Channel Orange Album Review | No Idols Album Review

Its Jay again. Channel Orange was released the other week, raising millions of albums bought. Frank Ocean also had two songs speaking to a male, instead of a female. The songs were Bad Religion, which is speaking about how believing that the man will love him back is dumb. The second song is Forrest Gump, referring to the actual movie and explaining his love towards another man.

The album was well put together, using the same ideas as Nostalgia, Ultra, having a tape-like intro and interlude. This is his first selection of songs where he features other artists, including Earl Sweatshirt, Andre 3000, and Tyler, the Creator. Earl comes in with a great addition to the song Super Rich Kids. A fan favorite is the song Pink Matter, featuring Andre 3000 coming in with an amazing verse and giving it that old school feeling. My personal review on Channel Orange is a weak 8/10. I feel the song Golden Girl was destroyed by Tyler, using his deep voice and rapping about something you cannot even understand. I do believe you should go buy the album right now. I recommend.

Now for the No Idols Review. No Idols was just released through Domo Genesis’ Twitter. Click Here to download now. The song was originally supposed to be sold in stores, but with some problems it was going to be a free album. Now with the review. The album was, alright I suppose. Alchemist and Domo joined up to create the album. Though, Alchemist hurts the album the most. Alchemist is the producer of all the songs and Domo attempts to rap over them, but the beat plays over his voice. With Elimination Chamber already proving Alchemist had his sample vocals and beat over the voices of the rappers, I felt the rest of the album will be the same. And I was almost right. Many songs on the 11- track LP had samples that spoke over the verses and sometimes it was vague to understand what they said. I do enjoy the beats though. The beats are amazing, especially the song No Idols. That was the only sample that I could hear the voice over. After using Rap Genius, I can understand Domo’s verses.

Honestly, I don’t really like the album that much. I expected way better. The features helped a lot, however. The song Elimination Chamber was great, including The Daily News featuring Space Ghost Purp (Earl Sweatshirt & Action Bronson), No Idols featuring Tyler, the Creator, and Gamebreaker featuring Earl Sweatshirt. I really only enjoyed those three songs. Prophecy, All Alone, and The Feeling were good beats too.

My rating of this album is… 4/10. I expected way better. Under the Influence was much more better than this album. Even the Untitled EP by Hodgy Beats, and he only had 9 short tracks. Go buy the album if you please, it features Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, Action Bronson, Smoke DZA, Freddie Gibbs, Prodigy, and Tyler, the Creator.

Odd Future Updates

Odd Future has had some large updates with album releases. Disregard my previous post “The Future is Odd”. Mellowhype just released information that their album NUMBERS will be dropping Fall 2012, instead of the summer. The exact date is October 2, 2012. To me, its a disappointment. I wanted to listen to their album as I walk to school, but now I have to wait even longer since it was announced last year. With NUMBERS delayed, I was hoping Wolf and No Idols will make me happy.

Wolf is set even further back, into November. The exact date is unknown. With another disappointment to myself and Im sure to many fans, I won’t have music to shake my head to walking to school the first month. However, Domo Genesis has made be happy. His debut album, No Idols, is set for August 1st, 2012. Now I get to listen to something to get me hyped up for the first day of school. Also if I feel like having a chill day Ill listen to Channel Orange. Also, I will get to the Channel Orange review as soon as possible! I just have not bought the album yet, and if I don’t get it by Saturday I may just listen to all the songs off of Youtube. It so unprofessional, but I told you I would have an album review out and I will. Thats all for now,

-Jay.

Spoke Too Soon

In my previous post, I spoke about the rapper Domo Genesis not releasing a single off of his upcoming album “No Idols”. Last night at 12:30 Pacific Standard Time, he released a song called Elimination Chamber (click the link for download) or listen to it right now if you don’t want to download it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkgUYARWao

My review on the song Elimination Chamber is pretty simple. The song featured, of course, Domo Genesis, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples, and a new face to enter the rap game, Action Bronson. Domo Genesis did his verse like he has been doing recently ever since the Odd Future Tape Volume 2 album was released in stores, being cocky.  His wordplay is great and just how he sounds makes you want to believe he is a great rapper, which I do believe he is, but not that great. I loved his album Under The Influence. I really started noticing his cockiness from singles Hodgy Beats and Domo did together as Mellowhigh, and I do agree is worldplay has increased tremendously, but it’s just what he raps out. He isn’t talking about anything really. I will still listen to his music, and I can’t wait for No Idols. Domo Genesis did really well in Elimination Chamber.

Now onto Earl Sweatshirt. Of course Earl, with his tricky wordplay ever since he was fourteen, you will not understand what he says the first time you hear his verse. After doing research and following Rap Genius, I studied that he did excellent in the song. I do admit he didn’t do that well of a job this time, but I’m sure he will make up for that. Most artists don’t do well when they’re featured in songs anyway.

Vince Staples did a pretty good job in this song, after making a rare appearance, not having been on an Odd Future based track since Epar by Earl Sweatshirt on his album EARL. Though I find Vince’s bars to be quite amusing, especially in the song Moracular World by Mike G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOLOrlqFD0

At least he raps about life.

Now onto Action Bronson. His name has never been mentioned… that I have seen. I honestly believe he did a really good job. As a beginner rapper (I think), he come up and showed he was ready to let people know that he’s coming in the game strong. Though I believe the end of his verse was thrown together, not really well thought out.

Now onto the instrumental of the song. The sample was a good idea to put together, but the woman in the song with the background vocals repeatedly saying “one of these days” was louder than the vocals of the rappers, making the lyrics seem vague. The beat was mellow and you can definitely ride in a car to this song.

My ratings of this song, is a 4.1 out of 5. The sample killed it mainly, and kind of how the song was just spitting lyrics. I do definitely recommend you listen to this song for yourself.

Thats all for now.