maybe he wanted to make it more of a genuine mixtape experience
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 17:17 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
when in doubt
― ulysses, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 18:42 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
i have the exact opposite opinion of this post ^
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:02 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Apple had it pulled, they have an exclusive
― ulysses, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:12 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
i'm in the acid rap >>> cb camp
― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 19:41 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Same Drugs is so lovely.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 10:47 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
i mean you could just use google and find the mp3's...
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:42 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:05 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
digging Summer Friends today
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:47 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
we do have a number of active threads discussing music distribution already tho
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:06 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah, my bad
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:10 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
whoa this record is really good
― marcos, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
the features here are great, even wayne imo lol
― marcos, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:27 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
yea Jordan otm
― marcos, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:26 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
kinda in love with this album
― ulysses, Monday, 23 May 2016 00:43 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
it's cuz it sounds terrible
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 May 2016 14:14 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
I approve of this new mixtape
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:29 (eight years ago) link