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"John Mayer is amongst the best modern-day lyricists, is that a less sensational thing to say?"
"The entire concept was delicious. There is no other word except maybe like fresh, or zest, or like tart."
"To Pimp a Butterfly is considered by many to be one of the best albums of all time."
"That is a 10 out of 10 record. That is a masterpiece."
"Yeah, this is without a doubt the best song in the whole show. It's a genuine banger, a slow seductive waltz that both explains Maria's motives and shows off how powerful and menacing she can be."
"It's not really some passionate type thing, and it's cool that you're like that but that's why I feel like more of the same sound keeps coming out."
"I don't even think they're that great but there's enough of a popular appeal to their music as crazy as it is that I think you can actually consider them classic rock."
"21 Savage on Utopia as a whole was absolutely incredible."
"His album has the best rapping on it that I've heard this year."
"Money Trees... it's aged over the years and I think J-Rock has one of the best features of the decade on this song."
"I can't sit here and drag him for his lyrics when NBA young boy is one of the most popular rappers right now."
"She also has a song called 'Pink Champagne,' which I believe was recorded at the same time, which is an unreleased song. She posted it on her YouTube channel, I think during the 'My Everything' era."
"Nas really perfected his craft as a writer MC and storyteller with it was written."
"Divorce lawyers I shaved my head: absolutely soul-crushing album that deals in topics that were honestly really progressive for 2009."
"It's a good big flawed godly record with some of Kanye's best material in a long time."
"I think rap is just stale as [__] right now."
"The song is far weirder than you ever thought."
"There's no AC/DC album that better captures the spirit of this band, it has a raw edge and frenzied intensity."
"This, to me, feels like TLOP, kind of an erratic TLOP vibe."
"Because Anaconda truly is great, and it’s a feat to sample one of the most recognizable hip-hop songs and not only hold your own on the song, but have it be one of the strongest in your discography."
"It's just so surface level that people aren't actually thinking about the music."
"You Ain't Gotta Lie" - "I'm gonna go with you ain't gotta lie because untitled two is so long."
"Drake is consistently good, he's consistently great, but we know what to expect from Drake, and what he does is always going to be good enough and great enough until somebody comes along and shows people better."
"Man, their songs are awful. Break me off a piece of that funk, that's disgusting."
"Daytona was easily one of the best albums of 2018, if not the best rap album from that year."
"If you were to just start rapping up to the standards of the hip hop mainstream, what makes his music worth arguing over would be gone."
"This album is laser focused, every single track has a point."
"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy... one of the most perfect, sprawling, beautiful albums ever made... contains Kanye's best lyrics, best production... a landmark."
"Music arrangements in Streets of Rage 3 were like adding the right seasoning into a medium-rare steak."
"J is killing this, like that could be 16 Jay Jay fits in a pocket he never seems corny never seems like he's doing too much."
"Despite all this, I think it's an excellent album for what it is, a progressive metal or progressive death metal album."
"I really feel that we're seeing Soken in a whole new light here, those of you that know him from his work in Final Fantasy 14 it's always been good but this I I genuinely feel that Soken like I said could win the Grammy for this."
"This is ironic. What the [__] are you not a believer? This [song] is a banger, quote unquote real musicians have been quiet ever since this came out."
"Comedown Machine is against all odds, The Strokes' best album since Room on Fire."
"Your first [] was classic, your last [] was tragic."
"It's probably my least favorite on the album despite instrumentally being perhaps one of my favorites."
"Thank you very very very much for watching it has been John that's and Jamie the Prophet reacting to first time listening to talking about the [ __ ] incredible to pimp a butterfly by Kendrick Lamar Wow Wow."
"In my view, Vulnicura is Björk's strongest work since Vespertine."
"Tell me the difference between a great album and a classic album."
"He's not saying Kendrick's dead, we're just like... see my thing goes back to the fact that Kendrick has two good albums and one amazing album."
"Richard Kid is whack. That is like, I'm listening to your [], his [] is bad."
"The wall, in my opinion, is the greatest Pink Floyd album ever and one of the greatest albums of all time."
"Jay-Z's verse on 'What's Free', I'm not gonna sit here and fight."
"I thought it was a fantastic track, it really hit, it struck an emotional chord."
"Final bar line is like if you took that old noft approach to doing right by a body of music and applied it to the entire history of Final Fantasy."
"Humans are complex enough to object to lyrics while still enjoying the sound of a song."
"Enjoy the Silence: Among the finest prose that Gore has ever penned."
"It's their least radio-friendly release to date and, in my opinion, their best and most ambitious release since 'Viva La Vida.'"
"It might not be your favorite song, but it's certainly understandable as to why it was such a smash hit worldwide."
"OK Computer is the closest Radiohead has come to perfection."
"This [___] music now, now we have to hear what he's talking about."
"Jeff successfully comes together with a punk Opus on this one."
"May's theme gate keeps S minus. It's very difficult to make somebody happy when you talk about 'Disaster of Passion'."
"Gold Lewis Dickinson's theme is sternly in S plus tier. It's a great song, it lacks a lot of emotion."
"Rappers think they dope but they ain't nothin' but some hypocrites."
"One [ __ ] song and the reason why, in my opinion, is that because there are tons of industry-backed and supported songs that are way [ __ ] worse than Friday."
"The vocal performance... really captivating... hold off on... the rhythmic elements."
"It's a very punchy, very fun, very thoughtful hip-hop track that does being lyrical and does rapping proficiently well, you know, it's not just like that generic spiritual lyrical miracle, you know, kind of crap."
"So in the comments below, let us know some albums you really don't like at all except for that one really great song that's on there."
"A fantastic track, certainly a very good album and another insight into David Bowie's fierce willingness to push the boundaries."
"Katy Perry sounded really, really good singing this song."
"There should be nothing that would overshadow [the sermon], and sometimes you see that in music today."
"Too tough to die may have been ignored in the 80s but no record since the first four sounds fresher today."
"Aquemini is... one of the best hip-hop albums of this era."
"That's good. I know what you're saying and you know that's possible but I'm not trying to diminish the quality of King's Disease because it is a good record."
"Flight is the best rapper in California, shouldn't be on the charts."
"Overall I'm feeling solid seven it's a good lesson I just think that they have better probably the weakest thing I've heard from them so far."
"Even if you don't love Red Velvet, the song... is just so stunning and so beautiful."
"This score is bombastic, epic, and something else entirely."
"I feel like we've reached the point in hip-hop culture and music where someone can drop a masterpiece and we call it the Illmatic."
"Master of Puppets is a metal masterpiece, a straight up bravado of cascading guitars."
"Saint Anger, for all its faults, kept them together long enough to survive."
"It is an artless, ugly, and creatively exhausted album."
"The only thing you can really say for it is that it kept the band together."
"But you know what? When a year can give you Elton John and Pete funk, there's no making excuses for turds like the ones I'm about to reveal to you."
"Now, for the record, I think 'Convoy' is many, many times worse than 'Disco Duck'. It's just this god-awful, horrible mess of hokey music and incomprehensible trucker lingo."
"Game is a dope rapper. There's some very good bars that are laced throughout this diss track."
"Andre 3000 stops the world anytime he has anything to say on a track."
"What is BTS's best album? In this essay, I will interrogate the value, potential, and shortcomings of stan criticism."
"Overall, I love how the last two tracks were connected and were two of the best tracks on the album."
"A staple in hip-hop, I have to go with perfect on this."
"Ambitions as a Ridah by Tupac... I do believe it is a perfect song."
"Shook Ones Part II by Mobb Deep... it's absolutely in the perfect rating."
"Critics called folklore Taylor's best album yet."
"Folklore is easily the best thing Taylor has ever done in her life ever lyrically."
"Yo, Cordae, I really like the flip you did of Cole's 1985. I thought especially for someone in your age and I hope that doesn't sound weird, like, you sound very wise, you know what I'm saying?"
"It's the epitome of the perfect concept record."
"Cash's haunting and gut-wrenching rendition of 'hurt'."
"This album to me is like the definitive example of that sound and I think it is Green Day at their very best."
"This song seems out of place. You know, we had talked about Sasson screwed in that Kanye song that was out of place."
"Best vocals in any of the kpop that I've heard."
"Initial thoughts: This is why you wait five years for a Kendrick album. It felt heavy and personal."
"It's a step up from Kill This Love, and I really appreciated the song."
"Her vocals are so stunning, I think she has such a sweet voice."
"Juice WRLD's 'Legends Never Die' is basically a better take on acid rap."
"Vocals are always good. If this song is a good indicator of where upcoming work is going, I may like this a little bit better."
"It's definitely one of the best albums of the year."
"I promise you if you have judgments after just one listen, go back and dive because this is growing on me with every listen."
"This is one of his best features ever. It's better than what he did on 'Praise God' for 'Donda,' in my opinion."
"I think it's probably Drake's most toxic album."
"What defines them are their killing points, the killing points in those songs... every song since their debut, the killing point is not just good, not just great, it is earth shattering."
"Combines a sugary sweet hook with clever verses."
"Is he in his feelings? I like the track though, the diss track. I have to say, Push went deep."
"I've as we said before we missed the old Kanye it's true."
"This album has absolutely lived up to the hype."
"Easily one of the most hard-hitting, tortured, eye-widening, and harrowing projects this year."
"I think it's one of the best R&B albums in the last 10 years."
"Her voice is so unique. This debut was one of my favorites this year. I would put it in the S tier for sure."
"Money doesn't equate to quality. Britney Spears sold millions, but that doesn't mean she's the epitome of musical talent."
"The list of rappers that made two classics in a row is super short."
"The production is hot garbage and that the music itself is energetic but let me be clear when I say hot garbage I mean that classic death metal hot garbage."
"Hip hop died, people can't rap. Mumble rap in particular, I can't understand what you're saying."
"Ready to Die is the most complete rap album because you do have Biggie talking within certain tropes within the gangster rap field but he's flipping it on its head..."
"However well-intentioned it may have been, this cover tries to genre hop and fails miserably."
"Eigor is self-described as an experimental album."
"2010 mbdtf um yeah I think it has to be My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."
"Lyrically the content has gotten so stale to me because I just don't [__] care about his diamonds and his guns and his girl."
"Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang, Gucci [] does not suck. This [] is fire."
"This is like an anthem to being financially irresponsible and it's kind of amazing."
"I still can't imagine how anyone willingly would play the song without the intention of laughing at it."
"Overall, really good vocal decision making, and yeah, there's nothing much else that I would really say about this apart from I kind of want to see what else she can do."
"Sour, sour, love Olivia Rodrigo, this is the 9.5, it's a 9.5 and it feels right next to Life Support, nobody's listening, I mean these are just, these are albums that are nearly perfect."
"Thank you, next really and truly felt like the high point for Ariana."
"It's a very wiry, intense piece of art punk that I thought was pretty fantastic."
"The drums in this, it's just so [__] good, dude."
"This fake emo Broken Side is real emo... if you don't know what I'm talking about go read the comments."
"Some people consider White Light/White Heat to be the band in its purest form."
"With the exception of Jimmy Cooks, they all feel like a song we've already heard before, and that's facts."
"Kendrick Lamar did not hold back on what he really thinks about mumble rappers."
"Some of y'all have got to stop blaming auto-tune for quote-unquote ruining music."
"What did you guys think about Purple Kiss's Meme? I personally think it's fantastic, it's powerful, it's clean."
"You've never paid attention to the lyrics to this song, they're amazing, hilariously awful."
"This album from Travis Scott, we've been waiting for so long, I think the only thing I'm really disappointed in is how much hype it received."
"Challenges the boundaries of what bad music can be."
"It's actually impressive how gloriously bad this record is."
"This pretty much sounds like a really old stale 2000s era faux rock-and-roll kind of garage rock tune."
"I mean, it's a short, sweet little easy pill to swallow and I thought it was pretty fantastic."
"Plastic Hearts was well received with many critics commending the independence and vulnerability displayed on the album and Miley's ability to continuously reinvent herself in her music."
"Juvenile Hell feels like a demo in a lot of ways."
"This LP is a long LP. I've heard a lot of negative stuff about it, but I've also heard some very positive stuff about it from people whose music opinions I take very seriously."
"I liked the album. It's very straight forward gospel music, like, safe gospel music."
"Big facts does not mean that you're killing it because you're rapping fast."
"When I think Cardi B I think top 10 worst artists of the 21st century."
"Power Trip is great. It actually stands on its own again because of the distinctive ideas with the distortion throughout the entire song, even with the beat switches."
"Chris Brown literally went harder than half of these socalled you know male rappers out out here he made no apologies he did not give a [__] what came out of his mouth he kept it all the way real"
"Chris Brown went hard that was probably one of the hardest diss tracks and he's probably not going to get as much props like you know like if it was Drake or Kendrick or Cole but he he he dropped he dropped he did the damn thing"
"It's very rare that I get a comment where someone's like, 'Oh Olivia Rodrigo's music doesn't do it for me but I did find this new artist who I really like.' That would be more helpful and more constructive."
"Whole Lotta Red is a 9 out of 10 and a top 10 hip-hop album."
"The imagery he conjures on tracks like Wesley's theory blacker the berry how much a dollar cost you with him breaking down in the second half east display Kendrick and his lyrical best."
"The flows Kevin abstract brings on this track are incredible."
"Drake pretty much addresses everything down to very minuscule things."
"I saw everyone killing that and saying Kendrick's got to come harder than that."
"When people say oh this is the greatest verse of all time I'm like that's how we've been rapping for three decades."
"It's still an album that had some gems on it."
"Eternal attack is a little bit long it doesn't have enough bangers some of these songs just really melt together without standing out on their own it doesn't quite justify how big it is."
"Music is everything. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
"They are one of the most versatile bands that rock has ever had."
"Jada bar for bar, I think he's as good as any rapper in the game lyrically."
"Nas is the goat, oh my God, what a rapper."
"This is the best rock album of the 2010s."
"But listen the reason why I respect it Logan is because this top five got wrangled anyway and like I said it doesn't matter what the top five is because all love they're all bangers every tune is a bang yeah we agree make some noise."
"...the base is definitely very like nice and low on this on this track that's awesome."
"Overall, man, I really enjoyed Fearless."
"If you don't rap to the beat, you trash to me."
"My first Redemption request is for Body Count. 'There Goes the Neighborhood.' This sound represents the band much more than 'Cop Killer,' which is more punk style than metal. It's a song with good transitions, good musicianship, and good vocals."
"The lyrics was tough, her remake of that was beautiful, the backup vocals everything elevated in my opinion fire."
"I did not think the soundtrack was going to be like that."
"This opening line is a declaration that Prince came to play."
"Chime is one of the best hip-hop records of the 2010s with the same genre-blending fierceness, incredible wit, challenging production, and insane catchiness."
"The music was so trash tonight, I was ready to go."
"All Too Well is way too overplayed and overrated."
"You're in love is one of her best songs."
"This song is easily one of her best to date."
"I think it was strong, but I think it's a big ballad but it has a little weak."
"The music is one that doesn't have much progression to it and it's just based around the guitar, bass string, and drum sound."
"This song is so liberating... it introduces this new sound from Taylor with such force."
"Blank Space is a very hard song to recreate... but she did a damn good job embodying it."
"This song just transports you to a different place emotionally... it feels like a fantasy."
"I love that she referenced those themes again... it's just a great addition to the album."
"Some of the most emotional guitar playing you'll ever hear ever yep and honestly and I'm going to say it right now it's better than the original."
"October Rust by Type O Negative defies typical metal conventions by offering haunting and gorgeous melodies that make every day feel like Halloween."
"LP1 truly deserves all the praise it's received as it's undeniably a landmark album for the genre."
"The Cure's 'Pornography' is a challenging and painful listen, but very worth the effort."
"The music is objectively [ __ ] bad, their instruments are Out Of Tune."
"Dungeon Wolf genuinely believe that their music, as sloppy and as horribly made as it is, is going to be responsible for the next revolution in rock music."
"Russian Roulette by Triumvirate: 'Every time the next track comes on, you're waiting for something to hit you in the face.'"
"The music in this movie tries a million percent more than it has to."
"It's not a top tier song on the album, but it's not a bottom tier either."
"...the brand of sacrifice album... I think that that was an awesome debut album... it just checks all Brad's boxes."
"It's painfully boring and I don't want to ever hear trap and country music fused again."
"This song is terrible, but sounds amazing."
"Uh, unpopular rap opinion: After that last album, ain't no one rapping on the level of Conway."
"Unpopular rap opinion: J. Cole is mid as [__] to me."
"Uh, unpopular rap opinion: MF DOOM and LP are easily top five."
"Unpopular opinion: The Waters is the best rap mixtape of all time."
"Not spoken about enough artist: Redman."
"Some songs will be better than others, some will be more memorable."
"I think the songwriting is an improvement over Big Generator and Union."
"I thought the music was amazing in this I know."
"...I remember thinking at the time ah there's a little too much piano and it's like it's not quite the big thunderous Nazareth I really like..."