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THE NIGHT OF MAYHEM, TOO MUCH ALCOHOL, TALIB KWELI, AND HI-TEK ( ! )
so go ahead and get lost between god and a shot of scotch."I SAW YOU WHEN YOU WALKED IN, AND ALL I THOUGHT TO MYSELF WAS 'HOW IS THIS GIRL NOT ON DRUGS?' YOU WERE WRECKED!"
the night started off early.. got blunted, drank some goose. okay, drank A LOT of goose. i had no idea where i was.. mix all of that with some fucking amaretto sours (my new fav courts. of alli!!) and some budweiser.. and some more blazing, and it was a fucking gong show. i fucking.. wow. i don't even know how the fuck.. wow. shit. ahahha. BUT WAS IT A GOOD TIME BOTCH?! oh fuck yeah. reflection eternal was fucking insane.. the opening acts were alright, but i just couldn't stand.. i was trying to focus hard on questions to ask talib and hi-tek.. and also trying to focus on what the fuck was happening.
i honestly .. i don't. yeah. it was fucking crazy. spilled beer all over myself and maribeth like shit was money.. i make it rain beer. i am a crazy whylin drunk people. crazy, whylin..
i was impressed though, classics, shit from their new mixtape, and their new album.. and for an encore, THREE MORE SONGS. not one people, THREE. possibly four i was too smashed. back again, the blast, too late, and beautiful struggle were my favs.. throw ya guns up! anyway, if you haven't seen them yet, make sure you do.. because they are INSANE live.. the whole night was fucking wicked.. but enough talk let's get on with it.. my upload went crazy so there might be doubles.. and they're also out of order. lol.
it's a beer time.
nothing goes better with beer than cupcakes.
just heatscore.
lezzlurleee!!
oh. camp. oh.
only one nas song that entire night and it was when i was leaving, can you believe it!?
TALIB!
and hi-tek!!
hi-tek dj'd randomly in between.
soooo wrecked.
RANSOM!
clearly not the greatest picture ever ahhaha. fuck me.. but it's the only one i have so .. yes.
hi-tek was really cool, from what i remember! AND YOUR PICTURE IS SO MUCH BETTER. lol.
i'm pretty stoked that it's friday.. even though every day this week has been a friday for me! i'm digging that it's raining.. PERFECT make out weather, just perfect.
i happen to really enjoy hot weather with rain.. my cousin and i had a pretty sick rain dance party, til we got yelled at to come inside.. "you're gonna get sick!" oh poo. party poopers. on another note.. what the fuck's happening tonight!? call me.
TRY ANYTHING ONCE, EXCEPT FOR FUCKIN' UP THE BUTT
so since i didn't post a mixtape review yesterday.. AND i haven't been blogging consistently.. i'm going to make it up to you. sorry for the lack of entries. i decided to leave you with a mixtape review. better late than never right! oh and i also got a form spring! i just thought it would be nice to keep shit logged.. so ask me something!! http://www.formspring.me/syntifikASHER ROTH, DJ WRECKINEYEZ - SEARED FOIE GRAS WITH QUINCE AND CRANBERRY
longest title of all time. i downloaded this for three reasons. 1, the beat selection is absolutely wild. the first track has a madlib instrumental! the instrumental list alone is something to be fucking with. 2, i lurvessss asher. & 3, i thought "MM..food?! let's see how he does this".
he starts off by saying a quick fuck you to the haters by shitting on all the rumors being said about him. it was well said, but casual. like he wasn't rapping anymore, almost as if he was reading his book of rhymes in his head.
i can't remember how i first heard about asher roth, but as soon as i heard him, i was digging him.. this kid has flowwwww.. and okay okay, the eminem reference is expected. fuck even he expected it.. and he wrote about it.. so what's the big deal?! he just likes to rap, and he does it fucking well. you either really like asher, or you really hate him. i happen to love him.
the thing that i loved about this tape was how well it was mixed.. so if you burn it, make sure you fucking don't leave a pause between tracks.. that shit is too good. it gets kind of confusing when you're on a different song, but that's because i personally haven't heard a good blend in a while.
from what i've heard from asher, this is good.. but it isn't great.. and by great, i mean his best. i kind of felt like he was holding back a little.. which is a debate for me. i'm not sure if he's doing this to go hard on his next album and blow me away, or if he just fell off a little bit. i am of course hoping he's holding out a little bit. he says some lovely things, however it's a little bland. he even said, "i'm just lazy as fuck" and as soon as i heard that i thought, "real talk". lol.. he impressed me with this, and it was a lazy effort. so that's some shit.
with such a crazy beat selection, he didn't do any of the beats justice.. but he still tore them up. i admire him for loving hip hop enough to have an appreciation for such dope instrumentals and the tape is listenable. lyrics aren't top notch from beginning to end, but they're in there. he's growing, but this tape was just a centimetre, as opposed to an inch. he fell into hip hop almost too quickly, and i feel like he's not sure how to go about all of this. i think he reached high but didn't hit the top.. i feel he's thinking something along the lines of "what do i want?!".. he's clearly getting buzz for "i love college" and that's it. i'm sure that attracted a huge fan base that he forgot he was going to attract.. but i'm fucking excited for whatever he drops next. his flow is so nice. college humour meets politic esque rapping with lupe emphasizing, and a little laziness! but with those three factors, i don't have a lot to complain about. he threw on some filler lyrics but it was a good listen. get on him.
3/5
contradicting and shit.
1. Muddy Swim Trunks (served by Madlib) - putting a lupe flow on! accentuating the last part of bars and shit.. i like when rappers do that. hence why i love lupe so much.
2. Toni Braxton (served by RZA)
3. Pubic Garden (served by Pharrell)
4. Vagitables (served by 9th Wonder) - comparing vegetables to female body parts?! fucking comical.
5. F*ck The Money (served by Kanye West) - already on b.o.b.'s mixtape but SO DOPE
6. What Up Truck (served by Jake One)
7. Trash Minutes (served by J Dilla)
8. Ash & Dem (served by J Dilla)
9. Con-fid-ence (served by Kanye West)
10. I'm Eddy (served by Heatmakers)
11. Rik Smits (served by Just Blaze)
12. F*ck Your Ringtone Dog (served by J Dilla)
13. Hot Wangs (served by Will.I.Am)
14. Diamond Girl (served by Ryan Leslie)
15. Cumbaya (served by Timbaland) - this shit is fucking garbage. skip it.
16 Calling Me (served by Younglord)
17. Hellafaded (served by Chad Hamilton)
18. Sour Patch Kids Remix (served by Travis Barker) - travis barker!! +talib.. +blu?! awwwwzuuummmm/.
i am so head bust right noww. it is foggy. sorry scarborough. it took me three times to spell scarborough.
THIS SHIT IS FUCKING CRACK.THAT'S RIGHT WE BACK AGAIN, YOU COULD LIKE RAP AGAIN
YES. i know this dropped in january. so don't even. the best of old & new. up-lifting and refreshing! this mixtape is so fucking good, that i had to listen to it four times, just to keep up with it. it is a little long, 30 tracks with the intro and outro, which is a fucking lot.. but it's not boring either.
"back again" is easily my favorite song on the tape.. might not be the best, but definitely my favorite. broads voice is heavenly over a fast beat that soothes you. you almost want to take a breath and say "okay, everything in the hip hop world, it'll be okay."
"chaos" is something i HAVE to mention, because it features "bahamadia" whom i recently talked about on a throwback thursday.. ha! i guess i freakishly made myself listen to the tape sub-consciously. she is so nice to listen to.
"just begun" is another fav. DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY. it has j. cole, jay electronica and mos def on it. retro talib!! omg. i smirked when this shit came on. this shit is so fucking smooth. i never really liked jay electronica, but after this i think i just.. might. remember when looping grabbed you by the fucking face, and slapped you..?! that's what this loop does, you can't help but get an "ungh fuck yeah" feeling from it. everyone featured on this song put forth hot shit.. even mos def, who i lost a little love for after seeing him live two years ago. his last bar was a little silly, and that was the only flaw of this song. ill ill ill.
"music for life" is definitely on the scale too, have to mention it cuz my boyfriend raps on it. *sigh. i love him. what is that beat?! flute?! okay! i like me some flute sometimes!
with a tape like this, the album is now officially more than highly anticipated. DEAR WORLD, EVERYTHING IS OKAY. hip hop will be just fine.
i'm going to go ahead and give it 4/5.. i was going to give it a 4.5, but songs like "let it go" kind of take away from it. i read that a lot of people think that "internet connection" and "let it go" are wack. i don't think such. i happen to like "let it go".. it's just more of like an r&b song, with a real short talib verse that is mediocre from him. it's basically for the ladies, so it doesn't really fit in on the tape. i thoroughly enjoyed it though.. and i think that if you like the whole talib & hi-tek deal, it's not disappointing.. which was what i expected. they still got it when they try.
