Kanye West - Jesus is King (September 27, 2019) Album • Page 83

I remember a “Weezy” character who was kind of a fun troll who kept getting banned for making ridiculous threads.

 

who was this, no recollection

 

is zion the lion on here

 

I remember not liking zion or Yes. And? but I’m sure they were fine in retrospect

Die Hard and I were Facebook friends, then he unfriended me immediately after liking a pic of mine lol

Praetor was cool as hell, p sure he and I are FB friends still

 

zion was amongst the best trolls in internet history and only AP people know about her, damn shame

 

@williek311 is basically the only curmudgeon oldhead still around and even he's nice now.

 

There are a lot of old heads who only post in the sports forum haha

 

ah, yeah, let's keep it that way.

 

Lol I rember writing my first user review ever for All Get Out's The Season, I was like a junior in high school, and the only comment it got was @Cody saying "this is HARDLY indie-pop"

he wasn't wrong, but damn

 

A weirdly distinct memory I have from AP was when Nostalgia Ultra came out and so many people immediately listened bc Odd Future was the hottest shit at the time, and kemichels (or however you spell it) came in and immediately started ragging on it for really dumb reasons (like that the alarm clock at the end of the first song was annoying or something) and quickly got bullied into accepting that it’s good lol. No idea why that one sticks with me

 

In my goodbye to AP post I thanked:
"The movie thread posters, Tetra, Brandon, Adam, Tyler, Mal, Darr, Steven, Safeword, Milkshake,"

Are Adam, Steven and Safeword here? I don't even remember their usernames.

 

I remember my MBDTF review getting hella comments - I think Thomas and I had the 5 most read reviews on the site hah

 

Odd Future got insane backlash in 2011 on here. It’s interesting to me because a lot of those projects haven’t aged well, although it’s impossible to deny the impact they made on the landscape of hip hop. But the main figures of that collective ended up releasing all this incredible music to this day

 

I think the first time I got banned was for arguing with Jason about Odd Future. What an odd hill for me to die on

 

What happened to CoandCa? Had an aqua teen avatar and iirc started that extremely weird mmmmhayleymmmm meme lol. That person was around forever too

 

This just reminds me of how different the entertainment forum was on ap vs here

 

Other good memories include getting physical(!) releases from the AP mailbox and becoming friends with a lot of those smaller artists I covered. Kyle Adem in particular.

Also got to hop on the Julien Baker train very early, I remember getting a random advance of Sprained Ankle that blew me away and having the chance to interview her back in 2015. I think that interview got carried over to this site. Good shit

 

Also wasn’t Odd Future “banned” on ap at some point or something??

 

It really can’t be overstated just how weird and out of left field they were when they came out, and I think most people probably thought they would be just a fad that passes. But the production on something like “Yonkers” would be kinda par for the course today

 

We were all meaner towards each other and the site was better for it!

 

Yeah I don’t remember if every staffer was “banned” from posting news about them but Jason was very vocal about not giving them attention himself

 

Odd Future and Kanye were the source of like 80% of the drama between 2010-11

 

It definitely felt like a more niche corner of the site than now. Very antagonistic! The folks in whatever criterion or world cinema thread we had definitely shaped my early taste, especially Mal (and that ultimately set me on path to where I am in life now lmfao)

 

Team Pagano "Be Part of Something" VOL. II, by Team Pagano

 

this doesn’t help!