You people better get your A-game going. The album is doing well in Amazon pre-orders already. Thanks everyone.
Buy this. It’s very good. Many of the songs people will recognize from shows over the last 2 years…well now you can listen to them more than once every 9 months.
This is just to hold you over in between his two year production hiatus and the upcoming Fall 2009 album, “STREET PREACHER”
Get your hip-hop pants on.
Get it at:
FifthElementOnline.com
Amazon.com
iTunes
There you go. Get your brain moving and buy it. Thanks.
Hip-Hop/Rap, Internet, Music, Rhymesayers
Well…the album leaked. “Fantasies” is awesome. This 192kbps crap floating around the internet is just horrid though, for real. Why? Read on.
The pre-order comes with the option of 320kbps MP3 copies of “Help I’m Alive”, an acoustic version of “Gimme Sympathy”, and a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Nobody Home”…but you can ALSO grab these in 320kbps and FLAC format. This is my first jump into the FLAC format, and I’m using WinAmp and VLC Media Player to tackle them. On my Klipsch THX 2.1 system hooked up to my laptop with HD Audio, it sounds absolutely incredible. I caught some things in “Help I’m Alive” that I never caught on the steaming version nor the 320 kbps MP3 version. I’m in a sound design class right now and have learned quite a bit about what MP3s do to audio (read: they kill it!) and I’m glad I got to experience the sonic joy of FLAC.
If you can grab some FLAC tracks, I definitely recommend it. Hit the Wikipedia page to find out how to encode, decode and rip.
Long story short, open source has contributed so many good things to the internet and computers (Firefox, Ubuntu Linux, Handbrake), and I’m glad that popular artists like Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails, Metric, and others are embracing the new technology and running with it.
And NO…iTunes does not support FLAC. Songbird is a much better choice, anyway. Good.
Internet, Music
