Best Posts: Rate This Album v. 3.0: Kodak Black - Heart of the Projects

  1. Fire Squad
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    Fire Squad Boss Don Biggavel

    Dec 5, 2018
    Think I'll sit this one out @Sav Stanfield , although one of these days I'll listen to Eminem's post-Recovery catalog
     
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  2. Winter
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    Winter Super Comfy

    Dec 5, 2018
    Pretty sure he only rapped on beat like three times across the entire album

    2/10
     
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  3. Cyreides
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    Cyreides gfy

    Dec 5, 2018
    Revival has zero truly great songs, and a s--- ton of really bad ones.

    Bad production, bad mixing, bad flows, bad content, just a truly miserable experience to sit through. Awful, awful album that I hope to never revisit or have to hear anything from again. Easily his worst album to date.

    2/10
     
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  4. Sav Stanfield
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    Dec 2, 2018
    Nellyville gets a 7.4/10 from 5 ratings

    RATING 8: Metro Boomin, 21 Savage & Offset - Without Warning
    Release Date: 31 October 2017
    Label: Boominati / Capitol / Epic / Motwon / Quality Control / Republic / Slaughter g---

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    Tracklist:

    01. Ghostface Killers ft. Travis Scott
    02. Rap Saved Me ft. Quavo
    03. Ric Flair Drip
    04. My Choppa Hate Niggaz
    05. Nightmare
    06. Mad Stalkers
    07. Disrespectful
    08. Run Up the Racks
    09. Still Serving
    10. Darth Vader

    Its a pity that Ghostface Killers is by far the best song on this project, it kinda leaves you feeling disappointed that those same heights aren’t reached for the rest of the runtime (excluding maybe Ric Flair Drip). Still, this is one of my favourite projects from 2017 and over a year later is still in heavy rotation. 21 Savage has been d--- near the best feature artist of 2018, and already on here he was showing marked improvements from his previous work. Offset is in top form, once again proving why he’s by far the most valuable Migo (say what you will, Takeoff doesn’t come close imo). Both 21 and Offset them are dropping new projects in the next week or 2 and I have unreasonably high expectations for them.

    As for Metro… it’s no secret I’m a Metro stan and good f---ing lord does he shine on this. Like his recent compilation album, each track is interwoven with its neighbours, making for a listening experience that is completely cohesive from top to bottom. You can’t help but feel outright terror as 21 and Offset trade bars about hacking you up without warning over those nightmarishly dark and twisted instrumentals Metro seems to be able to pull out of thin air. Plus that snarling hound on the album cover is f---ing perfect. If I had to nitpick, the album does drag a little towards the end and if you’re looking for variety you won’t find it here. Still, its a solid 8/10 for me.

    @RateThisAlbum
     
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  5. Sign Language
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    Sign Language We miss you Screw

    Dec 2, 2018
    @Sav Stanfield you should do Who Is Mike Jones? at some point.
     
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  6. Fire Squad
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    Fire Squad Boss Don Biggavel

    Dec 2, 2018
    7/10

    This was an interesting revisit, granted it's not the slice of nirvana I was hoping it'd be but man hearing that unmistakable 2000s R&B sound brought me back to a happy place. Nelly does take a step back compared to his energetic performance on Country Grammar and the run-length does go on for too long, but the singular moments where he delivers what he does best--making hits--he knocks it out of the park. p---- Juice is the best song oat and Air Force 1#s was your instant messenger sound don't lie.
     
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  7. Michael Myers
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    Michael Myers Moderator

    Dec 1, 2018
    I'm gonna skip this one since I haven't listened to this whole album more than once or twice (long time ago). I'm gonna listen to it this weekend -so thank u Sav- but hard to fully judge it.

    But I see 'Dilemma' and 'Hot in here' on the tracklist that alone makes it good lol. Timeless classics. Splurge is also a great song.
     
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  8. Sav Stanfield
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    Nov 30, 2018
    crazy that Nelly absolutely ethered him
     
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  9. GawDEDEDE
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    Nov 29, 2018
    8.5/10
    As others have already stated the rollout to this album was stressful and exhilirating at the same time. I have no shame in the fact that I stayed up until 3am for two nights in a row to get the first crack I could at it. FSMH pt 1 intro is the most iconic music moment of the decade, FML and Real Friends don’t get nearly the appreciation that they deserve, and Famous upon first listen gave ya boy all types of chills. The musicality of this album will stand the test of time, it’s aged way better than it should have, and if Yandhi is as good as this album is considering his mental state as of late, I’ll be more than satisfied.
     
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  10. BLACKIV
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    Nov 29, 2018
    Musically and lyrically, this album is a bit of a mess, but somehow, it works out. Completely disregarding how messy getting this album out to its fully updated form was, I feel like it was worth it because the album as it is today is a really enjoyable listen. Sure, there are a lot of dumb lyrics, but I feel like it has a lot to do with this album being a look into Kanye's state of mind. I thought it was a better look into how Kanye felt on the inside than Ye was. This one is a lot more raw and raunchy, and it has a lot of great moments too imo. You can't deny that this is one of Kanye's most creative albums. Also, all of what was happening around this album with the line about Taylor on Famous and the meme-ing of FSMH just makes this album more memorable.

    8/10
     
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  11. Sea Mauville
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    Nov 28, 2018
    8/10
    love this album, but in retrospect i think i loved it more as an experience than the actual music itself
    starting from only one & all day all the way to the saint pablo tour
    unfortunately i don't listen to it at all anymore
    fav song is still wolves
     
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  12. Lil Squeed
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    Lil Squeed French Montana Stan

    Nov 28, 2018
    10/10
     
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  13. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Nov 27, 2018
    @Slyk we should give @Sav Stanfield the ability to feature albums—he's up on current music and it would be cool if he could feature the albums he does for this thread (though I don't mind doing that myself to help out as well)
     
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  14. Michael Myers
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    Michael Myers Moderator

    Nov 23, 2018
    Yeah agree If u get rid of blurbs you might as well just post a poll.. and have 0 replies. Blurbs are doors to discussions
     
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  15. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Nov 23, 2018
    No blurbs is boring though, and then you get people just posting “10/10” or “0/10” with no reasoning
     
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  16. Buddha
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    Nov 18, 2018
    :kdotbless:
     
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  17. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Nov 18, 2018
    Who the f--- wanna squeeze my desert e's make emcees freeze f---

    1000000/10


    My nine flies

    Baptize

    Rap guys

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  18. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Nov 18, 2018
    I get f---ing mad that we were robbed of the guy who made this album dropping even more music, he literally had it all the flow the rhymes the wit to write fictional stories with irony

    When they set the f---ing apartment on fire and the dread kid ejects and Biggie shoots him and as they're on their way out and the fire alarms are going off they notice the cats in ranges double parked by a f---ing hydrant and Biggie and Arizona Ron from Tucson get out with the money themselves f---
     
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  19. Big Dangerous
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    Big Dangerous World Heavyweight Champion

    Nov 18, 2018
    10/10

    Most best music on these two discs than any other hip hop album easily not even debateable end of discussion top 5 album oat I mean I honestly don't know what else to say perfect incredible I've listened to this a million times and it's still great
     
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  20. Buddha
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    Nov 18, 2018
    10/10.

    Biggie is the goat. Ready to Die and Life After Death are both 10/10. Regardless of the filler on LAD, it doesn’t hurt the album enough to knock it down from a 10. All the non-filler tracks are timeless classics in my opinion.

    I still listen to Long Kiss Goodnight almost every single day. Always puts me in a very motivated mood. Like I’m ready to take on the world (in a positive way). Biggie on a RZA beat during RZA’s domination of hip hop production? Yes f---ing please. Legendary song. Aside from just this song though, I listen to biggie all the time. He’s the only artist I truly and unabashedly stan over. Goat.

    For the sake of transparency, this album and ready to die were the soundtracks to my high school years back when I was smoking blunts all day every day chasing tail for the first time as a young man. So my rating is very biased. f--- it.

    Blood rushing, concussions, ain't nothing
    Catch cases, come out fronting
    Smoking something
    Sipping White Russians, b---- in the Benz bumping
    I laced it with the basic
    6 TVs, a system, knocking Mase s---, face it
    We hard to hit
    Guard your s---, 'fore I stick you, for your re-up
    Wipe the pee up
    Lick shots, woke your seed up
    Go in the ashtray, spark the weed up
    Long kiss
     
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