Hey, nice shirt, homie. 

scruffy said
finally gettin to asylum.  saved it for last.  unless you count doctor savage, who ocj insists is the amerikain overdose of the current day.  im skeptical, but thats another topic. 

 

a long time ago i said i wasnt gonna make a decision about hoodoo til his second album.  since then, ive seen him live a couple times, and he won me over as a fan that way, but i was still lookin close to see how he did this time around. 

its right.  holds up to crystal skull, surpasses in lots of ways.  the really good stuff is really good, the rest is decent.  i can tell im not gonna get bored with it immediately. 

not everything is my shit, but its probably somebodys shit, so the songs i dig carry it more. 

 

im a bit bigger of a fan of crystal skull than the average juggalo, so time will tell if this tops it, but its got my attention. 

 

random note:  tha hav knots is gonna make hoodoo look real good. 

slightly related random note #2:  i feel like bones junior could maybe write a great verse if his vocabulary included more than ninety words.  not hatin.  nor makin a joke.  think he needs to read more. 

 

anyway, good fuckin album, hoodoo.   

i agree with everything u said good sir. I too am a massive fan of Crystal Skull. lmfao at Bonez comments.....theres a reason his brother shining and hes getting put on the back burner. Not hating...cuz i actually really like the garcia brothers record as a WHOLE...but yaaa

Carlbrain2057 said

scruffy said
A whole lotta motha fuckin truth about the new hoodoo album

The only thing I have to add is that it's clearly evident that he had a lot more artistic control on this release which (imo) shined  

definitely lol Crystal Skull was cool but a lot of it felt like Violent J songs just rapped by someone else...like I respect J's creative control on projects once in awhile as long as its a good balance between who that artist is and what his vision for them/their character is...some of the songs on Crystal Skull fell flat or were just awkward to listen to because it was fairly obvious it wasn't the kind of music Hoodoo wanted to make (i.e. Happily Ever After and a few others)...as opposed to Asylum which sounds like he's in his fuckin zone

my least favorite songs are Psycho Love and Gogetem which I still listen to just not as much as the rest of the album

love the reggae vibes on The Passage as well and the voicemail outro...its simple but effective IMO

scruffy said
happily ever after is a jam.  not a hit single jammy jam, but a good song that i like a lot. 

 

i never, ever bought that 'violent j writes everything' line.  kids idea of how to make music. 

seriously, if hoodoo didnt want the song on his album, hed have said 'i dont want that song on my album'.  probably wouldnt have bothered to record it. 

do yall really think j just dictates shit like that?  anybody with a brain would dip in minutes, and hoodoos got a brain.   

I do not think Happily Ever After was Hoodoo's idea lol (I do like the weird chants on the chorus but that's about it)...he sounded half asleep on the verses...you can't deny he sounds much more comfortable and natural on Asylum than he did on a lot of Crystal Skull

also I'm pretty sure J actually has writing credits on the majority of the Crystal Skull songs...so yes its a fact that he adds quite a bit

I never claimed that he WROTE THE ENTIRE THING just that he adds a lot of the creative/character/storytelling work because he knows what works for juggalos...they even said Hoodoo basically recorded Asylum all at his crib on his own rather than working with a whole bunch of them...also why the production credits aren't your usual Psychopathic beat makers for the most part

I'm not throwing shade at J or claiming he dictates peoples shit but sometimes his influence is pretty obvious

Hands down the best disc I picked up at the Gathering. I could label Psycho Love as the only skippable song but the chorus has a 90's R&B sound I can appreciate. Solid release. I didn't stay for his set (wanna say I was at the black light party ...) but I'm looking forward to seeing anything from Asylum performed live.

Loved it Asylum front to back dope.  Going to see him on the 8th than again Oct 14 w/ICP here in Austin 

Crystal Skull 4/5

Asylum 5/5

I regret not seeing his live set this year. I'm gonna peep next year. I hope they secure Colorado.