Ghostface & BADBADNOTGOOD album Sour Soul out Feb. 24 (Album Discussion Thread)

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So far, I don't think it's better than 36 Seasons but it's still good music.
 

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Production is beautiful, BBNG sound is a bit fuller and more fleshed out than Adrian Yonge's.

I still miss the way Ghost used to CRUSH the track with his energy, but he really aint got shyt to prove and is on his way to having the GOAT rapper catalog, period. He's Top 5 dead or alive, at this point

This will get copped come Tuesday
 

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bruh, I've been lurking this site for a few years now. I always like to know what people think about certain hip hop releases, even if I'm not fukking with the album/artist. . So I'll google stuff and usually, this site will come up. After Kanyetothe and boxden. I would always read some forum on Kanyetothe or boxden, but eventually I got fed up. Them nikkas don't know shyt! Their thoughts aren't fully fleshed out and it's too many dikkriders.

Compared to thecoli... I'll notice certain comments by people and I'm like: 'oh... this person knows wassup. They've been listening to hip hop for a while and thinking about it.' Even if I disagree, there's more rational discussion. So yesterday, it occurred to me: Why don't I join this shyt?!

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bruh, I've been lurking this site for a few years now. I always like to know what people think about certain hip hop releases, even if I'm not fukking with the album/artist. . So I'll google stuff and usually, this site will come up. After Kanyetothe and boxden. I would always read some forum on Kanyetothe or boxden, but eventually I got fed up. Them nikkas don't know shyt! Their thoughts aren't fully fleshed out and it's too many dikkriders.

Compared to thecoli... I'll notice certain comments by people and I'm like: 'oh... this person knows wassup. They've been listening to hip hop for a while and thinking about it.' Even if I disagree, there's more rational discussion. So yesterday, it occurred to me: Why don't I join this shyt?!

here I am
Welcome breh.

I used to lurk KTT from time to time because their Album threads always have more activity and updates, but eventually I realized 90% of the posts are trollage or dikkridery. Im willing to deal with the Coli's constant racebaiting because we have the overall quality, less lame humor and ORIGINAL perspectives

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Welcome breh.

I used to lurk KTT from time to time because their Album threads always have more activity and updates, but eventually I realized 90% of the posts are trollage or dikkridery. Im willing to deal with the Coli's constant racebaiting because we have the overall quality, less lame humor and ORIGINAL perspectives

:blessed:

thanks bruh. Y'all nikkas have some funny threads for real! I can't remember them but I've gotten a good lurker laugh outta them shyts.
 

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Fishscale to me is when Ghost started rhyming on less 'active' beats in the hopes of being more 'straightforward' in the storytelling department. E.g. Beauty Jackson (which is a decent cut, no doubt) or "Shakey Dog" (which I never cared for) or "Whip You With A Strap" (again, never cared for this). It feels like Ghost just started rapping over old records with little-to-no manipulation on them in the beat department. And then it went from there to... well, lemme get someone who can actually play this stuff live.

Compare "Shakey Dog" or "Kilo" to "One" and "Child's Play". Supreme Clientele's way more active, playful, bouncier, grittier.... I miss that. To me, that's Ghostface at his finest.

It's like Ghostface is stuck in this 'smoky jazz lounge' 70s Blaxploiltation mode and has been there since 12 Reasons. I know there's always been elements of 70s shyt in Ghostface (and Wu in general) but it was rawer back then and they really took it beyond the old records. Whereas now I feel like Ghost is regressing. This is the 3rd album in a row that has this mellow, bland live instrumentation vibe, and I'm not fukking with it.

Where are those beautiful wyl out beats?!

I could be wrong. by all means educate a brotha. I'm just thinking out loud.

Aite, Sir B!tch. Last official Ghost album he was rhyming on upbeat tracks, n!ggas unfairly sh!t on it (Wizard of Poetry).
 
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bruh, I've been lurking this site for a few years now. I always like to know what people think about certain hip hop releases, even if I'm not fukking with the album/artist. . So I'll google stuff and usually, this site will come up. After Kanyetothe and boxden. I would always read some forum on Kanyetothe or boxden, but eventually I got fed up. Them nikkas don't know shyt! Their thoughts aren't fully fleshed out and it's too many dikkriders.

Compared to thecoli... I'll notice certain comments by people and I'm like: 'oh... this person knows wassup. They've been listening to hip hop for a while and thinking about it.' Even if I disagree, there's more rational discussion. So yesterday, it occurred to me: Why don't I join this shyt?!

here I am
:leon:Welcome breh. Repped:cheers:
 

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The way the interviewers talk about BBNG you would think
that Jazz+Hip Hop fusion didn't exist prior to BBNG.
As if Glasper or Terrace martin and their contemporaries just up and disappeared.

And I'm not sure how Jazz education is in Canada but places like Berklee, The New School
and Musicians Institute aren't averse to fusion, hell Berklee is pretty much built on that.
With that said, I'll be listening to this in a few minutes.
 
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