The Official OFWGKTA thread

[Sneer]

Originally Posted by Antonio

doesn't mean the whole group's is^ hell, other than Tyler and Earl, the rest of the group can be pretty tame in subject matter (ex-Mike G, Domo, MellowHype). alot of their songs are really just about stuff they do and care about, like getting bitches and getting high, but I still say it's they WAY they do it (the so called "swag" you seem to hate) that makes it enjoyable. imo, hearing stuff like Gravediggaz and Kool Keith is alot less enjoyable than OF because of how blunt and dry they deliver their stuff. i'll say right now: I DON'T GIVE A SH*T ABOUT HORRORCORE, but Odd Future's way of using shock lyrics and crazy imagery in such a tongue in cheek manner makes me actually enjoy listening to lyrics about rape and insanity without feeling a large amount of cheesiness with it.

Fair play dude, all I'm saying is, though I do have some time for them, I dont think they're anything particularly special. Earl and Blackenedwhite are really good albums, and Bastard is ok. But, if you compare them to something like Dr. Octagonecologyst or 6 Feet Deep, they don't measure up, in my opinion.

[music_phantom13]

Originally Posted by Stu

Fair play dude, all I'm saying is, though I do have some time for them, I dont think they're anything particularly special. Earl and Blackenedwhite are really good albums, and Bastard is ok. But, if you compare them to something like Dr. Octagonecologyst or 6 Feet Deep, they don't measure up, in my opinion.

I'm taking your side here Stu, I like their music a lot, but I don't really understand why they are getting all the hype or the claims that they are doing something completely original. There's been plenty of musicians in hip hop's past that have done their own thing in tons of different styles. Again, I like the music, just doesn't make sense to me. Then again, a lot of the time I don't understand how hype works with music so I take everything people say about smaller bands with a grain of salt.

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by Stu

Fair play dude, all I'm saying is, though I do have some time for them, I dont think they're anything particularly special. Earl and Blackenedwhite are really good albums, and Bastard is ok. But, if you compare them to something like Dr. Octagonecologyst or 6 Feet Deep, they don't measure up, in my opinion.

Its an obvious argument, but these guys were kids when a lot of the material your judging them on came out. No real recording studio, or at least equipment of the same calibur as kool keith. Wait for some actual releases, both mellowhype and tyler have stuff coming out fairly soon i believe.

[Engine]

Originally Posted by matious

Its an obvious argument, but these guys were kids when a lot of the material your judging them on came out. No real recording studio, or at least equipment of the same calibur as kool keith. Wait for some actual releases, both mellowhype and tyler have stuff coming out fairly soon i believe.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what becomes of them after they get done with being 'the next shit' and have to deal with real stuff like record labels, money, drug addictions and whatnot.

They remind me a lot of early Wu-Tang with all the self-marketing and natural charisma. So I assume they'll make some good records, some mediocre ones, some bad ones. At least one will die young and the living ones will will go on to have music careers that go up and down. In 15 or 20 years they'll do an Odd Future reunion tour and play their most popular songs, etc.

I do like them by the way.

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by Engine

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what becomes of them after they get done with being 'the next shit' and have to deal with real stuff like record labels, money, drug addictions and whatnot.

They remind me a lot of early Wu-Tang with all the self-marketing and natural charisma. So I assume they'll make some good records, some mediocre ones, some bad ones. At least one will die young and the living ones will will go on to have music careers that go up and down. In 15 or 20 years they'll do an Odd Future reunion tour and play their most popular songs, etc.

I do like them by the way.

So far they don't seem as much of a collective as WTC though. Wu Tang almost every member shined(excluding like inspectah deck or something) while in Odd Future, the only 2 people who seem to be getting any coverage are tyler and domo.

[Thom Yorke]

Originally Posted by matious

So far they don't seem as much of a collective as WTC though. Wu Tang almost every member shined(excluding like inspectah deck or something) while in Odd Future, the only 2 people who seem to be getting any coverage are tyler and domo.

Don you mean Hodgy instead of Domo?

[Engine]

Originally Posted by matious

So far they don't seem as much of a collective as WTC though. Wu Tang almost every member shined(excluding like inspectah deck or something) while in Odd Future, the only 2 people who seem to be getting any coverage are tyler and domo.

Earl seems pretty popular. But I see your point about Wu being more tightly-knit. Although I also suspect that the collective nature of the Wu was mostly for marketing the individuals. They didn't have youtube or twitter to get famous so they needed to build a bigger, more universally interesting narrative. But really, I think most of them were always mostly interested in their own careers than in their success as a group. They each knew they had to make their group a legend to get attention. OF only needed the internet.

[djchameleon]

lol this isn't the best I've heard from him but it's funny


He's straight up dissing these clowns

[Antonio]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

lol this isn't the best I've heard from him but it's funny


He's straight up dissing these clowns

heh, i like how you're actually calling it a "diss"