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| Poll: Which team do you prefer? |
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84% |
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15% |
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| Total Votes : 13 |
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Skinny
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- #21
- Posted: 03/19/2021 07:44
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| cestuneblague wrote: | 2015 is surprisingly a lot of fun, certainly enjoyed the Action Bronson work and Lil Ugly Mane was... pretty solid, too (never really heard Mac's works before now, hmm). Run the Jewels I'm completely neutral towards and this song is no different. I usually prefer Tempest the sing-speaker over Tempest the rapper as their flow can be distractingly clumsy, but I do actually really like this track even with it's pretty on-the-noise and not-always-lyrically-graceful messaging.
Ouch, 2002 is a boss though. The Streets def takes you back to that time period as he was definitely getting plenty of buzz stateside at the time as well, and this album is among the more exciting and pretty downright huge debuts of the aughties (even if I'm the contrarian wimp who slightly prefers his followup), and Blacakalious is again really strong if it's the exact kind of hip hop I easily enjoy more so than really go crazy for, but strong record nonetheless. And yes there was a time when Lose Yourself could've put me off this team considering how nauseatingly ubuqitious this track was for a time, but now it's ya know whatevs, a fairly paint-by-numbers anthem for Eminem clearly meant to advertise his movie. Again, would be tough to do '02 without an 8 mile reference in there somewhere. |
It's interesting you mention this, because I was heavily invested in him at the time - here was a rapper who looked and sounded something like me, who'd grown up in the same area, attended the same primary school as me, attended the secondary school I now work at - and whilst the debut garnered a certain amount of buzz and spawned some minor hits, his second record was the one hailed more widely as the masterpiece in the music press and the one that seemingly everybody owned a copy of, with monster hits to boot ('Fit But You Know It' and 'Dry Your Eyes' were genuinely Oasis or Coldplay levels of inescapable over here). Over the years, the critical (or internet-led) concensus has seen the debut anointed, rightfully in my opinion, as the undisputed Streets masterpiece, but in the UK that certainly isn't the popular concensus; I know loads of people who prefer Grand. (To take the aforementioned Oasis comparison further, I often get the feeling that Morning Glory is at least as beloved by the general population as Definitely Maybe, though you'd never know it from the general critical concensus.) Therefore, I don't really see that opinion as contrary or strange, though I understand why people would.
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baystateoftheart
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- #22
- Posted: 03/21/2021 00:23
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Original Pirate Material: 3.5/5
Blazing Arrow: 3.5/5
Lose Yourself: 3/5
One Mic: 4/5
2002 Total: 14/20
Mr. Wonderful: 2.5/5
Oblivion Access: 3.5/5
Early: 4/5
Europe Is Lost: 3.5/5
2015 Total: 13.5/20
2002 narrowly takes this match for me on the strength of more consistent albums.
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- #23
- Posted: 03/25/2021 02:19
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2002 wins, 10-1.
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