Travi$ Scott - Days Before Rodeo - best rap release of 2014 so far?

"folks were steving for that wackassed shit"

maybe because his voice isn't buried in reverb and it doesn't take three minutes of autotuned groaning to get to his verse on 'hot boyz intro'

but actually his verse on 'hot boyz' is better in basically every way ... lyrics, energy, the phrasing he uses, the opening

i agree that "hot boyz" into is kinda boring

...

that verse is awesome you're trippin

tbh i find it hard to get excited about any song gucci mane is on in 2014 he sounds so lifeless :(

i mostly love the opening of thugger's verse

Drop top baby...

listening to the youtube raccoon tanuki posted...not feeling this new interpol album :/

Damn

lolllll

i want to believe that Racoon Tanuki is and_what

yo is it true D-40 got steved by a Tanuki after a ilx rap beef??????

How can you not love the gucci mane?

just listened to my first ever Travis Scott song and there are *at least* 10 songs on My Krazy Life better, no discussion

i like the title "Days Before Rodeo" sounds like a Mazzy Star song or something

Soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop reboot

lmao m@tt

Some other releases (that havent been mentioned) I like better than T$

100s - IVRY
Laroo & Jacka - Never Be The Same: No Mercy
Twista - Back To The Basic
Rick Ross - Mastermind
Joe Blow - True Story
ST Spittin - The Morning Show
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
Clyde Carson - Playboy
Ray West & OC - Rays Cafe
Roach Gigz - Roachy Balboa 4

I'd also way rather listen to old head releases by Onyx, Mobb Deep and Cormega as well, despite their imperfections.

Onyx surprisingly good!

Brad Paisley's iPhone "album titles" memo pad hacked.

i mostly love the opening of thugger's verse

Drop top baby...

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 17:30 (Yesterday) Permalink

with the BIRDman I know you HEARD man

RT srs or not confirming my theory that Trav Dolla $cott is a way for "cooler" (however defined but mean this negatively obv) rap fans to listen to currently buzzing rappers/producers without really listening to their own stuff. I mean don't get me wrong Kanye's thrown some guests on his albums & made it work even some times where I haven't been a fan of 'em otherwise, but this guy? Nah

Yes

Throwing in Iamsu!'s,Sage The Gemini's and G-Side's albums on the ever-growing list of 2014 rap albums that are better than Scott's. And probably Zilla Shit 3 too, although I haven't listened to it yet.

Also, 10 Summers.

yeah i love the IamSu! album

Schoolboy Q, really?

Raccoon this is a serious question but are you hip-hop's version of Jeff Gilbert

Like your one word dismissals are cuet

look what he brings to the table

Thanks for the recs, Spottie. Excited to dig into those this week. Also thanks for the reminder to revisit Mastermind; that's an underrated little record.

*questions raccoon tanuki's trendsetting*

Gonna give you a second chance after the Schoolboy Q and Rick Ross slip up. But some reactions to Travis otherworldly delivery recalls to mind the reaction for years to Kanye rapping (not same, but same reactions), then all of a sudden everyone started biting his style. Even further back, people used to say 2pac couldn't rap (though I'm getting doubtful any one here goes that far back, looking at the stuff you listen to), yet now the opinion is enitrely different. Look at how much fans of East Coast rap hated on Bone Thugs? Those dudes would not get any credit, simply because they were wildly different in style (even after Notorious Thugs). T.S is versatile, has a different style on each track on Days Before Rodeo. Honestly think he's too creative for you if you prefer prosaic shit like Schoolboy and Rick Ross.

Past rappers have been underrated and dismissed, ergo Travis Scott is underrated and dismissed.

Also there are few rappers who've been as critically beloved from the start as Kanye

this thread was funnier when racoon kept demanding someone show him a better 2014 album and everyone ignored him imho

yeah, this evolved into a good rap year-in-review thread, sorry I took the bait

yes critically, not internetly. same style of reaction. guy does something diff, gets hate. yet, dross gets love.

i read one youtube comment saying people aren't ready for t.s production yet

"Travis otherworldly delivery"

"guy does something diff, gets hate."

lol this guy bites more famous rappers' style, i would probably love him if he did something diff but he doesn't. He takes a bit of the strange things one can hear one kanye's last 2 albums, some ATL beats + i guess some cudi and wow this is so different you guys are not ready for his genius.

I'm not crazy about makonnen but at least that's someone doing something different.

raccoon name your next ten fav releases this year and also your top 50 all time please.

Thanks for the recs, Spottie. Excited to dig into those this week. Also thanks for the reminder to revisit Mastermind; that's an underrated little record.

― Evan R, Wednesday, September 3, 2014 9:09 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i havent really loved a ross release before but I've kinda fallen for this one a bit

pretty weird to refer to any Ross album as a "little record"

has he gone unplugged?

thread is A+ for evan, sisilafami & spottie's recommendations

deej had some too! that HD is good, listened yesterday.

http://i.imgur.com/3MM38O8.png

hm

Mastermind is still a Ross album, but it trims a lot of the red-velvet bloat of God Forgives in favor of more of a straight hip-hop feel that really suits him. Kind of feels like his take on a NY rap album

Part of the problem here is that "better than Travis Scott" is a low bar, IMO the schoolboy record is p boring

yeah it is low! i don't even rank any of those albums that high tbf, outside of maybe 100s.