes

Album Rating: 3.5

hawks is just mad



thats what happens when u listen 2 drayke

Album Rating: 4.5

"whenever robertsona has a bad opinion he just posts nonsense as if to say man y'all don't get it"



this is just personal and probably won't make any sense, but real shit: this whole thing seems so, so, so fake. like a huge gimmick, not fucking with you. shabazz (butterfly?) uses 10 tracks of self-consciously experimental and fractured structure to say...what? nothing. "black is you, black is me"? all of the lyrics deal in vaguely interesting-sounding platitudes but nothing of real substance (if we're going to compare this to drake [which: why?] then i at least appreciate his unwavering directness). it all seems like a think tank got together to make the most Hip Experimental Hip Hop Album Ever and came up with this. nothing seems to have risen organically; it all seems so calculated to me.



that aside, i've realized that, well, the songs aren't very good. "free press," "treastease" "yeah you" are all just no fun and completely forgettable in their tuneless drawl. "recollections" has a cool idea with that vocal sample, but is undercut by its insistence on minimalism. after a while, a bass drum and clack sound ad infinitum for the verse beat gets sort of boring, sorry. the only songs i can say i truly enjoy without reservations are "are you were you can you" and "kings new clothes". i guess the fairest way to say this is "not for me," but i can't shake the feeling that this is just a bunch of people jumping onboard what is essentially a very clever marketing ploy

Album Rating: 4.5

i appreciate the explanation though its still quite puzzling. its like youre faulting it for trying to be smart and succeeding

Album Rating: 4.5

in terms of the lyrics, i'd say i'm faulting it for mistaking "sorta sounding smart" with

actually "being smart". the lyrics all vaguely touch on metaphysics or transcendence or whatever

without actually giving weight to any of that; some songs will (to me, at least) use these themes--

which could lead to some awesome, weird lyrical shit, yes!--but to say absolutely nothing. this

is where my general disdain for the "intent" behind this record comes, in part: it seems like

butterfly realized that he could just generally spew "spiritual" or "experimental" lyrics and

reference jorge luis borges and whatever, and, no matter what the substance behind it, a certain group

of Creative Hip Hop Listeners would latch onto it



that's not to mention that i'm also faulting it for just not sounding good to my ears beat-wise

Album Rating: 4.5

eh, this year ive grown pretty sick of the kanye-esuqe, id-explosion type thing picked up by other hip hop artists this year (i'll stick with drake since we're on it already). whats so exciting about this release is that its genuinely something new, which i find pretty sick. not particularly traditional, and i can see how it can grate to people looking for that, but for me, this is an essential other level

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"free press,and curl" is really forgottable maybe this is the reason why I have it as a ringtone on my phone since Butterfly released Black Up almost 4 months ago...

Lyrics on this LP are fuckin mindblowing, like on "Echo from hosts..." songs has some many layers of understanging... just check "http://ishmaelites.blogspot.com/" there are some explanations on their songs also their videoclip of "Belhaven Meridian" is fuckin epic

I am not want to say that but maybe youre just shallow or stupid because this LP is genius piece of music/art

Album Rating: 4.5

^or that

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I cant agree more with Electric city

Album Rating: 3.0

you guys should check out EmAy. he has his first two EPs for free download on his site ( http://emayzin.com/). please? Jash and I need some help with this hype train.



and robertsona, he's better than these guys IN MY OPINION (but not really comparable other than both being hip-hop...)

Album Rating: 4.5

so basically he thinks this album is poor because he's failing to find the TRUE MESSAGE behind the lyrics. gimmie a break dude. nothing else really sounds like this.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Maybe we all gonna mark Albert Einstein "Theory of relativity" as a poor and reason why is: "we don't understand what Einstein said or mean" so there is a question Is that theory really bullshit or we are just not as smart to understand it.... This is substitution on robertsona rating "I dont understand the lyrics so it's a bullshit"

Album Rating: 4.5

robertsona what's your opinion of clouddead? curious as to what you think of that in light of your opinion of this

This is wearing off.