rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

Yeah this is my favorite album of the year so far. It's not in constant rotation anymore but it's the only LP this year that makes me smile just thinking about it.

Also the original, non-Weeknd "Drinks On Us" is fantastic, but the remix saps all the character out of it

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

This is exactly what I think of when I think about this album.

i dont mean to suggest it's been disappointing or anything, more just a recording of the fact that i haven't felt compelled to go back ... doubt id be mad at it if i relistened

I listen to Yno at least once per day idk

still reckon Rae Sremmurd are actually a cunningly-veiled Autechre side project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7Mu8YJbSU

oops, wrong thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwuVV07f8DY

"we even turn babies up"
"i said if i ever got famous i was gonna put some goggles on my head"
"what i do is i just wake up in the morning and then just jump off the balcony so i'll be awake for the rest of the day"
these are likeable kids

it has been very odd coming across references to them and realising with a start that they're meant as pejoratives

should I go see these guys play with Nicki Minaj and Big Sean in a Roman amphitheater this summer?

long as it's the oresteia

no clytemnestra, they know better

this Kingdom remix is horrible *throws up*

I'm bout to empty out the ATM *throw it throw it*

I like "Throw Some Mo," still getting played a bunch on radio, but it and "No Type" have some really pointless/stupid-sounding vocal inflections from these guys

I vaguely recall getting drunk on Saturday night and shouting 'NO FLEX.. ZONE!' at p much anyone within earshot :-/

I like Throw Some Mo too.

some really pointless/stupid-sounding vocal inflections

revealed as someone who does not live a sremmlife

My housemate often says 'nay dramas' as a substitute for 'you're welcome' or 'no bother', and it took me a while to grasp that that's not what the DJ watermark thing is saying at the beginning of sremmurd productions.

brb tokyo drifting through the hills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1tedsWMb8

I've watched this multiple times since it's been posted and it is still one of the funnest things I've heard all year

Anyone returning to this as ballots get completed?

"Up Like Trump" turned out to be the prescient political song of the year.

I put it third on my last EOY list.

i think its one of the best rap albums of the year. seems to cover a lot of ATL trends/strands in a really good, fun, way thats better than a lot of mixtapes. i.e. its just sonically beefier/more polished a bit more.

I also put it third on my ballots. It's a perfect for what it is

its a better reflection of the current ATL stuff than people prob give it credit for. theyre also just a lot of fun to listen to as rappers.

they were supposed to release a new album this month

After seeing some rave reviews I checked out the first two singles from this record almost a year ago and didn't get them at all. Within a few months "Throw Some Mo" became totally inescapable at New Orleans clubs, and that song is a jam. Been meaning to check out the rest of the record for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZx5WXwNUVM

between this and "tears of joy run down my cheek onto the soil" i am ofc rly feeling new swae christopher lee. greatness

sort of bummed there's another ATL rap song that rips off the "u guessed it" beat but good song & great video

have they confirmed that you're supposed to say the name with a connery brogue?

i really have not ever thought of "the "u guessed it" beat" as some obvious signature thing i'm tortured by but maybe i'm just not that plugged in by chance

but also since caring about painfully lame overt biting is seemingly such an antiquarian pursuit now i think shades of familiar grey need no longer be called out like we used to

no ebro but it's still funny reading back about the unresolved ghosting suspicions upthread, i guess cos they remain unresolved p much? (also cos who really even cares tbh). on one hand totally justifiable because absurdly precocious otherwise, on the other who would this talented humble mystery man even be. and then there's the co-write on 'formation' where u can totally hear this fascinating hypothetical kinship between bey and swae delighting in trying out croaky / blocked sinus voices just for the sheer performative swag of it

j0rd otm about the visuals btw - i am rarely satisfied when it comes to vids and this one is incredible to me, could not be more appropriate

i really have not ever thought of "the "u guessed it" beat" as some obvious signature thing i'm tortured by but maybe i'm just not that plugged in by chance

― r|t|c, Sunday, March 20, 2016 3:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

there's 2 chainz "watch out" & bankroll fresh "walked in" (tho this one also sounds a lot like D4L too), d40 showed this one to me a month back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVzwAMM4Sk

anyway i don't really dislike it on a musical level, it's more that og maco seems like a bad person so i'm loathe to see his influence stretched any further. i'm just nitpicking.

Watch out feels more explicitly like a u guessed it rip than the others to me but

The producer of hit the Quan claims "by chance" was nicked from his record here:
http://youtu.be/R6XfHlMJVWM

no ebro but it's still funny reading back about the unresolved ghosting suspicions upthread, i guess cos they remain unresolved p much? (also cos who really even cares tbh). on one hand totally justifiable because absurdly precocious otherwise, on the other who would this talented humble mystery man even be. and then there's the co-write on 'formation' where u can totally hear this fascinating hypothetical kinship between bey and swae delighting in trying out croaky / blocked sinus voices just for the sheer performative swag of it

― r|t|c, Sunday, March 20, 2016 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ebro basically does this maddening self-defeating argument where he goes "this music isn't as good as you're saying it is" and then "if it is good, it's only good because there's a ghostwriter." like, say one or the other and stand by it if you want, but pushing both seems stupid. also the weird circular logic because a couple guys made an album at 19 and 20 (respectively) that reminds people of what the 13-year-old Kriss Kross did w/ acknowledged ghostwriters, it must be the same deal. and he just throws Mike Will in it as the mastermind even though he's only a little older than the Rae Sremmurd dudes and has never demonstrated any skill set outside of making beats.

if they have a ghostwriter, can i hire him plz

Even if they have a ghostwriter their deliveries are so inventive/effusive that it's still really, really impressive

aaah the "by chance" video, the colour scheme!

slightly underwhelmed by the sremmlife crew mixtape tho

Sremmlife crew tape is mediocre

i had never heard of any of them

i had no idea the sremms had a crew

Yeah, wasn't familiar with this until Lex's post but I'm kind of enjoying it? This Impxct dude has a really weird voice (like Young Thug wearing a mouth guard or something) and his tracks are fire. I'd listen to a whole tape of this stuff.

Huh, shouldn't read too much into this but Slim Jimmy is on 6 of these songs and Swae Lee is only on 1

I'm kind of enjoying it too. Not sremm life level but not exactly mediocre either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_2Eo0No_k

abel teswae

rae sremmorrissey

idk it's great though

i like this one. they're pretty ambitious stylistically.