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Uh, shouts out to the first WYLD KATZ show, out in rockford, shouts out Rajiv for never playing trumpet, shouts out revival house for putting us on, shouts out Aidan for taking nice pictures of us, shouts out everyone who picked up one of our extra instruments and played along, shouts out foxing, shouts out Cadence Fox, shouts out sewingneedle, shouts out half milk, and shouts out that boy spencer labute for putting us on. shouts out the crowd for being nice, shouts out the lady at steak and shake for being nice to us and making jokes at us even though my voice was lost and our whole crew was soooo sweaty, shouts out midnight, shouts out adam for driving on all the la streets and all the city(shitty)(Chi-tty) streets, shouts out to everyone and ups to everyone and shouts out to game freak and shouts out to http://wyldkatz.bandcamp.com

Whoaaa

Maybe my best of 2012’ll never come, or it’ll be out for the Grammys!

RediRoc hype as fuck on this. RediRoc may have the best signny shoutout of rappers. Jahlil Beats also looks madhouse sketchy for a while in this. About to sit down and listen to legend season. Jahlil goes hard. SULU!

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At the top of the year Rick Ross released Rich Forever,  which was a nuts mixtape. It was madhouse. Like truly madhouse. Damn. Like fuck. Some insane songs on their. Last time I talked about French Montana, the song “Stay Schemin’” on Rich Forever was like his big break.  And like there are so many great songs on that mixtape, and some of them are just Ross for like 3 minutes, but they still are good.

Then God Forgives, I Don’t came out. I’m not gonna judge it hella hard. It disappointed a lot of people after Rich Forever. I’d be lying if I wasn’t hoping I would like it as much as the mixtape. But also, I like mixtape rap more than album rap. I don’t know if I dislike GFID, I just have only listened to it a few time, partially cuz i listen to less music in the summer, and also cuz it was no Rich Forever.

Now tonight The Black Bar Mitzvah came out. This is what’s weird about it. It’s one thing for an artist to make a jacking for beats mixtape. Some of my favorite mixtapes are rappers totally on other dudes shit, even with some hella popular songs. Like fucking Starlito’s Post-Traumatic Stress is nuts. I knew “Pretty Boy Swag” as “Tity Boi Swag” from Tity Boi’s (Now 2 Chainz) Trap-a-velli 2 for like months before I knew the real song, and I was confused as fuck.

TBBM plays this pretty weird though. Ross takes some of the biggest songs of the summer and raps over them: Kanye and 2 Chainz’s “Birthday”, Meek Mill’s “Burn”, Chief Keef’s “Don’t Like” (Really the remix with Kanye and Pusha T and Jadakiss), etc.

But the weird thing is, Ross records a verse at the beginning of most of these songs, and then just leaves in the rest of the song with everyone elses verses. We’ve all already heard the real song though. It’s weird. I guess it allows him to write a quick 16 and not have minute long tracks on his mixtape. Part of me thinks he’s trying to replace the real versions of the songs in listener’s catalogs. Since Ross’s verse is so good, why would i ever wanna listen to “Birthday” without it?

It gets uncomfortable though, as you listen through the mixtape. Near the end of “Birthday” Kanye talks about him and 2 Chainz a bit, but is unaware that Ross is on the track, cuz he wasn’t. And it feels weird. 

Also the songs where other artists are credited seems pretty arbitrary, if they’re new on the song they’re feature. Lil Reese is credited on the remix of his song “Us” with Drake and Ross added. It feels like since Lil Reese is not a household name and “Us” is not a song of the level of “Don’t Like”, probably it’s closest counterpart.

The fun thing about the shit crediting is that I don’t know when Lil Wayne’s about to show up on a song until he does. There was a song where I was like yo, Lil Wayne’s verse may be worth another listen, but I don’t remember it. One of this mixtape’s most prominent skills was getting me to listen to Lil Wayne verses after I stopped paying any attention to Lil Wayne because of how he fell off.

There’s two remixes of songs on GFID, 911, which was a chill song, and now it has 2 Chainz, because maybe Warner Bros or someone was lik

And eventually the mixtape ends. The last three tracks are there to make you think, “yo, maybe i was a little too hard on the rest of the mixtape, those at least had some new material.”The last three songs are good to great songs off of GFID, Gunplay’s 601 & Snort (another good jacking for beats tape), and the first single off of Meek Mill’s upcoming Dreams & Nightmares album.

Out of 19 songs, we have a skit, 3 songs we’ve heard before, 1 song with just a new 2 Chainz verse, 1 song that’s more of a classic remix, and 11 other songs with a new Rick Ross verse (to be fair, “Gone To The Moon” barely has any of the original Future vocals, but a verse worth of talking, and a Ross verse). Then at the end we have a medley of MMG songs as a commercial for their tour. And we have the intro, which is a madhouse 3 minutes of Ross talking. No totally new songs.

Here’s the thing though, this doesn’t mean that these songs are bad. There are few times when a Rick Ross feature hurts a song for me. I may listen to these versions as much or as more than the songs I have already. I should/probably won’t do the work to credit all the artists in my iTunes, so I have a grasp of who’s on the songs that slipped past my radar originally. Also, Ross replaced Big Sean on both “Mercy” and “Clique” with Rockie Fresh, who definitely seems to be more like a real rapper.

So like, is it Rich Forever? No. Definitely not. It’s not original at all really, it’s nothing new. It’s not gonna blow your mind, but like if you were like, “man I like Rick Ross, and I also don’t really know big rap songs, or I like them but don’t have them” then this is like Rick Ross’ Now That’s What I Call Music for you.

Check it?

http://www.datpiff.com/Rick-Ross-The-Black-Bar-Mitzvah-mixtape.402975.html 

a couple things-

a. sup dude i didnt realize i wasnt following you on this weird tumblr thing oops??? also i ‘appreciate’ these mixtape reviews

b. did you read that thing in the nyt a while ago all about “fanute” from the french montana verse? b/c ….. ha

c. i think you introduced me to datpiff? like a year ago? so THANKS it has been a huge boon to my life

d. also i am curious how do u ‘feel’ about Future?

….idk if this is the  right way to respond to shit on tumblr but w/e 

Hahaha, yo tumblr’s so weird though and who knows.

Thanks for all your kind words though um…

b. uh I did read the whole fanute thing. prett prett chill. It’s such a weird thing. People are all up and using fanute now, and like it’s crazy cuz like, that means words can become words with barely any grammatical consideration before them. maybe someday I’ll post about fanute. I’ve been thinking about it for a while the past couple days.

I think that article introduced me to RapMetrics, but maybe not, but RapMetrics is like where they statistically and linguistically look at rap, and if they posted anymore there, i woudln’t do things anymore.

c. Dude, Datpiff fuckin kills it. no prollem. Do you ever have that thing though, where like the zip just won’t open? cuz that happens to me like a tenth of the time, and is a huge bummer?

d. Future’s an interesting dude. I definitely like that he exists. I’m pretty sure I like him as a hooksmith. The fact that I can look at the names of his songs, and be like, oh yeah, “Turn on the Lights!” and like know the melody, says something good for him. I like his hooks. I dunno about his verses. I was looking at the similarities between him and T-pain the other day and it’s a thing I thought about. I dunno whhat’s your take?

haha i just wanted to know because personally I. LOVE. FUTURE. but i also tend to shamelessly love ridiculous catchy stuff and i’ve seen both pro/anti future opinions so i’m curious as to what other people think. yea the verses are nothing special but idk i tend to categorize music into liking it more for either sound or lyrics, and not just with rap but with all stuff…so i’ll listen to futures lyrics, but don’t care as much what they say because it’s so fuckin catchy. and this is a whole different genre but sometimes future reminds me of vybz kartel and that jamacian dancehall style in his delivery. i mean i literally thought he was saying ‘fairy porn’ in ‘straight up’ even though i knew that couldnt be it?? (it was ‘very important’)

never thought about t-pain but i get it, autotune, etc. i dont know i guess t-pain became so ubiquitous that he became ‘gimmicky’ …..not that future isn’t, but like, if there was a “Lonely Island feat. Future” i might get really sick of him. altho i do remember liking some t-pain stuff when he came out (albiet feeling *guilty* about it  b/c all the uptight music snob dudes i knew shat on him for the autotune…)? but in retrospect t-pain did his thing. buy u a drank is still good. plus i think future gets looked at differently bc people are past caring about autotune now…

also yea that thing with the zips has happened 2 me, when they look like theyre unarchiving but then the app closes and nothing happens? :/

and ha weird, i’d never heard of rapmetrics but literally just heard about it the other day while reading about one of the really douchey bros behind rapgenius who called himself an ‘orientalist’ (which is a whole ‘nother story). gotta check that out now.

Yeah, nah, I think I really like Future. The first Future tape I got was some weird unofficial tape thouhg, that had a number of kinda shitty songs, so like I think I still have some animosity towards him for that subconciously. I deffly feel the dancehall vibe in Future. 

I think the Future T-Pain distinction was a weird thing that happened when I listened to Gucci Mane’s new mixtape, cuz like there’s a song with each of them, and it’s like wow. future is doing a real thing and tpain is kinda a weird nerd, and like future’s hook is like a real catchy thing, and tpains is like mehhh. Like I remember being all like fuck yeah to a ton of t-pain hooks, but like now he is so lost i feel like. Like the real t-pain has been coming out and it’s weird. That song with Kanye on the DJ khaled album wasn’t that weird. (Did that happen again this year, or am i thinking of that one song like 3 years ago? C’mon DJ Khaled) But, like on Trap God he made me real mad. and in the welcome to my hood video it was like, dude. You’re not part of lonely island. 

I dunno though. Also Don Trip is kinda bitin on Future’s flow on this new song I’m listening to and it’s really weird, cuz there’s no autotune and it’s just mumbly and it’s like, did you mean to get Future, but he was busy? 

The unarchive shit sucks. That’s exactly what happens, and it makes me really mad. Like why would that even happen, do some peo[ple just not know how to upload zips? it’s dumb.

Man, I wish I didn’t have to feel so bad everytime I end up on Rap Genius now.

Also I feel like tumblr is definitley the best place in the world for conversations

laffin a lot at the concept of t-pain being ‘lost’…:( Makes sense though and ha interesting theory that the real t-pain is actually the weird-nerd one? (Like, WHO is the real t-pain?!?!?! (..this comment is meant to be kind of a joke i hate tumblr)) anyway my  conception of “t-pain-lately” is that he was sorta veering towards doing a lot of ‘shitty pop’, and I really do love quality pop, but ehhh to the throwaway songs with chris brown and that lame song he did with lily allen that one time a few yrs ago or w/e? also i cant think of a dj khaled/kanye/t-pain song but, like, i’m sure there was one. i probably know it but tend to forget that some songs have t-pain on them b/c his presence is so omnipresent…? if that makes sense? i guess what this incoherent string of words means is i agree, t-pain did his thing for a while but now it’s not really interesting or fun anymore, and now dudes like future have moved in and outdone him on his own shtick. one day this will probably happen to future but i am ok with that. 

also fyi only primarily-Future shit i’ve listened to is ‘Pluto’, and i loooooove pluto, so thats what most of my opinions re:future are based off of. and ive heard him show up elsewhere which is fun, wanna listen to the gucci stuff u mentioned, but yeah, pluto. 

rap genius is like a lot of other things, in that it is a good resource and i do use it… (i like that it is open to the public but still monitored, and therefore kind of wikipedia-esque in the way it functions.), BUT the people in charge are kind of awful. so i just shrug it off and rationalize that at least i’m not paying them or whatever? (but they just got purchased and made $$$ so i guess by visiting their site i am contributing) (also maybe im generalizing because ive only read an article with/heard that repugnant rap from one of them, so maybe only that one dude is really really awful?)

i do like the ‘verified artist’ feature though- its pretty nice to be able to hear from the writer of the lyrics directly, and they have this new video thing so you can watch a video of a rapper just sitting in a trailer or something, expounding on a line or whatever. i learned from rap genius that joe budden is NOT into anal sex, even though someone explained his line by writing, simply, “this means that he likes anal sex!”, so that was kind of enlightening (….????). 

(plus, as joe budden example shows, a lot of the ‘explanations’ are stupid or obvious and u wanna just hang your head and be like fuck whoever gave this bro an ‘editor’ title, but i do use it to read lyrics, cause i feel like since its moderated and pored over and all, it will usually have p. accurate lyrics. ok /rap genius rant.)

also re:tumblr, sarcasm??? hah it is probably the best place in the world for semi-public conversations that no one else cares about but it is also kind of the worst. feel like the reblog feature can lead to long rants and not really convos but maybe i just dont know how to tumblr right and therefore i end up r.a.m.b.l.i.n.g …so on that note gonna quit spewin shit on this website and go listen ‘trap god’* thnx for mentioning that, i dont stay up on my datpiff game when i do things like listen to taylor swift all week wheeeeee

*(jk im gonna eat dinner but eventually gucci)

I feel a natural tendency to start most of my replies to people on the internet with ahhahah, which is kinda weird i think, so i’m not doing it here.

But yeah. Pluto’s hella chill. It’s so cool that future is a thing. I really hope that all songs don’t end up having a Future-istic part in them eventually though, like when autotune hit trhe scene, or like dubstep or whaterr, cuz i think the future mumble is like a thing that won’t work without his skill and charisma? maybe (It’s been an hour since i started that sentence, so i think that’s what i meant)

Rap Genius is so weird. I hadn’t really looked straight up into why everyone was coming down on them and talking about them all of a sudden, and it’s just like fuck though. That one dude is so shitty. Why does he rap so bad? When I first found Rap Genius, it was like mostly not dumb shit, but also like only like OFWGKTA songs, which was like chill, cuz I didn’t understand all his references or whaterr, and there were a couple times it was like yoooo that makes that line make so much more sense. But now it’s almost like what if like the same people who decide to post a song on metrolyrics or something, with just shitloads of …s and definitely wrong stuff, now get to try to explain stuff. 

I feel like the mission statement was chill, explain like the local references, obscure slang, and callbacks and weird shit. but then like the fact that they want the songs to go to 100% completion or whatever, makes it so dumb kids start explaining that stuff is dumb and saying real dumb things, and now the bible and constitution are on it and i don’t understand why.

But like still, when I google lyrics to the song, cuz they cheat at SEO or whaterr, they come up and i’d rather jsut go there than somewhere where i have to close some stuff

I think the tumblr reblog features got a really good classic, facebook wall-to-wall conversation vibe, where shit gets hella ranty and everyone forgets a ton of stuff that they were talking about. But I also like how, like when this gets posted, everyone who follows me is gonna have to scroll a ton. It’s pretty chill.

EDIT: Also i’m into the new url

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At the top of the year Rick Ross released Rich Forever,  which was a nuts mixtape. It was madhouse. Like truly madhouse. Damn. Like fuck. Some insane songs on their. Last time I talked about French Montana, the song “Stay Schemin’” on Rich Forever was like his big break.  And like there are so many great songs on that mixtape, and some of them are just Ross for like 3 minutes, but they still are good.

Then God Forgives, I Don’t came out. I’m not gonna judge it hella hard. It disappointed a lot of people after Rich Forever. I’d be lying if I wasn’t hoping I would like it as much as the mixtape. But also, I like mixtape rap more than album rap. I don’t know if I dislike GFID, I just have only listened to it a few time, partially cuz i listen to less music in the summer, and also cuz it was no Rich Forever.

Now tonight The Black Bar Mitzvah came out. This is what’s weird about it. It’s one thing for an artist to make a jacking for beats mixtape. Some of my favorite mixtapes are rappers totally on other dudes shit, even with some hella popular songs. Like fucking Starlito’s Post-Traumatic Stress is nuts. I knew “Pretty Boy Swag” as “Tity Boi Swag” from Tity Boi’s (Now 2 Chainz) Trap-a-velli 2 for like months before I knew the real song, and I was confused as fuck.

TBBM plays this pretty weird though. Ross takes some of the biggest songs of the summer and raps over them: Kanye and 2 Chainz’s “Birthday”, Meek Mill’s “Burn”, Chief Keef’s “Don’t Like” (Really the remix with Kanye and Pusha T and Jadakiss), etc.

But the weird thing is, Ross records a verse at the beginning of most of these songs, and then just leaves in the rest of the song with everyone elses verses. We’ve all already heard the real song though. It’s weird. I guess it allows him to write a quick 16 and not have minute long tracks on his mixtape. Part of me thinks he’s trying to replace the real versions of the songs in listener’s catalogs. Since Ross’s verse is so good, why would i ever wanna listen to “Birthday” without it?

It gets uncomfortable though, as you listen through the mixtape. Near the end of “Birthday” Kanye talks about him and 2 Chainz a bit, but is unaware that Ross is on the track, cuz he wasn’t. And it feels weird. 

Also the songs where other artists are credited seems pretty arbitrary, if they’re new on the song they’re feature. Lil Reese is credited on the remix of his song “Us” with Drake and Ross added. It feels like since Lil Reese is not a household name and “Us” is not a song of the level of “Don’t Like”, probably it’s closest counterpart.

The fun thing about the shit crediting is that I don’t know when Lil Wayne’s about to show up on a song until he does. There was a song where I was like yo, Lil Wayne’s verse may be worth another listen, but I don’t remember it. One of this mixtape’s most prominent skills was getting me to listen to Lil Wayne verses after I stopped paying any attention to Lil Wayne because of how he fell off.

There’s two remixes of songs on GFID, 911, which was a chill song, and now it has 2 Chainz, because maybe Warner Bros or someone was lik

And eventually the mixtape ends. The last three tracks are there to make you think, “yo, maybe i was a little too hard on the rest of the mixtape, those at least had some new material.”The last three songs are good to great songs off of GFID, Gunplay’s 601 & Snort (another good jacking for beats tape), and the first single off of Meek Mill’s upcoming Dreams & Nightmares album.

Out of 19 songs, we have a skit, 3 songs we’ve heard before, 1 song with just a new 2 Chainz verse, 1 song that’s more of a classic remix, and 11 other songs with a new Rick Ross verse (to be fair, “Gone To The Moon” barely has any of the original Future vocals, but a verse worth of talking, and a Ross verse). Then at the end we have a medley of MMG songs as a commercial for their tour. And we have the intro, which is a madhouse 3 minutes of Ross talking. No totally new songs.

Here’s the thing though, this doesn’t mean that these songs are bad. There are few times when a Rick Ross feature hurts a song for me. I may listen to these versions as much or as more than the songs I have already. I should/probably won’t do the work to credit all the artists in my iTunes, so I have a grasp of who’s on the songs that slipped past my radar originally. Also, Ross replaced Big Sean on both “Mercy” and “Clique” with Rockie Fresh, who definitely seems to be more like a real rapper.

So like, is it Rich Forever? No. Definitely not. It’s not original at all really, it’s nothing new. It’s not gonna blow your mind, but like if you were like, “man I like Rick Ross, and I also don’t really know big rap songs, or I like them but don’t have them” then this is like Rick Ross’ Now That’s What I Call Music for you.

Check it?

http://www.datpiff.com/Rick-Ross-The-Black-Bar-Mitzvah-mixtape.402975.html 

a couple things-

a. sup dude i didnt realize i wasnt following you on this weird tumblr thing oops??? also i ‘appreciate’ these mixtape reviews

b. did you read that thing in the nyt a while ago all about “fanute” from the french montana verse? b/c ….. ha

c. i think you introduced me to datpiff? like a year ago? so THANKS it has been a huge boon to my life

d. also i am curious how do u ‘feel’ about Future?

….idk if this is the  right way to respond to shit on tumblr but w/e 

Hahaha, yo tumblr’s so weird though and who knows.

Thanks for all your kind words though um…

b. uh I did read the whole fanute thing. prett prett chill. It’s such a weird thing. People are all up and using fanute now, and like it’s crazy cuz like, that means words can become words with barely any grammatical consideration before them. maybe someday I’ll post about fanute. I’ve been thinking about it for a while the past couple days.

I think that article introduced me to RapMetrics, but maybe not, but RapMetrics is like where they statistically and linguistically look at rap, and if they posted anymore there, i woudln’t do things anymore.

c. Dude, Datpiff fuckin kills it. no prollem. Do you ever have that thing though, where like the zip just won’t open? cuz that happens to me like a tenth of the time, and is a huge bummer?

d. Future’s an interesting dude. I definitely like that he exists. I’m pretty sure I like him as a hooksmith. The fact that I can look at the names of his songs, and be like, oh yeah, “Turn on the Lights!” and like know the melody, says something good for him. I like his hooks. I dunno about his verses. I was looking at the similarities between him and T-pain the other day and it’s a thing I thought about. I dunno whhat’s your take?

haha i just wanted to know because personally I. LOVE. FUTURE. but i also tend to shamelessly love ridiculous catchy stuff and i’ve seen both pro/anti future opinions so i’m curious as to what other people think. yea the verses are nothing special but idk i tend to categorize music into liking it more for either sound or lyrics, and not just with rap but with all stuff…so i’ll listen to futures lyrics, but don’t care as much what they say because it’s so fuckin catchy. and this is a whole different genre but sometimes future reminds me of vybz kartel and that jamacian dancehall style in his delivery. i mean i literally thought he was saying ‘fairy porn’ in ‘straight up’ even though i knew that couldnt be it?? (it was ‘very important’)

never thought about t-pain but i get it, autotune, etc. i dont know i guess t-pain became so ubiquitous that he became ‘gimmicky’ …..not that future isn’t, but like, if there was a “Lonely Island feat. Future” i might get really sick of him. altho i do remember liking some t-pain stuff when he came out (albiet feeling *guilty* about it  b/c all the uptight music snob dudes i knew shat on him for the autotune…)? but in retrospect t-pain did his thing. buy u a drank is still good. plus i think future gets looked at differently bc people are past caring about autotune now…

also yea that thing with the zips has happened 2 me, when they look like theyre unarchiving but then the app closes and nothing happens? :/

and ha weird, i’d never heard of rapmetrics but literally just heard about it the other day while reading about one of the really douchey bros behind rapgenius who called himself an ‘orientalist’ (which is a whole ‘nother story). gotta check that out now.

Yeah, nah, I think I really like Future. The first Future tape I got was some weird unofficial tape thouhg, that had a number of kinda shitty songs, so like I think I still have some animosity towards him for that subconciously. I deffly feel the dancehall vibe in Future. 

I think the Future T-Pain distinction was a weird thing that happened when I listened to Gucci Mane’s new mixtape, cuz like there’s a song with each of them, and it’s like wow. future is doing a real thing and tpain is kinda a weird nerd, and like future’s hook is like a real catchy thing, and tpains is like mehhh. Like I remember being all like fuck yeah to a ton of t-pain hooks, but like now he is so lost i feel like. Like the real t-pain has been coming out and it’s weird. That song with Kanye on the DJ khaled album wasn’t that weird. (Did that happen again this year, or am i thinking of that one song like 3 years ago? C’mon DJ Khaled) But, like on Trap God he made me real mad. and in the welcome to my hood video it was like, dude. You’re not part of lonely island. 

I dunno though. Also Don Trip is kinda bitin on Future’s flow on this new song I’m listening to and it’s really weird, cuz there’s no autotune and it’s just mumbly and it’s like, did you mean to get Future, but he was busy? 

The unarchive shit sucks. That’s exactly what happens, and it makes me really mad. Like why would that even happen, do some peo[ple just not know how to upload zips? it’s dumb.

Man, I wish I didn’t have to feel so bad everytime I end up on Rap Genius now.

Also I feel like tumblr is definitley the best place in the world for conversations

So Dreams and Nightmares is really out now. Let’s talk about it. 

Already covered the intro. Crazy shit there. 

“In God We Trust” surprised me. I had hella low expectations for the second song on the album. I thought there was no way Meek Mill could take the momentum created in that intro and keep it rollin. But like, “In God We Trust” is about as good as it coulda happened. I think. Also he references “Bullet Wit Ya Name ft. Mannie Wellz” which is one of the best pre-breakout Meek Mill songs. 

The album’s full of dreams and nightmares, as one would prolly expect. Meek Mill does a good job choosing beats that fit the vibe. Most of the beats could fit pretty well in some dream sequence, none of them feel totally real. The nightmares are numerous, and pretty good as a whole. Meek Mill is an excellent story teller. Rather than all of the songs just being like, yo ima murk you, he expresses real emotions on this album. On “Traumatized” he calls out his father’s killer, and threatens vengeance. “Who You’re Around” is a poignant tale of growing apart from friends who didn’t make it while you did. It’s thematically a Drake song, but instead of being like “fuck it, isn’t fame weird?” it’s more of a “I miss you guys, and it kills me to say this but like fuck you.” Meek Mill’s talking about B.H. the crew he used to rep, he used to shout out all these dudes on his songs, these are the dudes he came up with. Is Drake really mad that Jake Epstein is jealous of his success?

There’s the dreams too. “Amen” gets a whole new context on this album. Meek Mill wakes up at the beginning of the video, and tries to figure out kinda what’s real and what’s a dream, which is chill, i think. “Amen” is similar in vibe to the “Believe Me ft. Dave Patten”, which was that weird song that was like look how far we’ve come, and Meek Mill rapped about coming up dodging the law and the white dude rapped about like, oh man i didn’t mean to cheat on you, but like I guess I used to be shittier? But like Amen is like more of just like a dream like party song kinda which works a bit better. 

“Young Kings” and “Maybach Curtains” take the lyrical theme of “Believe Me” and make real songs out of it. That are pretty good. 

Then like “Lay Up” is like really dumb and doesn’t fit. It’s a dream song ostensibly about really good sex. But like, the idea that “she can get the layup” is also like, she can make the easiest shot in basketball. Also like “when i shoot I don’t miss” is kinda weird too. The only thing that line could mean is like that he’s hella good at impregnating people? Like, I don’t claim to understand how R&B works, but like, i dunno. Targeting people who are trying to have kids but having trouble seems like a weird subgroup. 

It’s an interesting album though. The attempts to write like seductive songs end up pretty weird. There’s no real like hype songs either, no “Ima Boss” or “Flexin on Em.” But I don’t know if that’s why Meek Mill is on MMG for. If you want some seductive songs, you can get Ambition. If you want hype songs there’s a couple on God Forgives: I Don’t, and Medellìn will hopefull come out eventually?

But if you want some skilled rapping, deep storytelling and like some chill tracks, you can look here. 

Yo…. This is gonna be chillll, 

I think we got something here, Dreams and Nightmares is gonna be crazy, and I know i’m late on this, but I forgot to blog about it before.

Also the second song is gonna be such a dissapointment probably