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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

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, January 17, 2015 7:11 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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, January 17, 2015 7:40 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

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, 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

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)

I was doing the dishes when this came on. I kept hearing it as "Allah, this way, this way, Allah"

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

, 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

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, February 6, 2015 5:41 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You want to be in a doctor's office?

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

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/6HNIzzq.png

, 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

hasnt had tons of replay from me either but i love 'drinks on us'

deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link

yeah, I haven't listened to this album nearly as much as I expected to but the other night I needed to TOKYO DRIFT THROUGH THE HILLS

raih dednelb (The Reverend), Sunday, 22 March 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link

But what you riding in a spaCESHIP??????

, Sunday, 22 March 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link

to be clear i hadnt really meant to suggest the album's returns have diminished at all, i just tend to binge and skrrt as standard, if anything i'm more confident in this record than any other that its many thorough charms will remain on deck safely waiting for my return. anyone irl who's asked me whats good this year i always tell them that detlef schrempf

r|t|c, Sunday, 22 March 2015 08:19 (nine years ago) link

well it's the end of march so naturally this is no longer on loop but it certainly hasn't fallen out of rotation and every time i come back to it after a gap it sounds even better

lex pretend, Sunday, 22 March 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link


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