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Thread started 04/08/04 10:19am

booyah

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The Slaughterhouse is Prince's rap/hip-hop album

... in a very broad sense.

I've been listening to Musicology and The Chocolate Invasion non-stop, and I decided it was time to use my old NPGMC mp3s to burn the Slaughterhouse album. I was listening to it on the way to work this morning (my 'new' car has an awesome sound system - possibly the best system I have), and it hit me.

Now I know that the people here who are into rap/hip-hop will probably disagree with me, but this album is the furthest Prince will ever go in making a full rap/hip-hop record.

And the sequencing works well. After years of playing around with the NPGMC tracks, I've been pleasantly surprised by how cohesive both The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse sound.

Thoughts on this?

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Reply #1 posted 04/08/04 10:29am

Romance1600

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*shudder*

Prince and hip-hop, it's like ice-cream and battery-acid.

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Reply #2 posted 04/08/04 12:03pm

IstenSzek

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I think it's too much of a grab-bag to be considered a proper "album". Where TCI gets away
with it -slightly-, "Slaughterhouse" just doesn't cut it as a decent album.

The tracks are cool enough, but compared to some of his other albums [take, for instance,
the monolithical rock of cohesiveness, organic flow and experimental toure de force that is
"The Rainbowchildren] it lacks a fluid movement that's strong enough to carry the weight of
the songs into an "album" modus.

nuts

Anywho. I do like "The Chocolate Invasion" as an album this way. Although, as always, I'm
tempted to add songs to it

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Reply #3 posted 04/08/04 12:18pm

JonSnow

i like the Slaughterhouse alot as an album.

It has a very Black Album feel to me.

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Reply #4 posted 04/08/04 3:40pm

Bfunkthe1

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For those who downloaded Slaughter..Is it any different than songs we already have? I downloaded TCI and I enjoy that. Love the sound improvements and music adjustments. Any info?

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Reply #5 posted 04/08/04 5:27pm

KeLo07

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Romance1600 said:

*shudder*

Prince and hip-hop, it's like ice-cream and battery-acid.


Not necessarily Prince wit rap/hip hop wouldn't be that bad. Now if he started singin' Gangsta rap now that's where it'd get crazy & he start dressin' wit baggy pants & R/HH brand name clothing on(big big shirts) naw..can't imagine P doin' that. He would howeva look cute in dem big flight jackets they wear,lolz. & he'd haf2 keep the heels..I mean him in AF1s,Adiddas,Timbz,Jordans,& etc. eek Whoa! anotha new topic idea,lolz. ~1~
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Reply #6 posted 04/08/04 8:29pm

JonSnow

i am really digging the Slaughterhouse. For some reason the songs sound so much better than before in this context, as a full album. I never really cared for any of these songs before, but now - listening to them together as a full CD - they are clicking somehow. I don't know why. But it's good stuff. Very funky. A funky little nasty underground record, like the black album for modern times without the language. Me likes.

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Reply #7 posted 04/09/04 12:14am

jazzvibrator

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& this is an album without ANY BALLADS!!!!

how many previous albums of his can you say that about???

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Reply #8 posted 04/09/04 11:42am

starrbooty

booyah said:

... in a very broad sense.

I've been listening to Musicology and The Chocolate Invasion non-stop, and I decided it was time to use my old NPGMC mp3s to burn the Slaughterhouse album. I was listening to it on the way to work this morning (my 'new' car has an awesome sound system - possibly the best system I have), and it hit me.

Now I know that the people here who are into rap/hip-hop will probably disagree with me, but this album is the furthest Prince will ever go in making a full rap/hip-hop record.

And the sequencing works well. After years of playing around with the NPGMC tracks, I've been pleasantly surprised by how cohesive both The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse sound.

Thoughts on this?


You ever heard the NPG's "Goldnigga" CD? That was dropped back in like 1994 and that is Prince and hip-hop all the way, man.

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Reply #9 posted 04/09/04 12:12pm

JediMaster

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starrbooty said:

booyah said:

... in a very broad sense.

I've been listening to Musicology and The Chocolate Invasion non-stop, and I decided it was time to use my old NPGMC mp3s to burn the Slaughterhouse album. I was listening to it on the way to work this morning (my 'new' car has an awesome sound system - possibly the best system I have), and it hit me.

Now I know that the people here who are into rap/hip-hop will probably disagree with me, but this album is the furthest Prince will ever go in making a full rap/hip-hop record.

And the sequencing works well. After years of playing around with the NPGMC tracks, I've been pleasantly surprised by how cohesive both The Chocolate Invasion and The Slaughterhouse sound.

Thoughts on this?


You ever heard the NPG's "Goldnigga" CD? That was dropped back in like 1994 and that is Prince and hip-hop all the way, man.


Well, except for the fact that Tony M's flow was truly WHACKED! You could argue its hip-hop, sure, but it was atrocious hip hop!

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Reply #10 posted 04/09/04 2:45pm

jillybean

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starrbooty said:



You ever heard the NPG's "Goldnigga" CD? That was dropped back in like 1994 and that is Prince and hip-hop all the way, man.

Tell me, tell me, what am I supposed 2 do?

I frickin' love the song Johnny. Just had 2 add that...

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