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COMPTON VS. MISSIONARY ... WHICH DO YOU PREFER?
Soopafly DPGC:
Dre needs to stop with the high pitched Kendrick flow where he goes fast/slow every verse. Bring back the deeper voice and the more deliberate flow from Chronic and Chronic 2001. Dunno what happened to him that changed his voice so much but his rapping has been terrible ever since.
goodyoung:
--- Quote from: Soopafly DPGC on August 17, 2025, 09:25:57 PM ---Dre needs to stop with the high pitched Kendrick flow where he goes fast/slow every verse. Bring back the deeper voice and the more deliberate flow from Chronic and Chronic 2001. Dunno what happened to him that changed his voice so much but his rapping has been terrible ever since.
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When was the last time Dre used that flow?
dnjp4life:
Compton is a very big, brash ambitious album that is like a compilation and has a lot going on. One thing it's not is boring, and there's certainly some gold on there like All On Me, Talking to my Diary, Loose Cannons and the intro (Dr. Dre always does great intros for his albums).
But in a way that's the thing that grates the most - it's so loud and in your face and hyped up that it barely leaves you time to draw breath and process the album. There's none of that laid-back gangsta rap that Dre had on his previous albums, and the biggest gripe like others have said is Dre's forced voice and flow clearly influenced by hanging with Kendrick Lamar too often.
I remember taking a dedicated trip to go pick up Compton and listening to it on the way home I really didn't know what to make of it, sonically it was, and is amazing, but getting finished listening to it on that first day I was somewhat underwhelmed and disappointed that it didn't sound how I wanted and expected it to sound. I think like others have said, if this was someone else's album we would be raving about it still but naturally we hold Dr. Dre to higher standards when it comes to his music. But I still revisit the album here and there and enjoy it when I do.
With Missionary, I would say it's more cohesive than Compton and Snoop sounds great on it, but with it billed as a successor to Doggystyle, I was honestly expecting a bit more gangsta shit and traditional west-coast sounding Dre beats and legacy Death Row/N.W.A family-tree guests on the album than we got. But in the end we got a more mature-sounding Snoop album (which I should have seen coming to be honest) but one which lacked the excitement and bounce of some of Snoop and Dre's previous work together.
Az:
--- Quote from: dnjp4life on August 18, 2025, 03:29:19 AM ---Compton is a very big, brash ambitious album that is like a compilation and has a lot going on. One thing it's not is boring, and there's certainly some gold on there like All On Me, Talking to my Diary, Loose Cannons and the intro (Dr. Dre always does great intros for his albums).
But in a way that's the thing that grates the most - it's so loud and in your face and hyped up that it barely leaves you time to draw breath and process the album. There's none of that laid-back gangsta rap that Dre had on his previous albums, and the biggest gripe like others have said is Dre's forced voice and flow clearly influenced by hanging with Kendrick Lamar too often.
I remember taking a dedicated trip to go pick up Compton and listening to it on the way home I really didn't know what to make of it, sonically it was, and is amazing, but getting finished listening to it on that first day I was somewhat underwhelmed and disappointed that it didn't sound how I wanted and expected it to sound. I think like others have said, if this was someone else's album we would be raving about it still but naturally we hold Dr. Dre to higher standards when it comes to his music. But I still revisit the album here and there and enjoy it when I do.
With Missionary, I would say it's more cohesive than Compton and Snoop sounds great on it, but with it billed as a successor to Doggystyle, I was honestly expecting a bit more gangsta shit and traditional west-coast sounding Dre beats and legacy Death Row/N.W.A family-tree guests on the album than we got. But in the end we got a more mature-sounding Snoop album (which I should have seen coming to be honest) but one which lacked the excitement and bounce of some of Snoop and Dre's previous work together.
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Funk was severely missed from both albums. Those infectious melodies that draw you into the best Dre beats are pretty much non-existent in both Compton and Missionary. The beats for Gorgeous and Sticcy Situation came close but that's about it.
Sccit:
--- Quote from: dnjp4life on August 18, 2025, 03:29:19 AM --- if Compton was someone else's album we would be raving about it still
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bingo
Compton was tremendous .. the main issue people had was that they expected a continuation of the 2001 sound and got something totally different
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