have they confirmed that you're supposed to say the name with a connery brogue?
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Sunday, 20 March 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
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, 20 March 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Sunday, 20 March 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
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, 20 March 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Sunday, 20 March 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 20 March 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 03:45 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
if they have a ghostwriter, can i hire him plz
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
Even if they have a ghostwriter their deliveries are so inventive/effusive that it's still really, really impressive
― Evan R, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
aaah the "by chance" video, the colour scheme!
slightly underwhelmed by the sremmlife crew mixtape tho
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 12:14 (eight years ago) link
Sremmlife crew tape is mediocre
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
i had never heard of any of them
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Huh, shouldn't read too much into this but Slim Jimmy is on 6 of these songs and Swae Lee is only on 1
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
I'm kind of enjoying it too. Not sremm life level but not exactly mediocre either.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_2Eo0No_k
abel teswae
rae sremmorrissey
idk it's great though
― r|t|c, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
i like this one. they're pretty ambitious stylistically.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 15 April 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
yeah. the laziest sremm song is not very lazy
― r|t|c, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
great song.
i think this album will be slightly underrated to make up for the first one being slightly overrated, based on a few random temperature readings ive taken
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 15 April 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
wasn't feeling 'by chance' but this is terrific.
― pandemic, Friday, 15 April 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkClJp0jSgA
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 8 August 2016 09:43 (seven years ago) link
god they're such cunts
― imago, Monday, 8 August 2016 11:51 (seven years ago) link
what a shitty outcome for a rae sremm + lil jon song
― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
Yeah this might be the first Rae Sremm I dislike. Stay with Mike Will, Sremm!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 8 August 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
im ok w this just super tired of dj mustard
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 8 August 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
same ol same bassline
― Spottie, Monday, 8 August 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
I've always liked these guys, until hearing this one and combined with the video I think a lot of goodwill I had for them has instantly evaporated, what a disaster
― boxedjoy, Monday, 8 August 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, August 8, 2016 4:39 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Spottie, Monday, August 8, 2016 4:48 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for real
― esempiu (crüt), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 01:53 (seven years ago) link
i don't mind the beat i just think the hook is really boring & useless
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 9 August 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
game recognize game
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 02:55 (seven years ago) link
"Chinchilla hella furry!"
― Evan R, Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
New album is awesome. Less consistent than the first but stronger overall imo. Their songwriting is so good. Their best books don't feel "borrowed" to me any more
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 13 August 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
guess they can afford not to go the librarrurd
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
when u say borrowed in inverted commas i'm guessing u just mean the writing has greater complexity (= borrows more intricately) and so deepens their idiosyncracy? cos (ignoring the precocity/ghosting gossip obv) i don't think it's ever really felt like something not theirs or artificially overlaid
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
Lol *hooks obv
Nah it's that the biggest hooks on album tracks (safe sex / pay checks and this could be us) both reminded me explicitly of songs by Ty Dolla and blackalicious (lol autocorrected to "blac malicious") respectively, to a degree that was distracting, regardless if they even were intentionally borrowed. (Unbearably A Boogie is recycling the blackalicious melody again)
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 14 August 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
those two were often used as arguments for the depth of their Pop bench beyond the singles--and they need that Pop bench bc despite obvious skill as lyricists they are fairly one-D as personalities (which is fine, they just love or die by pop's tools). This yes deepens their music in a way that hides influences but also there's just no record that uses found-hook-sound so blatantly like older ones to me
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 14 August 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
I liked the first Rae sremmurd a lot but felt little depth of attachment, via auteurist Magic I'm now coming around
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 14 August 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
that's interesting to me for historical white post-rap-college-nerd-white reasons. blackalicious, really?
― mh, Sunday, 14 August 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link
'safe sex' and 'this could be us' are the definitive tracks from the album, with the best hooks? no
the other 9 tracks are full of auteurist magic, this exaggeratedly fatal "distraction" p much seems like u just feel more comfortable splaining them now they levelled up from sl1 enchanter to sl2 mage
― r|t|c, Sunday, 14 August 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
can't wait til some pfork nerd arrives to tell us which smiths song gift of dab and chief xtendo are interpolating on 'black beatles'
― r|t|c, Sunday, 14 August 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
Well that they leveled up is kind of my point
It's not like I was down on them on the record or something, I'm expressing my earlier reticence ex post facto
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 14 August 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of auteur magic I quite like this as Swae Lee's evil twin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Cy-CsszhU
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 14 August 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
oh good -- Sunday morning listening!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 August 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Five tracks into number 2 and it's pretty flawless, so far. They aren't the hyperenergetic pixies that they were on the first Sremmlife but the darker tone suits them, they're still having a lot of fun and the beats still bang (Black Beatles goddamn).
If the second half can keep this momentum up, I can't imagine listening to anything else for the next month or so.
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 August 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
this album is incredible
― Evan R, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
The fun stuff still bangs, the darker/somber stuff works and somehow these two have still never recorded a flat-out bad song
― Evan R, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Take It Or Leave It is basically a good version of White Iversons lol
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
this album rules
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link