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  • DickerSpaniel

    really? i thought flux compacitor when the beat is just so layered for moments it gets super messy especially over their vocals- which is a shame bc that Higher flip at the end is sick and if that was just able to poke out and shine more in the beat it’d be so nice

    Oh sorry yeah you're right I totally forgot about that one lmao. I fw the verses and the hook is alright, but my god it is a clusterfuck of sound.

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    HopOffMySackDawg69

    Production can really ruin an album...just listen to Baroness' Gold and Grey. FANTASTIC songwriting throughout, but the mixing and mastering was so awful it ruined anything good that was going for it.

    It didnt ruin this album

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    Mixing is incredible on this album, well deserved score

  • Within

    It didnt ruin this album

    It certainly didn't help either lol. The mixing overall isn't as bad as other records I've heard in the past, but some songs really do get affected negatively.

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    Notmyfirst

    Mixing is incredible on this album, well deserved score

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    HopOffMySackDawg69

    I’m being serious, stop acting like there’s an objective standard for mixes

  • Mar 17, 2020

    Ktt in shambles

  • Mar 17, 2020

    How low is the bar lol

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    Notmyfirst

    I’m being serious, stop acting like there’s an objective standard for mixes

    Bruh the mixing isn't even cohesive throughout the record. There is no standard, but I'd like hear what Hov and Jay Elec are saying during their verses. It's not even an aesthetic choice when it comes to the mixing...it's just subpar

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    HopOffMySackDawg69

    Bruh the mixing isn't even cohesive throughout the record. There is no standard, but I'd like hear what Hov and Jay Elec are saying during their verses. It's not even an aesthetic choice when it comes to the mixing...it's just subpar

    Some of these tracks sound like they were literally mixed in 1998

  • Mar 17, 2020
    HopOffMySackDawg69

    Bruh the mixing isn't even cohesive throughout the record. There is no standard, but I'd like hear what Hov and Jay Elec are saying during their verses. It's not even an aesthetic choice when it comes to the mixing...it's just subpar

    There's a Jay verse that sounds like when Gucci was recording on the prison phone

  • TIIMMY BURNER

    Some of these tracks sound like they were literally mixed in 1998

    LMAO Shiny Suit Theory is LITERALLY from 10 years ago

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    Within

    It doesnt deserve BNM because of the mixing?

    Mixing is a very important part of an album

    By giving an album with bad mixing best new music you're encouraging other artists to release low quality music

  • Mar 17, 2020
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    flizzy

    Mixing is a very important part of an album

    By giving an album with bad mixing best new music you're encouraging other artists to release low quality music

    Shut up lol

  • Within

    Shut up lol

    do you listen to music through laptop speakers

  • Mar 17, 2020

    we did it!

  • I love how this basically nullifies all Jewish conspiracy theories

  • Mar 17, 2020
    Oblivion X

    "I drop a gear, I disappear, then re-appear
    Then dump the clutch and wheelie down the highway
    My debut album featurin' Hov, man, this is highway robbery"

    Yo we NEED Jay E's face as a new smiley

  • Tubig 🌊
    Mar 17, 2020

    I'm running with HD600's and I have 0 complaints about the mixing. Never had a moment where I couldn't hear their verses.

    P4k can be spiteful and their opinions on rap are typically the ones I'm least interested in. But I'm glad Jay got his respect. Haters mad as s***.

  • Tubig 🌊
    Mar 17, 2020

    "During his last real foray into tag-team rapping, 2011’s Watch the Throne, JAY-Z was a step slower than his protege Kanye, a disparity largely exposed by his own eagerness to dictate the pace. On A Written Testimony, the God MC seems to simply be ordaining another. JAY clearly loves rapping with Jay Elec. These circumstances give him the chance to set his competitiveness aside and become the conscious technician he always dreamed of being."

  • Mar 17, 2020

    Much deserved.

  • Mar 17, 2020
    HopOffMySackDawg69

    Shiny Suit Theory suffered the most lol

    How that song been around for TEN YEARS and they couldn't mix it right?

  • Mar 17, 2020

    Mfs wanna hear hotep magic music in crystal clear digital wall of sound quality ? Can not relate !

    Grainy mixes make the album feel like I just uncovered a lost page of the old gods’ history from under the sands :wow: great job Jay E

  • Mar 17, 2020

    Of course they did. And I’m sure the reviewer understood every lyric on the album.

  • Another big W for Hov’s collection