dj quik poll: blaqkout vs. book of david

this is like the great 'new amerykah 1 vs new amerykah 2' debate of 2010

who's louis jagger

david drake

Just listened to Book of David. This guy is all right by me.

"it's such a spiteful album"

I dont really get this from BoD on a whole. It has a couple spiteful tracks that are right up front, but its still pretty much just normal Quik throughout. BlaQKout has Fuck Y'all after all.

who is furnace mane

who is joey joe joe junior shabadoo?

jay blanchard

"Killer Dope" is prob. my favorite track from BoD: love that dumb trumpet.

Still cant get enough of those damn drums on Fire & Brimstone, and that heeeeeeeummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hypnotic hum in the background.

"I'm a Mercedes man, a late 80's man
I guess you could call me the perennial ladies man...

I'm a precious stone, wrapped in parchment paper
Round brilliant cut, shootin' ????????????????
I'M A DIGNITERY, you're a lowly begga
Why don't you pull your plug, you stupid negga"

Can anyone fill in that blank? Love that verse.

"it's such a spiteful album"

I dont really get this from BoD on a whole. It has a couple spiteful tracks that are right up front, but its still pretty much just normal Quik throughout. BlaQKout has Fuck Y'all after all.

― Scotty Magee, Thursday, December 1, 2011 6:38 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i think this is right but having spent less time with bod these tracks really jump out in my mind.

They are 2 of the best tracks on it.

Both followed by ladies jams, natch.

Cream n ya Panties is probably my favorite produced beat of the last 5 years.

Deej otm about these being hard to stack against each other. BoD has more in common with Trauma and Under Tha Influence which I rate all about the same (2nd tier).

The production on BlaQKout is so much fun. The whole project feels like a weird ass mistake, in a good way of course.

who is deej itt?

Can anyone fill in that blank? Love that verse.

― Scotty Magee, Thursday, December 1, 2011 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

jagermeister

deej is jjjjs right

sandbox screen name reshuffle is so confusing :/

voted bod, the production is so great and definitely not a step backward, it's all in the details.

who r u furnace mane??

sandbox screen name reshuffle is so confusing :/

― furnace mane, Friday, December 2, 2011 12:26 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

still dont know who this is

Furnace UCA Coil Mane

btw Quik revealed the blanked out name from "Killer Dope" in his Pitchfork freestyle thing. It's some guy who works for Interscope

I dont really get this from BoD on a whole. It has a couple spiteful tracks that are right up front, but its still pretty much just normal Quik throughout. BlaQKout has Fuck Y'all after all.

― Scotty Magee, Thursday, December 1, 2011 6:38 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i mean there are def some palate cleansers ("luv of my life", "real women", boogie till you conk out") but even songs like "poppin" and "nobody" and "hydromatic" are like one big middle finger

i mean i know quik has always had that attitude but it seems pronounced on BoD in a lot of places

next poll : fuck yall or nobody ?

nobody for the suga free verse

i'm rev

"The Appeal" was my favorite album closer of 2009: love how relaxed but majestic it sounds.

Book of David for me, but it's really like comparing two high quality cuisines.

i love Kurupt and the songs on Blaqkout are hella dope, but Book of David has Quik giving off this aire of being in complete control, like he's in the zone for the entire record. "Ghetto Rendezvous" just cuts to the bone...

and the groove/hook on "Real Women"

ill probably start defending whichever one seems like it's losing at some point. each of these records do very different things

haha, yes. Having a hard time deciding. Might just be an atm decision.

"i mean i know quik has always had that attitude but it seems pronounced on BoD in a lot of places"

Yeah maybe a little more than normal, but I still wouldn't classify this as a spiteful album. Semantics, idk? The fact that it follows such a buoyant and bouncy album definitely makes it *seem* more subdued.

I enjoy Blaqkout more but there is something about how personal BoD feels that really gets to me. Also 'Ghetto Rendezvous' might be the coldest track I've ever heard.

The Book of David is a very good (if overlong) album but it doesn't quite have the riotous energy that makes Blaqkout a great one. Blaqkout benefits from it brevity as well, there's barely a wasted moment on there.

Thanks for this thread, btw. I prob never would've heard Book of David otherwise, and it's really great.

we r here 4 u

on first listen I'd rate BoD higher than Blaqkout but yeah its such a different animal

otoh oh look another phoned-in Ice Cube verse

yeah that cube verse was pretty weak gotta say

(your boy) KK brings it though and all jon b's hooks are nice too

Yeah was disappointed in that Cube verse. Still bummed that AMG or Hi-C isnt on it.

I like the "You a genius" "No, you a genius" bit

Cube's (apparently entirely unironic) reuse of that green/bill bixby line is just sad.

LOVE LOVE LOVE BOTH OF THESE FOR ALL TIME
DONT KNOW WHAT I WILL VOTE FOR YET THO

cube's entire presence is worth it for the exchange that he & quik have at the end

I'm sayin

The only words I know on this album are the sample of the British dude enthusing about "West Coast America."

you know where that sample is from?

No -- I tried to look it up but couldn't find anything.

i've always assumed it was malcolm mclaren. if not dude sounds just like him.

Even that wasn't prime Cube quality but he was actually saying something for once.

yeah he has been so so bad for years now, its sort of flabbergasting. he just does not give a shit.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, December 2, 2011 5:14 PM (1 hour ago)

He probably only raps as an attempt to keep his street cred.

― Scotty Magee, Friday, December 2, 2011 5:20 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

dunno how well that's working out for him tbh

he obviously doesn't need the money

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, December 2, 2011 5:21 PM (56 minutes ago)

and yet...the coors light commercial

haha waht I missed that

dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2LaVHZcr3s
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_9jIsXp8sQQ

rmde

Embarrassing.

I kind of like the Bun B verse, but someone on here referred to it as "Dr Seuss rap" or something, which - I have to admit - is a funny line.

that was me ^_^

Ha - I still think of that whenever I listen to that song.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Still dont know how to vote for this

i woulda let this run later but i was kinda like "eh, ilx will be back up in no time!"

listened to both of them pretty recently gotta go with blaqkout just because it feels so infectiously playful and unpredictable, even if it's actually deceptively serious in the same way book of david is deceptively fun

"even if it's actually deceptively serious in the same way book of david is deceptively fun"

I like that.

yeah, good line

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Wanted a tie :/

kind of not surprised, the record that took a few more risks ends up being more memorable i think. i probably agree w/ these results