Just listened to Marvin Gaye's "Whats Goin On Album" straight through the first time

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Cold Truth

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i have heard most of these songs before, but never listened to the actual album straight through... and actually listened. to everything. lyrics, vocals, mixing, music, everything.

and all i can say..

is to all you rnb haters.......

this album is as grimey and street and ghetto and political and real as your hardest rap album....

because all these dudes that act like they are just talkin abuot the street life, talking about whats real, marvin tops them all..... dude is talking about real issues... not JUST the drugs and living a hard life, dude comes at it from the realest perspective, and that is one of a man who knows what is really, truly happening around him and addresses it- and DOESNT glorify it.

this is my new greatest hip hop album. it is hip hop before hip hop. everything hip hop heads have professed hip hop to be abuot, all the "real" heads, all the "street" cats, even the dead prez's and ice cubes and public enemies of the hip hop world...

cant one of them touch this album.

of, and dude sings it all. not rapping, not screaming, he sings. of pain, of sorrow, of love, of hope, of joy, of death, destruction, yuo name it....

listen to this, then listen to any of your tupac's or biggies or mobb deeps or nas's or nwa or public enemy or whoever your hero is. tell me i am wrong.

yeah, it sounds like i am riding hard here and yuo are absolutely right... yup i'm jockin here, yes this is the GREATEST in my eyes. i am going to make this album my next review.

yeah, i called it a hip hop album. WHAT!?!?!?

i'll debate this one to the death. blueprint? this is it. maybe it isnt "hip hop" in terms of its format, its soul music to be true......

but that is the heart of hip hop anyways, and hip hop is always touted as the VOICE of the people, the VOICE of A people........ this is that voice before o'shea jackson said eff the police, before PE fought the power, before dead prez got free.

there was Marvin. He TOLD us what was going on.
 

Cleverwon

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You should check out Bobby Womack. Across 110th St is one of my favorites.
 

classic

I am proud to be southern
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cleverwon said:
You should check out Bobby Womack. Across 110th St is one of my favorites.

Funny u say that, thats on my record player right NOW!!!

as far as my man marvin , he is the orignal hip hop head. Thats why i get pissed at ANYBODY who says R&B is wack, that album is soo deep, its redicilous

Whats crazy is that all the stuff he says on the album it realevent today in 2005, pure genious!!!!

class..
 

Ozmosis

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That whats goin on album is by far my favorite album, it passed up Illmatic. The music that the Funk Brothers put down, and Marvin vocals & lyrics, you wont find a better R&B album like that. Im glad you seein the light Truth. If you saw the documentry on the Funk Brothers they said their best work was on the Whats Goin on Album. Im about to listen to it now, and althouh I like all the tracks on there "Whats happnen Brother" is my fav on the album.
 

Cleverwon

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classic said:
Funny u say that, thats on my record player right NOW!!!

as far as my man marvin , he is the orignal hip hop head. Thats why i get pissed at ANYBODY who says R&B is wack, that album is soo deep, its redicilous

Whats crazy is that all the stuff he says on the album it realevent today in 2005, pure genious!!!!

class..
lol, oh shit. We here Class.
 

MarkN

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cleverwon said:
You should check out Bobby Womack. Across 110th St is one of my favorites.

a man of taste i see ! bobby womack got that hot shit : )

i agree cold the only bad point woz when you said you had JUST listened to it !

JUST man lol that album has been a classic for years !
 

Cold Truth

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i have heard it many times, but never actually sat there, and listened all the way through. of course its been classic for years..... it came out before i was born!
 

Lex

ILLIEN
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My mum is a huge Marvin Gaye fan, so I was exposed to all his music all the time. I ripped all the albums so I could listen to them while on my computer too. Truly timeless as you say...everything he wrote about is 100% relevant today.

As for people saying R'n'B is whack, I think it is completely unacceptable to simply label a whole genre as 'whack' - whatever type of music you're talking about. I really like old R'n'B and soul [not to mention Funk and Jazz], its just I dislike whats currently in the charts which is, arguably, being wrongly labelled as R'n'B.
 
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