https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkClJp0jSgA
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 8 August 2016 09:43 (eight years ago) link
god they're such cunts
― imago, Monday, 8 August 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
what a shitty outcome for a rae sremm + lil jon song
― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2016 13:42 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
same ol same bassline
― Spottie, Monday, 8 August 2016 20:48 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
game recognize game
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
"Chinchilla hella furry!"
― Evan R, Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:41 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
guess they can afford not to go the librarrurd
― r|t|c, Saturday, 13 August 2016 22:18 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
oh good -- Sunday morning listening!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 August 2016 15:11 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
this album is incredible
― Evan R, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:30 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Take It Or Leave It is basically a good version of White Iversons lol
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
this album rules
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
Black Beatles has so many little hooks, the ad-libs are perfection. listened to it like 3 times and have the whole thing m/l memorized
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
been listening for three days. "Black Beatles" and "Real Chill" are my jams.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link
Whats the sample on BB? sounds super obvious and its on the tip of my brain but can't quite place it
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
"I Am The Walrus," iirc
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
no way they paid for a beatles sample lol
― Spottie, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
Yes, that was a joke.
The beat reminds a little bit of "Letter" from the Kodak Black album: https://youtu.be/bZbj4x6RzIU
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
I can't understand ppl thinking the new one is a falloff
I can see some giving a slight edge to the first
i find the sound considerably more engaging throughout this
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 06:16 (eight years ago) link
This is not a response to this thread more the ppl who have decided this one isn't as good as the first as if it's some kind of verified truth
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 06:17 (eight years ago) link
I'm calling them about even for now
― Spottie, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
"chinchilla hellafurry"
:)
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 09:55 (eight years ago) link
as far as ATL sophomore albums given an iffy reception by a fickle audience, it's somewhere below BOATS II and above Triple F Life.
― Best Beloved Trump-Pence (some dude), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
lol, that's otm
i purposely restrained myself from overdosing on 'look alive' when the video/single came out so that i could jam the hole album front to back without skipping... strategy payed off big time
― flopson, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Agree BOATS II was underrated but this blows that album out of the water
From my view the album seems pretty well received though? All I'm seeing is excitement over it; where are people dismissing it?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, this is a cut above BOATS II - which was a very good album. This stuff though? They sound like they're forging their own genre.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 14:15 (eight years ago) link
love love love this album, zero disappointment at all
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
they have such an impressive range in every direction
All I'm seeing is excitement over it; where are people dismissing it?
― Evan R, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
it's gonna sell like 500 copies
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
was shocked to see last night that the last album went platinum
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
i think that's basically all streams for the singles
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
This stuff though? They sound like they're forging their own genre.
naw.
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
you can draw a continuous line from atlanta rap as it existed a decade ago to where rae sremmurd are now
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
yeaaaaah can't agree w that xp
― Spottie, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link