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What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - October 13, 2021 - HipHop

What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - October 13, 2021 - HipHop


What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - October 13, 2021

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 08:30 AM PDT

This is the weekly thread to share what you've been listening to recently and/or post 3x3 collages. Make sure to write some shit about what you listened to in order encourage discussion.

To make 3x3s:

Import from Last.fm:

Make yours manually:

Make sure to re-upload your picture on a site like Imgur, otherwise the 3x3 posts change.

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Alchemist announces "STFU Talking to Me" with Zack Fox

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 04:27 PM PDT

33 Musicians on Their Favorite Albums of the Last 25 Years: includes Bun B, Lil B, Thundercat, Timbaland, Tony Di Blasi (The Avalanches), Vince Staples, Zach Hill (Death Grips) and more

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 10:55 AM PDT

Pitchfork asked a bunch of artists their favorite albums from the last 25 years

Bun B

Radiohead's OK Computer (1997)

Summer 1997. I was in a very strange place at this time. I was more famous than I'd ever been due to the recent release of Ridin' Dirty. I was also in the first year of the relationship with my now-wife Queenie. So there was a lot of professional as well as personal stress on me. I couldn't find anything to relax me. Then one night, watching MTV, I saw the "Paranoid Android" video. Suddenly, for some reason, this calm washed over me. It seemed like this song was speaking to me. I bought the album the next day and everything about it made sense. While very dense and layered at times, it was still very melodic and easy to listen to. And a lot of what they spoke about then still resonates to this day. So even now, when life starts moving too fast, OK Computer is still there to help slow it down for me.

Dave Portner/Avey Tare (Animal Collective)

Quasimoto's The Unseen (2000)

The summer of 2000 was a high point for AC. Creatively, we were at the start of what would become our most free and exploratory era and on the cusp of a journey that continues today. It seems almost serendipitous that The Unseen appeared just before the summer kicked into full gear and became our soundtrack. It was lo-fi, it was mysterious, it was part sound collage, part hook-ridden hip-hop, and part mushroom trip. (Rumors circulated that Madlib mixed the whole thing while tripping.)

We felt a kinship with the record-digger personality who could easily sample Alice Coltrane's free piano and place it beside the soundtrack to La Planète Sauvage, making it all groove while still being a bit unhinged. It was transportive and alien but also grounded and familiar in the traditions of jazz, rap, and psychedelic music that it adhered to. It gleamed in so many of the ways we wanted to present AC: mysterious characters from another world who would infect the current trends with our own personalities and something a bit different. Never wanting to be copycats, we just hoped we could make something as personal and special. We still do.

Lil B

Pastor Troy's We Ready I Declare War (1999)

This album is a super-special, self-produced, all-around classic. I always come back to this tape and listen and hear something new! It's a very inspiring tape to me, and something I will always keep with me and around me. Really, you should listen to every song from front to end because it's a movie! I love the sound, the production, the rapping on it; it's just the most honest album I have heard and still stands relevant to this day. My favorite song on the album is "Ain't No Sunshine."

Thundercat

Slipknot's Slipknot (1999)

I remember discovering this album with Cameron and Taylor Graves, Ronald, and Kamasi around the same time. We were teenagers, of course, and it sent us (more so Cam, Tay, and I) on a metal quest (lol) that actually led them (Cam and Tay) to play in the band Wicked Wisdom with Jada Pinkett Smith (lol). The cool thing about discovering this album—and there never being anything like it before or after, and still to this day it stands alone—[is that] when my daughter came of age, I hand-passed that album down to her (Sanaa, my daughter, who I have given a nickname "Derp Cobain" lol), and it's awesome to watch her ears and mind expand and grow from hearing the awesomeness that is Slipknot. Rest in Peace, Joey Jordison.

Timbaland

OutKast's SpeakerBoxxx/The Love Below (2003)

OutKast's album Speaker Boxxx/The Love Below was always one of my favorite albums. They brought a whole new sonic to the game and changed the game with "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move." It was just groundbreaking at that time.

Tony Di Blasi (The Avalanches)

J Dilla's Donuts (2006)

J Dilla's cut-up sample masterpiece is a spiritual experience to listen to. There is something more to this than just music. A layer of otherworldliness. He accesses another dimension that we intuitively know resides in us all. The way the compression is used adds a kind of breathless feeling. It's haunting, surreal, experimental, and heartbreaking. Layer upon layer of hidden sample meaning unfolds the deeper you dive in and the longer you spend with this record.

Donuts feels like both darkness and light at the same time. Sitting at the point where joy and sorrow meet. Dilla transmuted his final time on earth into a work of art that will remain eternal.

Vince Staples

Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)

This album has been a constant throughout my life. It's really unique. Nowadays we get a combination of singing and rapping in a lot of music. But back then, it was a risk. So for her to sing like that early on, combined with the subject matter, the arrangement of the album with its throughline, and how it just flows with you… it's definitely a classic body of work.

It's a spiritual thing. The music feels like you're being brought towards it. You can feel the point of view. Black music to me is rooted in spiritual connectivity. If you look at rock and roll or blues or soul, we have been through so much, and that's being translated into music. When you listen to "To Zion," when you listen to "Nothing Even Matters," you feel the emotion put into it. As a whole, the album is just perfect.

The War on Drugs (Charlie Hall)

Meshell Ndegeocello's Ventriloquism (2018)

Every five years or so, a record comes along and becomes a constant companion, a weekend guest who never leaves and simply becomes part of the family. Just as the Clientele Suburban Light and the Radio Dept.'s Clinging to a Scheme before it, Meshell Ndegeocello's Ventriloquism turned me upside down and inside out. This is a record for any time, any day. Songs like "Don't Disturb This Groove" and "I Wonder If I Take You Home" and "Private Dancer" all reveal new emotional depths in Meshell's hands (to say nothing of this absolute monster of a band—Abe, Chris, and Jebin. The spaciousness of the grooves and the delicacy of the playing have inspired me both musically and spiritually. It's pretty wild to hear an artist you thought you knew, playing songs you thought you knew. But it turns out to be beyond the magical beyond. In attempting to illuminate these songs, Meshell actually illuminates herself. Meshell belongs in the pantheon.

The War on Drugs (Dave Hartley)

D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000)

Voodoo by D'Angelo is the one album that held my hand and helped me shake off the toxically masculine rock music with which I had been inundated in high school and early college, that opened a gateway in my mind to several galaxies of music, that completely turned my head around as a bass player, that still sounds fresh as a fucking daisy, that is at once welcomingly accessible and impossibly deep, that has never left the car-visor Case Logic CD organizer of my mind.

Zach Hill (Death Grips)

U.S. Maple's Acre Thrills (2001)

I first saw U.S. Maple live in San Francisco opening for Pavement. This was at the Fillmore in 1999. Their album Talker had recently come out. Watching them that night, I could feel that I was gaining an access to myself that wasn't available to me beforehand. In performance, they were second to nothing I'd ever seen.

I said to a friend afterward it was like a big pregnant snake on stage squeezing all the air from the room and doling out oxygen when it hissed. Then Acre Thrills came out in 2001, and I was consumed by it. As a fan, I consider their entire discography a consolidated masterpiece, but Acre Thrills fully peaked me.

In 2002, my band Hella opened for them at their Sacramento show date and I went on to reference that Fillmore performance when writing the lyrics to a Death Grips song called "Hacker": "I got this pregnant snake, stay surrounded by long hairs, a plethora of maniacs and spiral stairs"—the pregnant snake being their performance, long hairs in reference to their first album Long Hair in Three Stages, and Spiral Stairs being the second guitarist in Pavement known as Spiral Stairs.

Very influential.

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Being Young Thug - Inside the wildly unpredictable life of rap’s most eccentric superstar

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:15 PM PDT

Josh The Author- WHIPDEMBRICKZ! (Feat. Lil B)

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 10:51 PM PDT

Five reputed gang members charged in RICO conspiracy that includes slaying of Chicago rapper FBG Duck

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 10:15 AM PDT

Heres the Article

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Complex's Young Thug Week so far: "Why Young Thug Is an Icon", "Inside the Wild Studio Life of Young Thug", "How Young Thug Brought His Own Family Into His Rap Empire", and "Young Thug’s Best Outfits of All Time"

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 01:25 PM PDT

Why Young Thug Is an Icon: We're kicking off the week with an essay about the importance of an artist like Young Thug, and how he's already become an icon at the age of 30. "Young Thug has been rapping for just under a decade, and in that time he's helped inspire a generation of chart-topping protégés, sold millions of units, won a Grammy, and affirmed just how left-field hip-hop can go," writes Complex staff writer Andre Gee.

Inside the Wild Studio Life of Young Thug: Did you know Young Thug records in a studio with snakes, tarantulas, and even a Bengal cat? That's only one of the many things that make his studio sessions so memorable. Complex staff writer Jessica McKinney speaks with some of Thug's closest collaborators for a story about how he cultivated one of the most unique studio experiences in rap.

How Young Thug Brought His Own Family Into His Rap Empire: Rap is a family business for Young Thug. He's signed his own brother and sisters to his label, and even put his eight-year-old daughter on Slime Language 2. Complex staff writer Jessica McKinney spoke with some of Young Thug's siblings about what it was like growing up with him and how they joined his rap empire.

Young Thug's Best Outfits of All Time: At this point, it's undeniable: Young Thug is a style icon. From wearing a dress on the Jeffery album cover to starting his own clothing line, Thug has always turned heads with his outfits. The Complex Style team put together a list of his very best outfits.

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[FRESH VIDEO] Maxo Kream - GREENER KNOTS

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 09:48 AM PDT

Fetty Wap announces new project, “The Butterfly Effect”, out 10/22

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 09:58 PM PDT

Maxo Kream "Grannies" (WSHH Exclusive - Official Music Video)

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 04:52 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Aesop Rock & Blockhead - Jazz Hands

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 07:23 AM PDT

UGK - Da Game Been Good To Me

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 09:47 PM PDT

Daily Discussion Thread 10/13/2021

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 08:54 AM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

This thread is for:

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10/15

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EARTHGANG - Tokyo Files

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 07:43 PM PDT

Gang Starr - Just To Get A Rep

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Statik Selektah - "Beautiful Life" feat. Action Bronson & Joey Bada$$

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 05:35 PM PDT

Elliott Wilson: Jay Electronica interview - Roc Nation, Badu, mental health, everything

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 08:12 PM PDT

Jeru The Damaja- Whatever

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:15 PM PDT

Boosie Badazz Arrested for Fight at Atlanta Concert

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:50 PM PDT

Deetranada - Don Dada

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 06:43 PM PDT

Eminem - Castle

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 07:54 PM PDT

NAV & Gunna - Turks feat. Travis Scott

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 04:15 PM PDT

Aesop Rock - Kodokushi (2021 Blockhead Remix)

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 04:42 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Liv.e - Bout It

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 11:50 AM PDT

Roc Marciano - Snow (Sean Price Remix)

Posted: 13 Oct 2021 06:27 AM PDT

Top Ten Tuesday: Goodie Mob - HipHop

Top Ten Tuesday: Goodie Mob - HipHop


Top Ten Tuesday: Goodie Mob

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 01:29 AM PDT

Here's how this works:

• One song per comment.

• The thread will be put into contest mode (randomized comment order).

• Upvote the songs you like.

• Please don't downvote!

• Artist must be main credited artist in the song(No features)

Search/use ctrl+f to see if anyone posted the song already.

• Try to limit yourself to posting one or two songs.

• Please post a link with your song.

• The 10 songs with the most upvotes will be HHH Top Ten.

• Have fun!

Here is is our spreadsheet with all past results, made by /u/elektrikg33k.

Our upcoming schedule:

10/19/21 - Petey Pablo

10/26/21 - Cee-Lo Green/Gnarls Barkley


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodie_Mob_discography

please take 5 seconds to ctrl+f the thread to see your song has already been posted

and as always pm me if you want to see a certain artist here

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Tyga's ex-girlfriend Camaryn Swanson accuses him of domestic violence after a heated argument at his home

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 07:44 AM PDT

New Aesop Rock & Blockhead album "Garbology" dropping November 12

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 10:37 PM PDT

City Morgue announce "Vol. 3: Bottom of the Barrel", says it will drop on Friday if it gets 10,000 pre-saves

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 12:12 PM PDT

Announced on IG

FLOOD THE COMMENTS IF YOU WANT VOL 3 BOTTOM OF THE BARREL🛢‼️

10,000 PRESAVES AND WE DROP IT FRIDAY LINK IN BIO 🔥🔥

Album Cover

Pre-save link

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Don Toliver - Life of a Don ALBUM REVIEW

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 09:36 PM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Gucci Mane - Chicken Talk (15 years later)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 02:15 PM PDT

It officially turned 15 years old yesterday, but I noticed no one did a post for it so I'm doing one now.

Gucci's first commercial mixtape is an absolute cult classic and seen as the point where he fully came into his own with his style. Holding some of his earliest hits such as Street N****z, Work Ya Wrist, Stupid, 745, Swing My Door, Kermit The Frog, Zone 6, etc. it's an entertaining listen from front to back. Chicken Talk is the tape that really kicked off Guwop's iconic mixtape run.

What are your favorite tracks from this tape? How do you think it holds up in his discography?

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[FRESH ALBUM] BIGBABYGUCCI - Human

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 09:02 PM PDT

[NOW ON STREAMING] Chief Keef - Bang 1

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 11:58 AM PDT

Young Thug - On The Run (Ft. Offset)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 06:22 AM PDT

[FRESH] Aesop Rock x Blockhead - Jazz Hands

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 08:58 PM PDT

[FRESH] Maxo Kream - GREENER KNOTS

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:48 PM PDT

Westside Boogie - Nigga Needs

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 07:33 AM PDT

[FRESH] LUCKI - New Drank

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 10:06 AM PDT

Blu - The Color Blu(e) ALBUM REVIEW

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 09:03 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Duke Deuce - WTF!

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 01:40 PM PDT

Pharoahe Monch - Behind Closed Doors [Explicit]

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 09:17 PM PDT

Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely Adolf | Album Review (DEHH)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 01:39 PM PDT

O.C. - Word... Life

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:45 PM PDT

[FRESH] KAYTRANADA - Damage (KAYTRA Edition)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 09:16 AM PDT

[FRESH] DThang Freestyle (On The Radar Radio)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 10:17 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Giveon - Just For Me (PinkPantheress Cover)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 11:31 AM PDT

Evolution of a Song with Vince Staples & Snorlax

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 01:07 PM PDT

21 Savage - All My Friends (Official Audio)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 08:37 AM PDT

Daily Discussion Thread 10/12/2021

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 06:35 AM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

This thread is for:

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[DISCUSSION] Rick Ross - Port of Miami (15 Years Later)

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 11:40 AM PDT

Port of Miami is the debut studio album by American rapper Rick Ross. Originally titled Career Criminal, the album was renamed, in reference to Miami being a major arrival destination for cocaine shipments to America. The album was released August 8, 2006, on Slip-n-Slide Records, Def Jam Recordings and Poe Boy Entertainment. The album was engineered by Miami-based songwriting and production team The Monsters & The Strangerz. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with 187,000 copies sold in its first week.

The album's first single, "Hustlin' ", received an exorbitant amount of airplay. The remix version features Jay-Z and Young Jeezy. The album's second single, "Push It", produced by J. R. Rotem. This track samples the song "Push It to the Limit" from the movie Scarface. Port of Miami was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on November 8, 2006, with over 500,000 copies. According to Soundscan, the album has sold 857,000 copies to date. It was later certified Platinum by the RIAA In July 2016.

Critical reception

Port of Miami was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. Michael Endelman of Entertainment Weekly said, "On Port of Miami, Ross turns the minute details of drug distribution and dealing into ominous, slow-rolling songs, like the hypnotic, organ-driven hit single "Hustlin"' and the Scarface-goes-South Beach stomp of "Cross That Line." In general, the whole "crack-rap" trend (see: Young Jeezy, Clipse) is a disheartening one, but Ross' pulpy debut manages to enthrall despite the drug-centric lyrics." Sam Ubl of Pitchfork Media said, "Port of Miami is a case of invention begetting necessity. Sure Ross needs these beats—he has all the charisma of a cold meatloaf. But they need him all the same. He's a supporting actor, second fiddle to the real, Pro-Tooled stars, desirable not for his authority or presence but for his utter blankness. Def Jam could heli-drop any bozo into such glorious ambiance and score some hits; the album facilitates sedentariness." Jonathan Ringen of Rolling Stone said, "Ross' minimal, menacing rhymes about being a drug-game kingpin feel a little undercooked, but with synth-soaked ring-tone-ready beats that are hotter than the "MI-Yayo" in the summertime (mostly by local beatmakers Cool and Dre, DJ Khaled and the Runners), it doesn't really matter." Brendan Frederick of XXL said, "While the runaway success of "Hustlin'" could have positioned Ross for one-hit-wonder status, he confidently sidesteps this fate by delivering the goods on Port of Miami. With a cohesive sound the city can call its own, the bearded rapper gets the release he needs by exposing the dark side of the Sunshine State."

Commercial performance

Port of Miami debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 187,000 copies sold in its first week. In its second week, the album fell to number seven on the chart, selling 79,000 copies. As of July 2013, the album has sold 857,000 copies in the US. On July 28, 2016, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million copies in the United States.

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Maxo Kream announces new album 'Weight of The World' releasing 18th October - HipHop

Maxo Kream announces new album 'Weight of The World' releasing 18th October - HipHop


Maxo Kream announces new album 'Weight of The World' releasing 18th October

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 12:26 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] LIL UGLY MANE - VOLCANIC BIRD ENEMY AND THE VOICED CONCERN

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 10:46 PM PDT

Fetty Wap - Trap Queen

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 03:48 PM PDT

[FRESH]James Blake, slowthai - Funeral

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 10:10 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Don Toliver - Flocky Flocky (feat. Travis Scott)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 09:54 AM PDT

J. Cole - 9 5 . s o u t h

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 09:44 AM PDT

O.T. Genesis - Coco

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 04:36 PM PDT

Dave - Wanna Know ft. Drake

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 09:19 AM PDT

Isaiah Rashad-Heavenly Father Ft. SZA at The NOVO

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 10:23 AM PDT

Daily Discussion Thread 10/11/2021

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 10:21 AM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

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Sleepy Hallow announces first tour

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 05:43 PM PDT

Which rappers have had a classic album in all four decades of hip hop

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 11:36 PM PDT

Is there any artist that had an undisputed classic record in the 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010s? The closest I could think of is de la soul who had:

80s - 3 Feet high and rising

90s - Stakes is high

00s - The grind date

10s - and the anonymous nobody

But it feels like a bit of a stretch, anyone else you can think of?

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Lil Ugly Mane - Wishmaster

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 03:06 PM PDT

Nipsey Hussle - True To This Game

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 09:05 PM PDT

[ORIGINAL] Kanye West - New Again (Mercurius FM Remix)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 10:51 PM PDT

Meek Mill - Lil Nigga Snupe (Prod by Boi-1da)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 06:03 PM PDT

Yeat - Bak 2 Bed

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 03:53 PM PDT

The Luniz - I Got Five On It Remix (ft. Dru Down, E-40, Humpty Hump (Shock G), Richie Rich, Shock G & Spice 1)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 02:43 AM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Elzhi - Seven Times Down Eight Times Up (1 Year Later)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 06:03 AM PDT

I thought it dropped on October 25th smh. Better late than never I guess.

This is a great album. I honestly don't have anything to complain about. A year later it's still on rotation.

Elzhi is a masterful lyricist and it shows here. There are so many highlights in every song, but lyrically my favorite song is JASON. It's one of those rare moments where El gets more aggressive than usual.

Waking up in cold sweats from the drama

The same time Obama sent the bomber to Osama

My momma told me that things happen for a reason

I feel God bless my soul as if he heard my aura sneezing

And that's powerful as ebonics to chained slaves

My think tank's full of piranhas that swim in aquatic brain waves

It's not a game so go tell the contestant

I dice him and sell his intestines to a delicatessen

Before my life became the most splendid

I was in the haunted house plotting on a mansion with a ghost in it

Thinking 'bout the paper like the daily news

With a story about a dead man trying to buy his newborn baby shoes

JR Swiftz crafted great beats for El. His production, while varied, is still cohesive throughout the project. Light One Write One is my favorite song production wise. The sample is smooth, and coupled with the bassline it's one of my favorite beats from last year. It's also mainstream friendly, which is evident by the almost 600K listners it gained on Spotify.

Elzhi is a veteran MC at this point. And as a big fan of all of his work, it makes me happy to see him aging gracefully. This is a great addition to an already excellent discography.

How do you feel about the album a year later?

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GLC - Flight School (Feat. Kanye West & T-Pain)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 08:50 AM PDT

Heltah Skeltah - Hot (Sean P - Kimbo Price '09)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 06:51 PM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Reason - New Beginnings (One Year Later)

Posted: 11 Oct 2021 10:09 AM PDT

Spotify

Apple Music

Cover


New Beginnings is the debut studio album by American rapper Reason. It was released on October 9, 2020, by Top Dawg Entertainment and Caroline Records. The album includes guest features from Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Isaiah Rashad, JID, Vince Staples, Rapsody, Mereba, and Alemeda. Production was primarily handled by in-house TDE producer Kal Banx, among others

Format is Producer - Track Title (feat. features)

  1. Kal Banx, AC The Producer, WU10, Nabeyin & Newz - Something More
  2. Kal Banx - Stories I Forgot
  3. Kal Banx & James Delgado - Pop Shit (feat. Schoolboy Q)
  4. The 90's & Illmind - Show Stop
  5. Kal Banx & Mario Luciano - Favorite Nigga
  6. S1 - I Can Make It (feat. Rapsody)
  7. Nabeyin & SmokeyGotBeatz - Fall
  8. Kal Banx & Arte Mitchell - Slow Down (feat. Alemeda)
  9. Nostxlgic & Tae Beast - Flick It Up (feat. Ab-Soul)
  10. Bizness Boi & Nils - Sauce (feat. Vince Staples)
  11. Devin Williams - Extinct (feat. Isaiah Rashad & JID)
  12. Kal Banx, AC The Producer, Nabeyin & Fortune - Westside (feat. Mereba)
  13. Kal Banx, Tariq Beats, Mike & Keys & My Guy Mars - Gossip
  14. Kal Banx & WU10 - Windows Cry

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Background

The album was initially planned to be released in March 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Reason explained the album's delay on Instagram:

I had to get rid of every fear, anxiety, doubt, and negative mindset to make this project. Through it all I'm just proud and thankful for the opportunity to share this part of myself with y'all. Humbled and thankful to all of y'all that have been patient with me but I'm proud to say "soon" is almost here.

In an interview with Paper, Reason spoke on the album, saying:

Talk to me about New Beginnings. What are you starting new with this album, and why?
New Beginnings, to me, is getting rid of all those old fears, doubts, anxieties and anything that you have that's stopping you from doing something great. I compare it a lot to a long relationship or a job that you've been at for a long time. It's like a lot of those times you might feel like you want to leave every single day, but you just don't out of fears. Those fears can be of losing that comfortable place, having to do something else, or ultimately leaving and failing. That's what New Beginnings was for me — leaving my old life and stepping into this new life as REASON with TDE. It's almost like a celebration of getting over that fear and actually accomplishing that.

What was the creative process for this like? How long did you take to make it?
I've been working on this project for a year and a half on and off, just because I was also working on my debut album. But the creative process was mostly me and producer Kal Banx in the studio just really trying to find records that we could attack from a fan's standpoint. So anything that I wanted to do as a fan, like hearing Isaiah Rashad and J.I.D. on the same record, I did that. Rapsody, who's one of my favorite female emcees of all time and favorite artists of all time, was someone that I really wanted to get on the record. Ab Soul hasn't been out in a minute, so I got him on "Flick It Up" and "Trapped In," which that's not on the project. But me just attacking it from a fan perspective and doing a lot of things that I've always wanted to do as a fan.

I saw your tweets about Rapsody's feature. What's the story behind that verse?
It's actually kind of crazy. I wrote the first verse on "Fall" based off of my feelings about Rapsody, just about women and all of the issues that they have in trying to enter this industry, about how dope she is and how she struggled to get even to the place that she's at right now. I wrote the verse from that perspective and shared it with her, and that was just the birth of our relationship, and so that's now almost like my big sister. We just kept in contact and when I got the "I Can Make It" record, it just sounded like something that I knew that Rapsody could go crazy on, and that's actually my favorite, favorite feature on the project. No offense to anybody else that's on there, but I just feel like she just went absolutely crazy.

It's been two years since the official release of There You Have It, and three since you actually released it. How has adapting to the major label world been, and what have you had to learn to stay afloat?
Definitely patience. I think that every TDE fan will agree that patience is the one thing that you have to have to be a TDE fan. Understanding that timing is everything. It's been a weird time this year with COVID. That's definitely put a wrinkle in everything. This project was supposed to come out a while ago, but we were trying to see exactly what was going on with COVID and if we could do shows.

But ultimately, I felt like it worked out at the right time, and I feel like I've had to learn how to be patient. How to be patient, but still stay focused because a lot of times you can get distracted trying to be patient. You're trying to do other things to keep your attention that you can get distracted. But I've had to learn how to keep working and be patient and also continue to stay productive. I would say that that's the biggest thing I've taken from this transition.

I saw Vince Staples joke about the "Sauce" record. He said that you held onto it for a while.
I had this record probably at the beginning of 2019, and he joked about that because I was actually rushing him to give me the verse back. We were trying to hit a deadline. I was rushing them to give me the verse back, and then I did all of that rushing for the shit to not come out for another year and a half. Shoutout to Vince though because he stayed with us throughout that whole process. For some artists, that can be annoying. They can be kind of over it, so shout out to him for still rocking with us and allowing us to get that off.

On "Flick It Up," you rap, "Comin' up as a kid/ I was tryna be Jay/ I was tryna be Ye/ I was tryna be Wayne." When did you become REASON and the person that others would want to be?
That's a good question. I don't really have an exact moment for that. I feel like it's just, it's been an evolving process. I feel like it's still an evolving process. I think that REASON this year is much different than REASON last year. But I do feel like all of these dudes with Jay, Wayne, all of these dudes are big, huge influences for me. You can hear parts of their influences in my music. I think that all of it is just... that's what art is, and that's what admiring someone is. That you're going to see parts of people's talent and whatnot, or you're going to see parts of Michael Jordan's game in Kobe. That just comes from admiration. I feel like all of those things helped me become the REASON that I am today.

What's the story behind "Extinct?" I saw that you were excited for those verses to come.
Isaiah (Rashad) actually started that record, and he has this thing where he'll start records and not finish them, unfortunately. He told me he wanted me to put a verse on there. We were supposed to originally go back and forth, and JID is a super close friend of mine. J.I.D. actually hit me while I was in the studio making that record, and he was just on FaceTime and I played some of the record for him and he fucked with it. Instead of me sending it back to Zay first, I sent it to J.I.D. first, and J.I.D. ended up putting the crazy verse on it, and so it ended up being what it is today.

What do you want the biggest takeaway from New Beginnings for fans to be?
Just for people to just enjoy the music. Don't listen to it with your critic ears on. Not to say that I care about being criticized, I really don't. But it's more of just, I made this project as a celebration and I want people and the fans that support me and the fans that fuck with me to celebrate this and enjoy it the same way that I did. Take in their favorite records and drink to it, smoke to it, roll around, have fun to it, you know what I mean? Even sit there and have your emotional feelings about it as well. But whatever it is that you like to do with the music that you listen to, just enjoy it because this one was really done for the fans.I'm just hoping that that's what they get from it. It's not for me, it's not for, necessarily, "my legacy." This is a stepping stone into something greater, but at the same time, a celebration with them.


  • Reason is TDE's 9th signee, how does he rank among the label members for you?
  • Do you think Reason has potential for growth? What tracks make you think that?
  • Best lines? Songs? Verses? Features?
  • Worst parts?
  • How does this compare to 2018's There You Have It? Isaiah Rashad's The House is Burning? SiR's Chasing Summer? ScHoolboy Q's CrasH Talk? Zacari's Run Wild Run Free? Ray Vaughn's Peer Pressure? Lance Skiiiwalker's Introverted Intuition?
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