Album Rating: 4.0

ROM



MY MAN



HOW ARE YOU

this entire verse

First of all, fuck the fuckin' law, we is fuckin' raw
Steak tartare, oysters on the half-shell, sushi bar
Life a bitch and the pussy fish, still fucked her raw
I'm a dog, I'm a dirty dog, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Ol' Dirty Bastard, go in your jaw, shimmy shimmy ya
Got the semi in the hemi, go and gimme, gimme, ya
Pugilistic, my linguistics are Jeru the Damaja
And I rap it pornographic, bitch, set up the camera

Album Rating: 5.0

thread is a real who's who of great longtime sputnik users.

maniac's here, too.

yeah, I get you Pots, I hear those verses and just think about the flow. They repeat a lot of phrases and words on this tbh, but the bbbbeaaattsss, idk this is probably a 4 for me

Album Rating: 4.0

Was not expecting a Gang of Four sample

Album Rating: 4.0

"but the bbbbeaaattsss, idk this is probably a 4 for me"



agreed

@josh el-p's production chops will always be admirable and they serve their purpose for rtj well. extremely bombastic. but i'll always prefer his more restrained work and do hope that he returns to his roots for a project or two outside of this. his production from around c4c onwards has gained a lot of scale and opulence but in that process it has lost a lot of the introverted, evocative properties of his earlier stuff. like rtj stuff might be hyphie as all fuck but there is some old el-p stuff that genuinely has brought a tear to my eye, which is an entirely different ballgame, and something that i personally find a lot more impactful and commendable than being able to phone it in on sheer energy alone.

plus, at the time, i think what he was doing with his early solo material, cannibal ox, and company flow, was some of the most innovative and forward thinking material in the game. and it still holds up to that to this day. I don't find his rtj material to be terribly cutting-edge.

Album Rating: 4.0

just found this soundoff:



"It's time to admit that RTJ is up there with Outkast, Tribe, Wu-Tang, etc. as one of the greatest rap groups of all time"



hhahahahahahaha. Sputnik is just as retarded as I left it.

Album Rating: 3.0

Ugh.

Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off

fking W O R D Potzy

I'm not a big hip hop guy, and I remember trying to go into El's solo stuff from years past, and the little I listened to had me thinking "well this is weird". So I guess I fit the "only white guys listen to RTJ" stereotype.
Give me a couple El songs that highlight what you're talking about.

"It's time to admit that RTJ is up there with Outkast, Tribe, Wu-Tang, etc. as one of the greatest rap groups of all time"

bro, we're talking Mt. Rapmore: Tupac, Snow, LL Cool J, RTJ

@josh

T.O.J. and The Overly Dramatic Truth immediately come to mind.

And Pigeon by Cannibal Ox

Album Rating: 4.0

"Give me a couple El songs that highlight what you're talking about."



Josh I expected more of you.

Album Rating: 5.0

contrary to popular belief, iswyd = best solo el-p album.

Album Rating: 5.0

"T.O.J. and The Overly Dramatic Truth immediately come to mind."

i was just about to rec the latter. you lost me with the vonnegut comment, but won me back here, as always.

why, I've never been in this genre, only on the periphery. I like The Pharcyde and ATCQ and then a few thigns here and there in my generation.

Album Rating: 4.0

"contrary to popular belief, iswyd = best solo el-p album."



is that a contentious view among the indie hipster elite?



It was always my favorite, anyway.

Album Rating: 5.0

probably not. my takes are pretty lukewarm these days, ngl.

haha sorry honestly i have some weird personal associations with vonnegut, it might just be one of those things that was ruined for me by personal circumstance and not actually all that indicative of how i would feel otherwise.