"throw some mo" is pretty far below the bar of their first two singles though
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
"throw sum mo" may have underwhelmed a little as a single but it bangs in the middle of the album
― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Agree, I've been listening to it sandwiched between no flex/no type and it's great
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah 'throw sum mo' does sound great on the radio, nicki sounding zzz on muffled midrange really pops out
there's obviously a deliberate lightly absurdity to it which is v funny and tbh rly kinda brilliant imo, like the way its laconic circularity conflates nicki as ogled-by-slobbering-teens-stripper-cashing-in (who better to play this part of course) with inanimate music box doll
clever thing about this album i guess (beyond some cute lines) is how the rare way they embrace their youth lends a more forgiving, even almost sometimes knowing, aspect to the excesses of their behaviour and by extension that of the behaviour of the rap manchildren around them - 'no flex zone', 'my x' and 'this could be us' is a perfectly conceived hormonal triptych iirc
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Totally in love with "this could be us".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
ikr how good?!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
btw whiney's retro accusation + trying to work out what the cover art reminded me of + the huaaahhs on 'my x' can only lead me to conclude this album represents an updated run dmc king of pop-punk
apart from 'unlock the swag' which is more like hot snakes or w/e natch
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
This is spot on. It's a very clever delivery.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
*prayer hands emoji*
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
"i can flick the money all night, til my wrist tired"
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Listening to this for the first time now, and it's so infectiously fun. It's all in the delivery.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Also, fuck the "shremmerd" pronunciation, much more fun to pronounce it without the "sh" sound. It does explain "unlock the shwag" though.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Unlock the Swag is more fun if you hear it as "Allah, the swag. The swag, Allah"
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
this album is pretty good, all the tracks are solid
― dyl, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
i love the idea of waiters on OKC
Listening to this for the first time now, and it's so infectiously fun. It's all in the delivery. --quan voice (voodoo chili)
this undersells the songwriting and general craftsmanship
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
there are some very charming backing vox on this album. "money make the world go round" on "this could be us", the whoa-oas on "come get her"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
"twerk like she from russia"?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
Putins do it better.
― longneck, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:34 (nine years ago) link
vladivostwerk
turns out i've not actually really paid attention to the 'up like trump' lyrics at all, like the song is a gaseous swampstage for the hiccupping ad libbing, incessant batrachoidal bubble
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:42 (nine years ago) link
"lit like bic" is incredible, you only have to listen to the first song to refute that point
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:28 Bookmark
this absolutely bears underlining - if ur already not captivated by the first verse of the first song then save everyone the bother and get on back down to a more appropriately basic rung
like take this amazing bit not 3 mins in, why does the stream of consciousness bragging take this quite real, pained melancholy detour and slowly back round to bluffing
Lit sex yes, she show chestBreathe in deep, geeked all weekSunday night, Sunday fightArgue, don't wanna argueHow could you think that I would ever leave you?I see right through youGet money with the same crewI fuck the same hoes like youSwitch 'em out once a week, I'm coolMidnight crew, paint the Maserati midnight blueMoney pool, I'm 'bout to swim right throughWho are you?
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
TOKYO DRIFT THRU THE HILLS
― nose, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/01/rae-sremmurd-sremmlife-track-by-track-breakdown/safe-sex-pay-checks
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Slim Jimmy: Young Thug got on it, he liked the song. Nicki Minaj, we met her in the studio. She was looking like a goddess.
Swae Lee: She was working on her album, and we were working on ours. We were going to do some collaboration work, but it was just crazy.
Slim Jimmy: She walked in looking like the most beautiful woman on the planet, and everything was in slow motion. Then time stopped. I couldn’t say anything because my mouth wouldn’t open. I was trying to say “Hi,” but I couldn’t.
Listening to this for the first time now, and it's so infectiously fun. It's all in the delivery.--quan voice (voodoo chili)
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:53 (14 hours ago) Permalink
The songs are good but The delivery was the most immediately appealing aspect of the album on first listen, and Swae Lee's sing-song on No Type and No Flex Zone are still my favorite things about those songs after dozens of listens
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
I guess you could say that Slim Jim couldn't snap out of it...
https://weeklyguiltypleasure.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/david-caruso-3.jpg
― un chill goon (some dude), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
my fav thing about their delivery is the amount of fun they seem to have with their voices - all these switch-ups between rat-a-tat stuff and sing-song warbles and growling and slurring and squeaky outrage. it's very nicki
but j0rdan otm about the craftsmanship too, these songs keep on giving
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
I don't remember if this Baauer/AlunaGeorge collab was posted elsewhere on ilm, but this song still kicks, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITYj52gXxU
― Evan R, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah i remember it from...somewhere else and it's brilliant
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
ya this gets better and better
this could be us <3
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
This could be us could be pretty huge I think.
― longneck, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/tITYj52gXxU&fs=1&hl=en
― Evan R, Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:14 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:18 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
you guys talked about this in the r&b 2014 thread
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Usually those Converse/Adult Swim-style "we put three unassociated artists together; blog about us" songs don't hold much interest beyond a few listens but this one still gets me. It's like these guys are incapable of a throwaway
― Evan R, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
"safe sex pay checks" is so good... i love the sort of valley dude voice they affect on the chorus
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
this album is amazing
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
still processing this but holy shit "Safe Sex Pay Checks" RULES
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
makonnen and father are like the faulty disposed prototypical rae sremmurd's ... i like to imagine mike will building a frankenstein rap star and overdoing the babyfaced youthfulness on makonnen & having to go back to the drawing board ... then drake brings makonnen back to life by pulling the switch & he jumps up from under the sheet ... its alive! sort of, anyway
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
idk why but makonnen as the failed experiment from Mike WIll's Laboratory makes me lol
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
Just clarifying, but if makonnen is under the sheet in this scenario then he's looming
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
I'm sorry everyone
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
it would be funny if i'd actually misused looming
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
dont try to make this a running joke bc published author curse of ray tabano doesn't know what looming means
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Good to see you guys appreciating Safe Sex Pay Checks - breihan weirdly wanted it cut from the album lol
― longneck, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, January 8, 2015 3:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
deej latin
― 龜, Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
imagining "rock like Billy Ray" is a nod to the writer-director of Shattered Glass
anyway this is great!
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, January 8, 2015 3:00 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idgi
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
― Simon H., Thursday, January 8, 2015 2:40 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Yno" has the best "heyyyy" backing vox maybe ever
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
u ain't got no lifecups loom with ice and we zing this every night
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
This is one of my favorite movies fwiw. So good.
― Evan R, Thursday, 8 January 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
Swae Lee: He’s the one that gave us the big chance. We had jobs at Olive Garden in Tupelo, and he said, “Y'all, leave Tupelo…”Slim Jimmy: Fuck that shit, come to Atlanta.Swae Lee: I’ll always love Olive Garden.Slim Jimmy: I can’t wait to go in there and buy all I want.Swae Lee: Those little breadsticks? Sheesh.
Slim Jimmy: Fuck that shit, come to Atlanta.
Swae Lee: I’ll always love Olive Garden.
Slim Jimmy: I can’t wait to go in there and buy all I want.
Swae Lee: Those little breadsticks? Sheesh.
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/01/rae-sremmurd-sremmlife-track-by-track-breakdown/
― Evan R, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
what a glorious day that will be, when mike will hands them $100 each for their never ending pasta passes
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link