Just when you think it can't get any more shite, Craig David chips in.
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Album Rating: 2.5
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"If this is the sound of hip-hop today, we're in a good place."
its not and we arent.
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Album Rating: 4.0
So far, Track Uno is a great house song.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
I wasn't aware that Phonte has such a good voice.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Loving this.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
I still regularly listen to his If remix of Janet Jackson. So banging.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I just don't get the thing with fast rhymes that rappers today love, where's the groooove?
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Album Rating: 3.5
A lot of it isn't even hip-hop though.
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hearing craig david again was sweet
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Album Rating: 3.5
Lots about this album is sweet.
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dont smoke enough weed 3/5
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Album Rating: 4.5
Cover looks like Neck Deep's newest album.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Really mixed bag here. Not sure how I feel about it just yet but One Too many and Drive me Crazy are incredible
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Album Rating: 3.0
this sounds like it could've come out on 2004.
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Album Rating: 4.2
"this sounds like it could've come out on 2004."
it's interesting because about half of this could have come out in 2004, about a quarter could have come out in the '80s or '90s, and about a quarter is super 2010's. it's the kind of hip-hop album which is backwards-looking in a way that's only really made possible by the absolute glut of awesome music and "historical" artifacts like interviews/videos we have today, especially as of the last five years or so
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Album Rating: 3.0
Yea. Almost infinite access to music from the past is both a blessing and a curse. Are we reaching critical mass?
I dunno.
I just really, really hope this isn't the sound of the hip hop of the future, that'd be lame and boring.
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Album Rating: 3.0
as some others have pointed out, calling this outright hip-hop is an absurd claim. a few tracks certainly have a prominent hip-hop edge, but by and large this thing consists of house and its derivatives. what's unfortunate is that this mislabeling ultimately hinges on your entire review. oh well.
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Album Rating: 4.2
"as some others have pointed out calling this outright hip-hop is an absurd claim. a few tracks certainly have a prominent hip-hop edge, but by and large this thing consists of house and its derivatives. what's unfortunate is that this mislabeling ultimately hinges on your entire review. oh well."
I get what you're saying but the summary is not representative of the arguments I make in the review - if you read it, you'll see that I'm more talking about "hip-hop" as a general culture (which encompasses house, jazz, soul, gospel, and the like) rather than strictly hip-hop alone. although I'd disagree that "a few tracks have a prominent hip-hop edge" - I'd say that, while only a few tracks (Lite Spots, Glowed Up, and Drive Me Crazy in particular) are strictly hip-hop, the genre kind of permeates everything's sound, esp. house tracks like Bullets and One Too Many
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Album Rating: 3.0
sooo, you're shoving the entirety of african-american musical history under the umbrella of the culture of hip-hop? oh, okay, I get it now. that makes more sense.
not trying to be a dick here. I actually think we feel the same way about this thing: that this album is a great encapsulation of where african-american musical culture has been and where it could go from here. but calling that entire history " 'hip-hop' as a culture" is certainly where we diverge.
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