Its certainly nice that everyone here gets chances to do whatever it is they do – Frank Ocean evokes a hushed Stevie Wonder on White, Taco Bennett and Jasper Dolphin pull out a Brick Squad impression on We Got Bitches – but, truth be told, not everybody in OF is great on the mic of the guys who regularly show up, Tyler, Hodgy, Domo Genesis, and Mike G all impress, while Jasper and Taco do little more than not embarrass themselves. The album features nobody from outside OF, which, after its 60 minutes, ultimately functions as a double-edged sword. These guys are still immature, sure, but at least they’re not still talking about rape and coke for nothing more than the sake of shock value. And no matter whos rapping, theres almost always an outpouring of ridiculous(ly) fun(ny) and free-associative bars: Im Wolf, I spit retardedly/As retarded as the sound of deaf people arguing,” goes Tyler on “P”. Ideally, album art should be perfectly square. Or Rella, a maximally kinetic slab that finds Hodgy (who emerges as the most prolific voice here, appearing on 10 of the 18 tracks), Domo Genesis, and Tyler working their flows in remarkably supple ways. The minimum size requirement for album art is 1000x1000 pixels. Consider, for instance, NY (Ned Flander)”, a song in which Tyler and Hodgy Beats embody the cut in a way they couldnt even two years ago. Even though the group is still dousing itself in a mostly safe, nearly lo-fi sound (a lot of the beats here, most of which were produced by Tyler and Left Brain, sound like they could have appeared on OF releases like Earl and BlackenedWhite), its always clear that everyone here has improved markedly since the new albums alpha version. Looking back, that tape wasnt exactly shitty, but it was built around a decidedly homespun aesthetic that indeed made it hard for the masses to get into most die-hard OF fans I know – and I know quite a few – rightly still dont rank it as a very impressive piece of work. When that mixtape came out, no thinkpieces had been written about the group yet, and ringleader Tyler, the Creator was an eon from Yonkers and winning a VMA for Best New Artist in fact, the now-11-deep collective was struggling just to be featured on blogs. This tape includes both Chen Yu-Lung's Yin Dragon form. bringing back memories of my own tapes from my youth. and the tape cassette cover credits and art looks like handwriting. Much better quality tape and no issues playing that version of my cassette tape deck. It was released on March 20, 2012, by Odd Future Records and RED. Discovered that theres a better quality version produced by the vendor of the Volume 2 soundtrack. We Were Just Some Bad Kids With Talent Who Loved Making Shit, As You Can Tell From The Shitty Quality Of The Songs. So reads Odd Futures description of the first Odd Future Tape, self-released by the California-based rap provocateurs in 2008. Only 65.00 The Dragon School of Pa Kua Chang Consisting of 2 different Pa Kua Dragon Shape forms. 2 is the debut studio album by American hip hop collective Odd Future.