he's got a lot of enemies

whatup hip hop heads.

The Homecoming concert for the University I work for will be Lupe Fiasco and Wale.

Is that worth $25? Anyone?

For Lupe fuck yeah.

I don't care for Wale.

But Lupe Fiasco is excellent, and Tetsuo & Youth has really brought him back into the swing of things... One of the best hip hop albums of the year.

will check it out.

Whale kinda sucks. Lupe has his classics.

They just announced Fetty Wap is "hosting" the show.

I'll be in the kitchen cookin' pies with my baby

Are they saying Bruce had to go through years of mental torture to become a woman? He's felt that way since the 80's before Kris was even involved. Sorry but that article is a bunch of bullshit.. Kanye is fine.

Black Messiah is my favorite album of the decade, I'd even put it above My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, so I've decided.

There's a big difference between a man who's in his 20's, which D'Angelo was when Voodoo came out, to someone who's (nearly) 40 like he was by the time of Black Messiah's release. It showed a new, more mature side of him that most people probably didn't know he had in him before.

The presentation of this album was so minimal. It was announced shortly before its release and came out with barely any promo. The album cover art has no picture of D'Angelo. No music videos were released. D'Angelo made it clear: He wanted to let the music speak for itself.

I come to that album by default whenever I don't know what to listen to. Even though the sounds on this album are so familiar to me at this point, I can still hear something new on every listen.

This is D'Angelo's magic that was already presented on his two previous albums; somehow even Brown Sugar which was released in the 90's, when D was 21 years old (which is pretty damn unbelieveable, by the way) still sounds fresh to this day, but Black Messiah shows progression in terms of songwriting, as well as his musicality and performance as a vocalist. Every song on the album has a different feel and is a world of its own.

D'Angelo lived up to my expectations and beyond. It took him more than a decade to finish up this album but this music is for a lifetime. It would make me break into tears if he won a Grammy for this album, cuz I really want to see him getting the recognition he deserves. It would be an accolade not only for this album (which is a masterpiece) but also for his brilliant career as a whole.

Thanks for making a nice, classic café post louder. I was beginning to forget this thread existed.

I agree with you 100% of course. Even though Black Messiah is nowhere near my favorite album of the decade (that honor would have to go to MBDTF or possibly something I'm totally blanking on at the moment... Public Strain maybe? Reflecting the Light? The Seer? Nah... almost certainly MBDTF) it is certainly an album that only grows larger and larger in my estimation with the passage of time.

It was actually incredibly difficult for me to appropriately rate the album for the year of its release, since it dropped in 2014. My impulse was to make it too 3, and it definitely wound up in the top 10, but I had a hard time justifying placing it above albums that had had more time to prove their worth.

I don't find it a particularly epic album. I find that I'm not deeply connected to it emotionally. Instead, like a great jazz album, I find that listening to it is never a bad choice. It's soothing and it's organic and it has the fragile perfection of a soulful Beatles ballad ("Don't let me down" with Billy Preston comes to mind), or an enigmatic but well-balanced experimental pop game-changer (like perhaps Prince's Sign O The Times).

If I were to rate 2014's albums now, I'd put Black Messiah above everything except for Syro (what can I say, I've followed and adored and awaited the return of RDJ as Aphex Twin just as you have with D'angelo). More than A U R O R A or Bécs or 9 Songs or MyLittleGhost, Black Messiah imprinted on me from the very first listen. Since then my feelings for it have only grown stronger.

I'm willing to bet that it will be in my top 10 of the decade. And frankly, I believe I prefer it to Voodoo. The sound of Black Messiah is less a product of a moment in the evolution of a genre than its predecessors. Instead, it's like a crystal clear snapshot of one of the world's greatest artists at his absolute best. If any note was struck differently, it make for an entirely different experience, making BM an extremely personal, immediate and of the moment piece of work. Like a journal entry. It's imperfections, if it had any, help make it perfect.

Word.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to louder again.

Really? It tells me that every time now, even though I forget the rep feature even exists for months, sometimes years.

Anyway, I informally rep you louder. Damn the rules.

This about Kanye career not them
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They just caught Kanye trying to do some quick accounting in his head, is all.

Is that People? I can't tell.

I think a lot of folks make the mistake of thinking People is somehow more accurate or legitimate than your National Inquirers and whatnot, but in truth most of that magazine is made up of runoff from the rumor mill. Jay and Beyoncé were had separated, B and Blue had narrowly escaped Jay-Z and his horrifying physical abuse. Kanye locks Kim up in a room and only feeds her lemon water and egg whites...

Sometimes they do an interview, but most of the time it's just bulkshit "a source close to the celebrity couple said"... They fill pages with that shit, Hot or Not, who wore it better and Fucking horoscopes.

Might as well be the National Enquirer.

No, this wasn't a joke. Yes, I know it's hilarious ;)

Digible Planets reunion? I hope its as good as the Hieroglyphics reunion and not just empty nostalgia money grab tour... new record?

New DP would be awesome

I'd ruin my career, and other people's tooooooooooo

se me para

For some ass? Id take the money and get another chick yo

the K's have more money than I would ever make in a lifetime.....