I was actually surprised by how much I love it, one of my favs of the 2010s for sure
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I've issued forth this take but Thank You 4 Your Service kills the classic stuff. easy win imho
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Album Rating: 4.5
"I've issued forth this take but Thank You 4 Your Service kills the classic stuff. easy win imho"
I might prefer it over the debut, but not over the two classics
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Album Rating: 5.0
1988 senior year at Garvey High
Where are the all the guys were corny but the girls were mad fly
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Album Rating: 5.0
just gave this another spin. had to look up where "Massapequot" was lol
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I want to see the timeline where "Georgie Porgie" is on this record. I genuinely wish they put it here and exposed their asses
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I’m just learning about this and Jesus fuck
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Album Rating: 4.5
Seriously what the fuck? I listened to this album for the first time today (I know, I know... it's been on my list for a long ass time, though) and come here to check out the discussion and instead end up down a Georgie Porgie rabbit hole. What a timeline that would be.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Wait.. what's going on?
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Most homophobic rap song of all time is a pretty high bar to clear to begin with but I read the lyrics and it really does take the cake
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A Tribe Called Quest is problematic, and cancelled, and not it sis
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@gyro tribe wrote a song called Georgie Porgie that was meant to be on this record but it was so homophobic their record label wouldn’t let them put it on
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The lyrics flip from being funny to homophobic, the first 2 lines here are funny, the next are homophobic
Walking in the ville with them long dreadlocks
But on the DL, getting done up the butt box
Oh my God how gross can one be
Well anyway, better him than me
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Very possibly the only time record label meddling actually made an album better
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I’m not out here to cancel an ethnic minority group for being homophobic 30 years ago but this story definitely made me lose respect for them. It’s a lot more egregious than the usual casual homophobia and misogyny of old school hip hop. It’s really bad. I hope they have grown. I read in a Reddit thread about this song that they wrote a pro lgbtq+ years later, but who is to say if that’s genuine or they were trying to save face.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Wow, just read the lyrics and that's fucking nuts. Kind of wish I didn't hear about this
But yeah I mean shit was 3 decades ago and they have some pretty progressive politics on some of their latest stuff. I'd be surprised if they actually felt like this today
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Album Rating: 4.5
lol those lyrics really can't get a different interpretation, truly ugly stuff damn
"But yeah I mean shit was 3 decades ago and they have some pretty progressive politics on some of their latest stuff. I'd be surprised if they actually felt like this today"
Pretty much what I like to think
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I only really hold it against the album insofar as it supports my stance that a lot of the bars here are kind of immature and shallow in a way I struggle to sympathize with, obviously they're still very influential in a lot of ways tho and I don't think it undoes any positive messages fans have taken from their other songs
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That’s fair, although as someone whose favourite little time capsule of hip hop is east coast 90s renaissance I won’t claim that “maturity” or a positive message are things I look for too much in the genre lmao
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Album Rating: 4.0
yeah i don't really get that either. the album is just a vibe
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