Daily Discussion Thread 03/17/2020 - HipHop |
- Daily Discussion Thread 03/17/2020
- The Weeknd reveals tracklist for After Hours
- [SHOTS FIRED] Jay Elect and Joe Budden go back and forth: "i have never heard of your albums bro"/"I never got absolutely mopped around on my own project"
- Tekashi69 Sued by Fashion Nova for $2.25 Million
- A$AP Ferg surprises school by performing New Level
- [FRESH] Thundercat - Fair Chance (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B)
- Lil Uzi Vert, A$AP Rocky - Freestyle (Prod. Metro Boomin)
- Tracklist for "Before Love Came To Kill Us" By Jessie Reyez, featuring Eminem and 6LACK
- Future Ft. Drake - Digital Dash
- [FRESH VIDEO] Lil Yachty ft. Drake, DaBaby - Oprah's Bank Account ( Alternative Video)
- [FRESH VIDEO] Rico Nasty - Lightning
- Rodeo By Travis Scott- Album Breakdown
- [FRESH] Masego - King's Rant
- 50 Cent - Psycho ft Eminem
- [Fresh] Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Living Happy (f. Joseph Chilliams & Cavalier)
- [FRESH VIDEO] MGK - Bullets With Names ft. Young Thug, Lil Duke, RJ
- Skee-Lo - I Wish
- [FRESH VIDEO] 88GLAM - Swim
- Mike G - Everything That's Yours
- Dave East - KD
- Joe Budden - Love, I'm Good
- Busta Rhymes - Dangerous
- Kanye West - I feel like that
- Eminem - Kim
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| The Weeknd reveals tracklist for After Hours Posted: 17 Mar 2020 10:17 AM PDT Tracklist if you don't fw Twitter:
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| Posted: 17 Mar 2020 07:58 AM PDT Started with the Joe Budden Podcast last Saturday. The pod overall was split on the album but in the 40 minute deep dive into the album, Joe had the most criticism for it, and the moment that likely annoyed Jay the most was Joe repeatedly asking the others if Hov knew he was smacking Jay Elect around on this album. Joe: I never got absolutely mopped around on my own project either… @ me, not Rory. Joe: I took you off yours & it's a Hov mixtape now… Peace be unto you as well King. Related but off topic: you nephews who haven't heard Exhibit C need to listen [link] [comments]  |
| Tekashi69 Sued by Fashion Nova for $2.25 Million Posted: 17 Mar 2020 04:13 PM PDT |
| A$AP Ferg surprises school by performing New Level Posted: 17 Mar 2020 10:53 PM PDT |
| [FRESH] Thundercat - Fair Chance (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B) Posted: 17 Mar 2020 09:35 AM PDT |
| Lil Uzi Vert, A$AP Rocky - Freestyle (Prod. Metro Boomin) Posted: 17 Mar 2020 03:10 AM PDT |
| Tracklist for "Before Love Came To Kill Us" By Jessie Reyez, featuring Eminem and 6LACK Posted: 17 Mar 2020 01:08 PM PDT
Rico Nasty and Melii were originally supposed to be on Ankles but it looks like they've been removed. [link] [comments]  |
| Future Ft. Drake - Digital Dash Posted: 17 Mar 2020 11:38 PM PDT |
| [FRESH VIDEO] Lil Yachty ft. Drake, DaBaby - Oprah's Bank Account ( Alternative Video) Posted: 17 Mar 2020 09:47 PM PDT |
| [FRESH VIDEO] Rico Nasty - Lightning Posted: 17 Mar 2020 10:04 AM PDT |
| Rodeo By Travis Scott- Album Breakdown Posted: 17 Mar 2020 11:02 AM PDT *The Days Before Rodeo- In the cluttered field of today's rap scene, making a voice for oneself is extremely difficult. However, some artists like Travis Scott are able to do so, not through following trends and conforming, but by creating new styles and advancing genres. In 2015, Travis had finally made a name for himself as a serious artist. He had struggled through tough times after dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, but he was finally in a position where he was respected and ready to release a full album. It's important to put Rodeo within the context of Travis' life, because the album is one deeply tied to his experiences. Travis' had been pushed into a life of fame and excess off the back of his mixtapes, and was learning to cope with it, and that's the story Rodeo is trying to tell. It's one of individuality and self improvement, that expertly walks the line between being grand and humble in a way that makes it something truly special. *Pornography- At this point in Travis' life, he was conflicted, both achieving his dreams with success, and hurting himself through the vice-filled life he was living. The Rodeo serves as a representation of this, it's wild and dangerous, but it's a necessary journey Travis must take. T.I. introduces the listener to the album's concept with his opening narration. He makes the story sound vast and grand with references to the Kepler solar system and the story of a rebel going against the system, but in reality, it's just the tale of Travis trying to find his way in the fog of the world. T.I. says that by the album's end, Travis will have "jumped off his mama's porch", essentially left the nest, and gone forward in his own journey. However, the Travis heard on the tracks first half is nothing like the one T.I. describes. He is trapped in a life of surface level fame and excess, or as Travis describes it, pornograpaphy. This is a world of women and drugs, and it lacks any real connection or emotion, like the pornography Travis speaks of. T.I. comes back with more narration before Travis' second verse where he asks if Travis will survive or fold up. As of now, it seems that Travis is going to fold, lacking the ability to break free from his world of excess. T.I. says that Travis has the potential to be a great leader for those who follow him, but he's currently blocked out by the "codeine and cocaine cartels", or the drugs that halt his progress. It seems like Travis' destiny to just be another failed revolutionary, but he shows signs of the opposite in his second verse. Travis comes through with a motivated energy, saying that it's time to wake up, this line is as much directed towards his followers as it is towards himself. In only the first few lines of his verse, Travis breaks the trance he's trapped in, and grabs the attention of his listeners. Travis says his ideas might be too outlandish, but doesn't let this deter him. He'll fight the powers that be until he gains support for his cause and cracks the system. However, he's still trapped in this system, not wanting to help others with his money and being deeply immersed in the world of excess. Even though he has a long way to go, Travis is determined to rule the world, and make change whether that be through his own doing or his influence. La Flame is doing as he says and letting his ambition carry him. *Oh My Dis Side- After the opening track outlined Travis' hectic life post-fame, "Oh My Dis Side" takes a look at how Travis reflects on it. The song is divided into two parts, the first of which shows Travis' rise to stardom, and how it was a brutal journey that he was extremely committed to. This is the "Oh My" portion of the song, where Travis' hook outlines the shocking nature of all he's had to do to get famous. Travis' struggle was one where he had to make ends meet. Travis broke the law to progress his dreams and used drugs to deal with the stress of trying to achieve them. He paints this lifestyle as one that shouldn't be desired, he might have achieved such great goals as getting his mom a new house, but the time when she kicked him out due to his reckless pursuit of fame can never be forgotten. While Travis tirelessly chased an escape from his humble origins, he's come to regret it now. He's fully viewed the reality of fame, and is disappointed by what he sees. Because of his disappointment, the second half of the track turns into a nostalgic look back at simpler times. Travis remembers the drive he got out of people telling him he would never make it big, before he knew the realities of fame. Travis misses the feeling of home he got from Houston and longs to be back there. While his experiences at home weren't all great, the environment was one he knew well, and compared to the confusing life of excess he lives now, it seems infinitely better. He even misses the times of struggle, because they provided moments when he had to make his own choices and improve himself, whereas now he doesn't know how to change the issues plaguing him. Quavo's verse helps to push the message of the track and sees him bragging about being out of the hood, but still being connected to it. Quavo has found a balance between the life of luxury and the life of fame, while he may have wealth, he's still true to those he was raised with. Travis desperately needs to find a balance in his life like this, where he can stay grounded and continue his pursuit of fame, but for now he can only search. *3500- Travis may long for an escape from the world of fame, but it isn't going to let him go any time soon. This is seen in "3500", which is an overwhelming portrayal of excess and fame. The song's title comes from the 3500 dollar coat which Kim Kardashian bought her daughter North West when she was only two years old. This type of needless spending is the exact thing represented by "3500", it's all the reckless excess of those with money, specifically Travis and his two guest artists, Future and 2 Chainz. The track begins with a brag by Future, where he calls he and Travis Scott the "trillest" people he knows. Trill means true and real, so Future is saying that he and Travis remain true to themselves no matter what. Travis' hook shows the ridiculous life of fame that people like he and Future live, where a lazy Sunday for them involves reckless spending. Despite all this excess, Travis insists that he's still true to himself. He continues the themes of excess in his verse where he talks about the drugs he's doing, the women he's getting, and the money he has. However, he still insists that he hasn't changed, saying that he's still down with his day one homies. However, as shown in later tracks, Travis' friends might not be as trill as he is, since they switch up on him once he gets money. Future's verse sees him sticking to what he's best at, brag raps. Whether it's buying an expensive car and not driving it, doing excessive drugs, or sleeping with what he describes as a "red carpet girl", Future is living the life of luxury while trying to stay trill just like Travis. 2 Chainz verse takes the braggadocio up to another level, with claims like saying he has a bathtub the size of a swimming pool. The rest of his verse consist of more outlandish brags, such as saying he already had money in his baby pictures, or nods to other rappers who have done outlandish things with their money, like his reference to Cam'ron's pink range rover. While the song may lack in subject matter, that's the point, it's meant to show the empty excess that comes with fame, and despite their claims of the opposite, Travis, Future, and 2 Chainz might struggle to be real to themselves in a world boundless vice. *Wasted- "Wasted" shows the true underbelly of Travis' excessive lifestyle, and how the drugs he's taking are robbing him of his money and potential. Travis begins the track with a line that embodies his verse to follow, saying he's drowning in alcohol. This can mean that Travis has consumed a large amount of alcohol, but also that it's detrimental to him. The rest of his verse goes onto describe similar ideas, such as how Travis can't even afford the expensive drinks he's downing. Travis also builds up the idea that he's simply following in the steps of those who came before him. He describes how he went from a lifestyle of wanting to be one of the greats, to actually being one, showing immense pride for his city. This is reflected in the song, where Travis employs a verse from southern Hip-Hop legend Juicy J and a sample from Texas native Pimp C. Travis samples Pimp C for the track's chorus and the story of Pimp C is very reflective of the lifestyle Travis is leaning towards at this point on the record. Pimp C was a very successful Texas rapper just like Travis, but he met a tragically early end due to an overdose on the drug known as lean. While Travis never says that he's specifically on lean, he does say that he can't hold his liquor, which is a way of saying that he can't handle the drugs that now surround him. This is where Pimp C's hook comes into play. He says that there's something going down in the south, which can be viewed on the surface as just a braggadocious line about where Pimp C, and Travis, originated from. However, the line is truly meant to show the wasted potential of those who fall victim to drug use. Pimp C was a major part of what was "really going on" in the south, but he sadly fell to the drug use that's commonly seen with fame, and Travis' great potential might be snuffed out as well if he continues the path he's currently following. Juicy J's verse furthers the idea that the wild life Travis is living is merely a byproduct of those he's idolized. Juicy raps about excessive drug use, women, and everything else associated with the partying lifestyle and it' s not hard to see how Travis came to inherit his current lifestyle from role models such as Juicy J. T.I. rounds out the song with a ominous message about how Travis needs to change his course, saying that Travis' life of fame is one that the listener can't really know, and they shouldn't judge Travis as he attempts to resolve his life. *90210- As seen on the hazy "Wasted", Travis has reached peak excess of his fame. After unapologetically braggadocious tracks like "3500", Travis confronts the empty nature of his success on "90210 ''. 90210 is the area code of Beverly Hills, a place of wealth and luxury. The song's opening lines from Kacy Hill some up the track and Travis' dissatisfaction with fame perfectly, she says "Mama's bailing down that road, craving 9021-", before being cut off by Travis. This cut off shows how Travis has become disillusioned with the success and fame hungry lifestyle so many follow. He further highlights this with his first verse, which details the story of a girl from a life of fortune who turns to drugs and staring in pornography to escape from her empty life. Travis describes the vices the girl turns towards as an "alley", an alley is a place of darkness and dirt, essentially as far away from a life of luxury as can be achieved. While Travis literally meets this girl in a alley, as she's turned to prostitution to pay for her drug habits, the alley is metaphorical, since both characters are disallusioned with fame and desire an escape from it. Travis shows this in the video for "90210", where he jumps off an expensive monster truck, which represents his life of excess and flexing, in pursuit of a dark city, an escape from that life. Travis draws parallels between the girl and himself in his verse, saying that he's also turned to a life of drug use and aimless spending to stimulate himself. As Kacy Hill says, Travis and the girl are "hooked on feeling numb". Travis' final verse shows a sort of defeat, where he resolves to waste away in the 90210 looking for the alley. In the music video, Travis goes home with the girl, and it's apparent that they are turning to each other to numb their lifestyles. If they can't find stimulation in their world, they'll numb themselves with excess in order to stay uncomplacent. This is a tragic reality and Travis realizes this with the line, "It's the superstar girl, superstar girl, roaming in that alley". This line applies to the girl but also to Travis, they both have a greater potential, but chose to waste it all in the alley of vice. It seems like the song might end here, Travis is disillusioned with his new life of success, and he's forgotten why he even desires it. This is until Travis is reminded of why he fights for fame and success: to support his family. In the music video, the second part of the song is presented as Travis' consciousness talking to him and reminding him of why he needs to strive for success. This inner monologue begins with Travis receiving a call from his grandmother, who says he works too hard and is worried he'll forget about her. On "90210", this line is ironic since Travis isn't working, rather he's drowning in a life of drugs and women, and Travis is able to reestablish his goals after his grandmother's call, reigniting his drive. While his grandmother feels he'll forget about her due to all his work, she's the very thing that pushes him back into work, showing that he won't forget about her since all his accomplishments are for her. The verse continues with more of the same, Travis sees contrast within his old life of struggling for fame against his parents wishes, and now being able to make his parents happy with his success. Travis also references those who try to be like him or leech off of him for fame, he says that they're "packaged different". This shows Travis acknowledging that he's gifted, and this whole song is about realizing he should put his gifts to good use. He reflects on his new life, one where he is able to meet his idols and support those around him, and then thinks back to his life as a youth. Travis is gaining all he has ever wanted now, and his story is a truly inspiring one. He says, "I see my good fortune in all these horses", showing that now Travis celebrates the excessive lifestyle he tried to run from in the first verse, seeing his ambition in all his luxuries. He has learned to value fame and success, not from the empty wealth and lavish lifestyle he's gained, but instead from what all of it represents. Bettering his family, fulfilling his dreams, and becoming an inspiration for those around him. *Pray 4 Love- After Travis rejected aimless vice and the girl that represented it on "90210", he begins to learn new things about the world he inhabits that were blocked from him due to his lack of awareness. The song "Pray 4 Love" is Travis' rejection of love, since he sees it as an unnecessary burden that will distract him from larger goals. Travis' first verse outlines these goals, he says to pray for those who are struggling and that he's having trouble living the excessive life he's been thrown into. While Travis may say to pray for others, he really needs prayer himself. His verse continues by pulling examples of those who are drowning in their success and highlighting how Travis is doing the same. He ends the first verse with a plea that his listeners will pray for him. Travis was and is drowning in his fame and at a time where he's struggling to keep on the right path, he has no time for love. However this love would probably benefit Travis, and help to ground him, and this idea is explored on the hook. The Weeknd says, "Don't pray for love, Just ask the lonely", and this shows how a part of Travis' rejection of love is from his loneliness. The lifestyle of fame has isolated Travis, and with no one to turn to for comfort, he simply rejects love. Travis highlights his troubles with love on the track's bridge, where he suggests that he's using drugs to drown out the troubles of life, seeing heartbreak as just another challenge. Travis shows the pressures that come with his fame in his second verse. Fame brought many things for Travis, such as a realization of his dream, but it also allowed him to have a wider knowledge of the system that trapped him as a youth. Travis shows this in the verse by proclaiming the nonsensical lifestyle he lives, and contrasting it with very serious issues like racial profiling. As a star, Travis feels pressure to help those who are less fortunate and those who he's left behind in his rise to the top. While the second half of "90210" was a triumphant moment for Travis, bringing those like his parents and grandparents out of their environment is an issue that Travis must apply all of himself to. Since he spends so much time praying for others, he can't focus on his own well being. The Weeknd's verse towards the tracks end helps to paint a picture of the empty lifestyle of fame. While he's on top of the world, the greatest, his life is one of confrontations and little true commitment. While a life at the top is desired by most, the Weeknd and Travis show that it's not all it's cracked up to be. In reality, it's a life of loneliness and sorrow and those who live it are in desperate need of love. *Nightcrawler- On the last Track, Travis was confronted with the dark realities of fame and his world. These realizations cause Travis to retreat to a place where he can drown out his surroundings. This is seen on "Nightcrawler", where Travis turns to excessive partying to drown out his pain. Swae Lee sings the opener of the song, asking an unnamed person if they had the time of their life. Swae is alluding to a crazy party here, and Travis gives the listener an idea of the party Swae refers to with his chorus. Travis says, "Order more bottles, order more models, order more hours", showing the neverending nature of his partying. Travis paints a picture of the lifestyle that comes with all this excess in his verse where he references dancing, money, and girls. He also says that he's been putting on since LA, showing that the lifestyle of Los Angeles is a driving factor in his turn to the excessive side. On the feature side, Swae Lee helps to show the crazy parties of Travis' life on his verse which paints them as almost a freakshow, and Chief Keef shows the excessive lifestyle Travis is trapped in. Keef's verse contrasts the lavish lifestyle that comes with wealth, and the reckless behavior someone like Keef might participate in with all that money. The idea is that Travis is living a similar reality, without love or a stable life, Travis uses his ample wealth, one of the few things he can hold onto, to drown out his pain. Travis is seeped in the overwhelming lifestyle of fame he's found in LA and it seems like the nights of partying might just crawl on forever unless Travis can find an escape. *Piss On Your Grave- While Travis can try to drown out the realities of his world with excess, eventually his rage will come bubbling to the top, and it does just that on "Piss on Your Grave". The track is heavily inspired by the rebellious Kanye West album Yeezus, a project which Travis worked on, and even sees the creator of Yeezus, Kanye West, feature. Kanye and Travis use the song as a rejection of those in power. Specifically those who wish to hold them back or halt their dreams. The first verse goes to Kanye who says the song is aimed at "the executives". These "executives" represent the corporate entities that might try to halt the dreams of asspiring stars. The entities are definitely present within the music industry and might even be what the song is written about as Travis shows in his verse. He says that achieving fame is the moment he's been waiting for, the one he left his home and hurt those around him for, and now he realizes it's not what he desired. The life of fame isn't one of freedom, but rather one of extra stress, whether that be over money, music, or fake friends. All this stress can lead to the suppression of problems through negative means like partying and drugs. Travis is tired of this system, and exclaims his hatred for it. Kanye's final verse brings the aggression of the song to a close as he sings about how he and Travis' lessons should be taught to school children, and how he'll go to war with anyone, anywhere for the sake of his family who he must fight for. The song is by far the most evil and aggressive on the whole project, and all this anger against the system that Travis harbors desperately needs a place to go. *Antidote- "Antidote" is a track that represents the absolute peak of Travis' success in more than one way. On the surface, it was the track that launched Travis' career to new heights, and upon deeper inspection, the song is about the crazy world Travis constructs around himself to escape. The track begins with Travis' chorus, which paints a picture of his life clouded by excess. One important idea that comes into play through the chorus is the night show. This is essentially just Travis' description of his live shows, which are a drug and rage fueled escape from his life. His first verse shows reckless behavior, such as how he excessively spends money and hooks up with girls. Travis is constructing a world around himself, one of drugs, women, and rage, to drown out the struggles of his world. Because of this, when Travis says not to open up the window on the hook, this is simultaneously a reference to how he doesn't want the weed smoke to go out of his car and to how he doesn't want the illusion of his world to be broken. After his first verse, Travis hints at the night show on the bridge, and expands on it in his second verse. Travis describes the night show as a place of utter excess, it's the place where he can forget about all of his problems. However, this bubble that Travis created is causing him to become delusional. He shows this in his final verse where he attempts to convince himself that the wild life he's living is all part of his hustle. In 2015 Travis infamously kicked a cameraman off of his stage at a Summer Jam concert, while this is obviously excessive behavior, Travis attempts to convince himself it's not. He thinks that people are just simply being over-critical of him, and he resolves to turn to the night show to block out these negative voices. *Impossible- On "Pray 4 Love", Travis outlined how, due to his fame, he distances himself from others, and doesn't focus on love. This attitude comes to a head on "Impossible", where Travis is forced to come to terms with his reckless views on love and connection. Travis' first verse sees him talking about how the relationship between he and a girl has fallen apart, due to both of their behavior. Travis' lifestyle of fame and travel makes his girl feel alone, and because of that she's not there for him when he needs her. This is a serious issue for Travis who uses the girl to keep himself grounded. Without her affection, Travis realizes just how lost he is without her. As Travis says, their love was never real, and the girl was just there to feel some of his fame. However, this can be called into question, Travis might be emotional since the girl left, making up ideas about why she abandoned him. To further prove this, the song's hook doesn't see Travis bashing the girl and her behavior, instead he wishes that he could do the impossible and get her back. He doesn't end his verse by saying he never wants to see the girl, but rather that he wishes they could have had a future far away from his life of fame. In his second verse he leans more into the idea that the girl was actually and loving and grounding part of his life, saying "lately, I ain't been feeling the best, cause you the best". Travis seems to be slowly coming to the conclusion that this girl was a central part of his life. Sadly, through ignoring her in favor of his excessive life, their love was doomed. He tries to get her back through reckless behavior, but the ship has sailed, and now Travis realizes he's alone in his world of luxury. *Maria I'm Drunk- This track serves as a continuation of "Impossible", Travis feels lonely and abandoned after his break up, and turns to the city of vice, Los Angeles, to numb his problems away. The song begins with Travis touching down in LA and looking for "Maria", or weed. He refers to his weed as Maria to show that now the only girl he desires the company of is drugs. To escape from the pain of his recent breakup he decides to drown it out with weed. In addition to weed, Travis turns to alcohol, girls, and partying, as seen on the song's second part. The "I'm Drunk" portion of the track begins with Young Thug singing the line, "Call your friends, let's get drunk". Thug is showing the mentality of Travis at this point in the song, he wants to party and drink away his problems. On Travis' verse, he does just that, interacting with girls and doing drugs. Justin Beiber and Young thug further these ideas in their verses, with Bebier's being about leading on a girl, and Thug's focusing on the reckless behavior of someone under the influence of alcohol. The track serves as Travis' sink into a life of excess to rebound from his lost love, and he'll soon find out that this world isn't fulfilling and desire a replacement for the girl who centered him. *Flying High- Travis has truly fallen into the grip of vice that Los Angeles offered on "Maria I'm Drunk", and he turns to the very thing that helped to pull him out of his clouded state on "90210" to escape from it. This is, of course, his home. Travis is, as the title suggests, flying high both in the sense that he's on top of the world right now, and that he's high on his flight back to Texas. Travis is going there in an attempt to detox from his disastrous life, and find a new girl. Travis gets to Houston and immediately continues his life of partying, feeling that he's in his element. However, he doesn't lose sight of his goal, to discover a new girl. The chorus shows this mentality, with Travis telling a girl that he's flying high, and that she should get with him so she can live that very life. However, in the song's bridge, Toro y Moi shows that Travis' high flying life is actually a very lonely and empty one, where he has to turn towards drugs just to gain stimulation. For this reason, most girls reject Travis, and he rejects them, saying that if they aren't on his level, then they should just leave him alone. *I Can Tell- Travis reaches the peak of his abandonment here, he feels lost and turns to a random girl he finds that is willing to be with him. He says that the girl is honest and hasn't told any lies, however the only girls who have really been honest with Travis are the ones who rejected him, since no one could ever truly be ready for the lifestyle Travis is living, not even himself. Nevertheless, Travis trusts this girl, and begins to tell her about his life. While the girl could probably care less, Travis is really the one who needs to hear the story of his come up. He's lost sight of his abilities to push past obstacles, like his break up, and is ready to fall into deep depression until he refreshes himself on how he was able to get through all the trails of his youth. His first verse reflects on his early life, trying to make it as a distinct voice in the flooded world of rap, while his second focuses on his current life. In the first verse, Travis lists experiences that were difficult for him but that he made it out of, and in the second he outlines issues that he's currently dealing with, such as being talented but still trapped within a life of success. Travis draws from his past experiences to come to the conclusion that he can make it out of whatever is going on within his life right now. He ends the track by saying that all of the girls he's been with know this story, which shows that Travis is just using another fame-hungry girl to get himself back on the path he should be following. *Apple Pie- While Travis is still trapped within a world of vice and excess that he can't easily escape, he learns to come to terms with it on "Apple Pie". Here Travis decides to, as T.I. said on "Pornography", jump off his mama's porch. He leaves a life of being dependent on his family behind, and decides to rely on himself from now on, whether that's for good or bad. This is represented by how Travis learned to cope with vice on "90210" through his family, but on "I Can Tell" did it through looking at his own experiences. Travis doesn't need comfort from his family to get by anymore, and he makes this clear in the songs opening, taking pride in his reckless behavior, or "thing for sweets", saying that's part of his own recipe, or legacy. Travis knows that his lifestyle is a reckless one, but he's proud that it's what he'll be remembered for since it's been built off of his own choices. He says in his verse that he only wants to make decisions based on his own needs, and he'll live his life the way he wants to, even if it's wild and reckless. In his second verse, Travis reflects on how successful he is now, and comes to the conclusion that he must be doing something right. While he's viewed as a rapper, he's anything but, Travis has been through trials and tribulations that many will never experience, and because of this he'll form his own legacy, away from what anyone else might be doing. He includes a bridge where he calls out for a girl named Roxanne, this is a reference to the Police song of the same name, about a girl who represents a reckless lifestyle. This shows that Travis is still involved in reckless behavior, and despite the album's conclusion, his future is still unclear. As T.I. says on the track's ending narration, what's meant to be will be. Travis' uncertain future is actually the whole point of the album, it shows Travis breaking away from societal norms and creating his own individual identity. In this way he becomes a rebel, and while many questions about Travis still remain unanswered, he's willing to push forward into the unknown future of the Rodeo. [link] [comments]  |
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