Track-by-track review of Til The Casket Drops – The Clipse
Freedom – What? Oh, I’m on track two already. Nothing worth mentioning about this track, NEXT!
Rating: ?/5 Don’t even remember hearing it
Popular Demand (Popeyes) - The beat makes this song, hands down the best of the album. Lyrics? Them coming back aka a new album and not in VA anymore.
Rating: 4.5/5
Kinda Like a Big Deal – Cars, money, hmm I think the title of the song explains the lyrics better than me. Lyrical wonder that is Kanye West, “a girl in special ed” and “taking it to the max like TJ.” What’s that you say, you aren’t going to listen to it anyway? Eh, I can’t blame you. This track could have been made by anyone.
Rating: 2/5
Showing Out – hmm same topics as Kinda Like a Big Deal, difference is Pharrell is on the hook and the hook is a lot better.
Rating: It’s alright maybe a 2.5/5
I’m Good – Same topic for the third time, only difference is the beat is more pop sounding. Again Pharrell on the hook. If you don’t like his singing voice then you will hate this track as he is layered throughout the verses too. Lyric sample “girl’s slant their eyes, we call them samurais (hya~!!)” for that sound effect alone this track lost .5
Rating: 2.5/5
There was a Murder – Song about a murder at a coke house and snitching. Meh, I don’t like Kobe’s Rastafarian singing, so I don’t like this song at all.
Rating: 1/5 I skip it
Door Man – what’s that a song about coke and money? “You ain’t seen paper like this” You mean my receipt for buying this album for Popular Demand and Life Change, you are right, I “ain’t seen paper like this.”
Rating: 2/5
Never Will It Stop – within 10 seconds “you ain’t counting paper like us.” You have to hand it to them, that is quite a good segway between songs. Coke, a hotel 3way, money AGAIN. Darker sounding this go round. (I hate that phrase)
Rating: 2.5/5
All Eyes On Me – The club banger since it has Keri Hilson on the hook. Call me a douche, but I prefer the demo version with Pharrell singing instead of her. The whole song is about going out on a Friday night and getting broads because you have money. Doesn’t that mean you are a John and they are tricks?
Rating: 2.5/5 I can see this being a big single
Counseling – N*E*R*D! Actually, it’s a Clipse song but the beat is pure N*E*R*D. Ddominated by Pharrell and whomever the random r&b girl is. Basically about girls and images in your head when you see them. The way Skateboard P says “images in my head” sounds a little weird. Yeah actually. Three minutes about sleeping with tons of girls while you decide which one you want and covering your traces.
Rating: 2/5
Champion – This is their “don’t sells drugs, that’s not what life is about.” Talks about getting your kids in church and “I thought life was a bad b____ , bad car. Life is about your kids watching Madagascar.” This is followed by an in-depth description of the car the kids are watching Ben Stiller in. Elephant in the room, you both got famous off of music about Coke.
Rating: 3/5
Footsteps – Hey remember There was a Murder? Yeah! I loved that Rastafarian part. Me too! Let’s have someone else do a Rastafarian voice and then autotune it. I didn’t even listen to the rap part.
Rating: 2.5/5
Life Change – KENNA! I’m biased so it is already a 3. This is similar to Champions but catchier and better lyrics. Well, there is their now infamous lyric “now I’m back on board due to the lord’s GPS.” I don’t even know how to feel about that. It just seems wrong.
Rating: 4/5
Total 33/60 (5 points deducted from total since Freedom got a ? rating)
If you hear Popeye and Life Change you can scrap the rest of the album.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
A solar The Clipse of the heart
Posted by Bu~chan at 2:35 PM
Labels: review, Track-by-track
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