Ice T on music albums vs singles. Old head babble or does he have a point?

[The_Hillsta]

facts

This take me back to when I listened to Scarface first album mr scarface is back.

Listen to that album twice and the story telling was classic

Not listening to any of this mumble mush mouth shyt today that has no direction with song #1 sound like track 2,3,4,5,6,7

Not only did bruh take us on a journey through the mind of a psychopath for 12 straight cuts no filler but explained why.

shyt was a movie on wax.



Still trip out over Rap A Lot droppin that tape same year when Minds Playin Tricks was still killin the radio n video.

Fun times

 

[King Poetic]

There are dozens of Terror Squad album owners, DOZENS of us.

Don Cartegena

 

[skokiaan]

We used to skip radio singles coz the other tracks were more fiyaa

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

100% facts i like to hear an artists narrative it makes their music worth buying you feel their journey

 

[Complexion]

Threads like this really prove that the Coli is the equivalent of that dusty old head in the 80s still talking about 8 tracks.

Thing is now I realize he may have had a point and that hits different when you look at your belt and see no onion....

 

[Lexington Steele]

Let's be real, can you imagine these little pandemic Zoom diploma retards writing an entire album?

01. Da Intro (grandpa said it's a requirement)
02. I'm on Xanax
03. My p*ssy/Booty is better than hers
04. I bought weed legally to go with my Xanax
05. I buss 3D printed guns
06. Interlude (I'm taking a break to check my TikTok)
07. I've exhausted all my subject matter
08. Poppin' them Xannies again
09. Poppin' them Xannies Pt. 2
10. Poppin' them Xannies Remix
11. Can we go home now?
12. It's over, On God, FR FR, No Cap, Finally

 

[Remote]

Threads like this really prove that the Coli is the equivalent of that dusty old head in the 80s still talking about 8 tracks.

Thing is now I realize he may have had a point and that hits different when you look at your belt and see no onion....

What?

 

[Complexion]

It was the style at the time...

 

[Michael's Black Son]

It’s not so called babble at all.

He’s speaking facts.

 

[Yagirlcheatinonus]

I blame technology and the internet. The faster things get they listen to just one thing and move on to the next. To listen to an album you have to sit down and just let it play. Things to fast out here for that which is why you have a bunch of artist putting out singles. I remember reading the booklets too. The internet took away the mystique.

 

[Complexion]

The pace is insane and the net is designed with constant stimulus in mind because, like all good dope dealers, its about keeping you fiending as that reup is whats needed. In that respect everything else will shift because we're living life on fast forward. Whilst running on a treadmill.

This is why the progress is actually and illusion because in reality we're moonwalking and going backwards. The trick is realizing this in real time, not retrospect.

None of this is what people think it is because they actually don't. They Thunk instead and the general lack of awareness is the root of the problem and also the solution. Know the Ledge.

 

[Remote]

Yo, so is Complexion quoting somebody that I have on ignore?

Or is he having a conversation with himself?

I’m confused here.

 

[Complexion]

Or is he having a conversation with himself?

Technically we're all having conversations with ourselves but thats another topic.

Unless you've blocked the kin of the King with melanin or the man wondering about the infidelity of the girl you're sharing?

 

[⠀X ⠀]

he’s telling the truth. They always had singles, As they were more affordable, but in the 70’s, albums got popular. I got back into collecting vinyl earlier this year, and been listening to a whole lot of Albums. I appreciate how they really had to put the album together in a way that it flowed and told a story.

Albums like Songs in the Key of Life, Steely Dan’s Aja or Marvin Gaye’s What’s going on. listening to them is an experience.

And you also had concept albums . Like Janet’s Control, or Alexander O’Neal’s Hearsay or even Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, where they had skits in between the songs. The songs mean more together, than they do individually

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Another point is attention spans. Back when a new drop could very easily become all consuming, if not an event. Even if that was just your and your friends getting lifted and zoning out to a new album as you let it spin from end to end. Why? We ain't have ish to do! F Friday, any day that ends in a Y was fair game back in the days...

In many ways the world has gained but it has also lost as well because you've traded the intimate event for public performances instead. Thats quite sad, if you think about it. Worse still is the new jack kids don't know what they missed just like we didn't either so no big thing but still enough to get you pondering...

I remember when Get Rich or Die Trying came out, and we all left school early to go to FYE and cop it. Can’t imagine kids doing that now