Official album/song/video review thread

[PHX]

Song: Seeing Things
Artist: Bizzy Bone
Grade: B+

I like a lot of Bizzy solo stuff and this is up there as one of my favorites. Awesome beat with a great sounding bassline, and brings it with his classic flow. Really good song overall.

 

[PHX]

Artist: French Montana
Song: Love You Till You're Gone
Grade: A-

The beat alone gives this the grade I gave it as I love the beat. I think French did a solid job on his verses for this so overall pretty good song to me.

 

[Reid]

In this moment-The Gun Show

I'm not too in the kind of rock/metal where they scream alot, but this is pretty good. it's not their best song, not even the best on the album, but it's solid.

b-

 

[PHX]

Artist: Twista ft Raekwon
Song: The Heat
Grade: A+

Song is called the heat and that is exactly what it is as it's one of my favorites songs right now. No id did awesome on the beat & Twista's flow on this is crazy esp the 1st verse. Raekwon of course does good as well.

 

[PHX]

Artist: Nipsey Hussle
Song: Keys 2 Tha City
Grade: A

If nothing else can't see how nobody could not enjoy this beat let alone the fact that Nipsey does great on this track. Makes me look forward to his marathon mixtape.

 

[Kairi]

Artist: Jamie Foxx
CD: Best Night of My Life
Grade: B-

I thought this was a solid effort by Mr. Foxx, and I liked just about every song on the album. I'm still not going to buy it, but that's just because I don't buy cd's much anymore. None the less a good album and I think anyone who likes rnb should at least give it a listen.

 

[PHX]

Artist: Nipsey Hussle
Album/Mixtape: The Marathon
Grade: B+

1. Love?: Nice start off to the mixtape with a nice beat. I think a little more should have been added to the beat but still good. Grade: C+
2. Key 2 Tha City: One of my favorite songs in all of hip hop right now. Totally love this track from the beat to his flow. Had this at Grade A at first but bumping it to A+ Grade: A+
3. Mr. Untouchable: Classic modern day westcoast sound here. Kokane on the hook was a perfect fit. Grade: B+
4. Blue Laces: Love the beat first off on this and again Nipsey brings it with his cool flow. At this point my 2nd favorite track of the mixtape. Grade: A
5. A Million: At first thought he was just gonna use the premo a Million beat but ended up being a flipped version of it which sounds great. Grade: A-
6. Top Down: At first seemed like it was gonna be a skippable track but ended up being better than I thought it would be. Grade: C
7. Young Rich & Famous: Samples Big in the hook I noticed which he did a good job with. Thought this track could have been better though. Grade: C-
8. U Don't Got a Clue: Don't really like how he goes "Drake" with the harmonizing at the end of this song. Otherwise it's solid. Grade: C-
9. 7 Days A Week: Nice little short track here but once again with the drake harmonizing shit. Don't get why he is doing it but w/e. Grade: B-
10. Late Nights & Early Mornings: Sounds like something that could be a radio single if it was longer. Solid song here. Grade: B-
11. I Be Killin Um: Believe this is a Fab beat he is rapping on here which is a good choice. He did good on this short track. Grade: B
12. Call From The Bank: Different type of beat he usually raps on but he did good on it. Grade: B-
13. Grindmode: For some reason just cannot get into this song that much. Probably the hook or something idk. Had kind of grown on me more times I've listened to but still don't love it. Grade: C-
14. Dreamin: Really enjoy the beat on this one. Good chop job on the beat and Nipsey's vocals go perfect with it. Grade: B+
15. The Crown: This really should have been a 3-4 minute track. Could have been a really great song. Grade: B
16. The Dresser: Don't really sometime care for when rappers rap on very popular beats that I've already heard a lot and the original rapper did great on it. He still did good on it anyways but not something I felt I just had to listen to. Grade: C-
17. One Take 3: Fan of the other one takes he done and this is really really good. Love the beat choice here and don't feel like he half assed it on this track at all. Grade: A
18. I Don't Give a Fucc: One of the best tracks on the whole mixtape. Really like it. Grade: A
19. Tonight is my night: For some reason this and the last song are put together. But anyways good way to end the mixtape. Grade: B

 

[PHX]

Artist: Lupe Fiasco
Song: The Show Goes On
Grade: B+

Good single for the Lasers album I thought. Not his best song or anything but I like it. Beat is pretty different from what he usually raps on but he makes it work.

 

[PHX]

Artist: Curren$y
Album: Pilot Talk 2
Grade: A

Been getting into his music some lately and really enjoy this album. Great production and he did a good job with it. "Micheal Knight" might be my favorite track on it.

 

[Kairi]

jennifer hudson
"I remember me" album
B+

i thought this was a very solid album, love how it shows jennifer can do ballads but upper tempo music as well.

 

[PHX]

Artist: Wiz Khalifa
Album: Rolling Papers
Grade: D+

One of my biggest gripes with Wiz since he blew up is that he seems to rely too much on talking about weed and comes off as half assing some songs and not using his lyrical ability that he has shown earlier in his career. Those things came out on this album basically which makes this an album that I don't see ever being on my mp3/ipod. Some songs I like on there like Roll Up, Star Of The Show and Get your shit. Not a totally terrible album but not really something worth going out of your way to listen to either.

 

[Kairi]

Album K.I.S.S.
Artist Mya
Grade C

i didn't think it was anything fantastic but i thought it didn't suck, so i'm giving her a C

 

[Kairi]

artist : lady gaga
cd: born this way
grade: d-

i just did not like it at all, the d- is being nice

 

[Kairi]

album - 4

artist beyonce

well leaking 3 weeks early didn't make me like it anymore. overall the album had 3 songs on it that i liked.

grade - D

 

[Kairi]

video - edge of glory
artist - lady gaga
grade - C

for once i actually liked the fact that gaga did not go all out on a video, it was just her and what appeared to be the streets of i'd say ny (?) so i'm giving it an average grade.