Little Brother - May the Lord Watch (Discussion Thread)
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TheDarceKnight
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You ever heard the OG Chitlin Circuit? Not the 1.5 but the first one?
TheDarceKnight
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Bro I'll keep saying it. Check out Words Paint Pictures, Welcome Home, and Everything's For Sale.
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Nope
steadyrighteous
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Work Through Me Lord sounds like some Listening-era shyt 
Yeah - All in a Day is my standout track too
Yeah - All in a Day is my standout track too
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Nah im hip. Don't get it twisted. I meant in contrast to Tay. Pooh held his own, is all. I know Pooh been working
This is a dope ass interview, I only copy and pasted this part because I didn't know Pooh and Phonte weren't tight like that.
Interview: Little Brother Explains Why They Kept "May The Lord Watch" A Secret
In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Phonte and Pooh opened up about what made making May The Lord Watch different from previous projects, why they kept the album a secret and time machines.
HipHopDX: A lot has changed since I’ve seen you. We’ve got a new Little Brother album, of course, which is why we’re talking.
Phonte: We have another Little Brother album.
HipHopDX: Man, congratulations. How’s it feel?
Phonte: Thank you so much. It’s surreal, man. I never thought that it would have come together like this, and I never — this album was just an example of just God working in so many ways. Everything from just the way it came together, the way me and Pooh wrote the album. This was the first time in our 20-year relationship that we really became friends.
HipHopDX: Wow.
Phonte: So much of our earlier work was driven by just trying to make it. We were just trying to figure out, “All right, let’s do this tour and do this record and the mixtape and album and tour and mixtape and tour.” We were just really just grinding it out. It felt like we were just stuck in this thing together.
But this album, it really felt like we chose to do it together and we really made it a point to really get to know each other. There were some days when he would come to my house and record. There were some days we didn’t even record nothing. We’d just sit and talk, have dinner, chop it up or watch TV together. We were just kicking it, and we wasn’t even recording music. But yet I feel like this is the first time that I really got to know Pooh as a person and we really got to have that time together. And this is probably the closest experience I would say to the first album, because we recorded this in that security.
Interview: Little Brother Explains Why They Kept "May The Lord Watch" A Secret
In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Phonte and Pooh opened up about what made making May The Lord Watch different from previous projects, why they kept the album a secret and time machines.
HipHopDX: A lot has changed since I’ve seen you. We’ve got a new Little Brother album, of course, which is why we’re talking.
Phonte: We have another Little Brother album.
HipHopDX: Man, congratulations. How’s it feel?
Phonte: Thank you so much. It’s surreal, man. I never thought that it would have come together like this, and I never — this album was just an example of just God working in so many ways. Everything from just the way it came together, the way me and Pooh wrote the album. This was the first time in our 20-year relationship that we really became friends.
HipHopDX: Wow.
Phonte: So much of our earlier work was driven by just trying to make it. We were just trying to figure out, “All right, let’s do this tour and do this record and the mixtape and album and tour and mixtape and tour.” We were just really just grinding it out. It felt like we were just stuck in this thing together.
But this album, it really felt like we chose to do it together and we really made it a point to really get to know each other. There were some days when he would come to my house and record. There were some days we didn’t even record nothing. We’d just sit and talk, have dinner, chop it up or watch TV together. We were just kicking it, and we wasn’t even recording music. But yet I feel like this is the first time that I really got to know Pooh as a person and we really got to have that time together. And this is probably the closest experience I would say to the first album, because we recorded this in that security.
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All I remember is that Pooh was tightest with Joe Scudda and O-Dash, and Phonte was more of a loner.
I didn’t know they weren’t homies but in hindsight it seems more obvious after reading this. Dope interview!
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Phonte: Yeah. It was different in some ways. I had always been a producer in Little Brother. I mean, I’m not a beat maker, but I produced like all the records, no matter who was making the beats. I was always very hands on in terms of producing, arranging and sequencing. The Listening — that was me, Pooh and 9th Wonder together. But everything that came after that — from Getback to Separate But Equal to the mixtape with DJ Drama and The Minstrel Show — I put those records together. That was me.
Matches up with what you have been posting about 9th's lack of involvement post-The Listening
I actually like the original better.
All I remember is that Pooh was tightest with Joe Scudda and O-Dash, and Phonte was more of a loner.
I didn’t know they weren’t homies but in hindsight it seems more obvious after reading this. Dope interview!
Thats crazy to me. They’ve been through FOUR albums and countless tours/shows and never really fukked with each other?
Sometimes i really wanna say fukk 9th lol. The fact he gets credit for so much of Little Brother’s success when he actually contributed very little outside of The Listening has GOT to be infuriating at times for both of them, hell its infuriating to me lol.
9th has always given Phonte credit as the true genius behind Little Brother so its not like he “steals” shine or anything. Sometimes I feel like all of their careers would have benefited from a “Black Star” type situation where they all went their separate ways after the first album and carved their own lanes.