Re: Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread
This Wale album is not for the backpackers and that's not a knock on them. It's just the reality of it and how it is when you have a rapper come from nowhere and then blow up.
In other words, the same stuff you were saying before you got hot, you can't continue to rap about when you do get hot. It that right? No but as we know, money does the most talking and rapping about "Hanging Pictures on my Wall" will not make you as much money as rapping about "I got 100 bad bitches in the club staring at me" will. Sucks but it is what it is at this point. Watch J. Cole because he'll be on this same path as well eventually.
Now that being said, my review of Ambition(not going to type out a full out essay like that reviewer did):
-The Good:
-Don't Hold Your Applause
-Double M Genius
-Sabotage
-Coolin
-Lotus Flower Bomb
The Meh(Songs that were either just ok, I didn't really care about or grab my attention like that):
-Miami Nights
-No Days Off
-Ambition
-Chain Music(already heard on 11-1-11 but the beat saves this from being on my Ugly list)
-Bait
The Ugly(Songs that either had no business being on the album or didn't meet my expectation or that I couldn't stand, period):
-Focused-The Chorus...my god the Chorus is awful and if the song is going to be bad then at least make the chorus decent aka the DJ Khaled route
-DC or Nothing-thought this would be what Double M Genius is or at least what "Mama Told Me" was on Attention: Deficit. Didn't really have that "DC" Feel to it, despite it being called...DC or Nothing LOL.
-That Way-This was on Selfmade and Eleven One Eleven. WTF are you putting this on ANOTHER album? Should've had either Bad Girls Club(since you were pubbing this as a single off the album earlier in the summer)or Best Night Ever.
-Illest **** Alive: Blah....just blah. Should've left that off the album.
All in all, it's an OK album but if you're expecting this to be like Eleven One Eleven or even Attention: Deficit, then you're probably not going to really be a fan of this album outside of maybe 2-3 songs MAX. If I had to rank this out of all the mixtapes and albums, it'd be around the 7-10 range but that's moreso because his other stuff is THAT much better than this is.
This Wale album is not for the backpackers and that's not a knock on them. It's just the reality of it and how it is when you have a rapper come from nowhere and then blow up.
In other words, the same stuff you were saying before you got hot, you can't continue to rap about when you do get hot. It that right? No but as we know, money does the most talking and rapping about "Hanging Pictures on my Wall" will not make you as much money as rapping about "I got 100 bad bitches in the club staring at me" will. Sucks but it is what it is at this point. Watch J. Cole because he'll be on this same path as well eventually.
Now that being said, my review of Ambition(not going to type out a full out essay like that reviewer did):
-The Good:
-Don't Hold Your Applause
-Double M Genius
-Sabotage
-Coolin
-Lotus Flower Bomb
The Meh(Songs that were either just ok, I didn't really care about or grab my attention like that):
-Miami Nights
-No Days Off
-Ambition
-Chain Music(already heard on 11-1-11 but the beat saves this from being on my Ugly list)
-Bait
The Ugly(Songs that either had no business being on the album or didn't meet my expectation or that I couldn't stand, period):
-Focused-The Chorus...my god the Chorus is awful and if the song is going to be bad then at least make the chorus decent aka the DJ Khaled route
-DC or Nothing-thought this would be what Double M Genius is or at least what "Mama Told Me" was on Attention: Deficit. Didn't really have that "DC" Feel to it, despite it being called...DC or Nothing LOL.
-That Way-This was on Selfmade and Eleven One Eleven. WTF are you putting this on ANOTHER album? Should've had either Bad Girls Club(since you were pubbing this as a single off the album earlier in the summer)or Best Night Ever.
-Illest **** Alive: Blah....just blah. Should've left that off the album.
All in all, it's an OK album but if you're expecting this to be like Eleven One Eleven or even Attention: Deficit, then you're probably not going to really be a fan of this album outside of maybe 2-3 songs MAX. If I had to rank this out of all the mixtapes and albums, it'd be around the 7-10 range but that's moreso because his other stuff is THAT much better than this is.
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