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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Meho on January 06, 2008, 05:28:58 PM
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9th Wonder said it the best.
http://allhiphop.com/stories/reviews/archive/2008/01/04/19044975.aspx
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Hi-Tek:
Jay-Z is a true artist. Most rappers can't even understand what it takes to do a concept album! To be able to capture a moment in time is what music is all about! Thumbs up! I got to say with Jay, I just like his focus on the music and how he is able to capture a moment in time and really bring it out. A lot of people don’t really understand concept albums. It’s really who you are as an artist in this music industry, a lot of people just caught up in personal [stuff] and the drama. I think Jay just being a talented person and where he came from and what he did with the album is just beautiful. It teaches other artists how to make a dope concept album and still keep it Hip-Hop and music at the same time.
Was he listening to the same album I was? Or is he looking for a job?
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^That's his opinion.....You Need to remember that!!
You have yours and by your response is quite clearly in contrast to Hi-tek's
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As far as concept albums go. Just off the top of my head:
Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones >>>>> American Gangster
And as far as those opinions were, some people were genuine and you could tell. Others were kissing major ass.
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As far as concept albums go. Just off the top of my head:
Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones >>>>> American Gangster
Hell muthafuckin yeah! A true classic, "American Gangster" ain't touchin this album...
Method Man
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:D
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I thought it was alot better then Kingdom Come, but something was still missing from that album. Beats were ehh.
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Hi-Tek:
Jay-Z is a true artist. Most rappers can't even understand what it takes to do a concept album! To be able to capture a moment in time is what music is all about! Thumbs up! I got to say with Jay, I just like his focus on the music and how he is able to capture a moment in time and really bring it out. A lot of people don’t really understand concept albums. It’s really who you are as an artist in this music industry, a lot of people just caught up in personal [stuff] and the drama. I think Jay just being a talented person and where he came from and what he did with the album is just beautiful. It teaches other artists how to make a dope concept album and still keep it Hip-Hop and music at the same time.
Was he listening to the same album I was? Or is he looking for a job?
I dont think I have ever seen you say anything good about rap music. Do you even listen to it ?
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lol @ this album being a classic. yeah if we put it up next to D4L or britney spears blackout but it ain't seeing any rap classics anytime soon.
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honestly i liked kingdom come more. the best of that album >>> the best of this album, but it had worse lows.
Everything on AG sounds the same, its cool - but there's nothing you can just throw on, imo.
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Did Method man have no comment because of a situation at Def Jam???
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Can't rappers make decent sentences and argue correctly about something ::)
"I liked it, I didn’t love it. Now I’m starting to really really like it now. I don’t know about loving it. -"
Just WOW
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Can anybody explain to me why this is called a Concept album ??? Album wasnt bad, 8/10, but i dont get how the fuck its a concept album isnt it just jay chatting the same hustling shit he always does?
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^^^^ that wasn't a concept album .. just because Jay said it was a concept album , people think it is ... the purpose is to make you believe artists are more talented than they are .. same goes for Hip Hop is dead , Nigger Noize, Pope Mobile .. the subject is adressed in 3-4 songs but as a whole the so called concept isn't there
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honestly i liked kingdom come more. the best of that album >>> the best of this album, but it had worse lows.
Everything on AG sounds the same, its cool - but there's nothing you can just throw on, imo.
Alchemist
" I like that he didn't give a f*** about what's hot right now and just made a straight Hip-Hop album with no obvious radio/video jugular attempts, but with an underlying theme"
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^^^^ that wasn't a concept album .. just because Jay said it was a concept album , people think it is ... the purpose is to make you believe artists are more talented than they are .. same goes for Hip Hop is dead , Nigger Noize, Pope Mobile .. the subject is adressed in 3-4 songs but as a whole the so called concept isn't there
Ino but it just pisses me off when every1's like r Jay's 'concept' album, its like fucking hell, its not a concept album! lol
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Lol at JR and Method Man :D
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I couldnt believe how horrible this album was.
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Can't rappers make decent sentences and argue correctly about something ::)
"I liked it, I didn’t love it. Now I’m starting to really really like it now. I don’t know about loving it. -"
Just WOW
That's like asking an autistic kid to pay attention.
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lol @ this album being a classic. yeah if we put it up next to D4L or britney spears blackout but it ain't seeing any rap classics anytime soon.
lol
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If American Gangster is a Concept Album then...
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/412GYE745ML.jpg)
...should also be considered one.
And also here's a real classic that has an actual theme to the entire album
(http://www.okayplayer.com/nowhearthis/images/lb_lp.jpg)
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A thread on hip-hop concept albums would be good, one of the best:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Deltron.jpg)
I haven't heard American Gangster but generally most rappers have a horrible taste in music.
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American Gangstaer was not a concept album. wow, he talks about selling coke and heroin, thats fresh uncharted material for rap, he captured frank lucas nuances so well
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If American Gangster is a Concept Album then...
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/412GYE745ML.jpg)
...should also be considered one.
And also here's a real classic that has an actual theme to the entire album
(http://www.okayplayer.com/nowhearthis/images/lb_lp.jpg)
neither of those are concept albums either. both just had central themes. if the minstrel show was really about a minstrel show, it would sound like d4l or souljah boy
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That's what I'm saying. If people consider American Gangster one, then those should be mentioned as well.
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(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000051Y2U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Real fuckin concept album right here. Everybody else TALKS about making a concept album while Sticky Fingaz went ahead and did it.
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(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000051Y2U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Real fuckin concept album right here. Everybody else TALKS about making a concept album while Sticky Fingaz went ahead and did it.
sticky kills it on this track
http://www.zshare.net/download/6290305858d219/ (http://www.zshare.net/download/6290305858d219/)