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 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.
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
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.
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, 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
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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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