Pitchfork gives Flockavelli an 8 :|

Seriously, I don't normally hate on Pitchfork cause it's just a review site and few of these hipster music types actually understand hip-hop (but they normally do a decent job of putting projects in context, eg. their Slaughterhouse review where they mention John Blaze). But this **** is just bugged. Wacka is wack. Though, the beats do go ham.

Full Review

I don't mind Hard In The Paint but this album is whack

Actually I never listened to it, I might give it a shot

The writer, David Drake, is the same guy who runs somanyshrimp. Knowing what music he likes you pretty much knew it would get a high score from him. If this review came from someone else there I'd be a little more surprised. Out of all the hip-hop reviewers at Pitchfork, David Drake is also probably the only one who is genuinely a hip-hop head first and not a hipster. 

Check out his other reviews at Pitchfork and you can see that he writes exclusively about hip-hop outside of the the-Dream and Maxwell reviews. He reviewed Big KRIT, Kurupt & DJ Quik, J Stalin, Gucci Mane, G-Side, OJ the Juiceman and so on.

http://somanyshrimp.tumblr.com/ 

http://somanyshrimp.com/  

the album aint that bad, i liked it

when you listen to wacka you gota understand thats its all hype music. if your looking for lyrics look somewhere else

Pretty much why I don't trust many hip hop websites when it comes to ratings.

:lol: Hip Hop Is Dead getting a 10/10 :lol:

What is this "going ham" that you young urban youth seem to have a fondness for saying?

"a derivative of the word mayhem v. meaning to raise mayhem"

Down here everybody says 'going fed' instead.

the album aint that bad, i liked it

 

when you listen to wacka you gota understand thats its all hype music. if your looking for lyrics look somewhere else

Ryder004

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the album aint that bad, i liked it

 

when you listen to wacka you gota understand thats its all hype music. if your looking for lyrics look somewhere else

iHeartCali

[QUOTE="Ryder004"]

the album aint that bad, i liked it

 

when you listen to wacka you gota understand thats its all hype music. if your looking for lyrics look somewhere else

iHeartCali

Yeah, Waka sucks ... compared to him OJ Da Juiceman goin' ham sammiches.IsThisIt_basic

[QUOTE="IsThisIt_basic"]Yeah, Waka sucks ... compared to him OJ Da Juiceman goin' ham sammiches.Apocalypse33

Probably for completely different reasons, though.

For me it has to do with the fact that one of my favorite genres, crunk, is being "revived" in this guy's name ... this guy doesn't know **** about crunk, and I bet anyone in this thread saying this is a good album doesn't have a single Sammy Sam, Pastor Troy, or Three 6 Mafia record in their collection.

Tried listening to this albums, Flacka Flocka Flacka etc. got old after a while on every song but it has some bangers

Hard In Da Paint gets me pumped

The same guy just reviewed Gucci's latest album for Pitchfork and gave it a 7.3

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14809-the-appeal-georgias-most-wanted/ 

Being from Atlanta.....Waka goes HAMilton. All his songs get me hype enough to go fight and thats the main purpose of the album: to go fight someone...save like 3 songs. I have a bias cause Waka been getting play here since Luv Dem Gun Sounds, Waka go Jamon,Ham all synonyms.jamon

yeah same here... i mean waka's been getting buzz down here for a while now. never cared enough to check him out though. still don't.

The same guy just reviewed Gucci's latest album for Pitchfork and gave it a 7.3

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14809-the-appeal-georgias-most-wanted/ 

Orlando_Magic

Giving this album an 8 is still weak, even if you forgive Waka's lyricism (which I do). I'd put it at a 5 or so.

The writer, David Drake, is the same guy who runs somanyshrimp. Knowing what music he likes you pretty much knew it would get a high score from him. If this review came from someone else there I'd be a little more surprised. Out of all the hip-hop reviewers at Pitchfork, David Drake is also probably the only one who is genuinely a hip-hop head first and not a hipster.

Check out his other reviews at Pitchfork and you can see that he writes exclusively about hip-hop outside of the the-Dream and Maxwell reviews. He reviewed Big KRIT, Kurupt & DJ Quik, J Stalin, Gucci Mane, G-Side, OJ the Juiceman and so on.

http://somanyshrimp.tumblr.com/

http://somanyshrimp.com/

Orlando_Magic

I call bs on this bro. Drake is a hipster waaaaaaaaay before he's a hip-hop head, in the sense that the music he chooses to praise (in this case, crap - see: Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, etc.) is chosen with the intent of setting him apart from the crowd (in this case, the crowd being people who don't like to listen to crap), instead of merits like, I dunno, good music. It's shock value, it drives traffic to the website, really interesting stuff.

To put it another way, since this breed of hipster is rather unique to the last decade, there is really absolutely no difference in praising Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka in the 00's than there would have been in praising Vanilla Ice in the 90's.

And before you mention it, yes, I know he praised "Prenuptial Agreement", but that's also easily Stalin's worst album, so moot point.

the album aint that bad, i liked it

 

when you listen to wacka you gota understand thats its all hype music. if your looking for lyrics look somewhere else

Ryder004

QFT. Stop buggin' over the lack of lyricism. 

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I call bs on this bro. Drake is a hipster waaaaaaaaay before he's a hip-hop head, in the sense that the music he chooses to praise (in this case, crap - see: Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, etc.) is chosen with the intent of setting him apart from the crowd (in this case, the crowd being people who don't like to listen to crap), instead of merits like, I dunno, good music. It's shock value, it drives traffic to the website, really interesting stuff.

To put it another way, since this breed of hipster is rather unique to the last decade, there is really absolutely no difference in praising Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka in the 00's than there would have been in praising Vanilla Ice in the 90's.

And before you mention it, yes, I know he praised "Prenuptial Agreement", but that's also easily Stalin's worst album, so moot point.

IsThisIt_basic

I dunno man I'm reading his website and the artists I'm seeing are Bun B, Husalah, Sleepy D, DaVinci, a blog on why Drake sucks, Ray Luv, T.I., Tum Tum, Boosie, Oomp Camp and on his Tumblr I see Lil Rue, Jacka, Ampichino. These actually remind me of you lol, just with Gucci and Waka added in. And he writes pretty much exclusively on hip-hop unlike a lot of other Pitchfork writers who are reviewing some indie rock albums as well. He definitely looks like a hip-hop head to me, or at the very least, more of a hip-hop head than any of Pitchfork's other writers.

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I call bs on this bro. Drake is a hipster waaaaaaaaay before he's a hip-hop head, in the sense that the music he chooses to praise (in this case, crap - see: Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, etc.) is chosen with the intent of setting him apart from the crowd (in this case, the crowd being people who don't like to listen to crap), instead of merits like, I dunno, good music. It's shock value, it drives traffic to the website, really interesting stuff.

To put it another way, since this breed of hipster is rather unique to the last decade, there is really absolutely no difference in praising Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka in the 00's than there would have been in praising Vanilla Ice in the 90's.

And before you mention it, yes, I know he praised "Prenuptial Agreement", but that's also easily Stalin's worst album, so moot point.

Orlando_Magic

I dunno man I'm reading his website and the artists I'm seeing are Bun B, Husalah, Sleepy D, DaVinci, a blog on why Drake sucks, Ray Luv, T.I., Tum Tum, Boosie, Oomp Camp and on his Tumblr I see Lil Rue, Jacka, Ampichino. These actually remind me of you lol, just with Gucci and Waka added in. And he writes pretty much exclusively on hip-hop unlike a lot of other Pitchfork writers who are reviewing some indie rock albums as well. He definitely looks like a hip-hop head to me, or at the very least, more of a hip-hop head than any of Pitchfork's other writers.

[QUOTE="IsThisIt_basic"]\

I call bs on this bro. Drake is a hipster waaaaaaaaay before he's a hip-hop head, in the sense that the music he chooses to praise (in this case, crap - see: Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, etc.) is chosen with the intent of setting him apart from the crowd (in this case, the crowd being people who don't like to listen to crap), instead of merits like, I dunno, good music. It's shock value, it drives traffic to the website, really interesting stuff.

To put it another way, since this breed of hipster is rather unique to the last decade, there is really absolutely no difference in praising Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka in the 00's than there would have been in praising Vanilla Ice in the 90's.

And before you mention it, yes, I know he praised "Prenuptial Agreement", but that's also easily Stalin's worst album, so moot point.

Orlando_Magic

I dunno man I'm reading his website and the artists I'm seeing are Bun B, Husalah, Sleepy D, DaVinci, a blog on why Drake sucks, Ray Luv, T.I., Tum Tum, Boosie, Oomp Camp and on his Tumblr I see Lil Rue, Jacka, Ampichino. These actually remind me of you lol, just with Gucci and Waka added in. And he writes pretty much exclusively on hip-hop unlike a lot of other Pitchfork writers who are reviewing some indie rock albums as well. He definitely looks like a hip-hop head to me, or at the very least, more of a hip-hop head than any of Pitchfork's other writers.

lol, SoManyShrimp isn't just David Drake, man. In fact, until the most recent revival of the site, I don't think anyone even associated the site with him (that's why I said a while back that it sucked that you were getting into the site so late). Serg posts about all the good music, Drake just writes essays about the importance and cultural implications of the most recent Lil Wayne or Gucci Mane verse.

first listen through & this album gave me a headache. flocka's flow just doesn't get me pumped but this has potential to grow...I need at least a few listens to give it an honest interpretationColt45fool

This album GOES HARD 

lol, SoManyShrimp isn't just David Drake, man. In fact, until the most recent revival of the site, I don't think anyone even associated the site with him (that's why I said a while back that it sucked that you were getting into the site so late). Serg posts about all the good music, Drake just writes essays about the importance and cultural implications of the most recent Lil Wayne or Gucci Mane verse.

IsThisIt_basic

You can correct me if I'm wrong but I had assumed the somanyshrimp tumblr was pretty much just David's posts now. That was my impression when site stopped and it moved to tumblr. I guess I'll just shoot a question over there and see because it doesn't list who contributes to the site anymore.

David does have his own tumblr at kingdrake1 and I know Serg's tumblr/website goes by the name beerandrap. Just browsing David's tumblr (thekingdrake one), it's still Tum Tum, Lil Rue, Lil Blood, Mobb Deep, E-40, the Jacka, Andre Nickatina, Intelligent Hoodlum, J Stalin, Nas, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre among others from what I see.... mixed in with Gucci of course. Still doesn't look like a hipster to me but that's just my thoughts. 

I didn't know David even wrote for Pitchfork either until he linked to the Waka Flocka review from the somanyshrimp tumblr the other week saying he wrote it.

[QUOTE="IsThisIt_basic"]

lol, SoManyShrimp isn't just David Drake, man. In fact, until the most recent revival of the site, I don't think anyone even associated the site with him (that's why I said a while back that it sucked that you were getting into the site so late). Serg posts about all the good music, Drake just writes essays about the importance and cultural implications of the most recent Lil Wayne or Gucci Mane verse.

Orlando_Magic

You can correct me if I'm wrong but I had assumed the somanyshrimp tumblr was pretty much just David's posts now. That was my impression when site stopped and it moved to tumblr. I guess I'll just shoot a question over there and see because it doesn't list who contributes to the site anymore.

David does have his own tumblr at kingdrake1 and I know Serg's tumblr/website goes by the name beerandrap. Just browsing David's tumblr (thekingdrake one), it's still Tum Tum, Lil Rue, Lil Blood, Mobb Deep, E-40, the Jacka, Andre Nickatina, Intelligent Hoodlum, J Stalin, Nas, DJ Quik, Dr. Dre among others from what I see.... mixed in with Gucci of course. Still doesn't look like a hipster to me but that's just my thoughts.

I didn't know David even wrote for Pitchfork either until he linked to the Waka Flocka review from the somanyshrimp tumblr the other week saying he wrote it.

Hey, it's entirely possible he's into that stuff. All I'm saying is that from back in the blog, it was always Serg posting about that stuff. Pretty much anything with Drake's name on it was an automatic pass on my part.

Edit: And also, people should really stop doing these tumblr things and go back to blogs. I really have no idea what the hell is going on on these Tumblr pages, most of them seem to be people just posting pointless pictures.

I made a tumblr the other week for the heck of it. It makes it really easy to keep up with things because everyone's updates show up on my homepage.

I don't really post many blogs... kind of just keep it to random things I'm listening to at the time and video games.

yeah I like it too, just wish I knew more people who used it. A lot of people seem to reblog random pictures but every blog i've seen are unique in their own way. Some users like to write really long descriptions on whatever they're blogging and some  make it straight to the point and hardly write anything

real*****tumblr

I think this is my favorite tumblr page lol 

And I rarely reblog people. If I do its to write a lengthy response to someone's post.