Roc-a-fella been having a "new-school wack young bucks" image for some time now.. and rightfully so, there's a lot of wack cats on there.. only their beats been good.

But after hearing the Kanye advance, the Twista sampler, and the new M.O.P. tracks, I gotta say ROC sails up as one of the most promising hiphop labels..
M.O.P. is vets, and so is Twista, but these albums might expose them to a bigger audience..

Kanye advance:

I was really impressed by this.. pure hiphop..
Dope cameos, dope beats, dope samples, and Kanye holds it down better than I thought..
He was OK on mixtapes, but he shows himself as a very solid rapper on here..
"Jesus walks" is amazing, and there's a lot of other strong cuts on there..

Twista sampler:
The sampler looks very promising, Twista switches back and forth from the superfast style, to a smooth but still hot flow..
All kinds of tracks on here, party tracks to regular hiphop, smooth jams, and straight bangers..
The southern production style suits Twista perfect, and is well executed, as well as some cuts which sounds like Kanye..

M.O.P. newish tracks:
"Fire" is just what it sounds like.. should be a hot single, if they choose that one.
The Jigga-collabo was dope, the other cuts has been dope too.. The only thing I miss is some Primo-production, but knowing Preem, he'll chip in a couple of tracks for the retail + do some mixing..
I hear they're leaving out the Posh Spice track, and all their latest work doesn't stray away from the M.O.P.-style, like some (SGV ) said they would on the ROC..

I feel, if M.O.P. lets Kanye and Just Blaze touch TOO many tracks they're gonna make, while catchy, a soft album. They need to keep it hardcore and the voice samples down as much as possible. Twista and Kanye's albums will be hot.

I don't think that the Roc-A-Fella was whack back in the days, Jigga always dropped solid-dope albums, and Beanie's "The Truth" for example is also very good. But the problem was that they just had Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel and Memphis Bleek (Amil wasn't that long a member of the label), and only Jigga always dropped heat.

Now they have so many new young rappers like Geda K, Peedie, Freeway, etc. and many well-known rappers like Ol' Dirty, Twista, M.O.P., etc. And now their home-producers Just Blaze and Kanye West are respected by nearly the whole game (especially Kanye). That's why they're on the top now, but as I said before they never where whack in my eyes, but just too "little".

Roc-a-fella been having a "new-school wack young bucks" image for some time now..

to who? you?...the rocs image hasnt changed as much as you think...the only shit they've released to get them that image was that state property vol. 2 album...other than that nothing really has changed the image except to the people who have focused in on a can't stop wont stop remix w/ chingy and have started thinking thats the way the roc is going to be from now on. but then we got "the black album"...a perfectly good album...and still everyone says the roc is weak...then we hear of the roc files, memphis bleek, kanye west, etc...and still...most people (on wcc) think that the roc is weak...but yet 90% of the people who dont download all the shit...and actually listen to whats dropped commerically (black album, bleek, beanie, etc...) love the roc...including me...the roc hasnt changed worth shit...they've just expanded their style...thats all. all those 3 albums will do is keep them going strong...i dont think MOP will change from their normal style (thankfully), the kanye album is dope as fuck...and twista almost always comes dope...and thats the norm for most of the roc stuff anyway.

Kanye is amazing at producing, but just aight at spitting IMO. That Slow Jamz cut is bangin' for a slow song. I can't wait for Twista's album.

just saw the kanye west slow james video on mtv2. pretty good video.
theres like a whole another new addiontal verse by twsita at the end, which is pretty sick
common makes a cameo in hte video playin cards with kanye at the table.
maybe song of the year .. damn..

Yes YEs Yes...



....think i just got too excited over this prospect

Quote from: OpTiCaL on December 16, 2003, 04:38:38 AM

....think i just got too excited over this prospect

 



* Imagines how girls get too excited.. *  

^^has to imagine girls getting excited...can't get them excited yourself jome?