Got thrown into this album by spotify autoplay but im so glad i gave it a full listen man this shit is amazing. The production is ridiculous, the raps are hungry, the album straight up blew me away for the entire runtime. idk anything about these artists but gahlee
@ihabs11_ Facts, from the way both artists were talking about it leading up to the albums you can tell they understood what the stakes were and they fucking delivered
@UnoThatOneGuy@LONGLIVE47 u called probably j coles most important story in almost a decade a nothing story. That's just asinine, it's past subjectivity. I'm not arguing with that you can do that with someone else. And again i never compared those songs, i already told you why i brought quik stop up
J. Cole's 'The Fall-Off' departs this weeks Billboard 200 after 18 weeks on the chart.
It is his only studio album to spend less than a year on the chart.
@UnoThatOneGuy@LONGLIVE47 quik stop specifically tones down on complex schemes to tell a personal story on how hearing the impact of his music on someone else reminded him of his purpose as an artist. To call it a nothing story is so disrespectful to j cole himself brother what is wrong with you
@UnoThatOneGuy@LONGLIVE47 I've listened to his entire discog lol everyone has, that wasn't a direct comparison. You said the album essentially exists to flex rap skills, those songs prove it's not
@UnoThatOneGuy@LONGLIVE47 and cole peaking in confidence with his rap skills is part of the narrative of the album so dismissing them as flex songs is silly. And even still with usual cole subject matter, the villest and drum n bass are delivered at a higher level than anything on either album
@UnoThatOneGuy@LONGLIVE47 Brother safety, quik stop, the fall off is inevitable, i love her again and lonely at the top all exist outside the context of "look how good i rap". And even the ones within that like wtfiu and 39 intro are so clear off almost everything on kod and sideline story
NFR Podcast discusses the longevity of “rage music” in hip hop, saying the sound is getting stale but fanbases don’t want their artists to evolve:
Ant: “What do you guys want from the artist? They’re obviously gonna have to expand the sound.”
Nick: “The rage sound, however you want to categorize it, is not here to stay”
Ant: “[Fans] grow up. People are not going to be in mosh pits forever. People are not going to gravitate towards [that style of] music forever.”
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