Do we have a thread for Chance the Rapper/Acid Rap ?
― Van Horn Street, Friday, September 6, 2013 11:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've been meaning to start one cause it's my favorite album of the year by far.
― The Reverend, Friday, September 6, 2013 4:08 PM Bookmark
Yeah, so the thing that makes this album great is it's the sound of an exuberantly joyful character working through some hard shit, the production is colorful, and Chance brings a manic energy to whole thing, bouncing between off-the-wall raps and bluesy scat at will. Also "Pusha Man/Paranoia" is the best rap song this year. His first tape, 10 Day from a couple years back was good too, if not quite as fully formed.
http://www.datpiff.com/Chance-The-Rapper-Acid-Rap-mixtape.483826.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8nIHZ-0kS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0DcVbSYWUA
― The Reverend, Friday, 6 September 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
yeah i like the exuberance you mention!
reminds me of pharcyde sometimes
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 September 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
I think "Chain Smoker" is my favorite deep cut no one talks about off of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bigsk2g7xO8
― The Reverend, Friday, 6 September 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
Pusha Man/Paranoia, Acid Rap and Chain Smoker are my favorites. Hope Favorite Song will be a single. The whole thing is probably my hip-hop album this year.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 6 September 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link
woah i was just listening to acid rap on grooveshark and "carnival" by natalie merchant on spotify at the same time and they synched up in this tripped out way
― My Little Pono (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 September 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
natalie merchant had a secret huge rap mashup
― 2 Steenz (some dude), Friday, 6 September 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
lol chain smoker is the only song of his i listen to regularly
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Saturday, 7 September 2013 02:42 (ten years ago) link
streamed the whole thing bc of it, it had some nice songs but none of them hit me like chain smoker
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Saturday, 7 September 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
this album is essentially a legit classic to me
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 September 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
The way he switches voices midsong is the source of his strength and weakness imo.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 September 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
he sounds like what i always assumed donald glover sounded like
chain smoker is ok
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 September 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
ow
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Saturday, 7 September 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
I need to revisit the tape, because when I think about it I feel more fond of it than I did when it was new and the quirks of his voice/delivery grated on me easily. And that new song with Lil Wayne is so good, I kinda hope that becomes his big single.
― 2 Steenz (some dude), Saturday, 7 September 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
Still cant knock the K'naan comparisons out of my head BUT I still really like him and this tape.
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 7 September 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Hadnt heard that song w Wayne, ty. Always good to hear wayne just straight-up rappy rapping.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOWz0rfe7Y
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 7 September 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
Still listen to this regularly, and still marvel at how incredible it is. Can't list many recent rap albums that match this level of song craft while sustaining this level of energy while featuring rapping this consistently strong. Incredible.
― Evan R, Saturday, 7 September 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
"Chain Smoker" is just glorious, but my favorite is still "Lost." The way he romanticizes an empty hookup, looking for meaning that's not there, is just so sad and pure. You rarely find that level of affection in rap songs about actual romance, let alone flings
― Evan R, Saturday, 7 September 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
There is no duds on this album.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
^
― The Reverend, Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
there are 3 tracks in a row dragged down by guest verses though
― suggest ban & threadban method man & redman (some dude), Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
I kind of shamefully like that gambino verse :/
― The Reverend, Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
oh no rev
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
I love the album, and I know nothing good will come of bringing this up, but I hate the line from Favorite Song about him being a 'slapp-happy faggot slapper'.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 7 September 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Same
― The Reverend, Sunday, 8 September 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it's a sore spot I wonder what he would say if confronted.
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Sunday, 8 September 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
chain smoker is my fav track.
i have a lot to say abt this but will sit on it for awhile.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Sunday, 8 September 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
Naw son go in
― The Reverend, Sunday, 8 September 2013 05:57 (ten years ago) link
finally got around to this, sooooooo good.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
i got a lotta love for "cocoa butter kisses"
― monotony, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
As of late, my verses seem not so verse-y
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
where the fuck is matt lauer at? somebody get katie couric in here
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
I keep reading this thread as parappa the rapper
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/07/parappasnd425.jpg
"Everybody dies in the summer/ So pray to god for a little more spring"
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
One of the tensions that makes this album work so is how it's got all these middle-class rap signifiers on the surface but also has all this heavy fucked up street shit lurking just off-camera and sometimes intruding.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 03:58 (ten years ago) link
otm
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 08:33 (ten years ago) link
this could go on the sad rap thread : (
― j., Wednesday, 11 September 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
right, it doesn't at all feel like its running from this stuff
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
dilluuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― j., Monday, 16 September 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
deej's profile article on him is v good
http://www.complex.com/music/2013/09/chance-the-rapper-interview-complex-cover-story
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 03:26 (ten years ago) link
http://cdnl.complex.com/assets/CHANNEL_IMAGES/MUSIC/2013/09/content/1379030127_complexchancetherappercover.jpg
i'm glad complex is finally putting "fast forward" on the cover instead of "pause"
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 04:04 (ten years ago) link
Gonna see this dude tomorrow night.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
I like this and I'm glad it exists but there's something about his voice, or one of the voices he using, that I find really unpleasant to listen to.
I barely even noticed the Childish Gambino verse on first listen, the Ab-Soul verse is the really egregious one here.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 09:57 (ten years ago) link
I feel like a big part of rap fandom, especially these days, is kinda figuring out what unique or strange voices/rapping styles you actually want to get used to and not be annoyed or put off by. Like it took me a while to come around to Kendrick's voice, still slowly getting used to Chance's.
Ugh that Ab Soul verse though.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah absorbing this release in small chunks has been the surest way for me to submit.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:53 (ten years ago) link
tmi
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
let me put my mouth where you absorb small chunks, boo
― Vinetalic - "My Friend Terio" (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link
This information brought to you by a state of Florida computer.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, his voice does grate a bit. I have to admit...
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
It did for me when I'd only heard "Juice" and that's prob why it took me a couple months to check it out until I saw so many people I trust talk about how good it was. But as soon as I put it on it was immediately taken with it. Total Albums that you know are going to be brilliant within the opening 20 seconds of the first track status.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
also agree with matt but i think ultimately i could probably power through the sound of his voice if i felt more compelled by what he was saying with it. just don't really feel like i need early yeezy told to me again by wyclef on ludes
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
the tape opening with a re-do of an old Kanye tape intro is the opposite of an auspicious opening imo
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
although in generally i find the whole thing more compelling and less kanye-ish than rtc does
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah look i dont want a bunch of dudes jumping down my throat telling me he's not exactly exactly like ye, i can see that
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
huh: http://soundcloud.com/1-800-dinosaur/life-round-here-feat-chance
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:44 AM Bookmark
Hmm, I didn't realize this. I just heard the horns and voices and it was like all the sunbeams were pointed straight at me for a moment.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
the outro of the final track is one of the absolute best parts of this tape
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t5Jt2mkrzc
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link
Well then Chance made something better out of it.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
One of the problem with the voice it is that at its most grating on Juice, which is the first single. Once I powered through it, I was fine. I really hope he doesn't get buried because of the voice like Joanna Newsom did.
Not impressed with the James Blake remix, and I usually really enjoy James Blake.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
hate it
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 17 September 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
I really hope he doesn't get buried because of the voice like Joanna Newsom did
isn't she doing pretty well for herself
― j., Tuesday, 17 September 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
haha what an odd go-to point of comparison
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:10 (ten years ago) link
well unfortunately there's no history of rappers with "weird" voices achieving wide success for us to draw on
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 September 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
Kendrick?
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
Wayne? Bizzy Bone? Boosie?
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:06 (ten years ago) link
eh joanna newsom still seems like the most logical comparison to me
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:06 (ten years ago) link
o i c
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn3.sbnation.com/assets/3238875/butt-alternate-angle.gif
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:12 (ten years ago) link
his voice takes like a song to get used to what is wrong with all of you
xp loooooooooool
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:18 (ten years ago) link
let me put my mouth where you potty, boo
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
haha
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:44 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, wasn't aware of many rappers whose voice grated some like Chance's. It is an odd comparison.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 04:50 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it's the "neh neh neah" voice that's the most annoying... And some of the singing as well...
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.complex.com/music/2013/09/chance-the-rappers-favorite-albums/joanna-newsom-ys
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Ha.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
this talk about his weird grating voice is strange to me because it's so similar to lil wayne's? i mean not identical but certainly in the same lane, and it's made pretty obvious at the start of the tape when he says "please say the rapper"
i'm mostly with rtc in that i don't find what chance says particularly compelling, it's all a bit too backpackery for me though i don't hate it or anything
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
what does 'too backpackery' mean in relation to what he's talking abt
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
i def thought his earlier stuff was a little too much The Craft Of Song and not enough of him in it, but recent stuff is more fully fleshed out.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Man...I can't at all understand anyone who says they don't find him compelling. "Paranoia" breaks my heart every time I hear it. I can't remember the last song that did the same.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
yeah i don't get that criticism at all
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
Rapping about your close friend being stabbed to death doesn't strike me as excessively backpackery tbh
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Lol at the idea of reducing a goofball like him to I R SERIOUS RAP tho, even if he does have some shit gettin' too real moments
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
that one's not on acid rap
idk it's all fine i guess but it doesn't feel distinct, or anything i feel i need to go back to? nothing about it is substandard but i can't pinpoint anything that really stands out for me, i feel like it all reminds me of other stuff
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
oh the weed coughs are pretty dnw i guess
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
I must be in a morbid mood because it's the death-related lines that stuck with me.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
"Paranoia"? It's like part 2 of the second track.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I got a new backpack. I'm gonna put the Chance album in it!
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
oh is that why there's a huge gap in the middle of "pusha man", i did wonder
sorry, it didn't hit me or grab me then :/ i admit my attention had almost completely wandered by the last few tracks though. (this was a long-belated relisten, i hadn't heard it since my first go)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
we all sing along to the chorus on Cocoa Butter Kisses, right?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:22 (ten years ago) link
the last few tracks are the best on the album
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Agreed. "Acid Rain" is awesome.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
I think he'll be great live, despite my earlier posts. And do think it's clearly one of the best tapes this year.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
"acid rain" is totally gripping
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I love the part about missing the diagonal grilled cheeses
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link
what is the line about the need for an introspective dance track
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
the "Pusha Man" through "Juice" stretch is completely perfect music imo
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
more like pants the crapper
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
OTM.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
def
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
the whole album is the best part of the album
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
^^^ my memoir title
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Yeah... it was okay.
Maybe chanting U.S.A. and running off stage at the end isn't an awesome move in Europe. In fact, there were more than a few amateurish moves, including cutting off tracks early and sort of criticizing the audience for not 'having fun', but I guess he's still finding his feet in front of different audiences.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
criticizing the audience for not 'having fun'
Everyone does this now.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
I mean, obviously not acts who are good enough live to make the audience actually have fun, but there are a lot of butthurt whining performers around nowadays.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
idk having seen them perform up close sounds like someone who isn't used to the way a rap DJ interacts w/ the crowd
dj oreo is a thorough fuckin party DJ
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
'as of late, all my verses seem not so versey'
― j., Thursday, 19 September 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
he killed live when we saw him in toronto.
show sold out. originally was 15$ ended up being way more expensive if you didn't get tickets in advance (we did).
high energy all the way through, crowd knew the words to most of the songs, chance was loving it. granted he wasn't opening for a big tour - it was a day off in between stops on the mac miller tour and he was the headliner at the hoxton which is small-ish but still, he definitely knows how to work a crowd.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 September 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
Actually, yeah, I thought DJ Oreo was great. The intro was amazing fun.
But don't get me wrong, the show was fine as a whole. I go to rap show often enough, but was surprised that they really took it in the direction of full blown party atmosphere. Sometimes the hype and vibe works to just enhance what's already there, sometimes it feels a bit forced. Maybe I just wasn't feeling for some reason.
Under the circumstances, for a Wednesday night in Amsterdam, they had to work hard and in the end it was pretty crazy.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 19 September 2013 09:25 (ten years ago) link
Really picked up on the Eminem influence on Chance live tho.
― ienjoyhotdogs, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:59 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
unappreciated
― slam dunk, Monday, 30 September 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
also this album is great. i p much only ever hear about rap from ilx these days so thanks everyone!
― slam dunk, Monday, 30 September 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
more like flaccid rap
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Monday, 30 September 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
Practice back flips, tragic actress // On a movie with no screenWhen the only time he loves me is naked in my dreams
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 17 October 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
i wish i didn't look up what song that was, i wish i never looked up what songs rap songs are
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Thursday, 17 October 2013 05:09 (ten years ago) link
Men don’t comfort or love her in reality. They only have sex with her in her fantasies. In her dreams, he still deeply cares for her (at least sexually)This guy that she likes doesn’t love her, or really take her seriously, or show her any real affection (sexual or not). And even in her dreams when he does show her “love” it’s only because of the sex. Which isn’t even love, it’s lust. So, either way, she’s not getting what she truly wants from him.
This guy that she likes doesn’t love her, or really take her seriously, or show her any real affection (sexual or not). And even in her dreams when he does show her “love” it’s only because of the sex. Which isn’t even love, it’s lust. So, either way, she’s not getting what she truly wants from him.
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Thursday, 17 October 2013 05:10 (ten years ago) link
rap genius is dumbq
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
dumbqs
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
lolololol.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 17 October 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Terrific gig, loved the trumpet and Chance's dancing.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 November 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
all of this is great. i love this kid.
http://www.fakeshoredrive.com/2013/12/video-chance-rapper-arensio-hall-show.html/
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 20 December 2013 05:24 (ten years ago) link
^^^^^
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 20 December 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
he's doing everything right and his band is pretty killing.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 20 December 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
He is much smaller than I realized.
― Evan R, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
haha man, so all over the place but still awesome
― Al He Miola (Spottie), Friday, 20 December 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
noooooooooooooooooooo
http://www.missinfo.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/chance-the-rapper-the-source.jpg
― Ella Maria Finally Rich-O'Connor (some dude), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
― Spottie, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 21:30 (ten years ago) link
neh-neh-neh neh-neh-neh-neh-neh
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link
That 'noooooooo' is bcz Macklemore is man of the year, right?
― Quarterpayne McRapp (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
idk bout that, chance's cover is just horrific
― Ella Maria Finally Rich-O'Connor (some dude), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
i'm not fully myself, please tell me that's not a real cover?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 12:18 (ten years ago) link
cool sweater
― flopson, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
lol rennavate defended the ugly-ass shirt on twitter too
― ol' Wrink P's thinkpiece (some dude), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Spin cover was way cooler
― Spottie, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
I do like the shirt, actually
― Quarterpayne McRapp (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qWIGGqSoz4
― flopson, Thursday, 2 January 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
aw that doesn't have the full skit
― flopson, Thursday, 2 January 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
is this real? http://www.nme.com/news/chance-the-rapper/74797
ugh, i have plenty of time for chance & james blake but can't see their musical worlds (which are both so fully realized in their own right) mixing well.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
would watch the reality show though.
continuing his steak of collaborating with the worst artists
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:25 (ten years ago) link
I thought the Life Round Here remix was jarring but I love both artists and I think that if Blake was writing with Chance instead of just plugging him into an existing song that could be interesting.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 9 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
don't like the sound of James Bluntstep singing but i don't see why he can't do some beats for good Chance songs at least
― some dude, Thursday, 9 January 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
i wouldn't make too much of this...
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 January 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
Now you tell me. I just bet my pension on a full-length collab coming out by the end of the year.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 10 January 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link
Weather's above 70 and I been listening to this on repeat
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 08:26 (ten years ago) link
― MikoMcha, Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:25 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark
Yeah there's this one verse that sounds like a rewritten Em verse, I gotta remember to make a note next time I hear it
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 08:42 (ten years ago) link
like "You Song" and "Tweakin'" better than this mixtape, unless I'm imagining things he toned down his vocal style for 'em
― nova, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link
His vocal style is one of the best things about this album imo
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper/chance-the-rapper-the-social
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
This must be a demo. Would be thrilled if he really incorporated the band in the production of the next album.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Frank Ocean-listenin'
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper/chance-the-rapper-social-experiment-i-am-very-very-lonely
tube sockswhite briefsgold wrrrist awatchaaaaaa
tonight
(fancy attire)
― j., Thursday, 1 May 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/pfVU2_sdXL/#
― j., Saturday, 21 June 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper/everyday-wonderful-arthur
Additional Vocals from: Wyclef Jean, Francis & The Lights, Jesse Ware, Elle Varner, Eryn Allen Kane, The O'my's, Peter Cottontale & Donnie Trumpet
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― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
man this turned out great
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
all his new tracks with his band are pretty great
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
i almost bought these sweatpants aka "chance pants"
http://i.imgur.com/DyFsNdr.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
i have this one
http://cdn.hiphopwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/chance-the-rapper-florida-haters.jpg
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
He made a special shirt for each college he performed at. Go Blue!
http://www.earbuddy.net/wp-content/uploads/Chance-The-Rapper.jpg
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
SOMETHING WRONGI HOLD MY HEADMJ GONEOUR NIGGA DEAD
― The Reverend, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
A rap verse in this song would have been nice
― Evan R, Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
Reverend, idgi.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
All of the Lights had like 15 famous back-up singers and so does this.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 31 July 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Haha, of course!
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 1 August 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
http://theredbackpack.tumblr.com/post/96416124375/hey-remember-this-i-was-going-to-contribute-this
― j., Tuesday, 2 September 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
I like Matt, who wrote that, but I'm not sure I really 'get' that piece & the connections its trying to make. Or the strawman of white academic criticism that it's apparently an anecdote to? whenever i read academic criticism of rap it tends to be from people of color, because academia is one place where people of color have managed to make more significant inroads of influence
i also have issues w/ Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's pieces but that's neither here nor there
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
i like the point about 'good'. i think that's very good. something to do something with.
― j., Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
I've been listening a lot to Acid Rap again recently, and I still can't quite believe how good it is. This album always feel exciting.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/news/57112-chance-the-rapper-releases-no-better-blues/
― just sayin, Friday, 17 October 2014 04:56 (nine years ago) link
THAT'S THAT SHIT HE DOOOOON'T LIKE!
― longneck, Friday, 17 October 2014 08:08 (nine years ago) link
His best song since the album release, nothing can stop him.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 17 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6289299/chance-the-rapper-new-album-surf-interview
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/p2GhNQo.jpg
― ✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Sunday, 9 November 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
: )
― j., Sunday, 9 November 2014 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Wondering if the password to the twitter account gets passed on when a new mayor gets elected
― 龜, Sunday, 9 November 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
that's sweet, too bad the guy next to chance is a walking pile of shit
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 10 November 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
Chance the Rapper meet Rahm the Impaler
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
New track: https://soundcloud.com/donnietrumpet/donnie-trumpet-the-social-experiment-sunday-candy
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 28 November 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/surf/id998076113
― just sayin, Friday, 29 May 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
how can i download this with my itunes UK account?
― cerealbar, Friday, 29 May 2015 08:23 (eight years ago) link
it doesn't seem to be on uk itunes but i found this forum with download links http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=165608924
― lex pretend, Friday, 29 May 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link
thanks :)
― cerealbar, Friday, 29 May 2015 08:42 (eight years ago) link
Ooh wee! This is great.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 30 May 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
It really is.
― longneck, Monday, 1 June 2015 07:32 (eight years ago) link
Surf is a huge amount of fun, like if someone turned "Good Ass Outro" into an entire album.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 June 2015 09:55 (eight years ago) link
Any news re: a physical release?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 July 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
Surf is kind of annoying.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
kind of equal parts enjoyable and annoying I would say? Often simultaneously?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
i think the only part that annoys me is the KYLE verse
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
Yes this is true.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
obviously a let down after acid rap, still waiting for the proper sequel. it's not all bad, sunday candy is still my track of the year.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
if they didn't do enough for you to drop any expectations of this as "the follow-up to Acid Rap" then i think that's your issue
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
literally every piece about this album was like, 'this is not a follow up to acid rap' in the lede
kyle is def the album's worst part imo
― supreme problematics (D-40), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 06:37 (eight years ago) link
although thematically consistent?
― supreme problematics (D-40), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 06:38 (eight years ago) link
i thought it was chance rapping in character for a while
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:32 (eight years ago) link
it's also just kinda frustrating that Chance did a hook for the song that really feels like a very personal mission statement coming from him, and then he lets other people do the verses.
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Chance always making himself adjacent to people who are ostensibly similar but not quite (Vic Mensa, Gambino, Kyle) really just serves to help me see what he gets right that other rappers in his lane get wrong.
― some dude, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Equal parts fun and annoying is my response too. I liked it for a couple days before filing it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
more like wipeout
― gr8080, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
More frustrating than annoying? The way tracks stop just when they're getting going. Can see myself growing to love it tho.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
this is more of a side project really right?
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
haha what exactly are we bargaining with/for here
― j., Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
i have come back to this a lot more than i went back to acid rap, i really like it
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 8 July 2015 16:38 (eight years ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, July 8, 2015 1:11 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i didn't follow all the campaign around it, it's my issue and i'm assuming it.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 9 July 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
Even before I saw the vid for Sunday Candy, this felt like what would happen if Michel Gondry made a rap album.
Don't understand why they chose to make you slog all the way through this quite hazy, insubstantial sprawl before you get to Sunday Candy, which is great and catchy and infuriating all at the same time.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 10:12 (eight years ago) link
fwiw
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/news/60521/dde6f4eb.jpg
https://soundcloud.com/lilblovesthebasedgod/sets/lil-b-x-chance-the-rapper-free-based-freestyle-mixtape
― Number None, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
new track
https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper/israel-sparring-chance-the-rapper-noname-gypsy
― Number None, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
the Lil B mixtape is great!
― imago, Sunday, 16 August 2015 08:47 (eight years ago) link
damn chance's colbert performance tonight was really really fun
the new track is awesome too, really what i pictured his post-acid rap music could grow into
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 October 2015 04:41 (eight years ago) link
i mostly do not fuck w/ the social experiment album but this song is spectacular
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 October 2015 04:42 (eight years ago) link
how do i set my alarm clock so i can wake up to 'angels' every morning. pierre joy
― tpp, Saturday, 12 December 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
new song is pretty cool, feel like there's a greater pop song buried in there somewhere but the r&b parts over that production is pretty undeniable. might prefer the live version actually but this + "angels" and even the slowed down "sunday candy" are all very very good
if they're indicative of where his new tape is gonna be it will be a tremendous record
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 13 December 2015 07:02 (eight years ago) link
uh
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/chance-the-rapper-somewhere-in-paradise-feat-jeremih-and-r-kelly-new-song.1967651.html
drunken late night new chance the rapper ft jeremih and r kelly moment. i guess this was on snl?
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Sunday, 13 December 2015 07:21 (eight years ago) link
It was, but with no jeremih or r kelly.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 13 December 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J5bAVKzrBzI
― cozen, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link
new tape/album this month!
― Number None, Monday, 4 April 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
supposed to be dropping tonight
http://i.imgur.com/uSMxxeJ.jpg
― Number None, Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
cool
― Spottie, Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
so new Chance and James Blake albums tonight huh
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
really hope they're entirely separate entities
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
ha
― Number None, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
i mean...they lived in the same house at one point, i really was worried circa 2014 that Chance's next album would be a Blake collab thing
― some dude, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
oh this should be cool
sometimes i have to admit i get really annoyed by his voice, when it's right i love chance but when i don't want to hear him i REALLY don't want to hear him
― marcos, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
i hated that sunday candy video sooooooo much but i can't really get w/ musicals in general though
― marcos, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:43 (seven years ago) link
aw man that's a great video
― Spottie, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
yea it's more my own thing w/ musicals, they are just too much for me, i feel embarassed for everyone involved including me as an audience member but i know people love them so i can easily see why people would like it
― marcos, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
new song is pretty all right imo http://pitchfork.com/news/65439-chance-the-rapper-lil-wayne-and-2-chainz-release-new-song-no-problem-listen/?mbid=social_twitter
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
the wayne & 2 chainz verses feel more like a flex than logical additions to the song, which otherwise sounds pretty amazing
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
2 chainz verses always logical additions imo
― dc, Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
idk who produced it but it kinda sounds like a kanye beat that exploded
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
xp otm
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 12 May 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
i already regret my earlier post. wayne sounds great... he's kinda doing a "let the beat build" thing
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
"half a milli in the safe another in the pillowcase / codeine got me moving slower than a caterpillar race" is some real good vintage wayne
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
Love this guy but wtf is w his features
― albvivertine, Friday, 13 May 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
Tape is fire so far
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 03:47 (seven years ago) link
i thought the song with thug & lil yachty was kind of aggressively offputting but yeah
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
i didnt mind it, even dug yachty's verse altho he's clearly outclassed
its very optimistic music
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
up on datpiff now for all those anti apple music people (like me)
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 May 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
Hell yeah this is so good.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 13 May 2016 08:09 (seven years ago) link
i could do without blessings and how great
― ANU (sisilafami), Friday, 13 May 2016 09:09 (seven years ago) link
I could not.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 13 May 2016 09:40 (seven years ago) link
What I could do without is the muddy mixing, especially on the opening tracks.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 13 May 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
omg "smoke break"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
this is good imo
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
i had just cranked it up when vocoder Kanye (?) comes in on the first track, and twice the volume of the rest of the mix.
for all the noise he's made about how free releases should be eligible for Grammys, you'd think he'd gotten have a better mixing & mastering pass on this.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
also i never thought i'd hear Bieber over a Mount Kimbie sample.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 13 May 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
there is so much jesus on this album that it made me feel physically nauseous by the end
like i'd never really connected w/chance on an emotional level and the amount of god-n-family stuff is p much why, and it's so overbearing here
lots of nice beats though but whatever i can't listen to this again
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
Godless Europeans smh
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
my firm view that christianity is a poison is informed 100% by too much, not too little, exposure to it
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
my firm view is that popular music as we know it literally does not exist without black church music
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
i'm sure you can trace the history of music further back than that, not that it's a relevant point to make
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
lol i'm as atheist as could but getting down on this for the gospel speak is laughable imo
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
could be*
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
why is it laughable to have a negative reaction to overbearing christianity?
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
I just don't see that it's overbearing. It's part of the esthetic sure.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
Stare at the cue cards, take out the juke partsTake out the God references, just leave the cool parts
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
i can assure you my antipathy to christianity is not because it's "uncool"
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
but you understand that the role of christianity is very different on chicago's south side & in its music than it may be for yourself
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
i didn't frame my reaction as anything other than a personal response
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
i think you need jesus brah
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 13 May 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
i have a real allergy to christianity which is why i have trouble with later prefab sprout records but it didn't really bother me on this record at all?
idk its so joyous and fun who cares
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, 13 May 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
i can understand being put off by the relentless positivity, though. brainwasher (who hasn't posted on here in some time ergo i will speak on his behalf lol) told me he's more into vince staples or it resonates more w/ him, and I can understand that pov even if i like chance more; its optimism can be blinding
ideologically im probably also more aligned w/ vince's worldview but musically i much prefer chance
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
omg that synth bass in the chorus of "Smoke Break."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
musically it feels super generous, i get really caught up in the swirl of it
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
my man
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fontana (D-40), Friday, May 13, 2016 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ooooooooh!
― flappy bird, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
chance isn't all relentless positivity though and i think that came through a lot on Acid Rap
― 龜, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
This feels like the lightbeam gospel that TLOP hinted at but didn't really deliver. I love it.
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
gospel rap (in honor of new chance)
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
This might be competing with Lemonade for album of the year.
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
this is way better lemonade is p bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
i do think he has sort of deemphasized his own rapping... this def shares a sort of structure or maybe ethos w/ the social experiment album where the guests are really foregrounded and he feels more like part of a tapestry than the center of attention. it's obv not as pronounced as surf but it feels more of a piece w/ that than acid rap. similarly there was a sociological perspective on acid rap that i found really illuminating & refreshing and that too has receded a bit prob because the circumstances of his own life have changed drastically.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
acid rap was p beats to rhymes trad this one is crazily songy p impressive im liking him more like that, didnt listen to surf
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
yeah i mean this one is obv crazy accomplished on a music & songwriting level and by comparison acid rap feels stripped down. but there was like an overarching aesthetic vision to acid rap that still felt preternatural to me & something like "good ass outro" was just crazy good on a musical level. i do miss that beats to rhymes thing tho, i really was savoring the second "blessings"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
is it crazy to admit I like him less when he sings?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
CHANCE THE GOSPELLER
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
i got kinda tired of him listening to him on acid rap even tho he was obvs very good, guess im feeling him a lil more when he like u were saying steps back a bit xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Friday, May 13, 2016 3:08 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
heh
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JmXCNPs6Y
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
j0rd otm
― 龜, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
for me this in no way compares to Acid Rap, but that's ok, can't go home again, etc
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
jord obvs a lot more chance passionate than me, but i feel like i might be getting into this one
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
ftr i think this album is great and a logical progression for him, im just picking nits
― J0rdan S., Friday, 13 May 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, May 13, 2016 2:08 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
u should listen to surf
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Listening to Sunday Candy on repeat, sooooo good. I liked it before, but not like this.
The way his singing is the rhythm track in Blessings is so good.
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
i will listen to surf i mean tbh i did at least .5 times already before
― lag∞n, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
I love that 'Sunday Candy' is both a reference to the eucharist and oral sex.
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 May 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
I'm loving this so far. It's more immediate and song-oriented than Surf, but it takes the "party and everyone's invited" vibe that I loved about that project and combines it with the joyous and infectious personality of Acid Rap.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
I'm also glad that Somewhere in Paradise didn't make the tape. It's pretty lightweight when compared to some of the tracks that did make the cut.
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Friday, 13 May 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
I keep hearing them sing *Never Trump' in the second part of Finish Line.
― Frederik B, Friday, 13 May 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
juke jam is incred imo
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 May 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
oh god the mix on first two tracks
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 May 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
i hope they Kanye that shit and fix it
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 13 May 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
for those worried, there's a proper rip with a proper mix out there.
― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, 14 May 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
how would a fan 'fix' a mix without the multitrack studio files
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Saturday, 14 May 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
is the apple music one better? xp
― 龜, Saturday, 14 May 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link
it's so confusing that this is on 'apple music' but not the itunes store lol
― 龜, Saturday, 14 May 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
sisi, Imma need your help with this one. Where should I look?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 14 May 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
― 龜, Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:02 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, it was nice when Surf was a free download on itunes, dunno why they didn't do that again unless they really are trying hard to market Apple Music and/or phase out purchased downloads
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Saturday, 14 May 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
wonder how much apple pays for these short windows of exclusivity
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Saturday, May 14, 2016 8:37 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they are trying hard to ... etc
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
I don't think they're trying to phase out downloads. I imagine the tape will be available for free download when it stops being exclusive and migrates onto other streaming platforms
Apple still makes a good deal of money on downloads, they won't phase them out until they're making more money off Apple Music than iTunes. That's definitely not happening yet
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
longneck you should look for the aac rip on soulseek
― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
i think i read on billboard that putting it up as a stream first allows it to be counted as an official album release (i.e. soundscan will count the streams up) which, among other things, mean it can be entered from grammy consideration
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
entered for...
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link
he did a deal with apple though & apple is trying to scale subscriptions to its streaming service
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Thanks, sisi. I don't use soulseek but the aac tag helped me search for it. Will give this version a try. Is the apple music version as bad as the datpiff version or is there a difference?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 14 May 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
various ilxors currently arguing abt whether chance is an independent artist on twitter but the thing is no one really knows his status, he might just be a disney boy band, or he cld be selling mixtapes out of the trunk of his car, jayz mightve signed him to a 360 deal five years ago
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
who is future and why does he always like an anemic dog
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
He's not signed to a label or a publishing company but he's signed to CAA.
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Saturday, 14 May 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
which is what... a mafia front????
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 May 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, May 14, 2016 5:56 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its called musical transcendence look it up
― lag∞n, Saturday, 14 May 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
finding it hard to get into this, just like surf last year. loved acid rap, but not much chance has done after.
― warm winds and clear skies, Saturday, 14 May 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
to longneck : i didn't try the datpiff version so idk...
― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, 14 May 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
In a way
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Sunday, 15 May 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
I'm fairly confident chance has not signed a record deal but I do not know the terms of his deal with Apple
I am guessing it is a content deal song the lines of what Drake has with apple
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 15 May 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
*along
was the datpiff version just a shitty rip of the stream? it's down now
b-sides https://soundcloud.com/dailyhiphopsounds/grownasskid
― 龜, Sunday, 15 May 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
after a few listens i'm starting to really like it, which is exactly the opposite reaction i've had from other hip hop records this year (except kendrick's)
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 16 May 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
One of the things i like the most about Chance is that he raps over juke beats and he's really good at it so i'm a bit disappointed cuz this has no juke beats.
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 16 May 2016 09:21 (seven years ago) link
Mixtape is so weird. I kinda love it but it doesn't even feel like Chance is on it.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 16 May 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
The song "Mixtape" that is. Not this mixtape.
so i'm a bit disappointed cuz this has no juke beats.
^why 'Juke Joint' was disappointing
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, May 16, 2016 10:19 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
all songs w thugger are thugger songs, hes that powerful
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
bieber's hook in "juke joint" really bums me out
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
er "juke jam" rather
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, May 16, 2016 4:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well Yachty kinda outshines him too and that feels so... weird.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 16 May 2016 17:22 (seven years ago) link
not gonna concede that point but it sounds like a thugger song regardless
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
coloring book is a good album.
― ulysses, Monday, 16 May 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
bummed out by wayne on "no problem" which is great except for him.
― ulysses, Monday, 16 May 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
Great album but good lord that first track sounds like complete shit, that low brass noise and the vocoders just crashing into everything else. Pretty sure I'm listening to the supposedly superior AAC version as well.
The rest is nearly uniformly fantastic.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the «aac» is slightly less abrasive but still sounds like shit, unfortunately. Why did Acid Rap and Surf both sound so much better than this?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
maybe he wanted to make it more of a genuine mixtape experience
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
The rest of it sounds fine so in the absence of a better explanation I'm going to blame Kanye.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
when in doubt
― ulysses, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Does anyone think this is better than Acid Rain and the best parts of Surf (i.e. Sunday Candy) though? It's mostly v blissful to me but I have a hard time ranking it over his previous work.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
I'll take it over Acid Rap, but Sunday Candy is the best thing he's ever done.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
i have the exact opposite opinion of this post ^
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
I agree that it could use more juke beats, but it still has a juke sensibility in parts. Angels, for instance. The interplay between the horns and beats in the chorus sounds quite jukish to me. The end of Summer Friends, after Jeremiah comes in, the beats begin changing, and it almost hints at a juke jam before it ends. In other places, I think the rhythmic interplay from juke is influencing the way Chance rides the beat. The way parts of the songs seem to flow in different tempi.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Anyone know why it's off datpiff? It says that a complaint has been filed against it from some lawyer firm. Is it downloadable some place else without a subscription?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Apple had it pulled, they have an exclusive
― ulysses, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Streaming site exclusives are going to become very tiresome very quickly for a lot of people. No one's going to keep two or three subscriptions going and presumably you can't keep signing up for free trials. So everyone will just end up stealing the thing anyway, especially as there's unlikely to be a physical product in these instances.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah I've resorted back to torrenting some things after a two/three year hiatus
― Spottie, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
i'm in the acid rap >>> cb camp
― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
I speak to God in publicI speak to God in publicHe keep my rhymes in coupletsHe think the new shit jamI think we mutual fans
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Has he been using his voice differently post-Acid Rap or did I just get familiar with it
― nova, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Same Drugs is so lovely.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 10:47 (seven years ago) link
Streaming site exclusives are going to become very tiresome very quickly for a lot of people.
yeah i've missed out on hearing a bunch of stuff now (including this chance). i have a spotify subscription & i've always said i'd be willing to pay significantly more than i do now for a "complete" streaming service (especially if it compensated artists in an improved way). but i really don't know if that extends to paying ~$10 a month to multiple shitty tech companies.
not the thread for that discussion, sorry. hope to hear this mixtape some day soon!
― tpp, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link
i mean you could just use google and find the mp3's...
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
i pay roughly $30 a month for Spotify, Apple and Tidal because being able to virtually anything I want for the amount that used to buy me 3 CDs is pretty fucking cool and i pay way more for cable TV, which i care about way less.
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
Ugh I have considered that too but damn there reall has got to be a better way.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link
i'm not mad at the streaming wars because i feel like it'll have overall positive impacts on the music business that a Spotify monopoly wouldn't.
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:44 (seven years ago) link
Or you'll do really well out of it if you're Kanye or Beyonce and everyone else will get the same shitty treatment.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:46 (seven years ago) link
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:09 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yep
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
i only use Spotify as background music at home w/my gf, and still listen to mp3s in the car like an old person. not having the option to pay for a digital copy of something i like bums me out.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
digging Summer Friends today
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
i pay roughly $30 a month for Spotify, Apple and Tidal because being able to virtually anything I want for the amount that used to buy me 3 CDs is pretty fucking cool and i pay way more for cable TV, which i care about way less.― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:09 AM (4 hours ago)yep― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:02 PM (54 minutes ago)
yep― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:02 PM (54 minutes ago)
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:57 (seven years ago) link
in my world of young people update: i was talking with a pair of interns working with me last night and it became clear that they didn't know a music marketplace other than the streaming one. They became conscious consumers during the itunes era and have spent all their teens with spotify and youtube. one of them told me she remembered having a big book of cds that she took with her to elementary school. i always kinda thought that a generation spoiled in this fashion would become dependent and it kinda worked?
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
we do have a number of active threads discussing music distribution already tho
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
This is an awesome mindset. I'm happy to pay for a service or two, too, b/c I never want to pirate music ever again. But what does Spotify provide you with that Apple and Tidal don't? They don't have exclusives, do they?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
xp yeah, my bad
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
i think about this stuff a lot, too; it's hard not to. might be appropriate to use this thread instead of just the individual apple/tidal/spotify ones:
Thread For Chatter About The Streaming Music Economy
― dc, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
whoa this record is really good
― marcos, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
the features here are great, even wayne imo lol
― marcos, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
i think the wayne verse is amazing. honestly wonder if he's gotten off drugs or something cuz there's emotional & lyrical complexity in this verse that i feel like he hasn't shown in like 5 years.
Hold up, get too choked up when I think of old stuffMove on, put my goons on, they kidnap newbornsIn the streets my face a couponHer pussy too warmAll these bitches come to do harmJust bought a new charmFuck the watch, I buy a new arm, you lukewarmI'm Uncle Luke with the hoesPretty bitches, centerfoldsTippy toes around my crib in their robes, just their robesHalf a milli' in the safe, another in the pillowcaseCodeine got me movin' slower than a caterpillar race
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
well i'd group that verse in w/ the 2 chainz collab album where he's also very lucid and creative
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
I like that verse a lot. There were a lot of the same shades of emotional vulnerability and openness on Sorry For The Wait 2, as well, but they were understandably overshadowed by the many, many stinkers on that tape. Underdog Wayne is kind of an interesting idea for him to explore; would love to see him run with it on Carter Whatever # He's On.
― Evan R, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
I don't care for the song, but Wayne's verse is his best in years -- otm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
yea Jordan otm
― marcos, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
In the streets my face a coupon
a rare reference to Wayne's Scottish roots?
― Number None, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
There's only a couple years where "Wayne fell off" talk felt 100% accurate to me. Didn't like any of last year's projects though, don't think I ever made it very far into the second No Ceilings where he rapped over a bunch of cut-rate versions of Drake/Future beats
― nova, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
not hearing the wayne verse as solid at all and while some of that is up to the mix some of it is certainly up to taste.
― ulysses, Friday, 20 May 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Wayne is mostly good again in 2016. Such a relief. 2015 was dark.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 May 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
I listened to this again and that first track is definitely Kanye's fault, to the extent that I wonder if it was actually 'finished' before his vocals were even recorded, and the whole mix was squashed to allow Kanye to trample all over them. That vocoder is so much louder than Everything else and so out of place that I can't think of another scenario.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 May 2016 09:06 (seven years ago) link
kinda in love with this album
― ulysses, Monday, 23 May 2016 00:43 (seven years ago) link
ha, not sure why everybody rips the mix on the opener. It sounds very deliberate to me; there's supposed to be a sense of disruption.
― Evan R, Monday, 23 May 2016 14:12 (seven years ago) link
it's cuz it sounds terrible
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 May 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
yeah i tried to justify it a few diff ways but I couldn't land on anything solid. its just really bad
― Spottie, Monday, 23 May 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
On Spotify now. So happy. Smoke Break is the greatest.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Thursday, 9 June 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link
― Evan R, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:10 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah Spotify has the least in the way of exclusives but it's also the one i've had the longest and use with the most ease and keep most of my playlists on, so it's the one i would keep if i was only going to have one.
― Dierks Bentley's Holistic Detective Agency (some dude), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:49 (seven years ago) link
I approve of this new mixtape
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
Aaah, there is nothing more resoundingly uplifting than this.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 10 June 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
it's great to hear a rap album that's from the POV of, like, a grown man and not some hideously malformed manbaby caricature a la Kanye or Drake or various others
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 June 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
(granted most of what I don't like about modern rap is the actual sonics as opposed to the narratives/personas - this one sounds p great too)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 June 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
luckily there are a lot of rappers who are not Kanye or Drake!
― Hey (Extended Mix), Saturday, 11 June 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/nicosegal/status/797105458070728704
no more 'donnie trumpet', only nico now
― j., Friday, 11 November 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
good, it was a dumb name anyway
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 11 November 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
more memorable than Nico tho
― Spottie, Friday, 11 November 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
it was dumb, but i never even realized it was supposed to be un/related
― j., Friday, 11 November 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
same
― Spottie, Friday, 11 November 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah me too.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 11 November 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah i never made that connection
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 November 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
ditto!
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 11 November 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
me neither, was a p cutesy name tho, chance crus worst quality
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
Nico segal is a way better performer name imo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 11 November 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
shdve changed it to nico horn-guy imo
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
thought i made a poorly formed tweet awhile back about Donald Trumpet but apparently not.
i'm sure he's a nice dude but he's only an okay trumpet player, there was something a little too gleeful about branding himself like "I'm the guy! The guy in the hip-hop world who plays trumpet!"
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 11 November 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
now i'll have to stop referring to my bandmates this way (Jeff Trumpet, Ben Trumpet, Joe Trombone, etc)
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 11 November 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
u cn still do it imo its good
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
like the violin girl, whasserame
― j., Friday, 11 November 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Miri Ben-Violin?
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 11 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
questuba
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Saturday, 12 November 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
not even the worst nickname in the band imo, the drummer goes by Stix
― intheblanks, Saturday, 12 November 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
saw chance last night in Phoenix, pretty good cathartic show after this week. only complaint is that, during the 4 acid rap tracks in the show, he barely rapped. Like he would only do the first third of each line (if even that) and let the audience finish the rest while he ran around the stage like a madman.
― intheblanks, Saturday, 12 November 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Coloring Book is great but has too many slow songs esp in the front half, needs more stuff along the tempo of All Night and No Problems. i get the gospel theme but chance is so good at wholesome pump up jams should be more of those
― flopson, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
I haven't returned to Coloring Book nearly as often as I have Acid Rap, possibly because "All We Got" is a clunker of an opener and starting off with that track makes me want to put on something else. The amazing songs on here are amazing, though, and "Mixtape" and both "Blessings" have grown on me a lot since seeing Chance live last month
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
Album of the year
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:11 (seven years ago) link
love this album a lot but the new Tribe is untouchable
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
I might actually like the Jamila Woods and Saba tapes more than CB but whatever the case, this scene/crew/not sure what to call it is amazingly fertile right now. I don't like the Noname tape as much as some others do--I find her to be dour to an extent that becomes dull--but that's also worth hearing.
I haven't listened to All We Got more than once
― rob, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
ATCQ It's awesome, but I feel like I've somewhat heard it before. Coloring Book is unique. The Jamila Woods tape is probably also in my top five or something. Haven't heard Saba or Noname, but the OddCouple tape was cool as well.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
i haven't listened to this anywhere near as much as acid rap, tho much more than the social experiment album. i think he deviated from his core sound a little too much... i think "mixtape" is just awful, and idk if "smoke break" really works well at all.
but as far as making a single aimed at radio "no problem" is probably as good as anyone could have hoped for in terms of working on commercial and artistic terms, and "summer friends" is one of his best ever songs. i've been listening to the "blessings" reprise ever since he performed it on TV, and "angels" and "juke jam" are great too. i don't think this in my top 10 which i wouldn't have expected prior to its release but it still has its uses to me.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
Jordan mostly otm, but this is probably top ten material to me based on the high points alone.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:15 (seven years ago) link
One of my fav things about Chance is those tiny little moments of vulnerability or sentimentality that he slips into nearly every song. I love the Noname album because it's loaded with even more of those. She has all these casual lines that just gut me.
Typically I don't listen to rap to feel bummed out, but she summons those feelings more effectively than any other rapper right now—the injustice of being dismissed or talked over or not having the love you give reciprocated. So her album isn't the joy bomb that Chance's is but it's a triumph of expression in its own right.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:17 (seven years ago) link
summer friends is one of the great songs of the year in any case
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Summer Friends is great but I can't stand the fake Bon Iver bot. It's the album's worst recycled Kanye West trope.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
isn't it actually bon iver?
― art baengels (monotony), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
it's a sample of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScYn10D2vo
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
yes, which actually features bon iver
― art baengels (monotony), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah I know it says right there on the video
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
cancelled the last three dates of this European tour
had tickets for Friday :(
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 15:47 (seven years ago) link
coloring book classic imo
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
bon iver should be thrown into a dumpster
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
somehow had avoided bon iver until now
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 24 November 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
coloring book was not as good as acid rap huh
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 10 July 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
not even close
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 10 July 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
it was better imo
― Οὖτις, Monday, 10 July 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
ya acid rap is still his best by far
― flopson, Monday, 10 July 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
Acid Rap >>>>>>>>>>>> Coloring Book >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> his management
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link
He's his own management basically lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 01:21 (six years ago) link
despite thinking acid rap is best i think he has grown as an artist and have full belief he will best it soon. my main problem w colouring book is tempo and pacing; i love chance's giddy ecstatic overwhelming embrace the world energy and while doing a gospel album could've channeled that, instead lots of the tracks dragged
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
more preacher man vibes than like, explosive jubilant chorus
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
both so great it doesn't really matter to me.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
however, kinda wish sunday candy was somewhere in coloring book.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
i still think sunday candy is the best thing he's ever done
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
coloring book is pretty good but acid rap towers over it. but i also think acid rap is a GOAT record so
coloring book is a success tho simply for birthing a legitimate chart/rap chart hit and with a song that is legit good and doesn't betray his ethos/sound really at all
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2017 04:09 (six years ago) link
everyone loves him so i figure i'm just wrong but i find both albums completely uninteresting.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
the song w/ wayne and 2 chainz is pretty weak imo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 11 July 2017 08:06 (six years ago) link
also, he gets killed on his own shit
well that is true -- but it's a very good song that was a hit
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 July 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
ok fine I will listen to Acid Rap again
I really love the grownup gospel positivity vibez of Coloring Book, he doesn't put a foot wrong on it imo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 July 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
Huh yeah acid rap is better, just the rhymes alone
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
I found it interesting that Chance the Rapper is so popular and yet most of his music is really unavailable in any hard format. It is a unique and modern way of controlling his own content.
― earlnash, Saturday, 19 August 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
I got my Grammys in the mail. Thank you everyone who made this music with me, especially this girl right here. #ColoringBook #BestRapAlbum #butitwasamixtape #IDidItWithGod #ChanceTebow 🤷🏽♀️ pic.twitter.com/LLFB8PGzcf— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) October 19, 2017
it's an… unboxing video for his grammys
― j., Friday, 20 October 2017 02:27 (six years ago) link
whenever I see this thread bumped I expect to see something like "Chance the Rapper takes over as host of Prairie Home Companion"
― President Keyes, Friday, 20 October 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
Like it says, 4 new songs:
https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper/sets/4-new-songs
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 July 2018 04:12 (five years ago) link
https://theoutline.com/post/5466/chance-the-rapper-buying-chicagoist?zd=2&zi=wtmlpwtj
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
wala cam is so good
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
Chance The Rapper Clarifies He From Chicago https://t.co/CRWhDWxseq pic.twitter.com/lSaDcvVPof— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 19, 2018
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
could be a headline about any rapper from any city
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
sometimes i find chance to be extremely annoying
― marcos, Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
The Onion better be careful. They might be next.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
Wala Cam is incredible
― JB, Friday, 20 July 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
surely "I Might Need Security" is the standout? Strong lyrics, fun use of the sample
Wala Cam lyrics sound very freestyled
― niels, Friday, 20 July 2018 09:22 (five years ago) link
don't really care for I Might Need Security but the other 3 (especially Wala Cam) are great and better than most of Coloring Book
― ufo, Saturday, 21 July 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
feel pretty good about these after more listens... “wala cam” is rly good
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 21 July 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
work out is dope too, might need security sample is fun but his punchlines are kinda wack
strike the "sometimes" for me
― alpine static, Sunday, 22 July 2018 07:50 (five years ago) link
hes annoying but makes good music and can rap his ass off is how i break it down to an extent
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
Lagoon how was the woods
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
great thanks for asking
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 4 August 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
I really like the four new songslagoon glad to have you back thought leading
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
Agree w lagoon
New songs R dope
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 4 August 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
“wala cam” is def my fav but the others are good too
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 August 2018 06:52 (five years ago) link
Security is fave even if just cause it led me back to the eponymous Jamie Foxx special
― tsrobodo, Monday, 6 August 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Acid Rap and 10Day now on Spotify.
Haven't listened to 10Day in a very long time, but I can't imagine that it's aged too well. Its best song, "Windows," is the one song they couldn't clear I guess.
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 June 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
this was pretty interesting: https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/7/10/18862239/chance-the-rapper-new-album-acid-rap-rerelease-backlash
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Thursday, 11 July 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
LOL, apparently there was a 5-foot alligator (!) sighted in one of Chicago's park lagoons (where I just went paddle boating a couple of weeks ago). Inevitably, it has been dubbed Chance the Snapper, and it has a twitter account.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Ugh I hated that. It’s so corny and doesn’t even make sense. Snappers are fish or turtles. Chance is from Chatham not humboldt park. I feel like the motivation for the name was some weird bourgie anxiety abt a “rough area” projected onto the rapper who soothes those anxieties for ppl
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
Huh. I thought it was just something that rhymed with "Rapper." I was a big fan of "Romancing the Stone" when I was a kid, and the bad guy in that movie has an alligator pit, and he's aways saying "look at those snappers!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
They could have named him Chief Teef
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 12 July 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
Ha!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
album is out
― lion king 2: the gift and the curse (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 July 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
CocoRosie is on this...
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
lol
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 July 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
lmao at the contributors
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
So far, this is not good...
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
I really want to like this cause I'm getting bored w/ unambitious 30-minute rap records but uhhh
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
it feels mean to dislike this cause it's so good-natured and warmly arranged but at this point I guess I should just accept this is Not My Thing
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
I will conclude my remarks by saying "Roo" is quite nice
― Simon H., Friday, 26 July 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
i did not love roo, but a few other tracks have been pretty good. i'm sure whatever playlist i make of this album will be good, but not at the level of the last two.
― lion king 2: the gift and the curse (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
hot shower is awesome lol
just got to the randy newman collab and uh...
― lion king 2: the gift and the curse (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
I like 5 Year Plan, but generally this is not corny enough :(
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 July 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
the outro isn't bad, but the middle section grates like crazy
― lion king 2: the gift and the curse (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 July 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
Is this as bad as they make it out to be? Loved Acid Rap and Coloring Book but the comments I’ve read on this one are not positive at all.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 27 July 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
it's not horrible, and I did find the more palatable material crops up later on. it's just a lot of his thing to deal with in one sitting
― Simon H., Saturday, 27 July 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
It’s definitely not bad, but the first two tracks leave a bad taste that lingered. I’m definitely not allergic to his sentimental stuff (Same Drugs was either my fav or second fav CB track), and I think the album as a whole will make more sense in a live setting, but I definitely think it’s a step down.
― lion king 2: the gift and the curse (voodoo chili), Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
It's backloaded, yeah, but it's a step down. Nothing as good as Same Drugs, Summertime Friends or Sunday Candy. The productions are too boring.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
Def Chance’s New Jersey but still good
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
this is pretty underwhelming, i like chance's sound so it's still generally pleasant and the production is very lush but the hooks aren't there compared to his previous work and it's pretty forgettable overall. absolutely does not need to be nearly 80 minutes either, but barely anything does. maybe there's a good album in it with half the tracks removed idk
― ufo, Monday, 29 July 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link
I think the general reception to this is already too negative to even qualify as a New Jersey.
― MarkoP, Monday, 29 July 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
https://t.co/VPP9YZFO0k
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 July 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I like it^
let's be real chance probably should've left this song off the album pic.twitter.com/KQMIwsmaf3— charles (@charliewinsmore) July 27, 2019
― Number None, Monday, 29 July 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Definitely cool that a white Twitch streamer with this as his avatar is dunking on a black man for being happy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/991617769786372096/GxsKCmk7_400x400.jpg
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 July 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
I love Chance. The tweet is still funny
― Number None, Monday, 29 July 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
the backlash to it is somewhat understandable especially since chance is kinda corny in general and that grates with me sometimes even though i'm generally a fan, but still seems quite excessive - it's not a bad terrible album just bloated and a bit underwhelming. after listening to it more there's definitely a pretty good album hidden in there, like "all day long", "found a good one", and "zanies and fools" are all excellent among others and it's generally a pleasant listen just too long
― ufo, Monday, 29 July 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
man, I think I have strong differences in opinion about comedy with anyone who found that tweet funny.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
the tweet's as funny as that song is good imo, ie. not.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 29 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
this album is not very listenable for me
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Album is very good. Criticism is bizarre
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
Clearly a better album than coloring book imo
this album is good ... for me to poop on
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 July 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
pretty funny how quickly ilx falls to the consensus pressure
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 29 July 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
this a blast what are yall (naysayers) listening to?
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 29 July 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
It’s mostly good, just long. I’m gonna try to listen again and start with Eternal.
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 July 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
haven't listened to this yet, but definitely felt in the Twitter air that the knives were going to the out for Chance
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 July 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
i think the production feels generally more polished than coloring book but the average track quality is a bit of a step down, even though coloring book has "blessings" and "how great" which are too much for me
― ufo, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
The twitter response has definitely felt like a pile-on, disproportionate to the album quality. It’s been kinda hip to hate on chance since that “ol happy ass” tweet
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
... yeah, the negative reaction to this record is outrageous
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
"i got you" is phenomenal let me hear it at a roller rink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
man, i dunno anything about twitter response or pitchfork or whatever everyone else is saying; I just know I listened through this about three or four times and there's a lot more bad than good. I like Hot Shower, We Go High, Big Fish. Not sure I wanna go back to mine for more.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
i haven't had the opportunity to really dig into this album yet but in listening to it a few times i feel like the memes have really led the conversation here. everyone loved the ol happy ass tweet and now every review basically just says "ol happy ass." (this raises the question of music criticism's function when it makes the same point as a meme but in 1,500 more words, but that's a discussion for another thread.) i guess you could say that the ol happy ass tweet (to be general obv) crystalized feelings about chance instead of drove them but my problem w/ the discussion around this album is that it feels like it's just picked up from where it left off without actually engaging much w/ the album. it's hard for me to imagine the theoretical album that would've shifted the conversation on him... so i also don't think this album, which sounds kinda dope to me, is getting a fair shake
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 July 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link
he def didn't help himself by turning "they go low we go high" into a chorus i will say that
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 July 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 29, 2019 7:39 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
great review whiney
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
it's true it is great
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 July 2019 03:56 (four years ago) link
there's def some stuff on here that doesn't really work -- the song that sounds like vampire weekend for instance -- but in the context of the scale and ambition of the album (the thread of musical omnivorousness as whiney points out) i don't really mind them so much
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 July 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
Thanks guys!The omniverousness works for me in a way that it doesn’t with, say, Cudi because there’s still this Chance way of rapping that basically stays the same from track-to-track. It’s not like “this is my rock song” (yells) it’s mostly like “what if I was Chance over a rock song”Anyway, the title track has been in and out of my head all day...
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
Not sure there’s anything as bad here as childish gambino or action Bronson guest verses
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 05:42 (four years ago) link
The album this most resembles is “surf” imo
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 06:12 (four years ago) link
Surf had Sunday Candy, there's nothing here even 0,01% as good as Sunday Candy.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
I disagree but I always found Sunday candy a musically grating —way closer to the “happy ass” meme & jokes about him sounding like a youth minister than anything here. It presaged coloring book way more than the rest of surf presaged this. “Sunday candy”’s saving grace for me was his writing on it rather than anything musical tbh
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Anyway the surf comparison is more about the world building & patchwork unpredictability, the way the songs seem to spill out from the central concept rather than following some linear narrative
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Ran through this doing stuff around the house....seems okay? I'm a mild Chance fan, and there were definitely some moments that felt a little too canned or whatever (Ben Gibbard's voice just naturally grates on me)...but overall it didn't seem out of character for Chance. The online reaction is weird I was expecting a real drastic change in tone or direction.
Also, he's a really good rapper, both technically and flow-wise, I like his flow so he's usually enjoyable to me on that level even if I don't necessarily love the song.
think i'm w/ulysses though i don't see myself going back a lot, but the vitriol is odd to me...
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
The greatness of Sunday Candy is the way it goes through a thousand different ideas and sounds in four minutes. Also, 'take and eat my body like it's holy' is a terrific line in a gospel-rap song. It's half about the eucharist, half about oral sex. The Pitchfork review is not that good, but the line about how Coloring Book made piety seem like an acid trip was good. Chance's faith seemed so alive, so thrilling, so fleshy and personal and sublime. Now he just sounds like any believer everywhere. This album is so musically backwards looking, and so lyrically staid, it's such a massive disappointment.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
I've only listened to the song with En Vogue, and all I have to say is that it's beautiful to hear En Vogue in 2019.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
yeah that was good one!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
Now he just sounds like any believer everywhere. This album is so musically backwards looking, and so lyrically staid, it's such a massive disappointment.
I feel like we’re listening to two totally different albums. I’m being gaslit by the exact same people who, let’s be honest, overhyped his earlier work
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
i think the production on this album is really beautiful and spacious and very patiently crafted, and the people who think it's bland are kinda telling on themselves, like they can't deal with chance if he's not overwhelming them with thirty ideas at once. breihan calling it "bright and flat and weightless" smh, shit is dimensional
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
just kinda love hanging out in this particular backyard
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
also the shawn mendes track goes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
^^ agreed, that's def one of the highlights.
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
I’m being gaslit by the exact same people who, let’s be honest, overhyped his earlier work
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't know about gaslighting but this def feels like he went from overrated to underrated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Coloring Book was my favorite album of 2016, but I never really liked Acid Rap either. I guess he is very hit and miss for me, lol.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Acid Rap and 10 Day were both better than Coloring book imo. Still haven't listened to this one yet though.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
this album is great and i love listening to it. “five year plan” is AMAZING
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
i'm pretty sure "get a bag" is better than "sunday candy"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
i feel that way also ... calboy sounds good on it too
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
I really like this album? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
ok this is really growing on me now, the production's so gorgeous and there are plenty of hooks they're just a different vibe to the sort of bigness of a lot of colouring book so that + the length made it hard to really get into at first
latest favourite is "ballin flossin"
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
Ballin flossin is a highlight for me too. Also big fish — gucci sounds great on that
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
I do want to apologize to Fred who complained that this album wasn’t corny enough which suggests tho we have v different aesthetic criteria he did listen to this album more than 99% of reviewers — this is def his least corny album at least possibly barring the dark parts of acid rap
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:59 (four years ago) link
I haven't read the reviews but I was pleased that Chance has toned things down a bit? I remember enjoying Coloring Book but also finding it exhausting and I didn't return to it after a few run-throughs.
Also the dark parts of Acid Rap are probably my favourite things he's done.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
most of the complaints i've seen have been "this is waaay too corny why does he love his wife so much lol" and i don't get that at all when colouring book went full on "god is great!" for a few tracks and this one is generally chiller and a little more low-key musically too
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
only a few tracks in and his verses are really good but the choruses are mostly deflating
― flopson, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
arent the first two hooks just john legend and ben gibbard
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
Yes and they’re the reason I had a bad taste in my mouth the first time through
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
idgi the hook on "all day long" is tight and gibbard really works on "do you remember"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
this is a very me thing to post but the gibbard hook is like something green gartside would sing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
I’m finally listening to this album now, and... I don’t really understand why so many people are so mad at it? Sure, there are moments that are a bit off, like the white dude screaming on the title track. But for the most part it sounds pretty good.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
It reminds me of Three feet high and rising in a way that very few modern rap albums do, lol.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
man, i dunno what you're hearing there! i hear a lotta different approaches but none of them sound particularly good to me. More power to you for finding something you like though!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Chance really walked into "wife guy" meme territory, huh
I'm DJing a friend's wedding in a few weeks, what song from this do I play?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Probably several tracks but “get a bag”
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
I was going to listen to this but then I saw the name "CocoRosie"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
One of the funniest ways in which chance ended up at this point, where some of his best material is treated as the worst shit in the world, is that there’s no singular cause... instead it’s like a laundry list of little things, down to him putting cocorosie on his album, a self own so specific that explaining it to someone off ilx requires linking to fifteen year old articles about long forgotten hipster parties ... it really has been career death by a thousand paper cuts
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
cocorosie only show up for a few seconds too lol
had never thought about comparing gibbard to gartside but their voices do have a similar weird quality to them and i can hear what brad means
― ufo, Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
it also might explain a reason why i don't really connect with either singer
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Timing-wise, he sure walked headfirst into 'wife guy' meme territory
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Jordan I'd stick to his bigger/older hits for a wedding gig but that's just me
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
he should have rolled into the 'i love my wife, iigh' stuff tbh, sold shirts or whatever
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 22 August 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
still, a great album
if it has a weak point to me its that he's pulled back somewhat from certain kinds of vulnerable specifics, which i understand on a level of what fame does to a person, but its unfortunate it happened on an album that is so defined by personal relationships ... nonetheless, great songs
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 22 August 2019 08:31 (four years ago) link
the stuff that doesn't really work for me on this is down to "hot shower" (which is fun and goofy i guess but his voice is really grating on it), the part on the title track where francis yells a bunch, and "5 year plan" (which isn't really bad just relatively dull and saccharine?)
in addition to all the wife complaints i keep seeing people complain about the production being bland and lifeless which is even more baffling, i really don't know what people are listening to.
― ufo, Thursday, 22 August 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
twitter really hates this guy now huh. he's on that wave where no matter what he does someone retweets with a 'look at this dork' and everyone piles on the hate
― Spottie, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
I never even got around to the last one but find the ott blowback kinda sad.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
drake toosie slide has had the “salmon gucci slides” song from this album stuck in my head and it still cracks me up that chance and nicki got together for the first time as a voltron of once beloved celebs who suddenly became twitter villains
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
ha otm. honestly this is my favorite project of his at this point.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
Yikes.
I finally got the answer now. I understand. Yall trust Biden more than yall trust Ye. I think I understand why, I just don’t feel the same way.— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) July 13, 2020
― jaymc, Monday, 13 July 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
With most celebrities, if I see them trending my first thoughts are "Oh no, did they die?" or "Oh no, are they racist/sexist/homophobic?"With Chance, it's "Oh no, did he say something dumb about Kanye?"— DJP (@djperry1973) July 13, 2020
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Hi, @chancetherapper. If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) December 5, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Damn RIP
― rob, Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
avoid confusion with Chance the Painter
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
I am now Dionne the Singer.— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) December 5, 2020
― dyl, Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
dionne THEE singer imo
Realized on reading this thread that I'd vaguely (and wrongly) thought of it as a really random Being There reference.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
“I cannot stop thinking about this”
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
new single is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnO2HDmT1D8
― voodoo chili, Sunday, 21 March 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
Yeah! Heard it on the radio today, I like it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 21 March 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
New track from Dionne the Singer and Chance the Rapper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJeKQ_UktBI
― birdistheword, Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link