Gonna buy Kanye West's album tomorrow and see him at Borders downtown tomorrow night.

Howard asked 50 if he was going to quit the music business – as he claimed he would – should Kanye West’s new album outsell his, so 50 confessed that the rivalry was just to promote records.

 

-HowardStern.com

 

-HowardStern.com

 

Of course it was. Each one would have sold more had they debuted on different days though.

 

Oh and anyone who thought 50 would've retired is just foolish.

Gonna buy Kanye West's album tomorrow and see him at Borders downtown tomorrow night.

*gasps* I need more info...i'm so there.

people put way too much on this fifty-kanye thing, I disagree they would've sold more if they debuted different days, it's not a movie, where people will choose either/or, just getting people to the record store is more important.

people put way too much on this fifty-kanye thing, I disagree they would've sold more if they debuted different days, it's not a movie, where people will choose either/or, just getting people to the record store is more important.

That being said, neither album can touch Finding Forever.

That being said, neither album can touch Finding Forever.

Be>Graduation>Finding Forever

That being said, neither album can touch Finding Forever.

 

And FWIW, Kanye produced 8 of the 12 tracks on that album.

Be>Graduation>Finding Forever

IMO Finding Forever>Be>Graduation

 

And I do realize Kanye produced most of FF.

 

"When a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it. Just add Ice."

 

genius.

"When a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it. Just add Ice."

 

genius.

 

I've tried to like music in this genre, but I find very little in it of any musical value. Its kind of like horror flicks - a genre that is done often, and usually is both unoriginal and crappy. Once in a while, though, you get a winner.

 

I've tried to like music in this genre, but I find very little in it of any musical value. Its kind of like horror flicks - a genre that is done often, and usually is both unoriginal and crappy. Once in a while, though, you get a winner.

If you haven't heard the glory that is Tim Dog than you are living a deprived life.

 

Funny thing is I'm sort of serious. I'm one of the few people on Earth that enjoys his work. But this is not a recommendation for you to seek out his discography.

If you haven't heard the glory that is Tim Dog than you are living a deprived life.

 

Funny thing is I'm sort of serious. I'm one of the few people on Earth that enjoys his work. But this is not a recommendation for you to seek out his discography.

 

WTF, a Tim Dog recommendation?

 

He had his moments from 1990 to 1993. "I Get Wrecked" is probably my favorite track from his catalogue, although he says some corny sh*t in the second verse.

 

He's better than Ced Gee, though. At least he had that going for him.

WTF, a Tim Dog recommendation?

 

He had his moments from 1990 to 1993. "I Get Wrecked" is probably my favorite track from his catalogue, although he says some corny sh*t in the second verse.

 

He's better than Ced Gee, though. At least he had that going for him.

He is extremely corny. When he uses polysyllabic words it sounds like he doesn't even know what they mean. Probably grabbed a thesaurus when writing his rhymes. He is great at boasting though. You'd think he was the greatest rapper of all time with the things he said. I mean come on...when you title a song "You Ain't s***" that is just priceless.

Penicillin on Wax has great beats and memorable, if crude, lyrics.

 

His album with Kool Keith as Ultra, Big Time, has actually stood the test of time pretty well.

 

At the very least he's provided vocal samples for hardcore techno artists (e.g. "Step to me if you're ready/You get chopped with a motherf***in' machete") for decades to come.

Penicillin on Wax has great beats and memorable, if crude, lyrics.

 

His album with Kool Keith as Ultra, Big Time, has actually stood the test of time pretty well.

 

At the very least he's provided vocal samples for hardcore techno artists (e.g. "Step to me if you're ready/You get chopped with a motherf***in' machete") for decades to come.

You still living in Uptown?

I've tried to like music in this genre, but I find very little in it of any musical value. Its kind of like horror flicks - a genre that is done often, and usually is both unoriginal and crappy. Once in a while, though, you get a winner.

 

You never got into hip hop in the mid-to-late late 80s/early 90s? No RUN DMC, Public Enemy, Rakim, KRS-ONE, Slick Rick, Juice Crew, De La Soul, Main Source, Ultramagnetic MCs, EPMD, K-Solo, Gangstarr, Organized Konfusion, Sadat X, O.C., L.O.N.S., Freestyle Fellowship, Pharcyde, Del, etc?

You still living in Uptown?

Emotionally, yeah!

Penicillin on Wax has great beats and memorable, if crude, lyrics.

 

Oh yeah, any time Ced Gee is involved, you're gonna have some classic beats. He's easily a Top 10 producer in the history of hip hop, what with the Ultramagnetic albums and BDP's "Criminal Minded" under his belt.

 

His album with Kool Keith as Ultra, Big Time, has actually stood the test of time pretty well.

 

I like Keith's verses on "Ain't Nobody Happenin" and "Industry Is Wack", but I thought that the album was a waste of money at the time. The "Industry Is Wack/Ain't Nobody Happenin" 12" is great, what with the Kutmasta Kurt instrumentals.

Oh yeah, any time Ced Gee is involved, you're gonna have some classic beats. He's easily a Top 10 producer in the history of hip hop, what with the Ultramagnetic albums and BDP's "Criminal Minded" under his belt.

Did he do their latest album? I'm not feeling it. And no Tim Dog?!?!

You never got into hip hop in the mid-to-late late 80s/early 90s? No RUN DMC, Public Enemy, Rakim, KRS-ONE, Slick Rick, Juice Crew, De La Soul, Main Source, Ultramagnetic MCs, EPMD, K-Solo, Gangstarr, Organized Konfusion, Sadat X, O.C., L.O.N.S., Freestyle Fellowship, Pharcyde, Del, etc?

I did actually have some albums from those folks - I even liked some. I liked some RUN DMC stuff, way back when. Mostly, I like Hip-Hop that's fun - not this gangsta tryin to be a badass stuff. That genre, to me, is best when it doesn't take itself too seriously. I actually liked, even better in that time period, the hip hop fusion with jazz stuff. Diggable Planets, Us3, etc. One could even put Tower of Power in there, maybe.

You never got into hip hop in the mid-to-late late 80s/early 90s? No RUN DMC, Public Enemy, Rakim, KRS-ONE, Slick Rick, Juice Crew, De La Soul, Main Source, Ultramagnetic MCs, EPMD, K-Solo, Gangstarr, Organized Konfusion, Sadat X, O.C., L.O.N.S., Freestyle Fellowship, Pharcyde, Del, etc?

 

Ahh, no. And you are frightening me. I'm with NSS on this one.

I like Hip-Hop that's fun - not this gangsta tryin to be a badass stuff.

Dooley O, Slick Rick, Plastic Little....and try the Danger Doom album.

Did he do their latest album? I'm not feeling it. And no Tim Dog?!?!

 

You know, I haven't been checking for any new hip hop since 2001 or thereabouts. I consider everything to be crap nowadays, but that's just me.