I recently picked up this reissue after giving up on finding an original pressing and agree on its quality. Also, I definitely prefer Labcabin over Bizarre Ride. I love the darker tone of Labcabin in contrast to Bizarre Ride (similar to De La Is Dead vs. 3 Feet High).
And I love the jazzy, lowkey R&B kinda sound of Labcabincalifornia too! Like it has that semi neo-soul, groove-theory like feel with that East-Coast production! I think Bizarre Ride II and Labcabincalifornia are equal for me! Can't choose between the two! I love them both so much!
Yaaaaas Queen! I love that album and imagine mosh pitting in your room to ‘Hard In Da Paint’!
It’s meeeee!
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I feel your pain. I was supposed to see Hayley Williams live in June.It’s meeeee!
I miss moshpitting! @gaporter - I had tickets to a booked out 100 Gecs concert that was suppose to happen this year in June! Me and a few friends were really excited! The concert sold out on the day and I knew the crowd would’ve been crazy and fun!
I really want them to take my money for Redman Muddy Waters. That album is perfect
If you've listened to any mainstream rap in the last decade, you'd definitely hear the influence. If you're automatically saying it would be a hard pass though, I take it you don't (and that's perfectly fine). Around the late 2000's - early 2010's, there was a huge shift in the direction of rap. Lex Luger, who produced majority of Flockaveli, created a new orchestral sound for the trap subgenre (beats like BMF, Hard in da Paint, HAM) which brought the genre to the mainstream, and a lot of other producers started trying to replicate the sound. The entire 808 Mafia production crew ended up growing from originally Lex and Southside to TM88, Fuse, Tarentino amongst many others and rappers from Gucci, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Meek Mill, Future, Young Thug, and Travis Scott frequently featured these producers on their tapes. Artists like Chief Keef have also molded their sound around the style that Waka popularized. The entire south started to really blow up and a lot of the production style as well as the "loud, in-your-face delivery" you hear on Flockaveli can still be heard in today's mainstream releases.
Oh shit why do I keep mixing Waka & Keef up. Im really clueless on this part of trap history
If this album is responsible for popularizing that sound, it is an important record, because it ruined rap. That is the most despicable sound in the history of rap in my opinion.
Every time I hear the words "Waka Flocka Flame" it immediately puts the Rap God lyrics & beat into my head lolagree that this just isn’t my jam in terms of rap styles. I like some trap, the old schoolers, I can get down with some Future, I like Rick Ross mainly bc of his voice I think (though I haven’t picked up the record). But otherwise not into it... thanks earlier to the explanation of his, and his producers influence.
also - wtf kind of name is Waka Flocka Flame?
