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Your honor, I was merely capping.
This is so mediocre 
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron: The official discussion thread
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TheColi's getting a bad rap for being a bunch of hatersWhile, for the most part it's true
, some things just warrants it, and in this case it's Oxymoron
Just off TDE latest track record, and Q hyping this up, this shouldn't only have 7 great songs out of a long tracklist
I was expecting to hear Setbacks and Habit&Contradiction Q in a proper debut setting
, but not this half-ass-effort, especially after all the pushbacks
And, maybe sadly, at 30 I'm just getting too old for this shyt
I grew up on dusthead/weed smoking/sherm/e-pills popping rappers that still made classic music
But, I'm not on this new school rappers addicted to zanies, molly, and oxycotin wave
However, I did a test drive with Oxymoron, which made it sound like Brother Lynch Hyung meets Yukmouth meets Em meets Carter-Wayne
So, I kept Gangsta, Collard Green, Hoover Street, Studio Prescription/Oxymoron, Blind Threats, Hell Of A Night, Break The Bank, Man Of The Year, and Grooveline Part 2
, and the rest went in the recycling bin
One great thing about Oxymoron, it made me realize Jay Rock got next
THIS.
a lot of people are throwing around the "hater" word way too much. I'm a fan of Q, its not that I was expecting more lyrically out of Q or some GKMC type album, i know what type of rapper he is and his style. shyt was supposed to come out like 2 years ago and had so many push backs and i feel like they had half the album done a year ago.. but then just tried too hard to throw a bunch of filler tracks on it to give people more.. sometimes less is more. shoulda been a 10-12 tracklist album.
If he woulda stuck with Gangsta, Hoover Street, Studio, Collard Greens, Prescription/Oyxmoron, Blind Threats, Break The Bank, Grooveline Part 2, cut out all the filler and put Man Of The Year and Californication (Rocky and Q collabs are always on point and generally both their fanbase loves them/they are received well) as the main tracklist with like Yay Yay or Hell Of A Night being a bonus track and a resequencing it woulda been better and better received.
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Albums definitely worth the money to me breh. fukk other peoples opinions though just give the album a listen and decide for yourself
LucaBrasi
West Coast Legend
Black Gatsby
Lord$ Never Worry
Copped it, Amazon delivered mine today
album is dope
a messageboard is the last place to use to form an opinion on music
this shyt is for nothin but jokes stanning and bizarro stanning
Romey Rome
All Star
link??????/
3.5 stars out of 5, and 4 if it were to cut the fat.
Studio, The Purge, and Hell of a Night all don't fit, and it's like they're placed at literally the worst places possible, IMO.
Hoover Street gives such a menacing groove with that beat change for the second half of the song then it goes into that soft "Studio" shyt. "Prescription/Oxymoron" would've been a perfect follow-up to "Hoover St.," both sonically and topically. He would've went from talking about his relative being a drug addict to himself being a drug addict. Would've been perfect.
"Prescription/Oxymoron" is an incredible centerpiece to the album, but then it's followed by this contrived-feeling beat (and a completely useless Tyler feature) for "The Purge."What makes that more frustrating is that I think "Blind Threats" would be a VERY strong follow-up to Prescription/Oxymoron, because it keeps that dark tone to it.
Whenever this record gets a rhythm to it, it sacrifices that groove for records that it seems like they didn't want to throw away, or felt they had to make to compete commercially, so they just found a place to fit them. Doesn't feel as deliberate as the other TDE releases, to me. So from that POV, this is the first album to show TDE's mortality, to me. But it's still a good album.
From my Armchair A&R perspective:
-Los Awesome isn't my speed, but it's growing on me. Plus, I don't hate it since it leads into Collard Greens pretty well. I'd leave that where it is.
-I would've been fine with "Studio" staying on the album, but not as song no. 6. Put that after "Blind Threats," or after "His and Her Fiend." It's not a bad song, but it doesn't have any place in the tone that the rest of the album sets. Let Hoover Street, Prescription/Oxymoron, and Blind Threats breath. Or even put Blind Threats between Hoover Street and Prescription/Oxymoron, if you're uncomfortable with two songs that are so long in between each other.
-Completely erase The Purge and Hell of a Night. Maybe as bonus tracks, but they don't add to the album at all, IMO.
-Add "Yay Yay" into the real tracklist, not just as a bonus. It would fit damn near anywhere between 5-the end of the album.
This is my tracklist, at the moment:
1. Gangsta
2. Los Awesome (Feat. Jay Rock)
3. Collard Greens (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)
4. What They Want (Feat. 2 Chainz)
5. Hoover Street
6. Prescription/Oxymoron
8. Blind Threats (Feat. Raekwon)
9. Studio
10. Yay Yay
11. Break the Bank
12. Man of the Year
13. His & Her Friend (Feat. SZA)
14. Grooveline Pt. 2 (Feat. Suga Free)
15. F**k LA
With that tracklist, it's a 4-star album IMO. Get rid of the unnecessary songs, and this is the hardest-sounding album on a major label in years
i might actualy try that tracklist change brah
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
yep. soon as i heard it my first thought was "this sounds like a Clipse song" then i see Neptunes did it....los awesome sounds like an homage to the clipse
