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Inspire.
Just off the screenshot of that video I don't want to hear what that hipster fakkit has to say about anything, let alone hip hop.
Rick Ross - Mastermind ethered AGAIN by another review, this time by Needle Drop
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I don't know. Lack of substance on album one is a fair criticism. To me it's an even more fair criticism on album 6. If you really haven't said shyt about anything over six albums - what the fukk are you doing? I'm not saying the above applies to Ross for the record.
Props for pulling these!
I'll listen to them later.
But off top, although MCHG was a steaming pile of shyt, it does seem odd to single out the song with Ross as the worst. I didn't care for that song, or really any song on that album initially, but the song with Ross has grown on me the few times I've caught it on the radio and then hearing it on Ross' album.
So that does seem like evidence of bias against Ross and trap.
sounds to me like you couldn't escape the music and it grew on you over time.i remember the 1st time i heard screwed n chopped music. i absolutely hated that shytI thought it was the worse form of hip hop.
but until i went to college and some texas
cats really put me up on the music, then i understood it. They took me to H town, i poured up a few cups of lean, i immersed myself in the music. i went to the hoods of h town, the clubs, posted in the parkin lot and saw with my own eyes all them candy coated slabs. i began to understand where and why screwed n chopped music came from.
i went to a few mom and pops music stores where they had all the shyt from swisha house, dj screw, michael 5000 watts etc. from then i had a better understanding of the music and now im one of the biggest screw heads in the world.
but my previous heavy dislike of chopped n screwed music came from pure ignorance and an apparent disconnect from the culture
Its good that you were able to experience screw music on the scene where it originated - but you shouldn't have to immerse yourself in the music and lifestyle simply to grow to like it. To me that indicates a lack of substance with the music. "I love screw music, but only if I'm Houston, in a parking lot, on lean". That's not a ringing endorsement (I'm not saying that that is what you are saying for the record).
The bolded really sums it up. We can argue about the number - but at the end of the day - the guy is either capable to give a review or not, bias and objectivity are really separate issues.It didn't, it just wasn't a good one.
Fantano obviously listens to rap, those other people don't review or chime in on country because they don't listen to it.
No, they know more about what makes a good film, or in this case a good (rap) album. IMO, Fantano is no less capable of giving a valid critique on a Rap album than 90% of the people on this board. This doesn't mean that he can or will give a completely objective review when it comes to certain kinds of rap, just means that your country analogy doesn't really apply.
And a lot of this "he ain't apart of our culture!" shyt is a defense mechanism for stans who expect everybody to co-sign their musical tastes, a lot of these nikkas aren't apart of the culture either regardless of how much they kid themselves.
I don't know about loving what you review. That has it's drawbacks as well. Let certain people on here tell it, every Jay album is a classic, or every Nas album is a classic, or Big Sean isn't an abject failure. Would you really want to read @blackslash review of the latest Jay album?
Knowledge is the key.
I agree with this 100%. At the end of the day, white people will never fully understand or appreciate exactly what it is to be black.There is a something to be said about this type of white guy.. It's like how Dave Chapelle explained his differences with Neal Brennan on Oprah and their eventual business seperation..It's one thing to be an expert on Black comedy.. But something totally different to be an expert on being black...
This goes back to my Friday analogy.. Just because you know film and know comedy doesn't mean you know more than the audience something is geared towards...
I feel the spirit of Lord Jamar entering me right now
I just don't think that disqualifies them from reviewing street based hip hop.
Are you saying an educated person can't appreciate Migos?
all this sums up to everyone can have their own opinion on the music, theres nobody that says you have to take these critics/reviewers words as gospel.experience the music for yourself and come up with ya own opinion
shiit didnt need extra long ass paragraphs to come to that
shiit didnt need extra long ass paragraphs to come to that
That's not what this thread was about at all. Do you read threads or do you just skim through it?
okay thats not what you're talking about. just say that instead.
because if this thread not about how this 1 man opinion suppose to be so much relevant and we're all suppose to fall in line behind it, what exactly this thread about?
Thread was about whether or not Fantano is qualified to render an opinion on street hip hop, and more broadly, whether anyone not living that street lifestyle can/should weigh in.
The thing that trips me out, why does anyone care what a reviewer says if you listen to the album yourself?