Migos, "T-Shirt"

Let's define "hit" as charting in the the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

Or maybe Top 20?

i think it will be a minor hit

We should let deej define "hit" because his ridiculous idea of what is a "hit" might be like his definition of "dated"

Top 10 in the US Spotify Chart right now, 813,919 plays per day--probably gonna move up in the Hot 100 this week from #37 last week.

a most palpable hit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sSIE-o2V9g

deej will also probably tell you spotify means nothing because kids in chicago only listen to songs on musical.ly now or something

i will take 'hit' if we define 'hit' as charting in the top 10 of the billboard hot 100

wld probably take 'hit' under most definitions of 'hit song'

might take the under on peak hot 100 chart position at 4.5 def confident on the over at like 11.5

T-Shirt jumped from 37 to 19 on Billboard this week

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7678133/hot-100-ed-sheeran-shape-of-you-zayn-taylor-swift-surge-to

I'd call that a hit but if deej says it isn't a hit then I guess there's that.

stonewaller

My baseline suspicion/dismissal of trap is not dealing well with the amount I've enjoyed the Migos songs I've heard

it's a https://i0.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/richard-spencer-punch-hatebreed.jpg?fit=700%2C367

It's #7 on the US Spotify chart atm.

this will chart high due to streaming numbers, in a post-streams to charts world it is already a hit. i doubt it has any real longevity personally, shit is riding the waves from bad & boujee and a novelty video

http://lymediseaseuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/moving-the-goalposts-300x2402.jpg

No this was actually all said in the original migos thread

My baseline suspicion/dismissal of trap is not dealing well with the amount I've enjoyed the Migos songs I've heard

― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Monday, February 6, 2017 4:56 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like if u put migos in the trap bucket theyre def more fun than their contemporaries who tend more towards the moody/serious/arty axis, but if u compare them to the mumble rappers theyre kinda the standard level of fun, both those classifications are kinda whatever imo but maybe interesting in this context

damn gotta switch out your lures there Whiney, he ain't bitin

xpost

david is right that its chart number may be artificially inflated, if it's off the chart in three weeks it wasn't actually a hit so much as the next song to come out after "bad and boujee"

i mean timmy turner was a hit in chart position but i dont think you can call it a hit in any real way

except ... chart position?

my point is that chart peak is a suspect measurement. what kind of attempted own was that?

Bad and Boujee was a hit because of streaming. And then it was a hit in other formats - because of streaming. Same thing happened with Juju and most other rap hits that no one thought were real hits.

except ... chart position?

― alpine static, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 12:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark

there's a long phenomenon of songs having short bursts of chart relevancy at the very beginning of their life cycles going back to itunes sales getting incorporated into chart data

every song from starboy placed in the hot 100 its first week but the weeknd has 2 hits off that album so far

But now that seems to be changing. The songs that reach top 10 via streaming hang around longer these days because other formats start picking them up from there. That's what happened to Black Beatles, for instance. It's a new set of rules.

i wasn't trying to "own" anyone, i just think it sounds funny to say a song's not a hit except in the way we track hits, but y'all know how that stuff works better than me

fake hit

weingars, get to, droppin, when that, drake-o, get to, poppin [fddrrrr]

sometimes differentiating between a one month and six month hit matters a lot anthropologically but less so with 't-shirt' bc it is a super rad banger duh

whichever prevailing current u may opine it is most aided by (4real zeitgeist wave, industry ersatz hypebestiality, meme magic, or ppl's personal bubbles where they care about neither) (or... all of them at once *gasp*) it is v disingenuous rhetoric to imply that it only has marginal/negligible appeal beyond that. foh with the timmy turner

Timmy Turner reached #34 on the Hot 100, which makes it a minor hit but no t-shirt.

Bad and Boujee was a hit because of streaming. And then it was a hit in other formats - because of streaming. Same thing happened with Juju and most other rap hits that no one thought were real hits.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 12:03 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm aware dumbass. What is wrong with you guys

i wasn't trying to "own" anyone, i just think it sounds funny to say a song's not a hit except in the way we track hits, but y'all know how that stuff works better than me

― alpine static, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 12:53 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"We"

Suddenly going top 40 is a "minor hit" ? You guys have to make up your mind here about whether you're going to be strict charts constructionists or not around something other than the migos hypebeast cycle

If you're talking Timmy Turner, dumbass, then yes. Since it was his follow up to a Hot 100 #1 hit and was massively hyped, I'd consider it a minor hit at 34.

T shirt has so far peaked at 37....

"...and Migos' "T-Shirt," from Culture, vaults 37-19."
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7678133/hot-100-ed-sheeran-shape-of-you-zayn-taylor-swift-surge-to

I was replying to J0rdan's "there's a long phenomenon of songs having short bursts of chart relevancy at the very beginning of their life cycles going back to itunes sales getting incorporated into chart data" - the point being that such long phenomenas are changing so that the past might not be the best way of assessing what will happen to a song like T-Shirt. Also, the weeknd is a strange point of comparison since his chart success largely derives from him catering to the old business model of letting the label take care of the marketing, writing songs for radio etc etc. He's not playing the Migos game.

no, what's changing is that songs that should have been bigger are getting more attention, but it doesn't change songs artificially launched into the top cf 'timmy turner' or 't-shirt'...per rtc tho yes t shirt is better than timmy turner

if t-shirt had come pre- bad & boujee, it would not be a hit

'say sum' is more of a hit than 't shirt' it just had the bad fortune to come before the colossus that is 'bad & boujee'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ16egvquKE

Also, the weeknd is a strange point of comparison since his chart success largely derives from him catering to the old business model of letting the label take care of the marketing, writing songs for radio etc etc. He's not playing the Migos game.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2:53 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also you're kidding yourself if you think migos aren't 'writing songs for radio'

Well good luck with your alternative facts, deej. Every song comes out after another song. And Migos are writing the same type of songs that they always did about the same subject matter. That they do it better than on their last album and have developed their pop sensibilities quite a bit does not make Culture comparable to Starboy, sorry. Radio plays Bad & Boujee because it is already a hit but B&B was not written for radio and radio didn't make it a hit in the first place.

What's "artificial" about the streaming charts though? Those are the songs listeners actively seek out, unless you want to make an argument about playlists like Rap Caviar "skewing" the stats.
As mentioned above, today T-Shirt is at number 7 on the US spotify chart: https://spotifycharts.com/regional/us/daily/latest How does that not reflect its actual popularity?

They should have put cocoon on the album though.

agree its obv not another breakthru full spectrum cultural moment like 'b&b' but no one was rly claiming that either

"songs artificially launched into the top" there is a fine diff between zeitgeist and hypebeast and u know this... both distortive but only one is artificial

i might add by the by that it actually sounds awesome on the radio but i suppose the relevance of that depends on what radio is being discussed

wait why does streaming numbers not count into what is a hit?

isn't that the dominant form of music listening now?

if you search for "Migos" on apple music and tap on Bad and Boujee (probably why ppl are searching for Migos atm) then T-Shirt will start auto-playing after it finishes

if that happens on at least one other service, we know at least the first ten seconds of T-Shirt will be a hit because it takes a sec to hit the back button

mama told me that streaming don't work, one-hit wonder just like Truth Hurts

testing this on alexa

wo wo wo wo

ah the good uzi verse nice to enjoy it

so far the tracklist from asking alexa to "play migos" (via spotify) is
1 bad n boujee
2 hit juug

lol?

ive asked alexa to play migos prob 5 times and ive never heard this song before

3 thank u god

maybe she thinks its time to mix it up

4 free offset freestyle

sounds like a bad font

5 what u doin feat gucci

ok im gonna skip songs til i hear tshirt

ok weve got our second culture song at 6 kelly price

listening to call casting at 17

:) i like this song a lot its cool

ok its playing thank u god again whatever ive got things 2 do, seems random except the first song, shd look at their api seem what the options are

my alexa is bad & boujee

"kelly price" was the other one that sounded like a huge hit in waiting to me, as well as "t-shirt"

I heard "T-Shirt" this morning on 99 JAMZ after J. Cole and it was like stepping into a room stinking of good weed after leaving one full of school kids farting.

evocative

be real was j. cole rapping about his farts

wait why does streaming numbers not count into what is a hit?

isn't that the dominant form of music listening now?

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:17 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i remember this board taking a very different position on this back in the kreayshawn era when it would have counted for something

but oh billboard hadn't told you it was ok to think it was a hit yet

I miss the days when we could all rally together about kreayshawn

lol i remember this board taking a very different position on this back in the kreayshawn era when it would have counted for something

Kreayshawn Street Time will never die

oh fuck TEAM

goddammit sorry everyone

Here ya go... when "t-shirt" crosses the 57 million youtube view rubicon i will consider myself defeated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4

i would watch that but billboard just told me its ok to have lunch so ima do that

"Gucci Gucci" has 56.73M views over 5.5 years
"T-Shirt" has 25.88M views over 1 month

Fake views, not a hit

I'm the "gucci gucci" uploader. Youtube keeps deleting it, this is the tenth time I've uploaded it. It's actually at 1.2 billion views.

oh god i already regret opening this pandoras box

no youtubes didn't get views as big back then

99% of gucci gucci's views were from the year it was a hit, as it is with many many songs

im glad you guys like t-shirt so much

gucci mane's lemonade has only 31 million views over 8 years i guess it wasn't a hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Q4s_ZdvAQ

US Billboard Hot 100 53
US BillboardHot R&B/Hip-Hop 15
US Billboard Rap Songs 8

US Billboard Hot 100 57
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop 62
US Billboard Rap Songs 18

is either of these a "hit" or nah

comparing pre- and post- streaming rule billboard charts is a fool's game

those numbers are Gucci Gucci and Lemonade lol

wait deej:

kreayshawn's youtube views prove that youtube views are a metric of a song being a "hit"

but gucci's low youtube views prove that youtube views are NOT a metric of a song being a "hit"

do i have that right?

I think he was saying kreayshawn was also a hit earlier, but it's hard to determine what stance he is very correct on, here

itt: people who haven't realized that arguing with deej is as productive as it was arguing with geir

rain drops
drop tops
ELO's Jeff Lynne with the mop top

so hard to guess a hit these days

anyway, we all agree it's not a great song?

It's a great song.

For the record, I always thought Gucci Gucci was a hit and got into many an argument with trad.rap people who argued that if I thought so I must be a hipster, making my opinion null and void.

those were the days

kreayshawn's youtube views prove that youtube views are a metric of a song being a "hit"

but gucci's low youtube views prove that youtube views are NOT a metric of a song being a "hit"

do i have that right?

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1:57 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more & more people began using streaming as time passed, youtube in 2009 got less views than in 2011, and by 2013 both were going to have a lower chart position than anything released after once streams were incorporated into chart position. At which point, there was some much needed adjusting cf records like black beatles & bad & boujee jumping higher in the charts, as well as ridiculous overcompensation / game-playing, cf timmy turner.

obviously 't-shirt' is a better song than timmy turner but it also is relatively minor compared w/ the song that brought them back, and is benefitting greatly from its success & the perceived migos comeback

obviously 't-shirt' is a better song than timmy turner

eh

I just listened to T-Shirt and it was catchy

Timmy Turner sounds like an intro or coda for another song but is ok

timmy turner is bad which is why designerr was thrown in the ocean

ok i am examining the spotify api and i didnt find anything about how they select tracks when u play an artist but check out these diff musical qualities theyve isolated https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/object-model/#audio-features-object

my fav is def either speechiness or valence

he was reaching for a burner / he fell into the ocean / now he get no emotion

What is real frog eyes?

and I'm loving all races, hell nah don't discriminize
drinkin' on clean, sanitize
ostritch seats with the frog eyes
http://68.media.tumblr.com/993fb6293a0927f39134b62bb9d5e6eb/tumblr_mqk46kbJWC1qiw9xho10_1280.jpg

scuse me while i kiss frog guys

does it matter whether or not the song is a hit if it owns? because...it owns

culture is for the culture

Apparently, you only think it owns. In deejality you only like it because of the hype.

lol i have not seen the music video; i just checked out the new migos album when i saw it on apple music's new music section, wa-boom

XXXXpost - thanks for clarifying frog eyes

i listened to this song walking to lunch, it felt so good to be listening to this infectious, relevant hit song on my earbuds, exchanging knowing smiles with people passing by, knowing they were also enjoying "T-Shirt" on this brisk winter's day

hahaha

amazing that a month into the year we already have the biggest hit song of 2017 in "T-Shirt"

today my boss stopped by my desk and asked if i liked the smash hit song tshirt and said i was fired if i didnt

I heard "T-Shirt" coming from seven cars in a row today!

I hope you took their license plates so you can track them down three months from now to see what they're playing then

When I got home from work today, my kid told me he had seventeen five but needed a ride up to KMart to pick out a matching shirt.

What color?

Just kidding; I, like everyone else in America, know all the words and reference points to our new national anthem, which is the amazing smash hit song "T-Shirt" by Migos.

Let us not forget that "T-Shirt" is etched onto the gold record on the Voyager space probe and will outlast human civilization.

genuinely hope you guys troll me hard enough that this ends up on some year end lists like a 2017 big boi solo album

Here we were worried about attracting new ppl onto the board, when clearly ILX has about 25 million lurkers atm

the trick I was supposed to meet tonight dropped me b/c I wasn't going to wear a t-shirt :(

i figured it would get excluded from year-end polls to give some other songs a chance.

lmao this thread is amazing

cotton/poly blend?

"'T-Shirt' by Migos completes the work that I set out to do so many years ago. It is, in many ways, the Lebron James of songs." -- DJ Kool Herc, founding father of hip hop

I just love that these dudes are from Lawrenceville. My people.

good thread

and people said this kind of thing keeps n00bs from joining. ... probably the only draw we have left

deej draws the heat so the youngsters don't have to

all about that world of young people

pretty crazy to think abt how old 'world of young ppl' is as a running joke now that im an old

i think that it's more that you've maintained a self-aggrandizing, pompous "internet personality" since you were in your teens and now the drapes match the carpet.

... why are we ragging on D-40's pubes, this is not the turn I expected this thread to take

same color t-shirt (white)

what made "my world of young people" funny was that you were already an old

hmm no i think it was mostly just the phrase itself

i stand by my use in that context fwiw ... i was just saying anecdotally what my experience was apart from the board

and nah i was in my mid 20s or some shit when i said that

i think that it's more that you've maintained a self-aggrandizing, pompous "internet personality" since you were in your teens and now the drapes match the carpet.

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, February 9, 2017 11:51 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're so mad! lol

that is an an insanely terrible post but i think its best if we just dont talk about it

i think that it's more that you've maintained a self-aggrandizing, pompous "internet personality" since you were in your teens and now the drapes match the carpet.

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, February 9, 2017 11:51 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://worldwide.bose.com/productsupport/assets/images/articles/home_entertainment_systems/u321ii_pause_button.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDk6Zqfenhs

not so much that i'm mad as that you're a huge dick. but keep the hits coming!

plz stop talking abt deejs junk

if thread stays this gay, migos is gonna call it "wack"

It's only wack if we didn't always acknowledge how gay we were, or tried to sell molly while gay

rain drop
drop top
in an ass i'll never lose a cough drop

............

i'm missing something i think

matt, check the TMI thread for "cough drop"

the thread with cough drop in the title, even

er, yeah, what he said

This serves as a good reminder that there is no such thing as a harmless pubes joke.

it's a shame, deej's pubes aren't supposed to divide us, rather bind us together as a closely knit group of "T-Shirt" fans :(

boy that sentence was a bad time for my dyslexia to kick in.

Apparently, Anna Wintour thinks it's a hit. They said so on the internet.

how tf did it take two days for someone to bring up the awful homophobic shit these guys said

it is truly horrible that they said gays cant be drug dealers then immediately apologized

someone really needs to push this and call them on the andy milonakis line

I still laugh at this Noisey exchange where these fronted like they don't watch TV when they're rapping about Andy Milonakois

You guys ever watch The Wire?
Q: Nah we don’t really watch TV like that.
T: We just stick to the music 24/7.

There’s a whole thing about abandoned houses on the show so I figured i’d ask.
Q: (nods)

"You guys ever watch The Wire?" is the most Noisey.com question ever asked to a group of black people

its a good exchange, cultural sharing

gay people should only ever rap about being gay, obviously.

did manoken even rap about being some tuff guy trapper, wasnt he just talking about selling molly in the club or whatever

generic molly rap, some real dickhole oriented opportunities there that he didn't even try to grab. sad.

is this the national anthem yet

someone really needs to push this and call them on the andy milonakis line

― lag∞n, Friday, February 10, 2017 2:58 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i was trying to sell a skeptical friend on migos and referenced being amused by a quatrain that had both klay thompson and andy milonakis in it

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I want that El Guapo shirt.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Everybody loves a t-shirt

im impressed i was able to get 6 others on board.

https://vine.co/v/5nh6HXgXmvg

plays in my head every time i see deej drop that new fuego take. nvr change

my takes are impeccable

"T-shirt" sinks back down to 26 this week.

I think "minor hit" is the end result and, sadly, I don't think this is enough evidence to dunk on deej

I believe in u "T-Shirt" by Migos don't give up!!!!!

btw Whiney I liked your review & particularly weaving a Meshuggah ref. into a Migos review was :) and pmvic

aw thx

"T-shirt" sinks back down to 26 this week.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:28 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(

T-shirt is #10 in USA (spotify) and Anguilla (itunes). There's hope.

Make "T-Shirt" Great Again

this song is good to start with and this thread elevated it

I think "minor hit" is the end result and, sadly, I don't think this is enough evidence to dunk on deej

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:30 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

minor hit basically means deej was right imo

I'm just impressed that songs like t-shirt do so well in the mainstream US charts. It's at number 82 here and Bad & Boujee didn't enter the top 30.

this isn't the time to throw in the towel! GET INVOLVED. DO SOMETHING. GET ON SPOTIFY. LISTEN TO T-SHIRT.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to stop listening to the Migos' hit song 'T-Shirt.'” - DJ Khaled

inspirational, thank u brother

https://s1.postimg.org/qw0fdxlfz/t_shirt_on_repeat.jpg

just ordered a Migos t-shirt. No kidding.

1995
2005
I seen it with my eyes
"T-Shirt" still alive

this is a matter of national security; play "t-shirt" at all opportunities

looool

i hope no one forgot to listen to "t-shirt" by atlanta rap group migos today

call your representatives and tell them to listen to "t-shirt" by migos

http://www.tubereplay.com/replay.php?tqr=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1VUa99-tJqs&Submit=Replay

I heard the national anthem "T-Shirt" by Francis Scott Quavo in a really normie gay pub the other night

lmao @ "francis scott quavo"

haaa

stars and bars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpV0dO00NUw

does Chief Keef rap on beat

https://twitter.com/BoyThatRant/status/829554728069533697

today i listened to t-shirt and thought "i really am in this moment"

Atlanta Rap Trio Inspires “T-Shirt” Fashion Trend

Atlanta (AP) – From Beatle boots to the dressed-down “grunge” look of the 1990s, musicians have often inspired trends in the fashion business. The latest of these fads comes in the wake of the Atlanta rap trio Migos and their hit song “T-Shirt,” which has now topped the charts in over 56 countries worldwide.

The t-shirt is a style of unisex fabric shirt – generally made of cotton – with short sleeves, a crew or v-neck collar that often sport colorful graphics featuring popular phrases or imagery from movies, music, television or professional sports teams. Until now, the t-shirt has been an underground phenomenon, but thanks to Migos the once lowly garment is suddenly everywhere.

From soccer moms to millennial urban “hipsters,” there’s a t-shirt for everyone – and everyone appears to be getting in on the craze. It’s definitely set to be the fashion fad of summer 2017. And, while the chorus of Migos’ “T-Shirt” exclaims “17-5 [slang for $17,500 - Ed.], same color t-shirt”, you won’t have to pay nearly that much; most t-shirts retail from $15 to $30. Affordable and stylish? That’s the kind of “Culture” trend we can all get behind.

truly a cultural moment

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5IuqwCUMAAvhA0.jpg

lol at ellen with the hamiltons

The t-shirt is a style of unisex fabric shirt – generally made of cotton – with short sleeves, a crew or v-neck collar that often sport colorful graphics featuring popular phrases or imagery from movies, music, television or professional sports teams. Until now, the t-shirt has been an underground phenomenon, but thanks to Migos the once lowly garment is suddenly everywhere.

lmao

culture is for the culture

these jokes have ran their course for the culture

debatable tbh

I'm looking for the thread where we discuss Migos, 'T-Shirt'. Is this it?

No, this is the one where we discuss whether or not forks can put it in a playlist.

hi dog latin, glad you're enjoying "t-shirt"!

what's your favorite part?

i like
woah
kemo-sabe
chop-per
point-ed
at ya
nog-gin

I listened to "T-Shirt" today. It's far from my favorite song on Culture but we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

i love the cadence on takeoff's "talkin country grammar, n**ga, straight out north atlanta!" line; it's an unremarkable line prima facie but the delivery is *kisses fingers*

otm

43 -> 37 -> 19 -> 26 -> 29

couldn't help but hear that number sequence in migos flow

43, 37
THIRTY SEVEN
19, 26, 29
TWENTYSIXTWENTYNINE

heard t-shirt on the radio this morning

ugh I am so sick of hearing t-shirt everywhere

I'm not! :)

MTV's Meaghan Garvey gets it:

http://www.mtv.com/news/interactive/migos-cover-story/

the month after CULTURE’s release sees temperatures across the country hit forebodingly unseasonal highs, meaning t-shirt weather for usually snowbound cities. Meanwhile, the album's second and best single, “T-Shirt,” cracks the top 20 songs of the Hot 100. Which, yes, global warming. But also: Hurricane Migos.

I'm wearing one of these T-Shirts right now!

i too am wearing a tshirt, feels great to be part of something

They're a real thing now

Migos announce that they will be musical guests on Late Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a special performance of their smash single "T-Shirt" tonight, Thursday March 23rd at 11:35 EST on NBC. "T-Shirt" has sold over 500,000 equivalent units and remains one of the top 5 songs at Urban Radio while the iconic video for the song has nabbed over 60,000,000 views on YouTube to date.

my t-shirt came in the mail, fits so good
think this innovation might be my favorite thing about this year so far

wait.. 't-shirts' are still 'a thing'??

got one too recently, can't help but think what it would be like if the fabric was a bit thicker and the sleeves longer

man don't go out like a sucker with the "long sleeve t-shirt theory," that way lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmuSqzxxUM

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Migos&ti=T-Shirt

Top 3 of 2017 so far

DNA
T-shirt
Mask Off

for longer form hip hop list, would add in good drank, bagbak, warning, tunnel vision, digging deep and [whispers]xo tour llif3[/whispers] but yeah, those are pretty unassailable

T shirt would have 15,000 streams pre bad & boujee

Top 3 of 2017 so far

DNA
T-shirt
Mask Off

― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, April 16, 2017 2:19 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Zzzz

i, too like the most recent songs on Rap Caviar

must be hard to be so cool without a t-shirt

T shirt would have 15,000 streams pre bad & boujee

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, April 16, 2017 4:59 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh I don't know I'd estimate at least 17,500

kinda feel like those last two deej posts were the moment he tipped his hand and now i'm just going to assume he's always trolling all the time and always has been and queue up amazing grace on the playlist

keef is the blue pill

t shirt, like mask off, is the recipient of a suddenly very hip hop friendly shift in chart measurement

i like this song, it is about drugs

reminds me of the famous tom cruise vehicle "the color of drugs"

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40)
Posted: April 16, 2017 at 10:12:36 PM
t shirt, like mask off, is the recipient of a suddenly very hip hop friendly shift in chart measurement

what was the change

streaming

saying DNA, mask off and t shirt are your three fav songs of 2017 is a fine but inherently and objectively boring opinion!!

*1995 voice* my favorite songs of the year are uh, tracks 6, 8, and 11 off that cd I bought

track 7 ok computer

track 7 ok computer

guys we're getting a little off topic here
numbers aren't important....what's important is the t-shirt in your hearts

lots of t-shirts with a a human heart, can't seem to find a picture of a human heart wearing a t-shirt
i sense a marketing opportunity

selfie of Quavo wearing The 1975 t-shirt

DNA already feels like an all-time banger, "Mama Said Knock You Out" level.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, April 24, 2017 8:50 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mama said knock you out was the "t-shirt" of its day

mama said knock u out is corny and so is dna

tshirt is good tho

I was telling someone about why this stepdad of an friend is in federal prison and the story involved a kilo of meth. I have no idea what that's worth, but we figured it was a lot less than coke, and T-Shirt came on the radio and I said "hmm probably not $17.5K"

'dna' fucking bangs dude

why did whiney c/p that post to this thread though?

its in his dna

https://images.lookhuman.com/render/standard/6020004242068695/3600-white-z1-t-dna-checks-itself-before-it-wrecks-itself.png

who will be the first rapper to rhyme "genetic" with "kendrick"

currently the song off their album getting the most streams week over week is "slippery" btw

https://soundcloud.com/migosatl/slippery-feat-gucci-mane

then bad & boujee

then t shirt

this is because slippery is the best song on the album

what a huge hit t-shirt has shaped up to be
surely the song of the summer

Walked past someone playing this song out of a Minirig yesterday. First time hearing it in the wild I think. (UK and old-ish here I guess)

Slippery is fantastic but Call Casting is the best song on the album imo

Deej quit cherry picking stats t shirt was top 20 worldwide on streaming 2 weeks ago above a bunch of big buzz songs I even trolled u on Twitter with a link but you didn't respond

You're swiftboating t shirt

Have heard the DC bouncebeat go-go version of "T-shirt" on the radio here a number of times now

have heard tshirt being sung before sporting events and so forth

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Deej quit cherry picking stats t shirt was top 20 worldwide on streaming 2 weeks ago above a bunch of big buzz songs I even trolled u on Twitter with a link but you didn't respond

You're swiftboating t shirt

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, June 9, 2017 6:29 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

t shirt has been the recipient of great timing w/r/t the pop charts & streaming, & the Migos career turnaround

now that things have settled back down, it's dropped beneath non-single album track. i think that says something

it says that you wear sweaters in june

T-Shirt still has twice as many streams (140k Vs 71k) as Slippery on Spotify. But hey - a third hit from the album would be nice.

got myself one of those t shirts people keep talking about
http://i.imgur.com/brFRyBf.jpg

budden pls

instant classic photo:

https://www.streetaddictz.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Joe-Budden-Migos.jpg

complex positioning Budden as the Skip Bayless of rap is really stupid so it will probably be a wild success

this budden picture is great too
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDOmPBbXkAA1dmv.jpg

that interaction is weird dont really understand what happened

like budden seemingly unprompted declares the interview over and runs away then the migos decide they want to fight him it seems backwards

maybe they were just primed for beef w budden

akademiks was the one being a dick

akademiks and budden: rapper provokers is a p funny idea for a show

they are both extremely awful with bad opinions

budden looks more annoyed with akademiks praising them than migos, doesn't he?

agree it's weird

sorry, but which migo is the one on the left who stands up and calmly starts adjust his sleeve because that migo is smooth

Offset iirc

budden comes across ok sometimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Shirt_(Migos_song)

With 235 million YouTube views and 240 million Spotify plays as of January 2018, the popular hit "T-Shirt" by Migos has now attained more online spins than the entire catalog of San Francisco rapper Kreayshawn.

lmao

mama told youuuuuuuuu

Notable that 32 people were wrong though: was not a hit, did not go top 10.

it has "hit" right there in its wikipedia entry though

Damn forks continuing to be a complete moron

I am curious why millions of people did not stream Gucci Gucci (released: 2011) on the Apple Music app (created: 2015) the way they did “t shirt” (released: 2017)

So weird how she didn’t chart on Billboard, which started counting streams to chart position in 2013... I wonder why!!

why are we concentrating on why that quote is wrong and not the inherent wrongness and hilarity of "more streams than Kreayshawn" being a wiki-worthy thing

I smell an ilxor in the wiki

yeah that is 100% deej bait

“T shirt” and “mask off” charting over magnolia on pazz and jop is further evidence for the prosecution imo

Why are we concentrating on a trolling wiki edit when
Notable that 32 people were wrong though: was not a hit, did not go top 10.

― paulhw, Monday, January 22, 2018 12:32 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

according to the rules as outlined by Whiney... deej otm.

It was a hit by the only metric that counts: everybody in the club sings along with it whenever you play it out.

It also ranked #52 on Billboard’s songs of 2017 chart, two notches below mi gente, fwiw.

truly deej has found his truth
but will he ever find a t-shirt? time will tell.

I think "minor hit" is the end result and, sadly, I don't think this is enough evidence to dunk on deej

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:30 AM (eleven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't think you've seen the wiki yet whiney.

also, love this three-way P+J tie, it means.... something....

27 (tie). Black Thought, #Freestyle087. , 12

Migos, “T-Shirt”, Quality Control/300/Atlantic, 12

Kamasi Washington, “Truth”, Young Turks, 12

who did the wiki edit? come clean, too funny

So Culture II is 105 minutes long...

not long enough

oh shit, it's out! And it's mahoosive

wow new album already ? I had no idea !
that might deserve a new thread, no ?

deej in fairness you did say this

when "t-shirt" crosses the 57 million youtube view rubicon i will consider myself defeated

New album is very long, yes, but also surprisingly good in a low key way.

"surprisingly" ?

who on earth wants 105 minutes from these dudes?! give us your best 40 and call it good.

Surprisingly as in - I wasn’t blown away by Supastars, the vibe is pretty samey all the way through, but I found myself loving it nonetheless.

ah ok. I will give it a try later on today but I really like "stir fry" so far.

Bit daunted by a double-length. I really loved Culture but rarely listened all the way through. That said, Culture II so far is really really catchy and immediate so maybe?

It’s a vibe.

lmao holy shit at the length. I assume they'll trim it down for a physical release (if they bother with one).

I like the panache of releasing such a mammoth !
that said, it's only the equivalent of a double CD album.

There's way too many songs on it produced by Quavo, lol. But in hindsight, it seems like the inevitable bloated follow-up to a lean masterpiece, and then it might as well be as bloated as can be. Enough good stuff on it to be worthwhile, but it's no Without Warning.

Culture is "lean" only by comparison lol, it's an hour long!

can't get into this one today . gonna give it another try over the weekend

wow "stir fry" is horrible

a trend I really don't like is artists overloading their albums to goose streaming numbers. More tracks = more streams = better chart position, but worse listening experience

I mean, I guess they realize that people are just gonna cherrypick the tracks they like, so why not improve your chances at a surprise hit by releasing everything you've ever recorded

heard a rumour that nobody forces you to listen to it all in one go

Are they really saying "G.I. Jew" on "Autopilot"?

I remember that one from being a kid in Florida in the Eighties iirc

looking at the tracklists for culture and culture 2 the songs are pretty long lots of 4:30s and 5:00s

ive listened to culture all the way through a lot of times and just learned itt that its an hour long always kind thought of it as short lol

yeah same

anyway a long album is cool with me more tunes man

unless this album is exceptional (and who knows, maybe it is but I haven't scratched the surface yet), the length isn't going to do them many favours I think. Sure it's not the first double-length hip hop album, but it's not like there's a conceptual reason to do an epic like this

Culture seams leaner because it only has 13 tracks and apart from Dj Khaled no, like, intros or skits or stuff like that. What I wrote was meant to be a joke about Without Warning, though ;)

god i hated that khaled intro the whole album has such a soft nice sound except for the beginning that has this very annoying man yelling extremely aggressively

yeah i hate it too. always skip it if i can.

i hate the term 'fuckboy' too

yup

heard a rumour that nobody forces you to listen to it all in one go

― palace of swears reversed (Noodle Vague), Friday, January 26, 2018 11:01 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like listening to albums in one go

the rumors isnt true you have to actually

wow "stir fry" is horrible

no way

i guess you can have your own thoughts and opinions but i have no idea how you could disrespect yourself by enduring that production

Stir Fry is okay but I find the hook frustratingly unsatisfying, like it's not quite been thought-through enough or like it's not really finished off. Motorsport sounds like the whole of the Culture album at once

i really like stir fry but i fully understand why someone wouldn't

im having a real hard time getting alexa to play this album

unless this album is exceptional (and who knows, maybe it is but I haven't scratched the surface yet), the length isn't going to do them many favours I think. Sure it's not the first double-length hip hop album, but it's not like there's a conceptual reason to do an epic like this

― Badgers (dog latin), Friday, January 26, 2018 11:19 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the entire conceptual suite will become clear when they release Culture III and it's three hours long

also Brad otm, thought maybe I was being too hasty, but Stir Fry is bad

"Supastars" sounds great on first listen

wow "stir fry" is horrible

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, January 26, 2018 9:49 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank you. So mediocre

Alexa play generic migos flows over generic Neptunes beats

“Playing ‘stir fry’”

Ahah 3h long Culture III !

So far (almost halfway), I enjoy it.
The beats and production seem more varied than on Culture.

Woo there’s even a slow jam !

24 tracks is a bit much
I would have been happy with 17 and an intro

too much jewelry is hilariously maximalist, can't decide whether i love or hate the vocoder at the end, but that's the highlight for me so far.

"stir fry" reminds me of

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

like a boring version of power yeah

album is not great

migos were never meant to be an album group.

"Stir Fry" is inoffensive imo

this isn't really grabbing me
ban 51 Savage he's such a drag

migos were never meant to be an album group.

― fgti spinner (Spottie), Saturday, January 27, 2018 2:45 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

culture is a good album!

it has some good songs yeah.

lol

culture has like 10 good songs

ymmv

i think my favorite tracks on both cultures are the ones featuring tity boi

negative points for working with the non rapper post malone

ban 51 Savage he's such a drag

― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:47 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ 51 savage

this is a fantastic album & I think it's even more listenable than Culture

yeah i think i like it a lot.

ok, y'all might be right about Stir Fry

https://youtu.be/5GUc4FewMjk

i mean, i still like the song, but that shit is so embarrassing

christ

i really like stir fry, i think it's fun

'stir fry' = extended sequel to 'bon appetit'

woof at the animoji video

do u think its really them

yeah, "stir fry" is not great or anything but it's cool and fun in an old skool way (and it's nice to have a different kind of beat from their usual trap variations. Which is one of the things I enjoy in this album, the diversity in the production).

that animoji video blates isn't anything to do with Migos is it?

The beat in stir fry is great, the hook not so much

yeah the song doesn't really go anywhere, just a loop.

It’s amazing how much of a magnifying glass people will put to this music to me

do u think its really them

― lag∞n, Monday, January 29, 2018 12:20 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol no, but im already sick of these animoji videos, disappointed me to see (another) song I like in one of them

the production on this one feels a lot more.. I dunno, 3D? Shinier? Not sure about the flows so much. Lots of repetition and not as weird as what I've come to expect from Migos. It's going to take a few listens though

i really like stir fry, i think it's fun

― J0rdan S., Sunday, January 28, 2018 6:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is correct

this album is good. it's overly long and you could lose a bunch of songs but that's a pretty common thing with long albums

i really like the "51 savage" song too.

do u think its really them

― lag∞n, Monday, January 29, 2018 12:20 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol no, but im already sick of these animoji videos, disappointed me to see (another) song I like in one of them

― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, January 29, 2018 1:14 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wldve been more legit if it were them

would've been more legit if there were migos emojis that i could animate and send to friends with my awesome remix of versace

now were talking

Would have been more legit if it was a Chief Keef-made gif of a teenage girl getting raped by a dog smoking a blunt, obv.

woah kemosabe

As you should know by now, anything originating w keef = more legit, authentic and worth putting a magnifying glass to than anything else.

we should definitely look into that thing he did that you just invented

keef is well known for uh making gifs and also uhh that other stuff...

I can name 40 current rappers I think stand up to scrutiny better than migos as album artists and keef is one of them sure

Not sure what that joke (?) meant tho

Reading into this as being about “authenticity” is 100% your projection tho

somebody woke up feeling fiesty

Everything is a joke at this point. deej never liked the Migos and never will. deej always loved keef and always will. Other people have different opinions but none of them will ever count, just because.

Culture 2 isn’t a great album, but I like it a good deal. Maybe because I like the Migos. Or perhaps because the Migos are pretty good at what they do.

I'd probably agree that MIgos aren't really 'album artists' and Culture II is showing that, but that doesn't change the fact that Culture happened to be by far the best rap album of last year, and Culture II is pretty good as well.

I thought Deej liked Migos????
i'm v confused

i do like migos, ppl are butthurt for no reason

i'm v sad no one liked my horribly formed "joke"

24 tracks is a bit much
I would have been happy with 17 and an intro

― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, January 27, 2018 8:13 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Deej wrote the column «how excited can you really get about the migos?» in 2014 and never looked back.

https://medium.com/@daviddrake/how-excited-can-you-really-get-about-the-migos-facc03454387?source=linkShare-7c19a9696f9-1517258169

Which is... fine I guess. It just gets a bit tiresome after a while.

that article isn't saying i dont like the migos....?

Okay okay, so you «like» the migos. Well done.

fwiw im not the only one pushing against migos monomania here ppl have gotten absurd about it

Son said Migos > G-Unit terms of success. What success are we measuring here? G-Unit Records? G-Unit Films? G-Unit clothing? G-Unit video games? Please help me out.

— Ice (@OfficiallyIce) January 29, 2018

that should show son

Migos mixtape for after you get hardsonned

migos can get back to me when they've got their own video game series

http://www.mobygames.com/images/promo/original/1480535474-1343739158.jpg

g-unit films is not really an album artist

i watched the movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' the other day I forgot somehow they got Jim Sheridan to direct that!

sorry, rescreened it

i don't think deej is wrong for questioning the attention that ppl put into the migos who are competent and formulaic and such could easily leave one cold -- the problem is that they're objectively popular and so the answer is a tautology

not sure if you guys have discussed this or not but iirc they are bigger than the beatles

i have heard many times on twitter that they are bigger and also better than the beatles to i assume its prob true

jordan otm -- popular artist is given attention because they're popular

The thing about Culture is that it's 'formulaic' only insofar as it dugs into the very essence of it's genre and stays there. It's such a pure sonic distillation of what they do, triplets, quarter notes, slow beats, ad libs, without anything to disturb the magic. No personal pain as with Future, no outsized personality like Young Thug, not really any melodies, no distracting narratives, everything is just moment to moment clashes of sounds, differing intensities. Vince Staples claimed he was inspired by club music on Big Fish Theory, but to my mind it was Culture that made rap sound like dance music, all about movement. I freaking love that album. I think I've said it before, but to me it's forerunners are albums like Funcrusher Plus.

i love migos idc they have a strong sound, i dont know if competent and formulaic is any sort of current consensus on them but its kinda interesting contrasted to the opinion on them when they first came out which was technically deficient novelty act, smh cant get no respect

any more thoughts on Culture II? Still don't feel like I've scratched the surface properly. It sounds at once poppier but also less immediate to its predecessor. I like 'Made Men' quite a lot but a lot of the songs kind of drag a bit?

About half of the tracks are at least good to very good, but it all still feels like just a bunch of songs. There's no thought to it. Just another day on the job. Two weeks later they probably could have released an equally long and equally good album. Which tells you something about how nice they are even when they're on autopilot, I guess. But it's mostly frustrating.

haven't revisited it in full, but i do return to some of the highlights. mostly "too much jewelry," "too playa," and "narcos."

i havent really listened to it cause when it came out i had an amazon echo in my kitchen and i cld not no matter what i tried get alexa to play it

some albums have "t-shirt" some don't

otm

It's the 2K10's analog to Wu-Tang Forever, right?
For lots of reasons.

what is

Culture II

what are the reasons

both doing/did well, but without the sense that they'll continue moving things forward commercially
long and sprawling albums, when compared to their breakthroughs
5 and a half minute less immediate than normal opening singles

a few parallels for sure?
Forever is certainly more highly regarded, but, that album took a minute to find its fans.

ok sure

forever is such a flawed masterpiece, like every song has a bad verse

should we start a new poll “culture ii” vs. “wu tang forever” jk culture 2 would win

otm

heh

What ARE records like Forever and Culture II? Not really New Jersey's, but... close.

Supastars is actually pretty great, btw. It’s no t-shirt but it has grown on me.

And the verses on WTF were good iirc? The problem was that they didn’t quite come together as songs, and that there weren’t many real hits.

Xpost
Culture II and Wu Tang Forever aren't New Jerseys they are Use Your Illusions, a thing I just made up

Sounds about right. Sr3mm is somehow NOT a UYI though.

Man wu tang forever is way better than this... culture ii is if wu tang forever was recorded by Das efx... migos are not young millennial wu tang I’m offended

I do agree they’re both UYA’s though

"young millennial wu tang"

finally found my rapper name thanks

migos needs more guys if they want to be wu-tang the wu had like 25 guys ghostface killer, ugly sword, the gnarly monk and so forth

and several of those guys released classic solo albums before 'wu tang forever' dropped

who can forget gnarley monk's 'surf ninjas' lp

Yeah I mean I don't think they are on Wu's level

https://i.imgur.com/2CUoH6U.png

i wonder how that's aged

Culture II and Wu Tang Forever aren't New Jerseys they are Use Your Illusions, a thing I just made up

whoa

Wasn't comparing the quality of their work!

Comparing the cultural spot they find themselves in both heading into and out of the follow-up to their breakthrough.

The new Takeoff tape is the best Migos-fronted release of the year

low bar lol

well yeah, but it is good

Have we talked ab out Culture III at all yet?

Wearing my “t-shirt” today

quavo and takeoff announced a new rap duo and offset unfollowed them both on instagram 🙀 is it possible that they are amigos no longer??

yeah

gonna be an awkward family reunion