And it's free? Skyfall,Quintana2, title track, mamacita, in fact all of them are blowing me away right now.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
i dunno, sounds like a lot of other artists when he's not just letting guests steal the songs directly. has he ever spit a great verse or displayed any kind of discernible personality at all?
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
Hilarious thread title
I haven't seen one person articulate for me what he's doing that is worthy of the enthusiasm
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 25 August 2014 02:05 (nine years ago) link
Yeah this is going to be hilariously overlooked by people like this. The sound on this release is completely new and progressive to anything I've seen before. Looking for "a great verse"? Ha.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
The sound on this release is completely new and progressive to anything I've seen before.
have you heard anything kanye west or kid cudi has released in the last 5 years?
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
"Hilarious thread title" - go on then, give me a better rap album this year?
"Haven't seen one person articulate for me what he's doing that is worthy of the enthusiasm" - ?? Is that how you assess music, other people's opinions? How about listen to it yourself then come back with your own?
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
"have you heard anything kanye west or kid cudi has released in the last 5 years?"
Have you missed that Travis was a major influence on Kanye's recent releases? Travis mark all over his last album, from raps to production.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Kid Cudi, lol.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
he didn't appear on MBDTF which is the album travis scott most blatantly rips off in his music
and kid cudi too
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
i feel like the least compelling argument in travis scott's favor is that his sound is "new" and "progressive" when he's just cannibalizing five years of GOOD music albums.
i guess you could make the argument that he imitates them well but i'm personally not very sympathetic to that argument
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Sloppy Toppy may be the song of the century
but this Skyfall is ..... lush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chifuZQVwJs
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
The vocals are unheard of before, and completely on the crest of the new southern wave right. Possibly ahead of it. His influence are so full, from DJ Screw, Rap A Lot, to Kanye, to Atlanta trap, to weeded out west coast bounce. Really I'm blown away after so long being done with Hip Hop.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
The thing that excites me about T.S is his range of artistry is way ahead of most rap acts today. Guy can produce, rap, sing, and does incredible videos. And it all feels ahead of its time.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Lol
― longneck, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Yung Should Stick To Producing
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
guys it's kinda cool that Travi$ Scott posts here, don't be so mean to him
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
At least we know he's great at hyperbole.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Is this some street team shit?
is this guy better than big k.r.i.t.?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
Seems alright. Auto tune sounds hella sloppy on this. this sounds like Kid Cudi its true.
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Thursday, 28 August 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
I liked "Bad Mood Shit on You" from the Owl Pharoah thing, that was cool
"Upper Echelon" worked for me too
― the tune was space, Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
Street team is turning me off instead of turning me on.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 28 August 2014 03:24 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard this yet but based on the thread I'm going to assume that the terrible spoken-word interlude in that horrifying new Taylor Swift song is better
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Thursday, 28 August 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
Funny to me that no one here yet knows that T.S was the muse and influence for the sound of Yeezus album. Thought it was common naledge around music nerds?
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 28 August 2014 07:23 (nine years ago) link
album was inspired by le corbusier lamps iirc
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 28 August 2014 07:57 (nine years ago) link
i keep accidentally thinking "T.S." means taylor swift and nodding approvingly while i stroke my chin
― james brooks, Thursday, 28 August 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link
Must be the reason I don't like Yeezus then.
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
TBH an album full of GOOD Music retreads sounds more appealing to me than another DJ Mustard cut
― 龜, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Chris Richards in Washington Post liked Travis Scott at a fest live sorta:
The line-up wasn’t as starry as your typical Yardfest, but this year’s Trillectro did a better job of capturing contemporary hip-hop’s riotous spirit. And it culminated with a surprise performance from Travis Scott, an irrepressible Houston rapper who obliterated the demarcation line between artist and audience, inviting front-row fans to leap over the barricades while flinging his body out toward the masses.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/trillectro-music-festival-proves-it-can-keep-up-with-the-big-boys/2014/08/24/59f9b4f8-2bb6-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Guess nothing changes with Houston hip hop, years and years of brilliance ignored and unknown and looked down on by the white hipsters who make up this board and most of hip hop fanship. Still crazy to me that during mid 90s the somehow that dross coming from stale NY hip hop was seen as better than what was happening in the South.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
didn't get a sense of him as a captivating live performer when he stared at his shoes and mumbled through the BET Awards cypher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRYZgeSRR2w
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
When I first heard of this, I honestly though it was bold to pick a title that sounded like Brad Paisley record. Then realized it was more about shopping.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
x-post---I dunno...Here's Jon Caramanica in the NY Times:
There was the rapper Travis Scott, wiry and pulsing with energy,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/arts/music/a-producer-and-his-pulsating-rhythmic-ways.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
haha "A Producer and His Pulsating, Rhythmic Ways" may be one of the worst headlines ever written
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
But for a general NY Times audience it is probably fine
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
White hipsters such as myself, DJP, Murgatroid, and Dayo.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Houston hiphop historically very maligned on this board.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
now im convinced raccoon tanuki is a sock
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
eh feel bad about saying anything, should have let this ride out
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
loved his drumming in blink 182
― ra's al goole (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
Also his song "Make It Rain"
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
and his film where they look for the holy grail. "she's a witch!"
Tanuki had worthwhile posts in the Outkast poll and some other threads, not gonna write him off cause of this thread
― birdman junior dad (some dude), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
in all seriousness i have been trying to put together some kind of generous argument for travis scott as an artist just so i could enjoy thinking about his music instead of writing it off as a middling grayscale soup of contemporary ATL influences
best i can come up w/ is some kind of anti-rockist / anti-authenticity thing, like we're in an environment absent A&Rs so maybe people who can package and ~curate~ other ppl's ideas is the future
i do think if he was white he'd be given way more leeway, obv, in the "progressive" department—people who do white forms of black music seen as an 'evolution' of the sound off rip but ... that's bullshit whether it's led zeppelin or travis scott, right? Right? idk.
i dont like any of his songs, though, like his sound isn't radical enough—at least I 'got' The Weeknd even if I thought making a coherent hypermasculine R&B form was pretty retrograde and not worth selling, at least it was marketing a fresh sound, but this still feels like a soupy version of already-popular southern rap
and he's also not writing great pop songs, these are all faux-dramatic dirges ... not a new sound, not great pop, not original, what am i missing?
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 01:52 (nine years ago) link
(not that he's even responsible for his own sound but im saying)
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
FKi's beat for "sloppy toppy" is pretty cool
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
could give this more leeway if it was diddy. he doesn't have diddy's personality, though
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 29 August 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
Yeah this is one of those artists who does everything pretty well, but not one single thing well enough for me to care or find it interesting.
― Evan R, Friday, 29 August 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
hilarious thread.
― sisilafami, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:41 (nine years ago) link
ha !
― sisilafami, Friday, 29 August 2014 10:42 (nine years ago) link
a middling grayscale soup of contemporary ATL influences
yep.
NEXT.
― rap game grant holt (prettylikealaindelon), Friday, 29 August 2014 11:40 (nine years ago) link
That Migos is so good
― Evan R, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/travis-scott-is-worse-than-iggy-azalea-1682870003?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
haha just came here to post this
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 20 February 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
tbh Noz should have written this a year ago (and kind of did on twitter) but at least someone put it together
That is one misleading headline there.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Friday, 20 February 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
is it? I think it's pretty appropriate considering his argument
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 20 February 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
& the arguments everyone has been having about 'appropriation'
Sure, the headline works once the reader connects the dots and yes, we technically SHOULD be doing that when reading anything but otoh, there's gotta be a more appropriate headline considering he mentions Iggy once and briefly at that but I guess he's gotta chase the clicks
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Friday, 20 February 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
ppl say 'gotta chase the clicks' like it's a new thing & folks haven't been complaining about headlines forever
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 21 February 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
If I change "clicks" to, I dunno, "eyeballs", it doesn't change a thing about what I said.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Saturday, 21 February 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
idk i think he's a talented producer. his vocal work always verges on the boundary between biting/originality that creates a really alienating level of animosity for some people
i'm cool with travis
― nose, Saturday, 21 February 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
'boundary'
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 21 February 2015 04:02 (nine years ago) link
and you must mean 'talented co-producer'
Mike Dean being down w Kanye & this guy & J. Prince being down w Drake is so weird
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
v good article
it's a stretch to call scott's ripoff-o-rama "offensive," but it's definitely lame. in a vacuum, it's pretty laughable given the obviousness of his antecedents that any label would try and tout him as some kinda gamechanger, but that's where shit has fallen to I spose
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
I will say "upper echelon" is a pretty good song but mostly for the beat and its guest verses (esp. the T.I. one)
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
actually who the fuck am I kidding thinking that a label wouldn't in the past have pushed a third-rate cudi/drake/kanye clone (replace with any past equivalent), lol
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
so he's the Candlebox of rap
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
exactly!
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 21 February 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Saturday, 5 September 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
rodeo is an incredibly mediocre album, not that that's surprising, although it's not quite the complete garbage fire I expected
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 5 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
I like "Antidote"
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
I have a visceral reaction against his flow on that track
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah his rapping is miserable in a Wiz Khalifa, grin and bear it sort of way. But I like the hook a lot
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
antidote is a good hook
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 25 December 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
i might not mind how much the hook is a "no type"/"drinks on us" bite if he didn't go so far as to reference "no type" on a verse
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Friday, 25 December 2015 07:45 (eight years ago) link
idk man keeping ur guard up even for dumb hooks seems a p equal gift/curse split at the end of the day
― r|t|c, Friday, 25 December 2015 08:19 (eight years ago) link
if i knew what a "night show" was referring to i'd probably dismiss antidote w/o qualms too but instead i mildly enjoy the innocent suggestion of 1950s drive ins and planetaria and whatnot
― r|t|c, Friday, 25 December 2015 08:27 (eight years ago) link
lol i have 'white iverson' in the enjoyably abysmal category too tho so never mind me
― r|t|c, Friday, 25 December 2015 08:29 (eight years ago) link
all the "night show" talk just makes me wonder if he's also doing rap concert matinees on his tour
― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Friday, 25 December 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
antidote is such a nothing blah hook imo, not feeling it all
― marcos, Friday, 25 December 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Looking for "a great verse"? Ha.
― een, Friday, 8 January 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
the new wiz song is such a hilariously blatant "antidote" rip off https://soundcloud.com/wizkhalifa/bake-sale-ft-travis-scott
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 24 January 2016 22:41 (eight years ago) link
don't you open up that bake sale
― Evan R, Sunday, 24 January 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
Lex Luger is the third of five credited producers on that, sad
theres some stuff on sings mcnight or w/e that i dont mind
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 16 October 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
ive heard good things about "goosebumps"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
"pick up the phone" is prob my fav song of the year but i don't consider it a travis scott song really
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
hmm goosebumps sounds pretty shitty... what are the decent ones j crunch
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
i just listened to sdp interlude and first take (lol) which weren't bad... i guess maybe this is like views where this is pretty decent if you delete all the songs that aren't r&b
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP93Mo7GpS8
prefer the uk version ~ and i don't even knooow why ~
― r|t|c, Sunday, 16 October 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
'Pick up the phone' recently coalesced for me as song of the year, too. closest thing to the 'yrn' beat he's been on since?
― flopson, Sunday, 16 October 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
yrn really up there with faust arp and caucasiti (demo) huh
― r|t|c, Sunday, 16 October 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
dont like pick up the phone really
idk thought way back, biebs, coordinate & the wkend song all sounded p good
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 16 October 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
xp- can u translate
― flopson, Sunday, 16 October 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Scott_CEOofSUH/status/787753792347385857
― Spottie, Monday, 17 October 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
This funny thread...
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, 28 July 2023 17:16 (eight months ago) link
more hip-hop albums should sample Gentle Giant is what I'm getting from this
― frogbs, Friday, 28 July 2023 17:28 (eight months ago) link
trevor jackson tweeted that the opening track lists andy votel as part of the credits for the opening track.that's a swerve i'd never expect.
― mark e, Friday, 28 July 2023 17:46 (eight months ago) link
yeah wow this starts right off with that gentle giant sample haha
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 July 2023 18:38 (eight months ago) link