Talk:Unpredictable (Malik B. album)

What's up with the Background?

The text seems to be lifted wholesale from... somewhere? But I can't really find where. The citation for the whole section is an amazon product listing?

This can be trimmed to be in more encyclopedic style because there's relevant info there, sure, but. Where is it from? This whole section exists wholesale in the first revision (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unpredictable_%28Malik_B._album%29&diff=prev&oldid=756146421), so where lift it from? Nabijaczleweli (talk) 19:40, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

archive.org snapshots do corroborate this – https://web.archive.org/web/20150202200445/http://www.amazon.com/Unpredictable-Malik-And-Mr-Green/dp/B00S05S8TC – has

Editorial Reviews

With his popular Live From The streets web series (Noisey/Vice), Mr. Green has forged a reputation for harnessing the serendipitous musical moments that arise from life's chance encounters with talented musicians. So when he had one of those encounters with the Legendary Roots Crew emcee, Malik B, outside of The Roots' Annual Picnic in 2012, it made perfect sense that they would turn a brief moment of mutual inspiration into a full-fledged collaborative album. Malik B and Mr. Green's collaborative album, Unpredictable, is an appropriate title for the 13-track journey through the kind of handcrafted hip-hop created when two skilled musicians come together to capture the mystique that unpredictably arrives during the recording process. Malik would show up at the studio with a garbage bag of rhymes and go through them. Some of them were old and weathered, literally falling apart, describes Mr. Green. Then he would just start recording the song in one take: intro, verses, chorus. It was nothing like I'd seen before. Although recording Unpredictable was chaotic at times, the duo's chemistry is undeniable. Malik adds, Our chemistry is just crazy; our chemistry is like algebra.

so that text is obviously stolen from... some unnamed editor? of the amazon webstore??

Everything that documents this album uses the same blurb (usually broken into three paras).

the "crazy chemistry algebra" quote i can find attested in https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/malik-b-abdul-basit-roots-founder-dies-20200729.html

Mr. Abdul-Basit continued to contribute occasionally to Roots albums, rhyming on “Here I Come,” “In The Music,” and the title track on 2006′s Game Theory, always delivering memorable, concise verses. He also released an EP that year called Psychological, and in 2015 put out the collaborative album Unpredictable with producer Mr. Green, of whom Mr. Abdul-Basit said, “Our chemistry is just crazy. Our chemistry is like algebra.”

but that's not really encyclopedic content?

the rest of the blurb is an enigma. everyone copies amazon and wikipedia, so :/ Nabijaczleweli (talk) 19:52, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, this is not the label blurb. Naturally, the Enemy Soil redirects to some clothing merch now, but https://web.archive.org/web/20160209184244/http://www.enemysoil.com/ links to https://web.archive.org/web/20160209184244/http://jedimindtricks.merchdirect.com/products/52184-unpredictable-cd which is a distributor with no commentary. Nabijaczleweli (talk) 20:02, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]