Nort

2mo

Insano

flizzy

2mo

I reviewed this for Cudi discography feel free to check that thread out.

In the context of worst albums I don’t think this would be up there with the very worst, it’s just corny and leans too much into the new Pharrell sound. But it’s listenable has a couple of decent songs.

flizzy

2mo

The hate for this album is surprising because this is just a standard emo rap album. If you like Peep/XXX/Juice's music there's no reason to hate this. It's actually pretty catchy with good production and melodies and has its moment. Sure the lyrics are pretty shallow but this is not different than a lot of emo rap. This is actually one of the better Trippie albums I listened to at least it's short and to the point. mgk on this is not so bad, as long as he's doing emo rap and not SOAD covers he's fine by me.

Best: lost boys, beauty, half dead, no more, who do i call.

Worst: struggles.

OVERHATED/10

Nort

2mo

gotcha, will peep

it’s personally, on my list of worst listens ive ever had.

flizzy

2mo

"Don't be mad cause the kids like me"

This album and the controversy surrounding it is around its mega hit "Crank That", this is basically the first viral hit ever as it blew a rapper to stardom and getting a major label deal just off of fans sharing it online and bringing it into real life.

It shocked people so much because at the time, it was somewhat against the values of hip hop, simplified, repetitive party music. Even mainstream rappers at the time had to have subject matter and rapping ability to gain a fanbase and even get themselves a debut album. Sure there were some bad albums but they weren't a huge success like this.

It's also important to point out the hate surrounding it might've had to do with ppl hating on snap/crunk music in general.

So is the album good? Is it a misunderstood classic? Not really. Except for the hits, the album is basically "Crank That" stretched to album length. With multiple songs even sampling or reusing lines from "Crank That" as hooks. "Crank That" was made on Garage Band so the other beats have to be (and half of them are ass).

There is no deeper meaning or theme to the lyrics whatsoever, it's just "I'm cool, I have style, deal with it". I think in today's standards for hip hop the lyrics sound better but the beats sound worse. I would describe the music as stupid. But it's fun. I think it's a fun guilty pleasure but not something I could consider good music. I don't think it would make people that mad today but it deserves respect for "ruining hip hop" just for being different.

Best: Crank That, Yahhh!, Report Card, Don't Get Mad.

Worst: Snap and Roll, Donk, Soulja Girl.

FUN BAD/10

John Mauve

2mo

How about including some more turkeys from highly respected artists?

Nas - Nastradamus and Lupe Fiasco - Lasers comes to mind

Kojimbo

2mo

You haven’t heard many bad albums if insano is one of the worst for you. Not even cudi’s worst

Fever

2mo

Oh hell yeah this was my S*** in 9th grade or whatever

It's garbage, so you could try out the first or second dotdotcurve albums @op - they're still trash but legitimately like 100x more listenable (aside from the LGrumor2 recorded songs like rocketshiptothemoon)

Honestly I was super into crunkcore (Myspace core in general even) for a minute. I could probably dig up some real forgotten bullshit from that era