Isn't it just Uncle L instead of Uncle LL as in "Uncle L future of the funk......"
YNOTin a studio apt mixing tuna with the ramen 417 Posts
Time for Uncle L to hang up the jersey. This isn't grown man rap approved. Also while it's cool he has Z-trip djing for him now I couldn't make it past 10 secs of that Baltimore club beat. He needs to holler at Marly Marl.
i think the allure of having that hit is too much for L. at his best he crossed over to all areas of rap but these days, well, y'know. at this point could he do a grown man rap album? would anybody care? he was always bigger (in the pop sense) than masta ase, sadat, etc. i think LL looks at that genre as several steps down.
when was the last time LL mattered to y'all. for me it was the canibus battle. he had hits after that, which i didn't mind, but that was the last time he was 'vital' to the music imo.
While I understand there is a whole heap of make-believe in popular music, there has to be some semblance of context and continuity.
Mr NCIS is not hanging with the ratchet chicks.
These are just some tired ass lyrics about the same old boring archetype of a gold-digger hood chick that we've been hearing forever.
While I understand there is a whole heap of make-believe in popular music, there has to be some semblance of context and continuity.
Mr NCIS is not hanging with the ratchet chicks.
These are just some tired ass lyrics about the same old boring archetype of a gold-digger hood chick that we've been hearing forever.
1/10 - 1 for the beat.
what about the very idea that he is this superhuman ladies man, when in fact he's been (allegedly) happily married since the 90's? (he's not alone in this nonsense; many older, married rappers still rap about being players long after they've hung it up).
is the fake gangster thing any worse than the fake ladiesman thing?
It is easy/easier to suspend belief when whatever the artist has going on at home, in their real life, etc. is not out there for all to see. This doesn't apply to LL.
Sometimes, I don't care - especially if the song sounds and feels good. Other times, it's a lot harder to see past and just ruins the whole experience - like this LL trainwreck and 99% of what Rick Ross does.
I love LL. I have the utmost respect for the guy. I just wish his music would reflect his age and his lifestyle instead of him trying to fit in the wit' da yoof. No one wants their grandpa trying to kick it with their friends.
You know, I heard "Phenomenon" coming out of somewhere the other day (in 2012!--you gotta love Chicago, man), and that shit sounded all right.
I'll concede, though, that almost all of LL's problems with perspective can be seen in miniature in the fact that he would lace a late-nineties peak-period Hitmen-produced young-youths club banger with a reference to motherfucking Chappaquiddick.
dreskieboogie
951 Posts
Comments
1) Shouldn't it be Ratchid/Rhaatid?
2) Anyone know a woman named Lorraine under 50 years old?
LL was sick when he recorded, hence his voice.
Not every beat that loops up "Think" is a B-more club beat.
While I understand there is a whole heap of make-believe in popular music, there has to be some semblance of context and continuity.
Mr NCIS is not hanging with the ratchet chicks.
These are just some tired ass lyrics about the same old boring archetype of a gold-digger hood chick that we've been hearing forever.
1/10 - 1 for the beat.
what about the very idea that he is this superhuman ladies man, when in fact he's been (allegedly) happily married since the 90's? (he's not alone in this nonsense; many older, married rappers still rap about being players long after they've hung it up).
is the fake gangster thing any worse than the fake ladiesman thing?
both are fake.
It is easy/easier to suspend belief when whatever the artist has going on at home, in their real life, etc. is not out there for all to see. This doesn't apply to LL.
Sometimes, I don't care - especially if the song sounds and feels good. Other times, it's a lot harder to see past and just ruins the whole experience - like this LL trainwreck and 99% of what Rick Ross does.
I'll concede, though, that almost all of LL's problems with perspective can be seen in miniature in the fact that he would lace a late-nineties peak-period Hitmen-produced young-youths club banger with a reference to motherfucking Chappaquiddick.
Or really terribly, depending on how you look at it.
That's from an early 90's Disney compilation called Simply Mad About The Mouse.