By Anupa MistryGoblin is the post-implosion sophomore record from Odd Future's charismatic lead bully, Tyler, the Creator. For all the supposedly unanimous publicity tailing the L.A.-based troupe around the overzealous, troll-y, cache-cashing Internet, Goblin is hella divisive. Tempering expectations with output is mad hard but the praise and pans help parse the intense, weird, largely self-produced (minus Left Brain's "Transylvania") record. Here's how that debate might play out: Goblin's 18 tracks stretch the runtime too long or MOAR sullen, squandering opuses! Tyler's too whiny, his content too repetitive and entry-level aggro or maybe his rambling, profane, gross-out verses are just prodigiously groomed. Goblin has the Neptunes/Eminem/Wu-Tang Clan/Necro written all over it. Actually, Capt. Obvious, try and conjure Def Jux-y and The Love Below-era Andre 3000-type vibes. Um, Tyler needs to chill with the rapey, calling girls bitches, anti-gay content. No, you chill! Like the creepy shrink narrator, it's all characterization or, "Don't fucking blame me, white America," says Tyler on "Radicals." For real though, Goblin is as funny ("Boppin Bitch"), down-to-earth ("Golden"), fearful and open ("Goblin") as it is juvenile (again, "Boppin' Bitch"), regressive ("Bitch Suck Dick") and maddeningly repetitive. Whatever bits you cull for your stance, Goblin's a blessing, in the form of a dandy-era reprieve helping restore opinion to rap.
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Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-05-12 20:03:00hundreds, if not thousands, of kids here in Canada and across the US are making music like these guys. im not hating cause some of it is catchy but the music media is so out of touch with the underground that the claims of "unique" "amazing" "truly original" just go to show how useless they are. this is cool kids with a necro vibe. aint nothing new here except the masses claiming "they found the hot new thing".
Posted by Anupa On 2011-05-13 11:53:37While I don't deny that there are probably a shit ton of kids out there making music worth listening to, I think your dismissal of Odd Future is on par with that of the "music media." "Cool Kids with a Necro vibe"? Aren't you doing a disservice to the originality of these kids by slapping that lazy label on them? And I don't know about your claim to thousands of hidden talents -- they might be out there, writing boohoo, angst-raps, but are they able to package it as skillfully as OFWGKTA? I'm not so sure about that.
Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-05-16 00:21:58OH SNAP
Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-05-16 21:48:06im doing them a disservice because as i wrote there is nothing original about them, their music or their packaging. anyone who listens to "underground" rap, or whatever you wanna call it, basically not commercial BS, realizes that in about 2 seconds. they got picked out of the barrel cause they make a good media spectacle, thats it, the music has nothing to do with it. if your 16 and like OFWGKTA then i get it, but if you are out of your teens then get real. its the musical version of JackAss and Tyler is Johnny Knoxville...its a circus show....and yes OH SNAP!
Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-05-17 16:23:20There's no such thing as original music.
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