Lol but there's also those that think it's dope ass production choices and him showing he's lyrically versatile enough to give trap beats the proper treatment. I don't see an issue with saying people don't get it. There's plenty of artists and albums that folks love and praise that I don't care for. I have no problem saying "I don't get it"
Oh man, you gotta give that A Good Night in the Ghetto tape a spin, that was one of my favorite projects that came out that year and still finds a way into my summer rotation every year
There's always stans that give hot garbage a pass because they can't admit that something they hoped was going to be amazing turns out not to be so. He didn't come out and make this post because it's getting praised. And all he did was prove he's not versatile enough rap over trap beats multiple times on this project.
I think Ice likes it because he is a casual Griselda fan that really just loves trap (check his twitter and you'll see the wild music he thinks is fire) and this worked for him. You can even hear Parks questioning his ranking somewhat backhandedly when he first starts saying shit (Parks much more of a Griselda fan/stan and has been forever and of course has worked on the boards for previous Griselda projects)
Ahh there we have it lol. Well I'm not a Gunn stan and I like it, and I've also seen quite a few "I don't know much about Westside Gunn but I'm fucking with this album"/"I'm not the biggest Westside Gunn fan but this is fire" posts so i don't think that's true for everybody. I've also seen Gunn making plenty of posts just like this one complaining about the same type of stuff regardless of how much praise he gets lol. I mean the very clip he posted is his album getting some major praise.
"That's because you don't get it. It's called ignorance. If you had the ability to grasp it, then you'd understand the greatness"
I took that as just a paraphrase of what is meant when people say that others "don't get it" concerning something. And IMO, that's a cop out when any musician says that. It's music, not astro physics."That's because you don't get it. It's called ignorance. If you had the ability to grasp it, then you'd understand the greatness"
Damn he went off like this?
Ohhh. Ok. Well that's a lot different than "Everybody won't get it and that's fine", imo, and I don't really know how it can be taken as that, but hey like Dead C said we all interpret things differently.
I hear what you're saying, and I've absolutely had records in my life that I didn't like at first and they eventually grew on me, but I've never felt it was because the artist was doing something I "didn't get" as if there's some mystery to it. I've had the "now I get it" moment with lyrics many times, but not with the composition of a record concerning production choices. And maybe that's just a vernacular thing for how we all use/interpret the term "not getting it" differently and in different contexts. I will say Gunn is correct though, because I "don't get" why he chose so many beats he is wholly incapable of rapping over, although I've never listened to a Gunn project for his own lyrical prowess. And I'll leave alone whatever Stove God was trying to accomplish on 1989.
Well that quote wasn't so much in reference to what Gunn said but rather addressing the idea of music being equated to "astro physics" in order to "not get it".
Mine was Cudi dropping Speeding Bullet 2 Heaven after Indicud and Satellite Flight
