March 11, 200719 yr THat's cool:) . But it doesn't meant he's going to actually rap hinself right?????(lol. Sorry. The idea of Chris rapping cracks me up. Some people just shouldn't:laugh3: :laugh3: :laugh3: !)
March 11, 200719 yr THat's cool:) . But it doesn't meant he's going to actually rap hinself right?????(lol. Sorry. The idea of Chris rapping cracks me up. Some people just shouldn't:laugh3: :laugh3: :laugh3: !) Straight out da mean streets of Devon boyzzzzzzzzz! I can out rap that K-Fed bloke!
March 11, 200719 yr Author :laugh4: the source actually says Coldplay not only Chris:stunned::laugh4:
March 11, 200719 yr that's a wonderful pic.. angie!:kiss: but i think that chris and other guys look so young that they are suitable for rap even though chris reached 30! when i saw him on jay z's gig that's fantastic i mean his part!:D
March 11, 200719 yr Straight out da mean streets of Devon boyzzzzzzzzz! I can out rap that K-Fed bloke! Laughing My Ass Off RIght Out F**king Loud!!!:laugh3: :laugh3: :laugh3: (It was too funny for just the initials,lol/) All of Coldplay? Even better. They sounded great backing up Jay-Z in Mexico!
August 15, 200718 yr Swizz Beatz Has Lost His Mind During his first wave of success, I basically couldn't stand Swizz Beatz. That rule had exceptions: "Ruff Ryders Anthem," "What Y'all Want." Most of the time, though, his jacked-up atonal synth-runs and clumsy drum-sputters felt like sandpaper on my brain. In these pages, Sasha Frere-Jones once called Swizz "a guy road-testing his Casio presets at the Nuremberg Rally," and that about covered it for me. Those beats had riled-up adrenaline, but that was all they had. What little melody you'd hear on Swizz tracks invariably came from unbelievably cheap-sounding synth-plinks, and everything was EQed for maximum impact, never leaving room for quiet-to-loud dynamics or organic lift. Timbaland and the Neptunes, both Swizz's contemporaries, understood how to use the same synthetic ingredients to build spacy epics and sticky hooks; Swizz only did cheap grandeur. A few years later, though, I came to appreciate the ugly assaultive aspects of the man's work. A track like "Money Cash Hoes" or "WW III" could take those thin sonics and use them for serious angry bombast, turning his emotionless grandeur into a virtue rather than a liability. And Swizz got better and better at harnessing and directing his assaultive chaos; by the time he got around to hooking up Yung Wun's "Tear It Up" and T.I.'s "Bring Em Out," he was churning out straight-up bangers as consistently as any other elite producer. It took a while, but he finally justified his status. In some ways, Swizz was ahead of his time; virtually everything he ever made was geared primarily toward clubs, and his emaciated synth-sounds anticipated ringtone-rap a couple of years early. These days, he's one of my favorite rap producers; songs like Beyonce's "Get Me Bodied" and Eve's "Tambourine" jump out immediately by bringing a sort of furious kinetic motion that's virtually missing from rap and R&B these days. UGK's "Hit the Block" might be a bonus-track on Underground Kingz, but it's not because it can't hang with the rest of the album but because its handclaps-and-sirens attack couldn't have been more at odds with Pimp C's slow bluesy crawl. Swizz could've shot his progress all to hell when he decided to start rapping, but he effectively camouflaged his plentiful shortcomings on "It's Me Bitches," turning an incoherent rant into one of the year's great club-rap anthems. "Money in the Bank" followed the same blueprint and pulled similarly great things out of it, and suddenly we were faced with the unlikely prospect of a really great Swizz Beatz solo album, a nonstop eruption of nervous energy. But then, last week, this song with Chris Martin from Coldplay came out, and now I'm not sure about anything anymore. Coldplay gets a lot of shit, but I'm actually not particularly mad at the idea of Chris Martin on a rap record. At their best, Coldplay have a sort of epic melodic sweep that could mesh really well with, say, T.I. when he's in confessional self-torture mode. "Beach Chair" might've felt like a purpose-free ramble, but Martin's chorus had a really nice wispy prettiness to it. Also, this isn't exactly rap, but it did sound pretty fucking beautiful when Timbaland sampled "Clocks" for that one Brady song. I'd rather see Martin become the Nate Dogg of sensitive whiteboy hook-machines than, say, John Mayer. Still, I was really skeptical when Swizz first said something about Martin appearing on his solo album, since their respective strengths have nothing to do with each other. Swizz does crude spatters of adrenaline, Martin does clean and elegiac symphony-pop, and those two areas have absolutely zero Venn-diagram overlap. A collaboration between the two would have to sound something like Bryan Ferry singing for the Circle Jerks; it just didn't make any sense. Well, Martin doesn't actually turn up on "Part of the Plan." Instead, Swizz just samples Coldplay's "X&Y," which isn't even a good Coldplay song. At this point, I wouldn't be all that surprised to learn that Swizz had never actually met Chris Martin. (What would they even talk about? Stubble maintenance?) As it stands, "Part of the Plan" is almost a parody of the obligatory ghetto-childhood ballad, and all of Swizz's limitations as a rapper become torturously obvious. He could've stolen his lyrics from an eighth-grade girl's poetry book ("I wish I could fly away on a unicorn / I'm from the ghetto, and every day a human's born," eesh), and his delivery is as flat and mumbly and fake-sensitive as you'd fear. Musically, it's just unbelievably awkward; Swizz is content to lazily throw some synth-bass and echoey handclaps under Martin's piano arpeggios. How in the hell did Swizz get from "It's Me Bitches" to this? Actually, it's pretty obvious how Swizz got there. He's about to release a big-budget big-name rap album, and every big-budget big-name rap album apparently has to have one of these sensitive emo tracks, even if the rapper in question is singularly ill-equipped to write a song like that. Honestly, the biggest problem facing the idea of the circa-07 rap album is the supposed importance of versatility. Every rapper tries to cover his bases by writing songs that fit predetermined blueprints: the rap&b love-song, the high-energy club-track, the violent street-banger, etc. There are very, very few rappers who can execute all those ideas with any sort of success; even UGK struggle with it a bit on Underground Kingz. Swizz is extremely good at one very particular thing, and up until now, all the leaked tracks from One Man Band Man have worked because they've been so totally focused on that one thing. But "Part of the Plan" is a huge leap in the opposite direction, a fuzzy-headed detour into an idiom in which Swizz is totally, totally lost. I suppose he should be commended for taking chances, but he should've known better than to let anyone hear the hideous result. "Part of the Plan" is a cautionary tale, and I hope other rappers learn from its example. Great records are a whole lot more likely to happen when rappers stick with what they're good at then when they half-heartedly venture out into the unknown. http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/2007/08/swizz_beatz_has.php
August 16, 200718 yr Buddha Lounge Renditions of Coldplay Well, this ought to be interesting! (I'm both scared but kinda intruiged at the prospekt of Chris rapping.... :stunned:) (P.S. I don't like rap either....) Also, just if anyone wanted to know, there is a Buddha Renditions of Coldplay CD coming out in August as well. I'm guessing it's like those piano/grass roots tributes to the band... but I don't know. :laugh3: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7476485&BAB=M Maybe, they have people go "ummmmmmm..." to Coldplay's songs. ?
August 17, 200718 yr im disappointed that it's jus a sample of the song X&Y. I want new material. Come ON. :bigcry:
August 18, 200718 yr Well, this ought to be interesting! (I'm both scared but kinda intruiged at the prospekt of Chris rapping.... :stunned:) (P.S. I don't like rap either....) Also, just if anyone wanted to know, there is a Buddha Renditions of Coldplay CD coming out in August as well. I'm guessing it's like those piano/grass roots tributes to the band... but I don't know. :laugh3: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7476485&BAB=M Maybe, they have people go "ummmmmmm..." to Coldplay's songs. ? Yeah i feel the same way,why ruin the album with c-rap?
August 22, 200718 yr Chris and Rap! Noooo you can listen to the sample at amazon. click ^ :shocked2::stunned: That is seriously SCARY!!!! yet kinda funny too but, why..... oh why..... did they do that to the song "X&Y" ? :(
August 22, 200718 yr It's not that bad actually. But still. :shifty: Eh, that song doesn't have the same, i don't know, beauty when you've got someone going "yo, yo, uh uh." in the background. :confused:
September 28, 200718 yr Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man US, September 27, 2007 - In a perfect world, Swizz Beatz would produce every pop single. Given the success he's had with Gwen Stefani ("Now That You Got It"), Remy Ma ("Whuteva"), Beyonce ("Get Me Bodied"), and Eve ("Tambourine") in the past twelve months, it's sometimes difficult to believe that anyone else's tracks even get played in clubs, and there are few if any signs that his irresistibly catchy sound will turn sour. But like many, many, many of the folks who typically reside behind the boards, a good producer does not necessarily a good performer make, and Swizz is no exception. And even with two lead-off singles that pretty much burn everything else on the radio right now ("It's Me B*tches," "Money in the Bank"), the producer's sophomore solo effort One Man Band Man is a disappointing experience and an unfortunate declaration of independence that comes at a time when he should be solidifying his stable of colleagues and co-conspirators. Since its unannounced arrival via press release in my inbox some months ago, "It's Me B*tches" has served as my first and most persuasive example of the undervalued world of hip-hop/pop singles. Deceptively simple, the track (it would be an overstatement to call it a "song") is a brilliant synthesis of bottom-end percussion, vocal snippets and lyrical non sequiturs - in other words, the perfect combination of elements for a future club anthem. But it's also indicative of Swizz's strengths, which lie in the odd and unpredictable combinations of sampled and original melodies, the manipulated electronic sounds that wander in from God knows where and take up residence, and most of all, the unwavering emphasis on a clear and declarative hook. But as for a message or some implied meaning in the midst of this tapestry? Common's new album is just a few aisles down. All things considered, Swizz Beatz (nee: Kasseem Dean) has matured significantly since his early days as the in-house producer for the Ruff Ryders crew; his sound is far more sophisticated and refined than in the days when the defining characteristic of his tracks was either the pingy reverb of a painfully simple keyboard melody or the punctuation of a turntable scratch that sounds about as authentic as a Fisher Price My First DJ device. That isn't to say that he didn't craft some of the best singles of that era as well - Jay-Z's "Money Cash Hoes" and Eve's "Gotta Man" are classics both - but he was, and is, perhaps best when he is collaborating with other artists rather than crafting his own lyrics. Here, his vocal tracks resemble the pop-pastiche of Gwen Stefani's records, which reference and rip off familiar and usually far better songs but fail to add up to anything emotionally resonant, much less remotely memorable. Among the best tracks on One Man Band Man are the two singles mentioned above, the "It's Me…" remix featuring Lil' Wayne, R. Kelly and Jadakiss, the Coldplay-sampling "Part of the Plan," and finally, "Take A Picture," albeit primarily because it bites a huge chunk of Bill Withers' soul classic "Lovely Day." Otherwise, the songs are essentially music beds searching frantically for substance, such as "The Funeral," which obliquely references Swizz' mother attempting to kill him for insurance money and then pauses for him to clarify that it didn't really happen. These are tracks that Jay-Z, DMX, The L.O.X. and plenty of other eminently more talented rappers could have created masterpieces with, but alone, Swizz simply doesn't have the lyrical fortitude to sustain much more than a party groove - which, valuable as that may be, is clearly not what he's trying to accomplish. It's actually easy to understand why after ten years and so many successful productions, Swizz would want to break out on his own; notwithstanding the successful board-crossing endeavors of Timbaland, Kanye, and Pharrell, he's genuinely earned the right to try and make a mark as a solo artist. But that doesn't mean he should do that; comparatively, Timbaland knows better than to be the anchorman, even when it's his own album. But even if the words fail to leave an impression, the beats that he produces are almost always inspirational - even if that inspiration takes the form of a dancefloor fit to burst. One Man Band Man is not a terrible album, just not a particularly great one - and moreover, it's undeniable evidence that for a rapper, Swizz Beatz is one hell of a producer. Definitely Download: "It's Me B*tches" "Money in the Bank" "Take a Picture" "It's Me B*tches" (Remix feat. Lil' Wayne, R. Kelly and Jadakiss) http://uk.music.ign.com/articles/823/823158p1.html
September 28, 200718 yr Rap again? :rolleyes2: Damn, Mr Martin. Would you stop it already? He's making me think a lot of stuff. Album being released soon and all. :uhoh2: Imagine Coldplay rap...Rapplay. :sick:
October 13, 200718 yr The Album was supposed to be harder Rock and somewhat darker!?! Less ballads and slow stuff right???? This Band has an opportunity to be the "Best of The Best" on a World Class level. They are now a household name in the US and should have shot at U2 and the "Top O' The Heap." In my opinion, anything less would be a disappointment. Collabaration is kool but if I wanted to listen to RAP it wouldn't be Coldplay. I look forward to the new Album, have followed Coldplay since "Yellow" and seen them live four times on the US Tour. Great "Live" band and Chris is very talented indeed.
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