Little Brother - May the Lord Watch (Discussion Thread)

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This might be long winded but fukk it. I’ve listened to this album a dozen or so times and man it is such a breath of fresh air.

Little Brother is such an important group for me personally. I was too young to enjoy Tribe, De La Soul, Digable Planets etc in their prime and when I first heard Little Brother refer to themselves as the “little brothers of tribe, etc” I was hooked. The Listening and Minstrel Show are two all time classics imo, and then things got odd.

I never believed that they were dead in the water once 9th left. They had some great production on mixtapes (mick boogie/DJ drama) and Get Back was solid. Left Back was so disappointing though, especially since it was their last album. Their legacy seemed unfinished to me, until now.

May the Lord Watch has it all. No frills, great production, themes that work for LB, and hat tips to past members and moments of the Justus League days (Roy Lee, Chaundon, Joe Scudda). This album is everything I hoped it would be and more and we’re lucky that a reunion album exceeded the expectations.
 
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TheDarceKnight said:
Yo I feel bad being saying this shyt, but I say it with love. There was a period where both of these gentlemen went vegetarian and lost some weight.

:damn:They're both looking heftier right now than the last time I saw them. I want everyone to enjoy life, but we've been losing a lot of great people recently. Tracks like Sitting Alone are fun ways to appreciate aging, but at the end of the day these brothers are still fairly young, and they both should be here for a lot longer.


Sending this energy out into the universe, or to God, or whatever (if anything) is out there...I know touring makes it hard to make healthy lifestyle choices, but I really, really want these guys staying here with us.

We just recently lost two of our best Ps (Sean Price and Prodigy). I don't want to another two Ps brehs.I don't know if I can handle that.
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Word. I thought the same exact thing.

Especially coming from Phonte who made “Expensive Genes” and “Cry No More” pretty recently :francis:
 
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I may have posted this earlier, but Khrysis confirmed that Everything is an ode to Make Em Envy by J Dilla. Phonte heard the beat, thought it sounded a little bit like Dilla's beat, and so he threw the M.O.P. sample on the beat to make it match even more.

If anyone's never heard this classic Dilla shyt (and the bars are fire too) enjoy!




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Word. I thought the same exact thing.

Especially coming from Phonte who made “Expensive Genes” and “Cry No More” pretty recently :francis:
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I know man. But FWIW I didn't get the vibe he wrote those 2 songs from an ivory tower. I felt like he was including himself in the bars. But still...the whole shyt about 40 years old likely being for being equivalent to 3-quarter life instead of mid-life made me go
:mjcry: but you can still change that, Tay!
 
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Jx2 said:
They made an album that bangs that has a driving around your hometown on a sunny Saturday morning vibe.

Bandana & Lost Tapes had the summer on lock for me.

This album is perfect going into Fall over here on the east coast
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It really is. I've played this album non-stop since it dropped. I think I've played it more than I played Plugs I met and Bandana, which is saying something because I wore those out in their first week.

One thing I did on my playlist (and I usually hate fukking with album track sequences because I want to listen to it as the artist intended) is I removed the two skits that have no references to Listening or Minstrel Show. So I axed the Dyana skit and Hollerin' skit. It just trims a little bit of fat and for me, it smooths out the listen, while retaining the 3 skits that reference Percy Miracles, Joe Scudda, and Roy Lee.

I made sure that doing this didn't cause any jarring shifts in transition, and it doesn't And it even keeps the cool part after the Roy Lee skit where it goes U-B- and instead of the N you get the starting word "In" from the sample on Sitting Alone. That was a clever transition they did and I wanted to make sure I kept it.

The more I listen to this the more I'm inclined to say I have zero issues with the singing on every track. It's just done so well.
 
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