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i like the album, it's not really Kanye's sound though since it sounds like he's trying to follow the Southern based beats but that's what's hot right now. i'm more used to hearing more souful stuff from Kanye but i guess 2 Chainz's influence rubbed off :lol:
 
After a few more listens its growing on me. I think these dudes just set the bar too high with GOOD Friday's.

Peep Game said:
I'm glad the bigghost thing was put on here cause I randomly came across the GFID review of that and was like :rofl: :rofl: so spot on
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Did you see this _'s review of Dedication 4 :lol: :lol: :smh:
 
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Mediocre like Mcdonalds Cheeseburgers


All i know is The chef is "The chef" for one reason this man cooked up the hottest verse on the album

BBQ N BLOW IN THE BACK OF THE CRIB.................SHEEEEEEEEESH
 
NCTwin said:
What's up with the ".1" in some of the song titles on the physical version¿
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Same deal on iTunes, sort of weird.

Also, the title. "Kanye West Presents Good Music Cruel Summer"? Srsly? What was wrong with just "Cruel Summer"?
 
McStrokin said:
The album is fiyah to me. Kanye doesn't just make one form of music for a certain demographic of people. This is the reason why he's so popular. Get over it people. The album was never meant to have 12 songs like Mercy on it. Kanye is in a whole other stratosphere sonically speaking and has been for a while. Everytime dude releases something a hear people complaining about the same sh*t. The album is tight.
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McStrokin said:
The album is fiyah to me. Kanye doesn't just make one form of music for a certain demographic of people. This is the reason why he's so popular. Get over it people. The album was never meant to have 12 songs like Mercy on it. Kanye is in a whole other stratosphere sonically speaking and has been for a while. Everytime dude releases something a hear people complaining about the same sh*t. The album is tight.
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Nah, because it's not like the other songs are so out of the box that a particular demographic just wouldn't get it.  

It's just not that good...
 
A good review I liked out of Brown University

Not-So-Cruel Summer​
By: Dillon O’Carroll​

“Click Clack. Stick Em Up” and there you have it. With 5 words the latest compilation from the nascent G.O.O.D Music crew can be simply and distinctly distilled down to one word, robbery.

Packed full of titans, this album had classic written all over it. With R. Kelly, Raekwon, Jadakiss, Ma$e, Ghostface Killah, and the God MC himself headlining the list of guest features fans had no choice but to be excited. Not to mention the already pack GOOD roster with stars ranging from John Legend to 2 Chaniz. This was damn near a can’t miss. Until that Kanye West showed up and snatched defeat right out of the hands of Taylor Swift. Leaving us fans with a work that is truly Cruel in every sense of the word.

There is a yin and yang to Cruel Summer. It works best when Kanye’s attempt to play God acquiesces to his desire to do what he does best, rap. This desire is best demonstrated in Mr. West’s collaboration with Pusha T and Ghostface Killah on “New God Flow”. Pusha T opens the track with a premeditative flow, reminiscent of his coke rap origins. Touting, “I think it’s good that ‘Ye got a blow dealer/ A hot temper matched with the cold killer.” Whenever Push raps he never strays too far away from his Virginia I-95 route home. If nothing else, we can always count on Push to be honest in his verse, a refreshing certainty lacking all too often from today’s artists. Kanye then takes over bringing it back to his Chicago roots with “hold up I aint tryin to stunt man/but the Yeezys jumped over the jump man.” This bar sums up the delicate balance that is Kanye West. On one end are his grandiose desires and attempts to aggrandize himself to a stature above legend. While at the same time maintaining a witty entendre; an ode to the street savvy that first made him famous. Finally, adding Ghostface Killah pays homage to the Wu-Tang, recognizing that this is not the first compilation album, and if this whole G.O.O.D. Music thing is going to work out, it needs to be more Enter the Wu-Tang. Which is also why he lets Raekwon do his thing on “The Morning”.

The best song on the album is “Clique”. Kanye brings back Hit-Boy, who produced “N**** in Paris” to make the beat for the trio of ‘Ye, Big Sean and “G.O.O.D. Music’s drug dealing cousin” Jay-Z. Hit-Boy, who is currently rap’s best producer, creates a frantic beat rich with real opera choruses that allows all three to flourish. Especially Kanye, who brags about his girlfriend’s sex-tape fame, and lets the C.I.A know they need to quit spending money at Enterprise Rent-a-Car, where everyone has the tools to be their own boss. Tracks like “New God Flow”, “The Morning”, “Mercy”, “Clique”, and “Don’t Like” are when Cruel Summer is at its best. Where the artists feel and sound like they are in unison, competing to have the best verse. Those songs are the iron sharpening iron I expected from Cruel.

Then we are introduced to tracks like “To the World”, “Higher”, “The One”, “Cold”, “Creepers”, “Bliss” and “Sin City” that wreak of the same arrogance that produced that classic *Kanye Shrug* moment. “To the World” features R. Kelly who screams, rather than sings, “The whole world is a couch! B*tch I’m Rick James tonight”, when one thinks of being cruel, R. Kelly is not the artist most people call to mind, outside of that one time…never mind. “Higher” features The Dream saying the word “Baby” in auto tune for a whole 5 seconds. Kanye also brings Ma$e out of retirement to speak on the track. If ‘Ye wanted to pay homage to Bad Boy the same way he did with Wu-Tang, he could’ve picked someone who I can take seriously. When I hear Ma$e I think “Shouldn’t you be at church right now?” On “Sin City” it seems that Kanye didn’t really leave 808’s and Heartbreaks in the past. The only thing that saves the track is the beautiful vocalist, Teyana Taylor, and Cyhi da Prince’s best verse on the album. For the most part, these songs fail to keep the listeners attention weaving and winding off the road. With these tracks, it is clear Kanye is again doing too much.

To put it simply Kanye said it best, “what N***** did in Pairs had ’em hanging off the Eiffel.” Coming of the excellence of his last album, Watch The Throne, listeners expectations were through the roof. Unfortunately for all, Cruel Summer is the long and miserable fatal fall down from that lofty tower into the recycle bin.
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NCTwin said:
What's up with the ".1" in some of the song titles on the physical version¿
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Lol its like when you update iTunes or something. Like updating from 10.0 to 10.1.

Kanye had the nerve to call these song changes software updates. New God Flow.1 
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At first I was like >D


But after a few more listens, I've grown to really like it.

Higher through Bliss is :pimp:

Especially Sin City and Creepers.

:lol: @ Mase though
 
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