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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I have been listening to Kevin Gates Islah LP a lot. It is quite cohesive as an album and sonically too. My man does it his way.
I have been listening to mixtapes, catching up and shit.
Ty Dolla $ign - FRee TC
Love the extended version of Blase' on this, and I dig like half the tracks. I am not too big on the R&B stuff though
Young Thug - I'm Up
Couple of tracks I really dig (Hercules, My Boys) but a few duds
Travi$ Scott - Rodeo
Fuck I love this thing. I am still getting into parts of it, and I already adore Antidote like nothing that's come out of Houston in years. Travis likes his music production a bit more complex and shall I say, Proggy? I dig it.
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Finally got this. Finally GET IT. Great full LP, tracks flow from one to the other cohesively, Classic, like old school PE or a great Gang Starr LP....
Future - Evol
Not sure how I feel about this as a whole. I dig on some tracks, but nothing really stands out to me like some of the peak tracks in Monster.
Travi$ Scott - Mamacita (feat. Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan)
I have been loving this track since I first caught the video on the tube of you. Fucking LOVE THIS SONG. I am married to one of them light skinned mamacitas from H-Town! "She get freaky with the lights down, nothing like them lightskinned mamacitas from H town, got them porn star big booties, let me film it then shoot it...." https://youtu.be/RH9kl6XZixo |
You're into Travi$ Scott? I thought I was the only one who dig Rodeo. I ate a ton of shit for liking that album (right here, in last year's hip hop cafe, mostly from pepper_green I think...) and I don't think I ever had anyone back me up. I am super glad you like the record. It was unfairly dismissed as being too derivative of too many different artists, which honestly I don't get. For example, it was compared to Yeezus a lot, but Trav helped sculpt the sound and feel of Yeezus, so it's not really fair to say that he's ripping off Kanye. He's part of Ye's "think tank" and for all we know, that's Travi$'s own input that he's "ripping off." I also don't agree with Pitchfork that the album sounds like Future, Thug, or Drake either.
Anyway glad you like it. It's kind of messy, but it pushes at some sonic boundaries for what hip hop is and can be and I like that.
Re: Future - Evol
I actually enjoy this record more than I enjoy Future. I'm in a perpetual state of indecision on the guy. But even though I don't listen to it often, Evol has been fun for me.
Re: Kendrick - super glad you're digging TPAB. It takes a while, doesn't it? But damn, some of those tracks are just so goddamn good. "The Blacker the Berry" should have received more attention. I prefer it to King Kunta as far as upbeat bangers go. But "Mortal Man" is just my jam.
Interestingly I read that Prince was in the studio during "These Walls," which borrows from the man himself and sounds like it might contain some live vocals from him, though I can't find any confirmation on that. Just that they "shared a studio" for the song (???)