Many would agree that the way in which an artist goes about promoting their album is just as important as the entire recording process. I mean, whats the point of making dope music if nobody knows about it??
There have been many different album promotions over the years, from 50's pledge to quit rap if he sold less than Kanye, to Mr West himself's ground-breaking weekly free music fix through G.O.O.D Fridays. However none more peculiar than Game's recent social media tyrant - throwing disses at almost everybody who's anybody in the hip-hop world at the moment.
Labelling Kanye and Jay Z '#Watch The Squirrels' and then calling Jay impotent were quite mere, most just brushed them off. However ''Uncle Otis'' managed to create quite a stir. Frank Ocean, Jay and Ye, Kreayshawn (she got MURDERDED.), Lil' Wayne, Marc Anthony, Wiz and Amber Rose to name a few. Most have heard the song by now.
So, where did this leave Game? As the talking point two weeks from his release.
Mission accomplished.
Or did it backfire? Many people didn't feel it, including me. I mean, dissing Watch The Throne... give respect where it's deserved. So, fair to say we all were expecting VERY big things for The R.E.D Album.
It starts incredibly well, the newest Dr. Dre protege Kendrick Lamar's spaz in ''The City'' is incredible, ''Drug Test'' goes hard, and the definite standout track on the album ''Martians Vs Goblins'' explodes in your ears. As well as creating 20 or 30 new beef opportunities. ''Good Girls Go Bad'' w/ Drake, ''Red Nation'' w/ Weezy, ''Paramedics'' w/ Jeezy all top quality bangers. But can you see the trend here? They are all features.
Game's 'The R.E.D Album' is a quality LP, yes it does live up to all of his ridiculous hype (only just, he did talk alot of shit), but mainly through all of his collaborations. ''Born In The Trap'' hovwever is one exception to his mediocre solo efforts- hits hard thanks to DJ Premier.
So... if you're tossing up whether its worth the download or not, its a no brainer- give it a hit. I mean, what you got to lose? A bit of bandwidth? 20 bucks? oops.. backspace, who am I kidding, you won't buy it.
Tyler's verse on Martians vs. Goblins... "Bruno Mars is still sucking dick and f-cking male butts
ReplyDeleteIn the same closet that Tyler Perry gets clothes from"
so satisfying hearing that.
Great review, mind you I still haven't listened to the entire album yet. But I did listen to Hoodmorning, which was mixed strangely in my opinion. I still think Rough should've been put into this album - Game kills it + Yelawolf...Hoodmorning came across as a fun playful lyrical mixtape so I thought his track Rough didn't belong there, it goes harddd.