Goldlink Dropped One of the Best Albums of 2015 (and def best of XXL Freshmen)

[ARey]

Just got a chance to listen to this in full this weekend...dude dropped a way better album than any of the other XXL Freshman from 2015 (though some might argue Vince Staples Summertime 06' is just as good) and IMO one of the best albums of 2015. Cohesive, dude can rap and actually has a nice singing voice, plus production is top notch. We usually talking about how the XXL Freshman never live up to their hype, but he got one here. This will stay in rotation.



YouTube Link to the Album

 

[KeysT]

Facts been listening to Goldlink since before The God Complex. Flow is sick and production is always top notch.

 

[ARey]

Facts been listening to Goldlink since before The God Complex. Flow is sick and production is always top notch.

I haven't listened to The God Complex yet. Should I give it a listen? Better than AATWDT?

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

um.. i'm pretty sure Vince dropped Summertime 06 and was on the list

 

[ARey]

um.. i'm pretty sure Vince dropped Summertime 06 and was on the list

I honestly preferred this to Vince Staples

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

I honestly preferred this to Vince Staples

in the title it says "def best"
barely anybody thinks this > S06

this album was really good but Summertime 06 is fantastic... in my Top 40 OAT

 

[ARey]

in the title it says "def best"
barely anybody thinks this > S06

this album was really good but Summertime 06 is fantastic... in my Top 40 OAT

Aiight, we can say arguably then. Don't get me wrong I didn't hate Summertime 06', it's dope, I just felt this was better. It feels almost thematic in the way Goldlink tells the story - not your basic album about a relationship

 

[KeysT]

I haven't listened to The God Complex yet. Should I give it a listen? Better than AATWDT?

Less cohesive as a story but definitely very good production and lyrics. I prefer AATWDT but my @Cwilk02 prefers The God Complex

 

[Art Barr]

I don't wanna sign up for another service.
Do you got this on YouTube link?

Found a video;



Found a record that is more triphip and rnb than rap so far that I turned it off.



So, where is the excellent rapping we were supposed to be treated to.
Give us an accessible easy link.
so I can stop putting shyt in the search field myself.

This vid starts out preposterously funny.
Why not use it in the first link to help as a gateway to this artist, since he has one.

Or post a link to this album that is more accessible, that is a better gateway.
That you feel helps the artist you want us to listen to.
All cause once I got past the comedy and to the beginning of the rapping on this, in the first bar.
i turned it off.
So, give me a better link to get across why I should honor this artist's work as you pr'd it.


Art Barr

 

[ARey]

I don't wanna sign up for another service.
Do you got this on YouTube link?

Found a video;



This vid starts out preposterously funny.
Why not use it in the first link to help as a gateway to this artist, since he has one.


Art Barr

I mean, he's not that new dude was an XXL Freshman but I'll put the YouTube link in the OP

 

[Yoda]

@Art Barr literally judged an entire album after one bar typical old heads.

 

[Art Barr]

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@Art Barr literally judged an entire album after one bar typical old heads.

You not qualified to tell me how to rate an artist at all, and so far from three links posted.
I have not heard any great actual emcee'n.
I heard a nikka be what musiq soulchild does singing and trolling as a relaunched artist.
I heard some trip hop and seen a start of a parody comedy vid.
I still have not in three links heard any expert actual emcee'n, or rap.

So, where is the accessible link to make me wanna review or listen.
Like what artist have you broke in this community.
When I actually broke nikkaz that allows you nikkaz to post here.
That if I did not you would not have a place to inhabit on the web.

Till you really get a large cult following at just reviewing, like me.
you can stfu with all that bullshyt.
You ain't made or created no credibility for no artist.
Who are a who's who's of the largest drawing in rap in the past twenty years like me.


So stfu, till you do.

 

[Art Barr]

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Just got a chance to listen to this in full this weekend...dude dropped a way better album than any of the other XXL Freshman from 2015 (though some might argue Vince Staples Summertime 06' is just as good) and IMO one of the best albums of 2015. Cohesive, dude can rap and actually has a nice singing voice, plus production is top notch. We usually talking about how the XXL Freshman never live up to their hype, but he got one here. This will stay in rotation.



YouTube Link to the Album

Post another gateway link, this is as huff as tricky trying to rap like arrested development.

This is a singer and not a rapper, from the links I have heard so far.
He feels as culturally disengenuine as slim kid tre with Brian Austin Greene.

Art Barr

 

[ARey]

He raps more than he sings, he just happens to be good at both my dude

 

[Black_Panther_JS]

Aiight, we can say arguably then. Don't get me wrong I didn't hate Summertime 06', it's dope, I just felt this was better. It feels almost thematic in the way Goldlink tells the story - not your basic album about a relationship

Summertime 06 was about a relationship?