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who else thinks "speakerboxx/tlb" sucks?
NobodyButMe:
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--- Quote from: JTPlatnum on January 08, 2004, 12:49:17 PM ---i guess what bothered me about "tlb" is that everything seems so simple on it. i mean, that guitar riff on "hey ya" and the drums are pathetically childish, yet, it's the "single of the year."
plus, his lyrics ruin half the songs for me: like "i know you like to think yo shit don't stink/....roses really smell like poo poo" - c'mon, that's just stupid. who wants to hear about roses smelling like poo poo? and "happy valentines day"? weak. everyone says how "deep" and "genius" tlb is, yet it's so simple and retarded that people think it's artistic.....i'm just not feelin the corny stuff i guess
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I don't think it's genius. Hell, it ain't that deep. But it's different, it's creative, it's honest. It's definately artistic, but fuck it, so is Big Boi's disc.
In XXL Jay-Z said: "Dre's CD is his truth. You can feel it." He's right. Dude just did what he felt like doing. Even if the CD makes you feel sick to your stomach to listen to, you can't knock the man for having the balls to make it. You could count the major label hip-hop acts willing to make such a brave move on one fucking hand.
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i wouldn't say he had 'the balls to make it' - he knew damn well that if he said three words on the whole album, people were gonna buy it no matter what. he didn't have to do shit, didn't have to put in any effort for this album whatsoever because people were gonna eat it up. if i could make a record and know damn well i was gonna get paid for it no matter what i said, i don't think i woulda put that much effor into it, and maybe i'd say some real simple stuff, and some real silly metaphors and people would think it's profound and artistic and genius and (all the other adjectives they use to describe tlb). i don't think it's what people make it out to be, you know? i don't think it's him, and i don't think it's really artistic. maybe he just wanted to see how far he could go before people started saying 'wait a minute, i've heard kindergarten kids say more profound stuff than this' or 'i've heard children play better music than this.'
i love music. all music. i've got probably one of the most eclectic album collections out of anyone i know. i listen to everything. i'm not saying that i don't still listen to this disc. there are some tracks on there that i do love, and i listen to them. i'm just saying i think it's their worst record, and they should have worked together on it.
PLANT:
Prolly IMO one of the best albums of the year if not THE best.
Bramsterdam (see ya):
--- Quote from: Represent. on January 08, 2004, 02:29:32 PM ---Prolly IMO one of the best albums of the year if not THE best.
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white Boy:
i loved "a life in the day of benjamin andre", that shit was nice, he should have rapped a little more on the love below
The Watcher:
i agree with SGV on this. If you don't like music in general, you wont like TLB
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