Feb 26, 2021

Hey everyone for my birthday I thought I would make a thread for everybody to see what I've been jamming to hip hop for not! I'll start off with some quick album reviews most of these are on first listen btw (subject to change)

Denzel Curry

• Ta13oo 9.5/10 really strong album I like almost every song

• ZUU 7.5/10 I only listened once so ineed more listens to feel it out.

• Unlocked 8/10 I have the same sentiment with this that I have with ZUU this one gets a higher score for experimentation though

Isaiah Rashad

• Cilvia demo 9.5/10 I love this album and I feel it will grow on me more and more during subsequent listens

• The Sun's Tirade 9/10 also extremely strong but it's more of a grower than cilvia demo

Riff Raff

• Neon icon 11/10 nuff said.

Kendrick Lamar

• Good kid m.a.a.d city ?/10 I just need to listen to this more before I assign a score cause I this was the first kendrick album I listened to so the others are a little fresher in my memory

• To p---- a butterfly 9/10 it drags in for a bit and there are a couple of songs I'm not fond of but the concept and the execution of said concept makes up for it imo

• d--- 7.5/10 this has some of the best sounding kendrick songs imo but I think the concepts of the other two help make up for the personal shortcomings of those albums where with this although good doesn't have anything to fall back on

Tyler, The Creator

• Flower boy 8/10 I need to listen to this one and more tyler projects a lot more I really liked it on first listen though

Big sean

• Detroit 2 7.5/10 I really like a lot of this album but g.d. are there a decent chunk of songs I don't give a s--- about lol

J.I.D.

• Dicaprio 2 8/10 really good album he's one of the most interesting rapper I've heard on a technical level

Now for non hip hop new listens

• The Black Parade 7.5/10 a family member had me listen to this and I just need to listen to it and absorb the concept more I could definitely see this growing on me heavy

Hayley Williams

• Petals for armor 6/10 first few songs were really good then the songs turned into paramore but not as good
• Flowers for vases 6.5/10 better than the last record but by the midway point the songs get a little samey and it drags I appreciate the new style though

Weezer

• OK Human 8/10 actually a pretty good album if you're into this sound

https://www.last.fm/user/Jankland/library here's the last.fm roast me all you want lol

Alright that was all the bigger stuff I listened to in the past handful of months if you want me to give more detailed answers for my scores or dive deeper into albums I listened to a while ago and more obscure albums lemme know and I drop an update post! I also need to listen to more of the stuff you suggested to me in my last thread so this is a good place to put it lol

 

May 4, 2022

Go back to the Em section where you belong.

 

Feb 27, 2021

If you're taking reccs, try listening to these:

Smino - blkswn
SABA - Care For Me
Noname - Telefone

Love your scores, and love that you love Isaiah Rashad's projects so far. Definitely agree on the assessment that TST is a grower.

 

Apr 19, 2021

@Ricky I believe it was you who told me to listen to "it's dark and h--- is hot" by DMX so I did it's a super dope album and there were little to know songs that I didn't at least have fun with! he always seemed to have extremely entertaining delivery with some funny lines but he doesn't skip out in the heartfelt s--- either and I'm excited to listen to more of his projects R.I.P.

 

May 5, 2022

 

May 5, 2022

I almost blacked out and went full COD lobby on you but I realized this isn't the discord and I'm usually the calm one on here lmao.

Love you Joey, see you at the bar again this weekend.

 

Apr 29, 2022

WHAT'S UP f---ers ITS BEEN A MINUTE SO IMMA START OFF WITH SOMETHING LIGHT THAT WAS ON REPEAT FOR ME RECENTLY



if you never listened to this album and you wanna know what it would be like if Linkin Park made the Doom soundtrack then this is the album for you, basically every track is a b-----r. 9/10

 

Apr 18, 2021

Btw I relistened to Zuu @Sav Stanfield and @Donkey Kong Country I was definitely sleeping on it I still don't like it as much as ta13oo but I can see it growing on me a lot if I just give it a couple more spins

 

Apr 18, 2021

UPDATE: I want to start getting to the albums that y'all recommended in my last thread but first I just listened to Jay-Z's The Blueprint I don't really know what to rate this album so I tried to go statistically on the percentage of the songs that I enjoyed but that came out to 66% which doesn't feel right so all I can say is that I enjoyed my time with it and from "that n***a jigga" forwards I think the albums hooks and beats got way better

I also think I'm gonna start listening to the first few DMX albums in memory of him

 

Feb 26, 2021

Also thanks to @Captain Awesome AKA Papa for suggesting I post this thread and for being an all around good dude!

 

Feb 26, 2021

great thread @jankland, Neon Icon score spot on

surprised you didn't enjoy Zuu as much, thats gotta be my favorite Denzel album. Definitely worth giving it another chance.

 

Feb 26, 2021

I could see a lot of these albums growing on me and zuu is definitely something I have to go back to sooner than later

 

Oct 9, 2022

Fair enough, I wouldn’t let that stop you tho, I didn’t get very much into him until he died either.

Also circles is definitely fitting music for your depression era. You won’t regret it.