Travi$ Scott - Days Before Rodeo - best rap release of 2014 so far?

Houston hiphop historically very maligned on this board.

now im convinced raccoon tanuki is a sock

eh feel bad about saying anything, should have let this ride out

loved his drumming in blink 182

Also his song "Make It Rain"

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

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?

(not that he's even responsible for his own sound but im saying)

FKi's beat for "sloppy toppy" is pretty cool

could give this more leeway if it was diddy. he doesn't have diddy's personality, though

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.

hilarious thread.

album was inspired by le corbusier lamps iirc

ha !

a middling grayscale soup of contemporary ATL influences

yep.

NEXT.

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, August 28, 2014 12:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someone tell me this doesn't seem sockpuppetish

Raccoon Tanuki had some good stuff to say in the Outkast artist poll thread

Which is why I checked out this album

I've only listened to like three rap albums front to back all year

So by default this makes my top 5

It's okay

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, August 28, 2014 12:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someone tell me this doesn't seem sockpuppetish
--rap steve gadd (D-40)

i caught a whiff and backed away from the thread

thanks for the support guys.

stick travis scott in with Scarface/Geto Boys, UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mello etc of Houston rappers no one cares about until after the fact

lol

yeah no fans of any of those guys around here, nope not a one

I imagine I've been listening to Houston rap longer than you've been alive sonny body

body? wtf me

stick travis scott in with Scarface/Geto Boys, UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mello etc of Houston rappers no one cares about until after the fact

― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, August 29, 2014 11:52 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this sentence is legitimately a disgrace to the legacy of all these artists

y'know nobody cared about scarface but after the fact

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Yeah because south wasn't ignored at all you're right

calm down, hip-hop Napoleon

geto boys were really popular in my school, right up there w/NWA. grip it (on that otha level) came out and gangster of love and all those were big songs.

they got a lot of play in the source as well, scarface is generally considered top 10 canonical MC for most ppl i'd say.

UGK did pretty well right off too, as well as 8ball & MJG (memphis but obv very southern)....

i didn't know about screw stuff until later

you know what IS underrated? South Circle, their first album owns

& then obv mind playin tricks on me got played every week on yo mtv raps after that came out

also the south has dominated hip hop for like the last 15 years anyway so wutchu sayin

TBH an album full of GOOD Music retreads sounds more appealing to me than another DJ Mustard cut

― 龜, Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh a thread full of goon music retards sounds less appealing to me than another DJP cult

& then obv mind playin tricks on me got played every week on yo mtv raps after that came out

yeah I remember this too, my last year of high school. "We Can't Be Stopped" was huge.

Ghetto Boys (when it still had the h) grip it got 5 mics, as did the diary

Source loved the Big Mike album too

To cut RT the benefit of a doubt here

I think he's too used to posting on trad hip hop forums where his assertions might make more sense

Too bad for him he ended up on the one forum on the Internet that Only focused on Houston rap to the exclusion of everything else

Well at least people here have the same opinion on this album as the needle drop.....*

*cough

Tell your street team leader that the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" tactic usually doesn't work in getting people interested either

i think it's interesting that a lot of people really do seem to like this

im afraid that i'm coming around on 'sloppy toppy' which sounds really gross and im sorry

"Too bad for him he ended up on the one forum on the Internet that Only focused on Houston rap to the exclusion of everything else"

know this is not srs but seems dated, it's all about Atlanta now right

Yet this place goes wild for Nicki Minaj. No surprise the opinions here are similar to Brian Fantano. The internet hipster general music is very predictable. Make sure you don't hate on the pop artists, show lack of respect to underground music as a sign of your discern. There's nothing underground here, really.

XD

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Raccoon Tanuki definitely NOT a hipster

dled this out of curiosity, not to judge off one track but regardless of how much an influence dude was on "Kanye's recent releases" already seems like the influencee surpassed the influencer. Not sure if even true but just hypothetically.

wow this is super-drab, why throw Quan and Young Thug over a track like that especially man, talk 'bout not playing to either's strengths

in addition to the criticisms that've already been made I'd say a few songs on here just seem like a way to listen to popular ATL rappers in a "hipper" context, tho maybe reading too much into things

That's the general consensus on this in the real world

Can't help but feel like he's gonna get pushed over the hump anyway

i kinda doubt Grand Hustle will be able to do that much with him, they haven't had success with anything but T.I. and B.o.B records for about a million years now. Meek and Iggy both had to leave the label to become stars.

speaking of T.I. dude's career is just depressing to me now cuz I remember when he was one of my favorite rappers. I mean I like "About the Money" but that might as well be a Young Thug feat. him song. & "No Mediocre" is just blah, miss when dude could craft hits that weren't trend-chasing or compromised

he still spits some hot verses sometimes but still

theres some stuff on sings mcnight or w/e that i dont mind

ive heard good things about "goosebumps"

"pick up the phone" is prob my fav song of the year but i don't consider it a travis scott song really

hmm goosebumps sounds pretty shitty... what are the decent ones j crunch

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP93Mo7GpS8

prefer the uk version ~ and i don't even knooow why ~

'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?

yrn really up there with faust arp and caucasiti (demo) huh

dont like pick up the phone really

idk thought way back, biebs, coordinate & the wkend song all sounded p good

xp- can u translate

https://twitter.com/Scott_CEOofSUH/status/787753792347385857

This funny thread...

more hip-hop albums should sample Gentle Giant is what I'm getting from this

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.

yeah wow this starts right off with that gentle giant sample haha