Little Brother - May the Lord Watch (Discussion Thread)

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TheDarceKnight said:
For the real beat nerds out here, Nottz is Khrysis' biggest influence. Khrysis even had to :whoa: and go "Okay I don't wanna end up biting this guy."

Khrysis did this joint below and it sounds a lot like Nottz.

But my overall point is after the mid 00's Khrysis experimented a lot and got heavily influenced by Dilla, Nottz, Oh No, and went way more outside of the soul sample bag that 9th was in. Khrysis will sample video games, movies, Australian folk records, hell he even sampled a collection of his own shoes hitting various solid objects for some kick drums he used...that's why on The Shining Sean Boog says "ask Khrysis bout the kick in the track. Because Khrysis literally used a shoe and kicked it against the wall and sampled that to make the kick drum. But Khrysis put me onto Nottz in like 2006 and ever since then I can tell he's a huge influence. Nottz also samples a lot of stuff that's not your average soul sample.
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:mjlol:I pity the pizza man coming in and seeing a dude drop kicking a damn wall just to get a proper sound :deadrose:
 
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:ahh:this album brehs.
 
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Little Brother was an integral part of the soundtrack to my college days in Columbus. I remember taking the #16 bus home, playing "Home" or "Nighttime Maneuvers" or some other LB track over and over. I was devastated when they broke up, and for years held out hopes another album was coming.

Finally moved on from LB a few years ago (still spun The Minstrel Show occasionally) To the point that when they announced this album I was a bit apathetic at the news. Waited until this afternoon to spin it.

Man... This may be their best album. They've both grown. Especially Pooh. Not only technically, but the rap content is top notch. So many rappers stay stuck in their own ways or struggle to transition their music to their new reality. These guys do it effortlessly. How many of your favs would admit to picking up Uber gigs just to make ends meet? Their music has always been honest if not anything else, these tracks are no exception.

Didn't care much that 9th wasn't on the album, if you heard Getback then you would understand why. All the producers did their thing. Shout-out to the skits, they all had no fat on them. Funny as fukk and spaced the album out well.

Hoping that this is the one that blows up for them, they've deserved it.

These were my idols. Damn, I'm so glad I got to see this day.
 
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Knew they wrote and recorded this together :salute:
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This album more than any other sounds like they wrote it together. I remember one beef Pooh had after the breakup was that he wished he had stepped up and tried to give his input more, because Phonte came up with > 90% of the song concepts. I can really hear Pooh's contributions from a thematic concept on here since I followed his work over the past five years especially.

I want to be careful about grading an album this early on, but I think at the very least it can be argued that it's their most cohesive project just in terms of them really crafting it together instead of the old format of "okay I picked this beat and we're gonna write about this topic. I'ma write a 16 over here, and you do one over there, and we'll meet back in 30 mins."

LB always had some joints where they went back and forth within the same verse (ie. Speed, Not Enough, Slow it Down) but for the most part it was 16 from one, 16 from the other, and occasionally a shared 16 where they each did 8 bars. And some joints even had shorter Pooh verses and longer Tay verses (ie. Boondock Saints and All For You). On Getback and Leftback especially it felt like 2 emcees just rapping alongside each other. And they always had solo joints.

On this album it honestly feels like every verse is written by both of them. I lost count of the amount of times I thought a hook would come in, or I thought a song would be done with, only to have the other guy swoop in with more bars. And I dig that that it's pretty much all content for and from grown people without being preachy or self-indulgent.

I heard the leak yesterday, and this thread had made my day. I honestly did NOT expect this album to get even half as much love on The Booth as it's getting. I thought there would be way more complaints about the lack of 9th, too much signing, and not enough bars on bars type joints, and still some hate for Pooh in 2019.

Much love to all the Coli brethren in here today and RIP to those that never got to see this day! This Little Brother album almost feels like the hip-hop version of Tool, in that no one ever thought they'd ever release another album, and then they drop one in August.

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