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Good topic X..What I want from a album is honesty and emotion, without 50,000 different producers ala Pete Rock, CL Smooth, /Guru, DJ Premier etc, etc. I'm tired of hearing thirty year old men gang bangin on records and calling women Bitches on every song . I don't just bump mainstream music, im feeling albums from Klashnekof from London, Sick jack, Q-Unique and Ill Bill, but I also like the energy of the southern shit. I just think people gotta go in the lab and do whats in there heart. Following formulas don't work, but you cant really blame rappers, they just trying to get on, (Ive made the same mistake)
i dont think an album necessarily needs one producer, but i do think artists have to stop tryin to cater to everybody. everyone know gotta have a south track, then we gotta have a radio track, then we gotta have a club track... i like artists that stay true to what they do best. if imma fan of snoop, i dont buy a snoop cd to hear him collaborate with lil jon and do songs like my medicine... i think a lotta artists just try 2 hard.
Quote from: CaughtUp on November 03, 2008, 07:59:23 AMi dont think an album necessarily needs one producer, but i do think artists have to stop tryin to cater to everybody. everyone know gotta have a south track, then we gotta have a radio track, then we gotta have a club track... i like artists that stay true to what they do best. if imma fan of snoop, i dont buy a snoop cd to hear him collaborate with lil jon and do songs like my medicine... i think a lotta artists just try 2 hard.a first off i gotta say thats cool yall brought this thread back...and the reason i quoted the post above me is because this is how i been feeling too. i know a lot of yall will disagree with me, but i feel like trying to cover all bases will leave no one base covered thoroughly enough. and its funny cuz this is something thats just occurred to me lately. well, its something 2 keep in mind as i sit down and work on this new album....
Features - I don't mind a feature or 2, or especially a posse cut. But please don't sell me a goddamn compiliation masquerading as a solo album. All that tells me is you're not skilled enough to hold down an entire album by yourself. Production - Using one producer for an album is almost unheard of today which is a huge reason albums aren't cohesive. I can stand more than one, but a lot of albums struggle and have no difinitive sound because there's 15 producers on 15 tracks. Stay the fuck away from superproducers. There's about 20 producers that are used on nearly every mainstream release today. How people can still get hyped for that blows my mind. If you have your own in house production, you have something unique that NO ONE else has. That is a good thing for an artist.
DOPE THREAD! WHATS UP XL?? I THINK A GOOD ALBUM IS ALL OF THEY ABOVE, FOR THE MOST PART I FEEL LIKE ALOT OF THE NEW TALENT DOES ALOT OF THESE THINGS BUT HOW DO WE GET EVERYONE THINKING LIKE WE ARE??