This to me feels like the future of soul music man. The production has this rap influence that really brings something different to the songs, fortunately without that rap influence extending into the way he's delivering the lyrics, at least not in the way rap music has pretty much entirely cross pollinated with r&b nowadays. I've heard so many artists recently where I can't even tell if it's r&b or rap. Not that that's important or whatever, but a motherf**ker like me likes to be able to classify things I guess. There's this haphazardness in the production that I'm really loving right now, it's like he's singing on a mc tree beat or something. The first three tracks on this project are crazy. I don't know how you couldn't be with it after a motherf**ker samples kanye's "all falls down". Remember "all falls down"? the version with the lauryn hill sample was huuuuge when it dropped. 2016 is turning into the year of kanye nostalgia for me. If you want to finish out the trifecta, here's the third track "ratchet blues". I have a feeling whatever titus has coming next will be f**king transcendent.
I watched this nigerian movie that reminded me about this sh*t. Man I love this song. Listen to the swag on the way they hit the "down low". A friend of mine who used to play guitar with "cannonhead" put me on to this during a tour many moons ago. And since it had already been like 30 years in between it's release and when I first heard it, it unsurprisingly still holds the f**k up.
This verse from 3000 is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard. As if we don’t already know what he can do, he comes along (awhile back admittedly) with this sh*t and makes you feel all kinds of stuff. I suggest that anyone who’s having a hard time accessing any sorts of feelings at the moment give it a listen and I caution anyone who’s having a hard time with over-feeling at the moment against doing so. Also he takes that sh*t everywhere, mum to best friend to significant other to kid, so there’s no reprieve ya know? and just when you think you have a facet of your life that’s messy but more or less dead to the pain figured out, he opens that sh*t right back up.
3000 shares a surprising amount of personal stuff here but remains so dignified and self-contained in the process that you leave empathizing with the dude but without any of the icky feelings that sometimes accompany being party to oversharing. He’s a goddamn magician. You even give him his space with some of the sh*t, like man I don’t know exactly how that feels but I can still respect it. I’ve listened to his part so many times I’ve lost count and I don’t think I’ve ever listened to tip's all the way through once. That’s no disrespect to t.i. he’s great, but even he knows he got bodied here. Also the hook sucks and the beat is average at best so 3000 had to climb a f**king mountain to make this sh*t memorable. I guess that makes tip his Sherpa.
This is dope. Who else can make a joint where they got their name in every line and still have that shit sound fresh? WHO?!?! As enjoyable as this is, it does kind of make you wish kanye would have made his own beat for it.
Saw everybody going crazy about this dude awhile back when he performed with chance the rapper on some late night show. He's rapping like a motherf**ker on this right here. Though it took two listens before I was with the hook, that second verse is some sh*t. Seems he also co-produced it, which is the fastest way for a rapper to get my respect.
It's the baby faced killer with an offering in the name of the light skin jesus. Bibby was/is my favorite from the chicago drill class of whenever that was, so I'll forgive him for this. I mean we never had that meeting to decide on the official light-skinned spokesman. I'm not going to lie, I had my heart set on larry fishburne.
What would it sound like if ty dolla $ign got on some weird sh*t? Well here you go you curious lil' motherf**ker you, I could have told you that it would sound dope. Hearing it is probably better though.
Buffalo represent. From everything I've seen buffalo seems to be a pretty bleak place, westside gunn is definitely not going to change any minds about that. His bio says that he's more designer than rapper but he sounds like a rapper to me. You guys remember when new york was the cultural hub of the world? When everyone was a lot meaner but also a little more honest because motherf**ker's were checking you and you had to stand by what you said? This sh*t reminds me of all that. I love this post-ghostface style of new york rap where you chop a sample and then don't do sh*t to it and throw some raps on top. If you also dig that, this is for you.
As far as first looks go, allan kingdom had a pretty f**king good one when he made an appearance with kanye doing that first glimpse of "all day" that had everybody geeked. I like him because he's from minnesota, which for all intents and purposes is basically canada. It's cold. The people have funny accents. Black people play hockey. All of that sh*t.