http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqSIZ3EaMg
'Odd Future is Dope' - Dom Kennedy
'They Don't fuck with Nobody' - The Game
'Got alot of Potential' - Lupe Fiasco
'I don't like what they're doing man, way to much negativetity'- Hopsin
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Rolling Stone OF Tape Vol.2 Review
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-o-f-tape-volume-2-20120322
Here's the thing about the L.A. rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, hip-hop's preeminent self-styled radicals, provocateurs, and shock-artists: They're not radical, they're not provocative, and they're not shocking. Free-floating male hormonal rage, Odd Future's stock-in-trade, has been an engine of pop music for more than half a century. Their id-unleashed shtick – all the pill-popping and gore and nihilism—is evidence of an Eminem Complex that begins with OF's leader Tyler, the Creator, and trickles down to the group's other members. And of course, there's the relentless misogyny: "Please hit your knees/My dick won't suck itself/If it wasn't for my cock/You would have bad health," rhymes OF member Taco. That's not radical, that's conventional: the stupidest, most banal way to raise hackles.
Yet Odd Future are mesmerizing. The O.F. Tape Volume 2 has a fizzy energy that elevates it above its limitations. In part, it's the music. Tyler, The Creator is an imaginative soundscaper whose beats take in everything from crunk to Nineties underground hip-hop. "Lean" combines mosquito-whine buzzes with an eerily minimalist beat worthy of the Neptunes; "Analog 2" is sultry swirl of synths and soul crooning interrupted by nearly twelve seconds of dead silence. But it's cacophony that keeps your ears piqued: all those peculiar voices, boasting, storytelling, signifying, bellyaching. There's Tyler, sharper and wittier than on his 2011 solo album, Goblin; there's Hodgy Beats, who breaks out here, taking the prize for best punchlines; in the ten-minute-plus posse track "Oldie"; there's even a cameo by Earl Sweatshirt, possibly OF's best rapper, an 18-year-old who had moved from L.A. to Samoa, where he was enrolled in a program for at-risk youth. And of course there's the group's resident grownup, rising R&B star Frank Ocean, who takes a lovely solo turn on the Stevie Wonder-ish "White."
At their best, OF, like early Wu-Tang, are a thrilling regional act, a bunch of whip-smart black hipsters whose worldview is grounded in their corner of sun-baked southern California Рa place as weirdly its own planet as Wu's Shaolin. In "P," Hodgy Beats boasts about his gun-slinging by invoking California Assemblyman and Tea Party member Tim Donnelly, who was arrested at an airport in San Bernadino, CA., when a Colt .45 was found in his carry-on luggage. "Tea parties are the shit, .40 mags by the stones," raps Hodgy. "I'm fighting for gun rights to shoot a nigga in his dome." That's the best kind of shock: taking a clich̩ and turning it into something fresh, new, odd.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-o-f-tape-volume-2-20120322#ixzz2C6SKBcj4
Here's the thing about the L.A. rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, hip-hop's preeminent self-styled radicals, provocateurs, and shock-artists: They're not radical, they're not provocative, and they're not shocking. Free-floating male hormonal rage, Odd Future's stock-in-trade, has been an engine of pop music for more than half a century. Their id-unleashed shtick – all the pill-popping and gore and nihilism—is evidence of an Eminem Complex that begins with OF's leader Tyler, the Creator, and trickles down to the group's other members. And of course, there's the relentless misogyny: "Please hit your knees/My dick won't suck itself/If it wasn't for my cock/You would have bad health," rhymes OF member Taco. That's not radical, that's conventional: the stupidest, most banal way to raise hackles.
Yet Odd Future are mesmerizing. The O.F. Tape Volume 2 has a fizzy energy that elevates it above its limitations. In part, it's the music. Tyler, The Creator is an imaginative soundscaper whose beats take in everything from crunk to Nineties underground hip-hop. "Lean" combines mosquito-whine buzzes with an eerily minimalist beat worthy of the Neptunes; "Analog 2" is sultry swirl of synths and soul crooning interrupted by nearly twelve seconds of dead silence. But it's cacophony that keeps your ears piqued: all those peculiar voices, boasting, storytelling, signifying, bellyaching. There's Tyler, sharper and wittier than on his 2011 solo album, Goblin; there's Hodgy Beats, who breaks out here, taking the prize for best punchlines; in the ten-minute-plus posse track "Oldie"; there's even a cameo by Earl Sweatshirt, possibly OF's best rapper, an 18-year-old who had moved from L.A. to Samoa, where he was enrolled in a program for at-risk youth. And of course there's the group's resident grownup, rising R&B star Frank Ocean, who takes a lovely solo turn on the Stevie Wonder-ish "White."
At their best, OF, like early Wu-Tang, are a thrilling regional act, a bunch of whip-smart black hipsters whose worldview is grounded in their corner of sun-baked southern California Рa place as weirdly its own planet as Wu's Shaolin. In "P," Hodgy Beats boasts about his gun-slinging by invoking California Assemblyman and Tea Party member Tim Donnelly, who was arrested at an airport in San Bernadino, CA., when a Colt .45 was found in his carry-on luggage. "Tea parties are the shit, .40 mags by the stones," raps Hodgy. "I'm fighting for gun rights to shoot a nigga in his dome." That's the best kind of shock: taking a clich̩ and turning it into something fresh, new, odd.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-o-f-tape-volume-2-20120322#ixzz2C6SKBcj4
Friday, 2 November 2012
Eminem - King of hip-hop
Eminem Named King Of Hip-Hop By Rolling Stone
Em beat the likes of Jay-Z, Weezy & Kanye West to the title...
11:33, Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Eminem has beaten the likes of Jay-Z andKanye West to be crowned as the new King of Hip-Hop by Rolling Stone magazine.
The publication, who previously named Lady GaGa as their Queen of Pop back in June, used a variety a methods to reveal Em as their King, analysing digital song sales, radio airplay, YouTube views and social media presence to comply the list.
Rolling Stone also looked at R&B and hip-hop chart placings, tour revenues, award show wins and reviews from a range of critics in order to name Eminem as their winner.
The Love The Way You Like hitmaker came out on top with a score of 1, 169, while Lil Wayne came second with a respectable 1,134 points.
Drake was placed at No.3 with 1,020 - beating the likes of Kanye West and Jay-Z who scored 784 and 666 to complete the top five.
Speaking of Drizzy's high position, Rolling Stone claimed: "If third-place Drake's commanding lead on the song charts had been even more dominant (which is hard to imagine), he could well have taken the title – a massive upset considering the brevity of his rap career."
They added: "As it is, Drake's strong finish, more than 200 points above now-veteran Kanye West, is a testament to his current omnipresence. With his second album due later this year, he's got a shot at stealing the title by 2012."
Nicki Minaj also featured in the list at No.6, fending off tough competition from the likes ofRick Ross, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.
Nicki Minaj also featured in the list at No.6, fending off tough competition from the likes ofRick Ross, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.
www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCUQFjAA&url=http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/eminem/328683-eminem-king-of-hip-hop-jay-z-kanye-lil-wayne-drake&ei=tRuUUMjfO8ua1AX3iIHQDQ&usg=AFQjCNGVkPCMnfuAUPtaXpBWuDBiPqlKSg&sig2=45tf-mn5AJ4KyGNWPiTNhw
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Lyrical Content - Marshall Mathers LP
Lyrical content
The Marshall Mathers LP contains more autobiographical themes in comparison to The Slim Shady LP.[28] Much of the album is spent addressing his rise to fame and attacking those who criticized his previous album. Other themes include his relationship with his family, most notably his mother and Kim Mathers, his former wife.[29] The Marshall Mathers LP was released in both clean and explicit versions. However, some lyrics of the album are censored even on its explicit version. Some songs are censored because of events surrounding the album's release, mostly theColumbine High School Massacre. Unlike Eminem's debut, The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP is more introspective in its lyrics and less of the Slim Shady persona. Its lyrical style has been described as horrorcore,[2][3] with Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that the album's lyrics "[blur] the distinction between reality and fiction, humor and horror, satire and documentary".[30]
Most songs cover Eminem's childhood struggles and family issues, involving his mother ("Kill You"),[31] the relationship struggles with his wife ("Kim"),[31] his struggles with his superstardom and expectations ("Stan", "I'm Back", & "Marshall Mathers"),[31] his return and effect on the music industry ("Remember Me?", "Bitch Please II"),[31] his drug use ("Drug Ballad"),[31] his effect on the American youth and society ("The Way I Am", "Who Knew"),[31] and reactionary barbs to critical response of his vulgarity and dark themes ("Criminal").[31] Despite the large amount of controversy regarding the lyrics, the lyrics on the album were overwhelmingly well received among critics and the hip hop community, many praising Eminem's verbal energy and dense rhyme patterns.[32][33]
The album contains various lyric samples and references. It features a number of lines mimicking songs from Eric B. & Rakim's album Paid in Full. The chorus to "The Way I Am" resembles lines from the song "As the Rhyme Goes On",[34] and the first two lines from the third verse of "I'm Back" are based on lines from "My Melody".[35] Two lines in "Marshall Mathers" parody the song "Summer Girls" by LFO. Bitch Please II is the only compisition that Eminem and Snoop Dogg did together.
The record also contains lyrics that have been considered to be homophobic.[36] The song "Criminal" features the line, "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/That'll stab you in the head whether you're a fag or les...Hate fags?/The answer's yes."[36] The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) condemned his lyrics and criticized the album for "encourag[ing] violence against gay men and lesbians".[37] However, writing for the LGBT interest magazine The Advocate, editor Dave White writes, "If he has gay-bashed you or me, then it logically follows that he has also raped his own mother, killed his wife, and murdered his producer, Dr. Dre. If he's to be taken literally, then so is Britney Spears' invitation to 'hit me baby, one more time'."[36] Eminem noted that he began using the word "faggot" more frequently when "people got all up in arms about it...to piss them off worse", but added that "I think its hard for some people to understand that for me the word 'faggot' has nothing to do with sexual preference. I meant something more like assholes or dickheads."[38]
Track List
Eminem:-
Odd Future:-
Odd Future BBC Interview [1]
NME OF Tape Vol.2 Review [2]
Odd Future - OF Tape Vol.2 BBC Music Review [3]
Rolling Stone OF Tape Vol.2 Review [4]
Yonkers Youtube Link [5]
Artists Opinions on Odd Future [6]
Odd Future Wiki [7]
Yonkers review [8]
Eminem Drug Issues [1]
Eminem Family Problems [2]
'Life before fame' Youtube clip [3]
Origins of rap music [4]
BBC Recovery review [5]
Rolling Stones quote [6]
NME Recovery review [7]
Recovery success - Wikipedia [8]
Not Afraid statistics [9]
Recovery Forum [10]
The Guardian Quote [11]
Lyrical Content of The Marshall Mathers LP [12]
BBC News - Kim and Eminem - Stress [13]
Eminem - King of Hip-hop [14]
Origins of rap music 2 [15]
Uses and Gratifications theory - presentation [16]
Cultivation thoery [17]
The Advocate - Eminem [18]
NME Album review - Marshall LP [19]
Lupe Fiaso bbc -20
Kim -Rolling stones [21]
The Nielsen company [22]
The Guardian Quote [11]
Lyrical Content of The Marshall Mathers LP [12]
BBC News - Kim and Eminem - Stress [13]
Eminem - King of Hip-hop [14]
Origins of rap music 2 [15]
Uses and Gratifications theory - presentation [16]
Cultivation thoery [17]
The Advocate - Eminem [18]
NME Album review - Marshall LP [19]
Lupe Fiaso bbc -20
Kim -Rolling stones [21]
The Nielsen company [22]
Odd Future:-
Odd Future BBC Interview [1]
NME OF Tape Vol.2 Review [2]
Odd Future - OF Tape Vol.2 BBC Music Review [3]
Rolling Stone OF Tape Vol.2 Review [4]
Yonkers Youtube Link [5]
Artists Opinions on Odd Future [6]
Odd Future Wiki [7]
Yonkers review [8]
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