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Hi! We're the producers and directors of Hip-Hop Evolution, ask us anything! [1PM ET]

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 07:52 AM PST

UPDATE 2:14 PM ET: We'll keep responding throughout the day, so keep asking questions. We love you HHH, keep it a millionnnnnnnn

Yo HHE,

Rodrigo Bascuñán aka u/buns4080 and Darby Wheeler aka u/DarbyWheelerAMA here.

We're the producers and directors of your favorite Hip-Hop documentary series, Hip-Hop Evolution [applause].

Our fourth season starts airing today on Netflix.

Ask us anything about the series, hip-hop history, hip-hop in general, making documentaries, whatever.

We've also just started our own production company, Scenario (yeah, Tribe), so pitch for fun or for real. But we accept no responsibility for this material!

Let's argue about rap and have fun.

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Album of the Year 2019: OOFIE by Wiki

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 11:01 AM PST

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Artist: Wiki

Album: OOFIE

Label: Wikset Enterprises

Background by /u/GhostofRimbaud

Patrick "Wiki" Morales is a voracious, exuberant Irish-Puerto Rican rapper from New York City, spitting truths and rude musings through a broken tooth for the better part of the past decade. Pat is an avowed rap purist that puts his heart in the art, claiming he does it simply because "I love to do this shit." As a prodigy in the NYC art scene, Wiki was given his sobriquet through a duo with a kid named Googs (after Google and Wikipedia) and eventually started putting out videos & raps. Later, he saw success with the Wikispeaks video and the critically acclaimed albums WIKI93 and So It Goes from gritty, city kid triumvirate Ratking. He's also known for a popular verse on Earl Sweatshirt's AM//Radio, and a series of recent solo projects and collaborative EP's.

Through live performances and recorded songs, Wiki has proven himself a capable freestyler and songwriter with a punk sensibility, known to smack himself in the face with mics at live shows when "losin' hype!" He's one of the stalwarts of good, grimy, do-it-yourself NYC boom bap, holding on resolutely in the face of NYC radio's commercial landscape. Wiki's a part of the same underground-adjacent NYC scene as Your Old Droog, Tony Seltzer, Princess Nokia, sLuMs, and others. He's even a newly independent artist, having parted ways with XL Recordings before the release of this album, after his original A&R left the label.

Wiki has a history of multimedia output beyond music, having sold indie zines filled with drawings, the ubiquitous wiki tag, original lyric notes, and photo collage. Even the cover of WIKI93 by Ratking is a painting from his high school art class, while the cover of Lil Me is a collage featuring sketch books and one of his own shoes. His involvement on OOFIE is no different, as Wiki previewed the whole album on Instagram, each song with an adjoining drawing, as well as an album cover illustrated by the Leppy Coqui himself.

His last album No Mountains in Manhattan, named after dialogue in Scorsese's 1973 Mean Streets, is a study of Wiki's external world in NYC. It's a personification of the Rotten Apple in all its grime and glitter, a love letter to the concrete jungles, Chinatown dumpling spots, screeching subway cars, and summertime parks of New York City. NMIM boasts a vivid, visual acuity echoing Walt Whitman's own exuberant lyrical celebration of Mannahatta. It represented an outward look at Wiki's electric city, while OOFIE flips the lens, magnifying the internal workings of the NY emcee.

Review by /u/GhostofRimbaud

OOFIE shows Wiki exploring his emotional world, relationships, and personal history with disarming honesty and vulnerability. It's an album of catharsis and rap therapy, showing the reality behind being an underground success. The album's temporal scope is broad, as he reflects on his past, present, and where he may be headed. He examines his age and place in hip hop, as well as his own experiences with addiction and depression. No stranger to self-deprecation, Wiki uses brutal introspection to probe and expose his darker thoughts and feelings about himself. He turns these insecurities into a kind of kindling for a phoenix rise, morphing his troubles and successes into one victory cry, determined to persevere despite the stresses of trying to pay NYC rent off underground rap records.

1. Tenacity in the Face of Defeat

After a fitting sample ("he wears the same shit every fucking day, breath stinks"), Wik begins "Intro" spitting in a labored cadence, addressing his haters, spurned friends, and critics: "Tell me shave my uni-brow, I'd rather shave my balls/Nah, fuckers always talkin', never takin' charge/I wanted this shit since like seventh grade, and that's on God/You couldn't do it then so ratin' me became your job." From the onset of the project, Wiki emphasizes originality and artistic action, painting himself as someone who took the plunge and was talented enough to come out the other side of rap alive. Still, he acknowledges the characteristics that make him strange to some, while imparting humor and a willingness to forgo his ego.

In the following song "Downfall", he ponders the risk in dedicating his life to art, "Y'all ain't seen my downfall yet/Down with a motherfucker til he down on his ends/Til he down on his luck/Travel town to town for the bucks/I made pounds with the pen/Hit the ground and just went." It's commentary on contemporary culture, where people pile onto a person's faults at the slightest provocation. Still, this is one of many surprisingly triumphant songs on the album, where Wiki confides his troubles in the listener, while maintaining the personal tenacity and effervescent spirit that's gotten him this far.

The lead single "Pesto" (featuring an all-green music video) is one of the main bangers on the album, with a stuttering Tony Seltzer beat of rolling hi hats, punching kicks and a hypnotic, warped xylophone-esque loop exuding an off-kilter urgency. It's discombobulated yet on-point, like a charismatic drunk.

Wiki vacillates between the personal and flex shit, sometimes between songs and sometimes within songs, making sure there's something for everyone even if you're uninterested in his inner life. The energy behind "Pesto" is irrefutable, and works to balance the slower, darker cuts. Wiki still keeps the theme consistent with lyrics like "Reviews strong, but not enough views on the song", voicing a frustration with being a critically acclaimed artist that doesn't see many record sales from his output.

"Grim", with hard as marble verses from Lil Ugly Mane and Denzel Curry, continues the momentum, featuring a pitched-up piano loop, with skittering drums and washed-out, rusted music-box effects between verses. The song feels like a Secret Circle song, substituting Denzel in place of accused rapist Antwon.

The banger songs on this album, including 4 Clove Club, show confidence and perseverance in spite of the nihilism and superficiality of the music industry. This is Wiki's most cynical album yet, but if you listen between the lines, you see a visceral, dogged resolve to keep pushing despite all the bullshit that life, and himself, may throw at him. There's prevalent themes of self-sabotage throughout the record as Wiki wrestles with the hopes, doubts, and pressures of his path.

2. Melancholy Nostalgia

Wiki continues to rap with sporadic, wandering flows, riding hype beats expertly, while using a slower, pained cadence for the others. He's always wielded surprise like a sword, capitalizing on an unpredictable, singular voice no matter the beat. Personal songs, like "The Act", show the vulnerability below the surface, with Wiki on the verge of tears and emotional breakdown at certain points, his voice cracking, wailing, and briefly falling off beat.

"Way That I Am" returns to that former determination. The song has a simple kick, rapid snare pattern over a loop singing "what makes you do?", with a Your Old Droog verse [REDACTED]. The soaring soul sample mirrors the triumphant lyrics, seeming to ask the listener "what makes you do what you do?" The chorus testifies to Wiki's vehement individuality, as he claims, "It's just the way that I am/It's how I live, I do what I do/The way they are pisses me off/The way they talk, the shit that they spew."

Later, Wiki asks the listener to "pardon me, don't be startled by the honesty/don't start with me the blood that runs in my arteries." On this album, Wiki plumbs new depth picking apart his life and self in the context of his art, wondering if he'll be "successful or just the one with the most potential." He finds freedom in creative expression while cognizant of the anxieties, battles, and pitfalls of a musician's life. This album is a murky diary, showing listeners every angle of Wiki's daily emotional experience.

"Back Then" is the most blatantly nostalgic of these songs, depicting Wiki as a mentor to the kids running in the streets, a pack he was once part of. But he also reminisces on his own youth, using the song as a document of "times back then" when "you was always late to your classes/had to wake up at 6 just to make it to the motherfucking train and catch it/you was Uptown, school was in Brooklyn/explain why you missed that shit, don't mean to be so nostalgic but oof."

The song is a good summation of the project, imparting a "hindsight is 2020" feeling. Wiki half-admonishes his younger self, while looking back with equal parts fondness and anxiety, worrying the best years have passed him, "I was on one when I was so young, I was so dumb/everything in front of me now it seems like everything's done." The back half of the first verse catalogues the changes in his city, where his memories are the only things remaining of "the spots we grew up and grew close to."

"The Routine" follows that concept with more levity, as Wiki accepts the changes that come with age while imparting wisdom to the next generation of juvenile delinquents, starting on fun, swaggering lines "Bitch don't cool-guy me/I'm too high for that bullshit talk, I'ma walk, I'm gone/Shit, you need a new ID/I see it in your eyes like visine like I'm your motherfuckin' mom." The dynamics of his adolescence have switched, with Wiki playing the part of his own parent, admonishing and sonning mischievous kids that just don't know better.

"Dame Aqui" (trans: give it here) is yet another collaboration from Wiki and his ex-girlfriend Princess Nokia. This is the most fun, light-hearted song on the project, with the lyrics and production conjuring far-off beaches and Caribbean grooves. Wiki recounts a funny, drunken memory of sleeping in Stockholm jail because he "punched the window in the Euro club when they played DMX." Sometimes energy gotta come out.

Despite the levity, Nokia echoes the main themes of the album, "Been around the world and I'm two times back/Three passports and a few new stamps/I miss MTA bus pass/Ever since I got famous I been stuck in a cab/Traveling is sure not easy, I love that fettuccine", showing the road's rigors may not be easy, but how else is a starving artist supposed to make money and eat some fettuccine? It's another good example of the "between a rock and a hard place" mentality of the album.

3. Stepping Back from Rock Bottom

The penultimate "Promises" holds some of Wiki's most poignant writing of his career, over a bright, drifting beat comprised of a string loop and soft drums, with a lilting chorus courtesy of duendita. Wik weaves together autobiographical lines about his family history, picking through his past to make sense of the present. Most of all, he opens up about his drinking problem, something that caused him ulcers near the release of Lil Me.

This song explores the cyclical trappings of substance abuse, where Wiki needs weed just to eat, then pukes because he doesn't eat enough to offset the alcohol in his stomach (even though drinking on an empty stomach will give him more bang for his buck in terms of getting fucked up, relatable lol). This song is Wiki completely transparent, lamenting that he needs to get his shit together or else end up a fucked up, red-faced bum on the block:

"Tryna find my peace, keep my mind at ease/I'ma beg and plead, when will the cycle cease?/I need weed to smoke so I can eat/Just so I can drink, what's wrong with me?/What I need, brew to think honestly/Next day I'm puking up, obviously/'Cause I ain't ate enough and drank too much/Start again, now I need weed to puff/You see I'm stuck, am I changing enough?/I don't wanna be the neighborhood drunk."

Throughout OOFIE, Wiki shows alcohol to be a coping mechanism for anxiety, agoraphobia, and depression, like "The Routine": "When you around me, shit, you are not on/Everyone walk around like they the one/I don't wanna walk around unless I'm drunk/Is he the talk of the town or he just a punk?" He paints himself as someone who sometimes struggles to leave their house sober, despite making a living rapping in front of crowds.

Melodically, Wiki adapts his flows and lyrics masterfully to the instrumentation of the album, like when he shifts his inflection to fit the feel of the beat change at the start of the "Rugrat turned club rat" verse in "The Routine". So much of this album is concerned with lost youth and innocence, with knowing when the party's over, and learning how to pick up the pieces of a past life without cutting yourself on the broken glass.

The last song "Freaks" features strangled horn hits, meandering bass, and jazzy piano lines, as Wiki claims he "did it for the freaks." Though he feels an outsider at times, he doesn't try to change in any disingenuous way. He's learned to love his authentic self, showing this album to be a work of self-acceptance, like a compromise between past and present. At the end of the day, he's secure knowing there will always be freaks like him that appreciate what he's doing creatively, and those are the kids he does it for, because he knows what it's like to be them.

4. Uptown Train

Wiki does lots of looking back on this record, but with an eye on the road ahead and self-improvement in the present. There's a cathartic light at the end of the subway tunnel despite the darkness of creeping cynicism. He paints a picture of gratitude, perseverance, and yearning. Wiki's not just a loudmouth NY kid with bars, and OOFIE shows his range as an artist able to access a deeper side without seeming saccharine or forced. Though he's only 26, he's earned his spot as a battered veteran of the rap world, the perennial underdog, underrated and under-appreciated. He wants his flowers while he's here, and who can blame him?

Despite his personal and professional battles, things are looking good for everyone's favorite Celtic-Boricua MC. With a recent song "Eggs" produced by Madlib, and rumors of a food-themed project on the way, Wiki is an artist you can always count on for authenticity and originality. Patrick Morales is one of the most compelling, believable, and hard-working voices in hip-hop today, so grab a Ballentine and throw OOFIE on, just don't end up the neighborhood drunk. Yerrrrp!

Score: 8/10

Favorite Lyrics

Pesto:

Let go, ain't you seen, turn my style pesto

Green this, green that, green fit, green hat

Even got a green bitch with a green ass

Grim, Lil Ugly Mane:

Floatin' down the River Styx, countin' daffodils

Ignorin' all these e-mails from Complex and Mass Appeal

Thinkin', "If I wasn't such a pussy, I'd have had a deal"

When I die, play my failure on the blooper reel

The Routine:

Rugrat turned club rat

Old head wanna be a young cat

This the city that we live in

I just wanna kick some wisdom to the kids that's finna run that

Time passed, time that you'll never find back

Trust that, settle for the fun past, fuck that (huh)

But really whatchu thinkin' man

Cause everything centered where the drinking and the drugs at

Back Then:

Back then, half the time anybody rapping man they talking bout the past tense

Laughing 'cause everything is better now

Nah, back then, it was better how?

You never got ass then, you was always sad then

You was always late to your classes

Had to wake up at 6 just to make it to the motherfucking train and then catch it

You was uptown, school was in Brooklyn

Explain to me why you missed that shit

Don't mean to be so nostalgic but, oof

I was on one back when I was so young, I was so dumb

Everything in front of me, now it seem like everything done

When I was Lil Wiki 550 split a dime and a dutch just to get me a blunt

You know what feeling I miss?

When you get outta school on a Friday and everything lit, nobody givin' a fuck

Whole city at our disposal, we run the streets and we roast you

We would get high, we would try any fucking drug that we was exposed to

We knew the delis that sold you brew but now all them delis is closed too, huh

Along with all of the spots we grew up and grew close to

Promises:

Tryna find my peace, keep my mind at ease

I'ma beg and plead, when will the cycle cease?

I need weed to smoke so I can eat

Just so I can drink, what's wrong with me?

What I need, brew to think honestly

Next day I'm puking up, obviously

Cause I ain't ate enough and drank too much

Start again, now I need weed to puff

You see I'm stuck, am I changing enough?

I don't wanna be the neighborhood drunk

Discussion Questions:

How do you think this measures up to Wiki's previous output? Where do you hope he goes from here? Where do you realistically see him going from here? What's your rating?
What are your favorite lines or moments from the record? Least favorite?
Do you think he's underrated, overrated, or right where he should be? What do you see for his career in the future? What will Wiki be doing 5 years from now?
What do you think about Wiki's mindstate on this record? Do you think he's in a good place?
How excited are you for the possibility of more Wiki x Madlib joints? Any other artists you want him to work with?
Favorite memory of delinquent mischief? How is your life now?
Favorite brand of blunt wrap and 40oz?

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Things that rappers are hotter than (part. 2)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 03:50 PM PST

7 years ago /u/UkranianLimbs posted a list of some things that rappers said they were hotter than.

I figured we're due for another, so I spent a bit of time combing through Genius for some examples.

"I'm hotter than" is one of the most cliche things in hip-hop, but sometimes rappers can get creative with it.

So without further ado, let's see what rappers are hotter than.

edit: fixing mistakes and adding more

2 Chainz

Mississippi in summer of 1950s
A brush fire
Six n****s in a Pinto with the vents closed
An inmate on the conjugal visit
A blowtorch
The Gates of Hell

2Pac

The fourth of July
The wax from a candle

50 Cent

A tea kettle
The gun after that clip done
The sauna

A$AP Ferg

A fucking sauna
A sauna
a kettle

Action Bronson

A leather in the 6 in the summertime
The sun in June
When Bow Wow dropped in the summer
An oven mitt

Big K.R.I.T.

Molten lava that burn their summer down
My leather in the summer with the windows up

Big L

Cali
The Bahamas
Heat
Florida

Big Pun

Lava

Black Thought

Weapons-grade plutonium
When Shaft in Africa
Sacks of boom in my room at the Ramada
A box where the bread bake

Blueface

Who they wanna be hotter than

B.o.B.

A sauna
The summer

Bobby Shmurda

A bitch

Bow Wow

Papa bear porridge
A summer
Them California Raisins

Bryson Tiller

The sun

Bun B

Fire
A sauna

Busta Rhymes

A microwave
A toaster
A stove top

Cardi B

A Somali

Chamillionaire

A black pepper
A furnace
A torch

Chance The Rapper

A pot roast

Chief Keef

A fucking furnace
The summer

Childish Gambino

A lighter
Some rifle spit
That propane

Danny Brown

A hot pocket out the devil's microwave
My sleeve
Andre Rison with Left Eye
Your new shit

Diddy

Acid
The sun

DMX

Lava

Drake

The 6 in the summer
Standing inside rocking outerwear

E-40

Hot coals

Earl Sweatshirt

The blocks where we be at
Hot combs
Lit parliament singeing your fucking arm, in the parking lot of a Target
At least five heaters, in the middle of the summer with a sleeved wife beater
A motherfuckin' summer spent in Mexico
The pocket where he carry chronic
The last name on my alias
Denny plates

Eminem

A set of twin babies, in a Mercedes Benz with the windows up, when the temp goes up to the mid 80s
The hottest block
My dick is when I piss and it burns
You

Fabolous

August weather

Fat Joe

A skillet

Freddie Gibbs

These damn streets

French Montana

Fish grease

Future

A flame
The Sun
A matchbox
A sauna
A jolly
Some lava

The Game

June
The beginning of my career with 50, Dre and Em there
Acid
Pablo Escobar's stove
A fucking chinchilla
A rude boy that goes after rasta... faraian

G-Eazy

The air inside dryers

Ghostface Killah

Diseases that overdose the venereal
A plate of pasta

Gucci Mane

A stolen coupe
A candle be
Runnin' water
The hottest summer
A sauna
Cooking with lard
A hula dancer
A campfire

Guru

Sex and candlewax
The cops on your block

Hopsin

A UV ray
The thought of Nicki Minaj naked

Ice Cube

Cayenne pepper
Tobasco

Inspectah Deck

The tropics
A ex-con dodgin the pens
A summer day sunray

Jadakiss

You think
Broadway

Jaden

The pot up in the kitchen
Some furnaces
An iron

Ja Rule

Harlem
Burners

Jay Electronica

The motherfucking sun

JAY-Z

Even holdin' work at the Days Inn
Pajamas

J. Cole

Ike Turner temper

Jeezy

Fish grease
Crisco

Joey Bada$$

Magma
Volcanic craters near the equator
The days it don't get dusk 'til eight
A tropical climates

John Cena

A sauna

Joyner Lucas

A fuckin' sauna
Riding inside of a driver seat at Leh and Ladakh

Juice WRLD

The sun

Juicy J

Them all

Kendrick Lamar

The earth core

Kevin Gates

I ever been

Kodak Black

A sauna
A torch

Kool G Rap

Chilli

Krayzie Bone

Hell

Kurupt

The sun in Sudan

KYLE

These rappers my age

Lil Dicky

A mothefuckin' crowded bus

Lil' Kim

A Pop Tart fresh out of the toaster
Tabasco sauce

Lil Uzi Vert

Wasabi
Summer days
A fuckin sauna

Lil Wayne

The weather in July
The sun
Honolulu
The peppers Peter Piper ate
Riding through the desert on a camel back
Soup
A Devil
Summer rain like Carl Thomas
A frying pan
The Sun-day after Saturday
A cactus
The others
Zimbabwe
A tub steaming
Going to Hell
Fire
Uganda
Etha
A motherfuckin' Hot Boys reunion
The Peter pan to a wet bare hand
Kettles over the stove in the morning
A fire on the end of the fo'
Them other boys, standin' by the heater in the summer with the oven on
A semi
A Arizona missile
A crown Victoria
A damn blowtorch
A mother fucker
A summer day in Hell
An oven
Papa Bear's porridge
Summer rain
The bullets in the Nina
Wasabi
Ya hottest gat
You
A n***a in a suit

Lizzo

The stovetop

LL Cool J

A helicopter crashing in lava
Heat

Lloyd Banks

A laser
Your "S"'s be

Logic

Havana
Lucifer
Satan, when he was migrating from heaven to hell
Taking shots of tabasco
Hades
The steel cages after the solder

Ludacris

Nevada
Hot shhh...
Lava
The burn in the 3rd degree
A sauna

Lupe Fiasco

The fire that into which Koopa falls
Red with a head full of lye

Mac Dre

Fish grease

Machine Gun Kelly

A hat on a giraffe sittin', in the slizzab sittin' on 30's
A summer down in New Orleans

Mac Miller

Chinchillas
The lines on the equator

Meek Mill

Wasabi
An oven get
The devil be
A double sun
You n****s like a thousand times

Megan Thee Stallion

Them hoes that you chill with

Method Man

Lava
A hundred degrees with my coat on

MF DOOM

An oven get

Moneybagg Yo

A sauna
May
A takis

Mos Def

Tales of crack peddling
Candle wax
Reno when discovered by Bugsy Siege
A summer at Kajasa
The red light district

Mystikal

Hell

Nicki Minaj

A Middle Eastern climate
The D.R
Vacationin' and layin' out
In Pakistan
Islands
Noon in June
A soup kitchen
100 degrees
A skillet

Offset

A fever

Paul Wall

Warm piss
A Popeyes four piece

Pitbull

Miami
The sun

Plies

You and your city

Prodigy

Hellfire

Project Pat

A fuckin oven

Pusha T

A molotov

Quavo

Zulu

Q-Tip

Havana

Raekwon

Hot tamales in Toledo

Redman

Your thermostats
The Globetrotters in the Bahamas

Rich Brian

Some shit your mom cook in a sauce pan

Rich Homie Quan

A fever

Rich The Kid

The Summer

Rick Ross

The fucking devil
The last verse (note: this was the first verse of the song)

Rico Nasty

A match stick

RiFF RAFF

A freezer
A soup bowl
A fever
Your bitch shopping for me at Almeda Mall

Royce Da 5'9"

The flash from the click, when the hammer slaps the bullet on the ass from the clip
Texas at three
A pair of boots and a coat
Denaun milly
A fever

Run

A fire

Sheck Wes

Land in AZ

Skepta

Trinidad and Tobago
A sauna

Ski Mask The Slump God

A pepper, no mint
Some chicken grease, the pot's stove, made from Crocker
Some sun on the beach when you're tryna tan
A sauna

Slim Jxmmi

Whoever or whatever, it don't matter

Snoop Dogg

A batch of fish grease in a skillet

Soulja Boy

Plasma, magma, lava!
A bitch

Talib Kweli

Rocking a peacoate
A light show with the pyro-techniques

Tech N9ne

Hell's pit
Brimstone
Them bitches sitting up in the free clinic
Mixing 151 with grain and fireball

T.I.

A sauna in the summer

Tory Lanez

Blue flame
An iron on a kettle
All of these young n****s
An iron four

T-Pain

Africa

Travis Scott

The summer
LaFlame

Twista

A oven
The city like Bambaataa
Any temperature on fahrenheit is

Tyga

The end of fucking August
Tucson
Middle East is
The mufuckin devil red Beamer
Jacuzzi
A bowl of momma porridge...
A two dollar pistol from a Rasta
Magenta

Tyler, The Creator

Madonnadoo-doo mama back-up dancers with the windows rolled up inside the Honda driving through Nevada during summer
A volcano

Vanilla Ice

The third degree

Waka Flocka Flame

A fuck

Wale

You
A snotty nose
Butane
A boiler room

Wiley

Water from a kettle

will.i.am

Them girls in the videos

Will Smith

Any you other cats get

Wiz Khalifa

The devil himself

Xzibit

About a buck shot your carne asada
Hell's Kitchen

YBN Cordae

A Travis Scott concert moshpit

Yelawolf

You in the middle of the summer, sitting in a sauna under the sun up in a Alabama street
Blue steel for Dru Hill
The bottom side of a whistlin' kettle
A preacher's daughter
Dry leaves in August
A fat bitch in tube socks

YK Osiris

Phoenix

Young Buck

A flame

Young Dolph

Hotter

Young M.A

A fucking beach chair

Young Thug

A taki
The Summer

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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 04:26 PM PST

Almost a day now and the og thread is full of "DON TOLIVER??????" or "what a surprise! WOW." So, thoughts on it? Best feature(s)?

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[Transcript] Jon Brion's comments on songs on Circles

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 09:10 AM PST

Link

EDITORS' NOTES

The first time that Mac Miller and Jon Brion formally met, Miller was already hard at work on what would become 2018's Swimming, an album that Brion would sign on to produce. "He comes in and he plays five or six things," Brion tells Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "There was more hip-hop-leaning stuff, and it was great and funny and personal—the tracks were already pointing someplace interesting. After a couple of those, he goes, 'I've got these other things I'm not sure what to do with.'" Those "other things" were the beginning of Circles, a now posthumous LP that Miller had envisioned as a counterpart to Swimming—one that finds him exploring levels of musicality, melody, and vulnerability he'd only hinted at before. It feels more akin to Harry Nilsson than hip-hop, and the breadth of Brion's CV (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Janelle Monáe) made him the perfect collaborator. With the support of Miller's family, Brion completed Circles based on conversations the two had shared before Miller's death in September 2018, adding elements of live percussion, strings, and various overdubs. Here, Brion takes us inside the making of some of Circles' key songs and offers insights on what it was like to work so closely with Miller on something so personal.

Circles

"That's what he played me. I added a brush on a cymbal, and a vibraphone. Throughout all of his lyrics, his self-reflection is much more interesting than some other people's. 'Circles' and a few other songs on this record: You hear him acknowledging aspects of himself, either that he doesn't feel capable of changing or things he thinks are questionable. Things you'll hear in the lyrics directly—'I'm this way, and I think other people might not understand how I think, but actually I'm okay with that.' It's so pointed. I was just a hundred percent in from the get-go."

Complicated

"I think that vocal was done, if I recall correctly. He'd play me things in various states, and the whole batch, meaning both albums' worth of songs. He'd play things, and I might just go, 'That's great. All it needs is for the low end to be a little better.' Almost every time I'd make a suggestion like that, he'd go, 'Oh, I'm so glad you said that. I just didn't know how to do it with this type of thing.' Other times, I might listen to something and go, 'I love it. I love what you're saying. I like that vocal. I like the rhythm. In this case, about halfway through, my mind wanders, and I don't want the listener's mind to do that, because what you're saying is great.'"

Good News

"It was him singing over a very minimal track. The lyrics were incredible. It didn't have the chorus. He said, 'I just think you should play a bunch of stuff on it.' I gingerly asked, 'Do you like the chords that are there?' He's like, 'No.' I'm like, 'Okay. Well, I'm going to play, and every time you hear something you like, let me know.' I did with him what I've done with a bunch of directors, which is watch the body language, when somebody's happy or not. He came into the control room, and he was really excited. He started singing over it in the control room, and he sang the chorus. I'm in the middle of the keyboard over top and I look up and go, 'That's great. Go run onto the mic.' After he first did it, he came in and he was still a little unsure, like, 'Yeah, I don't know, maybe that's a different song.' And thank god he lived with it and saw the sense in it. Again, that's not something I created—that's something he was doing. I think I did say to him when he was walking around in front of the speakers and he was singing that, like, 'Look, there's a reason that came to you right now.'"

I Can See

"It's not fair to give words to the heaviness of it, but I can tell you that the week I had to listen through stuff was a torture and a delight. Torture because of the loss. And then 'I Can See' would come up and I'd be beyond delighted because I'm like, 'This is good by anybody's standards, in any genre, this human being expressing themselves well.' It would turn back to a torture because you're like, 'Oh my god, you were capable of that. I didn't even get to hear that one yet.' I could sit there and wonder, would I have? Was it something he was nervous about, or because it was already so complete, did he not feel a need? No idea. You can ascribe all sorts of things to his sense of knowing. But people are going to have that experience because he was already self-aware and was unafraid of expressing it. But beyond that lyrical wonder of honesty, the melody just made me cry."

That's on Me

"He had come back from Hawaii. I was sideswiped by the song and the feeling of it. He usually said, 'Oh, you should just play everything.' I'm like, 'No, you're already great, I'll play along with that.' Inevitably, he'd finish a take and say, 'Was that all right?' And all I could do is honestly go, 'Yeah, it was great. I'm having a blast.'"

Hands

"He wanted it big and expansive and cinematic, had no idea how he had one keyboard pad implying that. I said, 'Oh, I've got this notion of Dr. Dre-influenced eighth notes like he would have on a piano sample. Instead of it being piano or a piano sample, let's take the influence of that era, but I want to do it on orchestral percussion but a lot of different ones. So it's sort of subtly changing across the thing.' And he was like, 'Just put everything you want on it.' So that's one where I went to town. He was really excited but had no idea how one would even go about that."

Once a Day

"He came over, played two or three things—that was one of them, and it had a little mini piano or something. I couldn't believe the songwriting. I looked forward to his visits so much because every time, there was this new discovery of, 'You're hiding this?' Honestly. I don't know what else he's got undercover, but this thing is fully fleshed out. It's personal. It's heartbreaking. I went through the rigmarole to get him to play it and I did what I thought was the right production decision. I left the room, but I didn't close the door. I didn't leave, not even slightly. I stood in the door, basically a room and a half away from the control room with the door open. And he started playing and the vocal was coming out and I wasn't having to be in the room and he did a pass and I could hear there was something on the keyboard needing adjustment. It needed to be brighter or darker, and I just sort of came running in like, 'Oh, sorry, just one thing.' And I went back out and I stood in the hallway and I listened to a couple of takes. And this is how I can tell you I'm not looking at it with the loss goggles: I bawled my eyes out. Heard it twice in a row. I kind of poked my head around the door and said, 'Oh, I heard a little bit of that. That sounds good. Just do a double of that keyboard just right now while the sound's up. Okay, cool.' Boom. Ran out into the hallway and cried again and dried my eyes out and went back in and sat through the usual 'Was that good? Are you sure you shouldn't just play it?' Maybe it's something the rest of the world wouldn't see and I will be blinded by personal experience, but I don't f**king care. It's what happened. It's what I saw, and I just think it's great and doesn't need any qualifiers, personally. So there."

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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Mac Miller - Circles

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 04:29 PM PST

Been almost 24 hours! What's everyone's thoughts? Favourite tracks?

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I Am Moneybagg Yo…My newest album Time Served is out now…Ask Me Anything

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:04 AM PST

Time Served Out Now! http://smartURL.it/TimeServed

Follow Me: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/moneybaggyo/ Twitter https://twitter.com/moneybaggyo Facebook https://www.facebook.com/moneybaggyo

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[FRESH] Mac Miller - Blue World

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 02:06 PM PST

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Pop Smoke Arrested on Federal Charge for Interstate Transportation of Stolen Rolls Royce

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:46 AM PST

article

Update: he's facing a 10 year max sentence

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[Discussion] Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD (One year later)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 03:38 PM PST

What are your thoughts on the album Future called the end of an era? While working on the album with Juice WRLD (WRLD On Drugs) he realized his actions are influencing the world, as Juice told him Future was the reason he tried codeine.

This was likely his reason to get clean and start anew, as the newer Save Me EP and his recent single with Drake definitely have a different vibe IMO.

My top 5:

F&N
Promise U That
Jumpin on a Jet
Tricks On Me
Going Dummi

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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 08:25 PM PST

on first listen i enjoyed the overall vibe, cant wait to get deeper in with a few more go's. production all over this thing is crazy and Guilty Conscience might be one of the dopest songs ive ever heard. thoughts?

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[DISCUSSION] James Blake- Assume Form (1 year later)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 09:23 PM PST

James Blake's studio album "Assume Form" was released, with a variety of features from legendary rapper Andre 3000, star producer Metro Boomin, Travis Scott, and Latin pop star Rosalía. Blake has been a major player with many hip hop artists, featuring on Travis Scott's ASTROWORLD and Kendrick Lamar's collaboration tape "Black Panther"

In my opinion, this was one of the best R&B outings of the year, with beautiful production over incredible singing from Blake. Mike Hugh features one of the best features from Travis Scott, and Barefoot in the Park is one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard

TRACKLIST:

Assume Form

Mile High (feat. Travis Scott and Metro Boomin)

Tell Them (feat. Moses Sumney and Metro Boomin)

Into the Red

Barefoot in the Park (feat. Rosalía)

Can't Believe the Way We Flow

Are You in Love?

Where's the Catch (feat. Andre 3000)

I'll Come Too

Power On

Don't Miss It

Lullaby for My Insomniac

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[FRESH LIST] Top 200 Albums of the 2010s - Anthony Fantano

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:55 PM PST

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Kodak Black - Transportin’

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 12:22 PM PST

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Jamie xx ft. Young Thug, Popcaan - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 07:41 AM PST

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New Frank Ocean merch

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 08:17 AM PST

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New Music Friday: January 17th, 2020

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 08:11 AM PST

Albums

Mac Miller - Circles

Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By

Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers III (Directors Cut)

070 Shake - Modus Vivendi

Madlib & Oh No - The Professionals

Theophilus London - Bebey

Stunna 4 Vegas - RICH YOUNGIN

lojii - lo&behold*

IceJJFish - Emotions for You

Sir Michael Rocks - Broken Window of Opportunity

Ovrkast. - Try Again

Yung Pinch - Back 2 The Beach

Big Ghost LTD - Carpe Noctem*

Big Baby Scumbag - Big Baby Earnhardt

DigDat - Ei8ht Mile

Lil Quill - Don Quillion

EPs

Raekwon - The Appetition

MadeinTYO - You Are Forgiven (Deluxe Edition)

Tech N9ne - ENTERFEAR Level 2

Singles

Lil Wayne leaks (10 new songs)*

Thundercat - Black Quails (feat. Steve Lacy)

Lil B - I'm Kanye*

Pop Smoke - Christopher Walking

645AR - 4 DA TRAP

TOKiMONSTA - Fried for the Night (feat. EARTHGANG)

2 Chainz - Dead Man Walking (feat. Future)

Royce Da 5'9" - Overcomer (feat. Westside Gunn)

Ant Clemons - Beep

Ufo361 - Big Drip (feat. Future)

Three Loco - ARROGANT AMERiCAN FREESTYLE REMiX

Antonio Brown - Home from the N.O.*

Lucki - Whats New (Plu2o Nash)*

dvsn - A Muse

Wiley - The Game (Freestyle) / Sizes*

Drakeo The Ruler - Ion Know Nothin (Remix) [feat. ALLBLACK, G Perico, & Ohgeesy]

Kasher Quon - CNN News*

blackbear - me & ur ghost

Key Glock - Mr. Glock

Dre A.M. - Serotonin

Polo G & Lil Tjay - First Place

Rvssian - IDKW (feat. Swea Lee, Young Thug & Shenseea)

Valee - Not Playin'*

Novelist - Pay What Is Owed

Ebenezer - Flaws and All

Gab3 & KILLY - Fast Life

IAMDDB - God's Work (feat. iLL BLU)

Yammo - Bad Habits (feat. Guapdad4000)

Rayven Justice - Not That Serious (feat. Guapdad4000)

Plu2o Nash - Live at the Roxy (feat. Drego & LUCKI)

The Colleagues - Red Vans (feat. Freddie Gibbs)

Che'Noir - Prey (feat. Ransom)

J. Period & Black Thought - RAGE IS BACK (Freestyle)

Jgreen - Rugged (Remix) [feat. Mozzy]

Blockhead - Tiny Bubbles

H.E.R. - Slide (Remix) [feat. Pop Smoke, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & Chris Brown]

Mozzy - Overcame

Rich The Kid - Money Talk (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again)

* means not on streaming

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Moneybagg Yo's "Time Served" sells 64K First Week (5K Pure). Quando Rondo's "QPac" sells 20K First Week (Less than 1K Pure).

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 04:07 PM PST

Rank	Artist	Album	Label	Pure Sales	Sales + Streaming
1	Moneybagg Yo	Time Served	N-Less/Interscope	5,312	64,099
2	Quando Rondo	QPac	Warner	352	20,348

Top 10 First Weeks of 2020 Across All Genres

Rank	Artist	Album	Label	Pure Sales	Sales + Streaming
1	Selena Gomez	Rare	Interscope	59,070	116,409
2	Moneybagg Yo	Time Served	N-Less/Interscope	5,312	64,099
3	Quando Rondo	QPac	Warner	352	20,348
4	Various Artists	High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Original Soundtrack)	Walt Disney	3,611	18,378

FAQ:

Q: Source?

A: http://hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

Q: How is this list sorted?

A: It's sorted by sales + streaming

Q: What are pure sales?

A: Pure sales are purchases of the album (itunes, amazon, physicals, etc)

Q: Where is X album?

A: Only albums that make the top 50 in sales+streaming for their debut week are counted

Q: Why do some albums show exact sales numbers while others do not?

A: The albums that do not show exact numbers are the ones that have had sales corrections from Billboard

Q: Where can I find last year's list?

A: 2019 list, 2018 list, 2017 list, 2016 list

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Kanye Will Headline a Prayer Rally in Arizona Featuring Anti-LGBTQ Leaders

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 11:11 PM PST

https://www.okayplayer.com/news/kanye-west-will-headline-prayer-rally-featuring-anti-lgbtq-leaders.html

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[FRESH VIDEO] Royce 5'9 - Overcomer (ft. Westside Gunn) - Official Video

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:13 AM PST

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[FRESH VIDEO] Jhene Aiko - P*$$Y FAIRY (OTW)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 05:00 PM PST

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Daily Discussion Thread 01/16/2020 - HipHop

Daily Discussion Thread 01/16/2020
Album of the Year #14: Young Thug - So Much Fun
[FRESH ALBUM] Circles - Mac Miller
[FRESH ALBUM] Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By
[FRESH] Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers III (Directors Cut)
[FRESH ALBUM] 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi
[FRESH VIDEO] Eminem - Darkness
Geto Boys - My Mind Playin Tricks on Me
[FRESH] BIG BLACK TRUCK - JID
[FRESH] Eminem - Godzilla (feat. Juice WRLD)
[FRESH] Eminem (feat. Anderson .Paak) Lock It Up
[FRESH] Madlib & Oh No - The Professionals
KODAK SPEAKS ON UNFAIR PRISON TREATMENT
[FRESH VIDEO] Mac Miller - Once a Day
[FRESH ALBUM] Theophilus London - Bebey
[FRESH] Eminem- Yah Yah (feat. Royce Da 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun)
[FRESH] 2 Chainz - Dead Man Walking (feat. Future)
[FRESH] Dreamville - Up Up Away ft. JID, EARTHGANG, Vince Staples
[FRESH ALBUM] Stunna 4 Vegas - RICH YOUNGIN
[FRESH VIDEO] Mavi - Sense
[FRESH] Eminem - No Regrets (feat. Don Toliver)
[FRESH VIDEO] Smokepurpp - What I Please (feat. Denzel Curry)
Fake “Woke”: How B.o.B committed career suicide
[FRESH] Royce Da 5’9” - Overcomer ft. Westside Gunn
[FRESH] A Muse - dvsn
[FRESH] Raekwon - The Appetition
[FRESH VIDEO] Ufo361 feat. Future - "Big Drip"

Daily Discussion Thread 01/16/2020

Posted: 16 Jan 2020 07:29 AM PST

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Album of the Year #14: Young Thug - So Much Fun

Posted: 16 Jan 2020 03:47 PM PST

Artist : Young Thug

Album: So Much Fun

Listen

YouTube

Spotify

Apple Music

Background

Jeffery Lamar "Sex" Williams was (born on August 16, 1991) in Atlanta, Georgia the tenth of eleven children in the Sylvan Hills (Zone 3). He also grew up in the Jonesboro South projects. After a series of mixtapes, Gucci Mane signed Young Thug to his record label 1017 Records. He then released the critical acclaimed 1017 Thug mixtape which was included in numerous year end list throughout 2013. A few months later he released his debut single Stoner which peaked at #47 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The following year he signed a deal with Lyor Cohen's 300 Entertainment label. He later went on to release more critically acclaimed mixtapes including Rich Gang: The Tour Pt. 1 with past collaborators Rich Homie Quan and Birdman, Barter 6, Jeffery and the amazing Beautiful Thugger Girls (plus more). He collaborated with fellow Atlanta artist Future on the project Super Slimey. Young Thug went on to feature on the #1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 Camila Cabello's Havana. He also won a Grammy for Song of the Year helping write and having vocals on Childish Gambino's This is America. Young Thug is known for his eccentric clothing style and his distinctive singing voice and melodies. He's known as a quick worker in the studio which has lead to a ton of music being finished and also a ton of songs being leaked. Since the Mid 2010's, Young Thug has been one of the most influential artist in Hip-Hop introducing rappers Gunna and Lil Baby to the culture. While also inspiring the likes of Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti. With this much success from critics and fans throughout Young Thug's career prior to So Much Fun. Thugger has struggled to break into mainstream stardom as a solo act. As a solo act Thug's highest charting 1st week numbers were Slime Season 3 which only sold 38,000 album equivalent units. With the anticipation of So Much Fun, Thug will call on artist he's influenced, past collaborators, and Hip Hop Heavyweights to help push him to Superstar Status.

Review

Just How it is

I loved the opening to this album because the intro is just so calm, easy, and minimal. The simple production let's Thug reflect on his past and it shows how self aware he his of his persona and who he is. The minimalist beat lets you focus on what Young Thug has to say loud and clearly.

"I done did the jackin', now I'm full rappin.' I put on my brothers, I put on my bitch. Had to wear the dress, 'cause I had a stick. You know where the bag at? Tell me where it is. I came from rags to riches, I'm the shit."

Thug here is actually "rapping, rapping" and he's sound great. My favorite line from this song is...

"No time for gibberish, all the critics hearin' this."

He knows he has everyone's attention. From music critics to his fans, this project was highly anticipated. Questions like "What will Young Thug do next?" or "Will Young Thug finally break past 30k sales first week?" He knows this is his moment and it's time to shine.

Sup Mate

Really disappointed in the final product of this song, but I do feel it's still listenable and definitely has a few quotable one liners and some of the best of the album

Future

"I crushed up an X pill in her asshole."

Young Thug

"Put my diamonds in a bowl, that look like Fruity Pebbles."

Future

"I'm so high, all I can say is "Woo, woo, woo!!!" I can't talk, I barely could say, "Woo, woo, woo!!!"

Ecstasy

Arguably the best song on the album (Pre MGK Verse). I feel the original Ecstasy was a 5/5 song with some of Young Thug's best verses on the album. I don't feel MGK trashed the song, but I also don't feel he added much to it dropping it to an overall 4 out of 5 track. Why take out lines like...

"I don't wanna talk about no hoes with my dad, yeah." and "Side note, I fucked your daughter and your hoe, yeah."

The song is amazing from the production, the pockets he caught, and all the way down to the verses. I love the weird little bell that comes in and out on it throughout the track.

Hot

"Start the Horns"

"WHEEZY OUTTA HERE"

Another Thugger banger back to back. The production is cinematic and I love Gunna opening it up. A great single for this album even if it was originally a Gunna song. I was never the biggest Gunna fan, but I feel he came in and did his job on this song. The verse was tolerable and the hook was catchy and top tier. Young Thug then teases us knowing this will be a hit record. Just bouncing on the beat with the filtered horns in the background. Reeling us in closer and closer and closer until he finally wants to say what's on his mind when the beat drops. The Thug and Gunna duo come in with another successful collaborations between the two reaching #11 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Light it Up

When I first listened to this it reminded me of Top by Playboi Carti which is also produced by Pi'erre Bourne. Maybe the repetition in the hook or the groove/bounce on the song, but either way I like both songs. What I love and noticed about "Light it Up" is Thug sounds more clearer and understandable in the way he sings his melodies. Not as much slurring, but better pronunciation. The way Pi'erre dirtys up and distorts his kick on a song that sounds very happy and colorful giving it that dab of rawness is incredible and definitely one of the more enjoyable songs of the album.

"Light-skinned bitch with a dark side".

Surf

"ANOTHER ONE" between the "Hot" duo of Gunna and Thug. This song sums up the entire album cover and album title for me. Bright green grass, clear summer skies having a great time with friends or even enjoying being by yourself. Just a fun song with a very catchy hook. Young Thug coming in rapping hard with some quotable then switching to his normal style was a pleasure to see on the first verse. Thug embracing the name title of the song with the "Totally Dude" adlib was hilarious. Gunna came in with another decent verse holding his own and keeping up the energy of the song.

Young Thug

"They can't wait to shred. I told 'em to chop off your penis, you keeping your head. (chop, I told 'em to do it)"

Young Thug

"Shawty pussy so tight I had to finger her shit with a stick."

Bad Bad Bad

I personally thought this song should of been the 3rd single to the album cause it's just so great. It's really an almost flawless song. The way Thugger comes in flowing on this one is why Young Thug is a top tier artist. Sounded like an upgraded more polished "Barter 6 Thug". Flowing and catching pockets over the raw production with ease. The beat fits Lil Baby perfectly so all he does is just cruises through it. Only thing holding back how absolutely disgusting this song is was how short it was. Only two minutes and twenty nine seconds!!!! Even though the song was great I felt it was missing just one more verse.

What's the Move

The perfect song to an ending of a Trap Disney Princess movie. The gorgeous elegant birds chirping to a summertime album with Young Thug melodies and a glimpse of what sounds like Purple Hair Uzi. What more can you ask for? Such a beautiful song and one of my personal favorites of the album. Felt like 2016 Uzi with the flows he was rapping with, bright production and the braggadocio stunt lines. His verse was only thirty seconds, but he came and got the business done with one of the best features on the album. Thug on the Third verse of the song is intriguing he switches the flow and extends it with flashes of styles of how he sounded on "Jeffery" and keeps the momentum of the track.

Jumped out the Window, I Bought Her, and I'm Scared

Really appreciate the liveness of these three songs. On most projects I feel this section (the middle) is where the breaking point starts to occur. Either the album can become to repetitive or becomes to fall flat on weaker songs. Jumped out the Window and I Bought Her sounds like old fashion Thug all over a stank face trap beat. Around this point on a 19 or 20 track album this is where most people lose interest, but Thug keeps its moving. I'm Scared is also another hard dark instrumental that fits both Thug and 21 well. 21 Savage still staying consistent on his features and very under appreciated.

21 Savage

"Straight up out the 6, I don't talk, I just fire. (Straight Up) Book me for a show, I put a clock on my rider. Niggas clout chasing, they don't want smoke, they wanna go viral. (21) I just cooked the opp block in a deep fryer. (Straight up)"

Cartier Gucci Scarf

Another prime example of what separates Young Thug from the pack of your modern day hip hop artist. Where most artist fall short on an hour long project, Thug experiments and pulls it off. He goes from singing a high pitch Thug vocal riff to suddenly pulling off a rough edge bass heavy growling singing voice similar to Harambe off Jeffery that some how works again. What do you prefer? Baby voice Carti or Cookie Monster Thug? What I gladly appreciate about this album is how the weaker songs are still listenable and not just a bunch of filler with hot singles.

Mannequin Challenge

Probably my favorite song off the album and I think is the perfect deep cut off the project. Who would of thought J Cole and (T-Minus) would come in with such a great fun track for Young Thug and ("R.I.P.") Juice Wrld? Cole, Thug, and Juice are artist I could never see together and they pulled off an amazing song. The vocal chant with the cute little melody makes the song undeniably catchy. Juice WRLD comes in and smashed his verse adding as much as possible and leaving nothing much more being needed to a now perfect song so late in the tracklist.

The London

Great opening single that debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Which is what Thugger needed. Two established Hip Hop Heavyweights Travis Scott and J. Cole come in both on their "A" game, making one of the best songs of the summer. Everywhere I went it seemed like this song snuck its way to an establishment to be played. Travis Scott was awesome on the chorus. It was refreshing hearing him sound like his usual self compared to the disappointing Chopstix off Schoolboy Q's, CrasH Talk. J. Cole comes in guns blazing bragging and showing off on his verse with cool lines like

"I left a flock of rappers dead and buried. A verse from me is like eleven birds. I did the math, it's like two-thousand dollars every word. I'm on the verge."

Young Thug comes in and nails his part with his vocal acrobatics he does on the song making it a great closer and single to this extraordinary album.

Album Standouts

Pi'erre and Wheezy

The Production on this album was phenomenal. From start to finish I didn't get tired of this album and it has a ton of replay value. Seeing it had no beats from "London on the Track" who I feel Thug sounds best with. Pi'erre and Wheezy came in with the fire. Producing 8 of the 19 songs and all of the songs on the deluxe edition.

Gunna

2 for 2 on all his features and really stood out. He held his own with Young Thug on two of the best songs on the album. I give him props because I felt those are two key songs on the album, especially the pressure of having the opening verse to the 2nd single "Hot". Proving he can hold his own and not just a Young Thug imitator.

J. Cole

Yes Jermaine Cole!!! I don't know what J. Cole did behind the scenes, but a-lot of people don't know he executive produced the album. He also had the opening verse to the opening single, and also produced one of the best songs on the album "Mannequin Challenge".

Conclusion

I give Young Thug a lot of credit for finally breaking past the 30k sales curse he was stuck in. He hit 131k first week and went #1 on the US Billboard 200. Thug finally got the critical and commercial success his fans have been waiting for. Young Thug has now proved himself to be fighting for contention as one of Hip Hop's Heavyweight going into the 2020's.

Favorite Lyrics

(that weren't posted in the review)

Young Thug

She said she don't suck dick, I called that bitch a cab

Lil Uzi Vert

Richer than your first, richer than your last, L-U-V, know I got the swag

Young Thug

I can tiptoe in her pussy like a Loub, Chanel (ayy). Harriet Tubman twenties, weigh 'em up on the scale (ayy). Hair down to her ass, caught her like Odell (hey). All my hoes get Rollie Pollies, mines up on the shelf (let's go).

Young Thug

My slime brothers Pluto, Savage, and YB (Baby) Quavo (XO), Takeoff (Scooter), Offset (Roddy), Uzi (RJ) Lil Durk (Moses), Meek Mill (Nipsey), Drizzy (Travis) More names (Juice WRLD), plenty (PnB, Young SEX)

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Discussion Questions

Who was your favorite feature?

What was your favorite 3 song stretch on the album?

Where would you rank this album in Young Thug's discography?

What was your favorite line or moment from the album?

What do you think was the best beat of the album?

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