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

and yeah that RTJ album is godly. Gangsta Boo might have the most essential guest appearance of the year on that

i like her lyrics, you know my feelings on that kind of delivery by now

haha, yeah, no surprises there. And I could see a lesser rapper doing the same thing coming across like a rapping Jhene Aiko or something, but I think Dej pulls it off and makes the contrast between hard words and soft rhymes work for her without leaning on it as a shtick

anyway, junglepussy: https://soundcloud.com/vice/sets/junglepussys-satisfaction-guaranteed

so much presence and charisma

my fave '14 release not mentioned by slothroprhymes up there is Sweetz P's "#Liferrrs Guide To Watching Porn Without Headphones"

http://www.datpiff.com/Sweetz-P-liferrrs-Guide-To-Watching-Porn-Without-Headphone-mixtape.570016.html

NehruvianDOOM pushing DBR close now. Listening to the new Migos with peaked interest. RTJ2 is dated masculinity trope

xxpost have never heard of junglepussy before, enjoying it thus far

NehruvianDOOM pushing DBR close now. Listening to the new Migos with peaked interest. RTJ2 is dated masculinity trope

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trolling is one thing, incorrect spelling is quite another, my god don't you have standards

That Migos is so good

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/travis-scott-is-worse-than-iggy-azalea-1682870003?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

haha just came here to post this

tbh Noz should have written this a year ago (and kind of did on twitter) but at least someone put it together

That is one misleading headline there.

is it? I think it's pretty appropriate considering his argument

& the arguments everyone has been having about 'appropriation'

Sure, the headline works once the reader connects the dots and yes, we technically SHOULD be doing that when reading anything but otoh, there's gotta be a more appropriate headline considering he mentions Iggy once and briefly at that but I guess he's gotta chase the clicks

ppl say 'gotta chase the clicks' like it's a new thing & folks haven't been complaining about headlines forever

If I change "clicks" to, I dunno, "eyeballs", it doesn't change a thing about what I said.

idk i think he's a talented producer. his vocal work always verges on the boundary between biting/originality that creates a really alienating level of animosity for some people

i'm cool with travis

'boundary'

and you must mean 'talented co-producer'

Mike Dean being down w Kanye & this guy & J. Prince being down w Drake is so weird

v good article

it's a stretch to call scott's ripoff-o-rama "offensive," but it's definitely lame. in a vacuum, it's pretty laughable given the obviousness of his antecedents that any label would try and tout him as some kinda gamechanger, but that's where shit has fallen to I spose

I will say "upper echelon" is a pretty good song but mostly for the beat and its guest verses (esp. the T.I. one)

actually who the fuck am I kidding thinking that a label wouldn't in the past have pushed a third-rate cudi/drake/kanye clone (replace with any past equivalent), lol

so he's the Candlebox of rap

exactly!

lol

rodeo is an incredibly mediocre album, not that that's surprising, although it's not quite the complete garbage fire I expected

I like "Antidote"

I have a visceral reaction against his flow on that track

yeah his rapping is miserable in a Wiz Khalifa, grin and bear it sort of way. But I like the hook a lot

antidote is a good hook

i might not mind how much the hook is a "no type"/"drinks on us" bite if he didn't go so far as to reference "no type" on a verse

idk man keeping ur guard up even for dumb hooks seems a p equal gift/curse split at the end of the day

if i knew what a "night show" was referring to i'd probably dismiss antidote w/o qualms too but instead i mildly enjoy the innocent suggestion of 1950s drive ins and planetaria and whatnot

lol i have 'white iverson' in the enjoyably abysmal category too tho so never mind me

all the "night show" talk just makes me wonder if he's also doing rap concert matinees on his tour

antidote is such a nothing blah hook imo, not feeling it all

Looking for "a great verse"? Ha.

the new wiz song is such a hilariously blatant "antidote" rip off https://soundcloud.com/wizkhalifa/bake-sale-ft-travis-scott

don't you open up that bake sale

Lex Luger is the third of five credited producers on that, sad

theres some stuff on sings mcnight or w/e that i dont mind

ive heard good things about "goosebumps"

"pick up the phone" is prob my fav song of the year but i don't consider it a travis scott song really

hmm goosebumps sounds pretty shitty... what are the decent ones j crunch

i just listened to sdp interlude and first take (lol) which weren't bad... i guess maybe this is like views where this is pretty decent if you delete all the songs that aren't r&b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP93Mo7GpS8

prefer the uk version ~ and i don't even knooow why ~

'Pick up the phone' recently coalesced for me as song of the year, too. closest thing to the 'yrn' beat he's been on since?