Friday, June 04, 2004
lil flip - u gotta feel me screwed and chopped -- yeah flip has the best voice ever to hear slowed down, according to my top ten (if i had to make the reverse list now, cam'ron would be the number one worst of all time. he sounds terrible on this). take twenty percent off and everything i love about him is exaggerated to just right, the sleepy punchlines drawn out, goodnatured rumble voice, all the weird rhymemaking wordstretching/shrinking, whatever. but if you fucking suck at slowing down records, you're going to make him sound shitty. even paul wall (who gets paul wall to screw their album?? supposedly, he didn't want to get watts to do it because either he doesn't want to upset s.u.c. members/fans by getting down with the dude that stole dj screw's spot and the dude that z-ro and keke are still dissing on records, or watts wouldn't work with him for the opposite reason) is saying now that he got fucked over and some second rate shit got put out. (check the cover, it doesn't even have his name on it [or cool washed out photoshop effects!!]) the story is that sony flew him to, i think, atlanta and gave him half a day to do the whole record. it's not slow enough, slow enough to sound wrong but not slow enough to bring out the slur and murk and plodding and the rest of the stuff you want (it doesn't have to sound like 3 n the mornin but slow it down!!). and repetitive, non-stop, cd skip chopping that isn't helpful and friendly at all! and paul wall can't mix at all! you have to slide between tracks, dude. and bring some blends and shit on the intro. but i guess part of it is the beats flip's working with-- heatmakerz beats weren't meant to be screwed and chopped. so, i don't know. the slowed game over is pretty hot, it's got this trick with a double beat and the chant on the hook sounds like it's compressed, so it sounds faster than the original version but still screwed down. and there's the bonus unscrewed intro track and slight dj screw tribute that is sort of hot and better than most tracks on the album.