I watched a bit of an interview they did with Peter Rosenberg on Youtube because I was curious about what Swae Lee's speaking voice sounded like. Early on he told them people have been calling the the 2015 Kriss Kross and asked how they felt about it. Not only did they seem to take it as a compliment, they kinda seemed like they didn't see how it wouldn't be a compliment. I thought that was cool.
― JRN, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
Ha I swear I read something else where they were really tired of the comparison.
― The Reverend, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
that was when people were comparing them to Christopher Cross
― example (crüt), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
xp Could be! That could even be why they reacted the way the did. Rather than fight it, they just act like it's a favorable thing and move on.
At 1:35:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1vJ6rcU3o
― JRN, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
They're full of detail, the consistency of tempo just bores me shitless, I keep wanting more momentum and bounce.
Like, it's fine, I recognise this stuff isn't for me and I have no right to dictate what it 'should' be like, I just don't want to listen to it, which is a shame because I like these guys and would like to hear them in other rhythmic contexts.
― Matt DC, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
haha wut http://instagram.com/p/x7fj_rCi1y
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
Matt DC in still not understanding cut time shock. Like in what world is "No Flex Zone" anything other than full of bounce and momentum?
― The Reverend, Friday, 16 January 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Dude I only studied music for fifteen years, I know how cut time works. It's just that other rhythmic choices made on a lot of double-time trap beats (chiefly when the bass hits, and a general lack of syncopation outside the hi-hats) mean I *hear* them as slow rather than fast. Like one of those pictures that are designed to look like two different things to two different people. That's why I'm framing this as "I know this isn't for me" rather than "why are you all listening to this bullshit?". In general a really technically great MC can make me forget this but the more nonchalant or goofy the vocals the more my brain goes back to default.
Actually I fuck with No Flex Zone (and elsewhere I also like Hookah and Lifestyle so I'm not totally immune to stuff in this vein), I just don't want to hear it in the context of seven or eight other tracks taking a very similar approach (the old difference between disrupting a groove vs being the groove again).
I keep meaning to start a thread about how people respond differently to the same rhythm or physicality in music because it comes up a lot but often it's not worth the derail.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 17 January 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link
Basically (and without wanting to get all maths and physics about it) if the bass is only hitting every four or even eight beats, and there's minimal syncopation in other areas, I'm going to hear it as a slow and draggy 4/4 rather than a fast 2/2.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 17 January 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
Haha it's an interesting area though, for sure, although I tend to frame it in terms of dancing -- e.g. I was born in '87 & my peer group learned to bump&grind in middle-school; I have noticed many 90s babies lack this skill, but are much more comfortable getting busy to 4-on-the-floor eurotrance stuff that makes me confused & awkward (when I was a kid & Alice Deejay or w/e came on we either did the "Jump Around" dance or, at best, badly pantomimed glowsticking)
― Eman Srebmud (bernard snowy), Saturday, 17 January 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
sremmurd is slow of course, but not draggy, there's so much space the way they emphasise the offbeat making it hang in the air for a second. in no flex zone it's built into the hook, the pause between 'flex....zone' is delicious, it changes the phrasing, I love it. the bass is more like a diving board to get it airborne, badoinging underneath.
― ogmor, Saturday, 17 January 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
the kick drum on "No Flex Zone" is some fantastic syncopated shit
― some dude, Saturday, 17 January 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
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this is very interesting thank u, u shd start that thread
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 January 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
otm, appreciate your insights, Matt
― valleys of your mind (mh), Saturday, 17 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I encourage you to start that thread, Matt!
(and elsewhere I also like Hookah and Lifestyle so I'm not totally immune to stuff in this vein)
fwiw, neither of these songs are half-time. 95/89 bpm respectively
― The Reverend, Saturday, 17 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
― Eman Srebmud (bernard snowy), Saturday, January 17, 2015 5:51 AM Bookmark
this is way more true of witekids than the young black youth ime
― The Reverend, Saturday, 17 January 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, my frame of reference here is like 100% suburban tumblrwhites.
― Eman Srebmud (bernard snowy), Saturday, 17 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02h49p7
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 19 January 2015 09:51 (nine years ago) link
i lolled
― Eman Srebmud (bernard snowy), Monday, 19 January 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
still loling @ dayo's Ree Drummond pic
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
i liked this album way more than i thought i would. it's maybe still the best album i've heard all month
― soyrev, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
are these guys piss freaks?
all my blunts, they stink like pee ("Unlock the Swag")bitch uh pee... you so foul ("My X")
― (extremely quan voice) My Lifestyle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
yes
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
are you playing dumb or are you now just catching onto rappers' obsession w/ scatalogical similies for weed smell
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
tbf its urological
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
well i'm roping shit/fart/piss/B.O. into one general umbrella here
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/youngthug/status/149946952107298816
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
the one w/out the no homo is funnier
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
anyway, timely discussionhttp://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-future-song-peacoat-is-about-fashion-and-peeing-o-1681127546/+leshorn
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
great, informative post
― (extremely quan voice) My Lifestyle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
Unreviewed Annotation 1 Contributor ?He drinks Codeine so much he pees it out
― (extremely quan voice) My Lifestyle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Pee Mode.
― longneck, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:58 (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)
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 30 January 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
am i wrong to think "unlock the swag" is a direct reference to http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.33406272.0220/ap%2C550x550%2C16x12%2C1%2Ctransparent%2Ct.u2.png
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 January 2015 03:26 (nine years ago) link
yes.
― gr8080, Saturday, 31 January 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
enlighten me hawaiian swami
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 January 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
Idk they strike me as dudes who would play a lot of xbox
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Saturday, 31 January 2015 10:13 (nine years ago) link
yeah but does their ghostwriter play xbox
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
(prob)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Sitting in a doctors office in Manhattan and the receptionist is plAying throw some mo on her phone
This is pretty much all I want in life
― 龜, Friday, 6 February 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
its a great song
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 6 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
yah I know
― mh, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Friday, February 6, 2015 5:41 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You want to be in a doctor's office?
― pro stroke Johnny Gill songs would rub you the right way (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 February 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
waiting room swag
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 6 February 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
the dr will be with you shortly i said MAKE IT WORTH MY WHIAAAAIILLE
― r|t|c, Saturday, 7 February 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
of all the beats ever made in human history to hear in a waiting room 'tsm' is so thoroughly appropriate i kinda almost wanna call bullshit on this anecdote
― r|t|c, Saturday, 7 February 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
6 weeks in and I'm still listening to this 3 or 4 times a day.
love the way the chorus appears to start mid conversation in This Could Be Us..so back to what I was saying... Also "Girl, improvise, look me in my eyes and lie to me, lie to me, act like I'll believe anything"
As has been said by others love the detached boredom of Nikki's part in Throw Sum Mo and really dig the first verse in particular "can flick the money all night till my wrist tired, if you put in work this the night you're gon retire"
The chorus to YNO too catchy even/especially the SKRRR in the middle of tokyo drift through the hills used to hafta walk no wheels
― pandemic, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6HNIzzq.png
― 龜, Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCHkdX1VrG4
maybe it's just swae ghosting kremlinology but i keep wondering if weeksy originally wrote the hook melody and then came back on for the remix cos it's an uncommonly natural fit?
but then "i keep a pedicured lawn so them snakes they will be dead", "tears of joy run down my cheek onto the soil, i would trick off on your bitch but she aint loyal", "my comrades", who would write such sweet things and give them away i ask u
― r|t|c, Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
havent actually listened to this lp in full for ages but i keeps 'unlock the swag' in permanent special reserve as monday morning turn up theme tune
aloha, aloha, luau, suit up
― r|t|c, Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link