Lollipop doesn't really sound like that at all though!
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
the thing that i think is the difference between grind mode/ball greezy/lollipop/whatever we are calling "miami sound" is the simplicity, like polow/dream stuff is just way busier (not nec in a bad way), but that's what really struck me about "i'm so high"
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Lollipop = "Low" + T-Pain
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
also spaciousness in the miami stuff
wait low has t-pain on it
Ryan Leslie I'll give you but the otehr stuff is different, it's more of a disco/rnb throwback stuff, which obviously blew up with "Sensual Seduction" but has been bubbling with a bunch of tracks that come more from RnB than they do from hip hop or crunk
"My Love" is 120 bpm in my book
aaaaannnndd "Lollipop" = some weird exception that I have not yet wrapped my head around
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
it's really cute watching you guys try to conflate about 5 different trends being followed by 50 different artists into one tidy narrative.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
so what I'm saying is "Love in this club" et al DO NOT EQUAL "miami sound"
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
why do you hate fun alex
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
alex in b'more: http://www.rondak.org/Images/publicfigs/cop4.jpg
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
wait til "Miami Vice" gets dropped as Weezy's second single (fingers crossed)...see rolling ringtone for a link
I don't think anyone's trying to squash this all into one narrative.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
-- J0rdan S., Friday, March 28, 2008 8:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
yo this was amazing
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know if I can agree with you guys painting the "miami sound" as cool and breezy - where does "i'm so hood" fit in? "the boss"? "we takin over"? hell, "drifter" is pretty intense - and isn't shawty redd from atl?
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
just cuz it comes from MIA doesnt mean it has to fit this sound we're talking about
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
guyz, it is hella snowing all of a sudden
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
but you referenced the runners as one of the creators of this sound and they produced 2 of those songs
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
where does "i'm so hood" fit in? "the boss"? "we takin over"?
yeah, this is the stuff I'm thinking of as "the Miami sound". That epic Runners/Cool & Dre sweep.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
well an i'm so hood/the boss etc are straight rap, whereas lollipop/im so high/shone are not. i wouldn't lump the ross album in with those, though that has a distinct miami sounds, but it's distinct miami rap
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
it's an actual trend that is emerging, I think, but it's not like you go to miami and all you hear is "I'm So High" or anything...that's all part of it, Rick Ross is on the remix, his album sounds like all this stuff, its a movement not a genre,it encompasses different styles
also add "All That Money" to miami sound
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
polow/dream/atl has way more of a back catalog to look at as far as r&b contemp r&b songs than does miami, which i'm only referencing as the three i brought up already
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
yea matrix otm re: all that money
yeah but they've shifted along with Shawty Redd to a more vibey sound, I mean SHawty Redd went from Jeezy's first album to "Sensual Seduction"!!! there's clearly something goin on there...
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
xp about the runners
whats "all that money"?
and I'm going to have to check out rick ross' album
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
all that money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=076BFf7Ekgs
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
it's great! xp trilla
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
one of my fave songs of the year-- i've been telling people it sounds like sensual seduction-- it just has that same vibe, really light and breezy (no vocoder though)
lots of xps: yeah, but that Miami rap sound carries over to stuff like "Lollipop" (haha I forgot T-Pain was on there, good calling me out you fucker) and "Love In the Club", not so much something like "I'm So High" (which seems to take its cues from "Sensual Seduction") and let's pretend there's some huge impenetrable barrier between rap & r&b, ffs.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah trilla is actually really good-- idk why people are hating on it so much esp. after his last album got the "dont wanna like this but i do" treatment
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I should add "Driter" in too when I say "Sensual Seduction".
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
at least we can all agree that everything mentioned in this thread is better than 'american boy'
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
woah @ this dro song, damn.
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to have to hear the Rick Ross album now, too.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
yea I think the confusion is that Miami blew up as a RAP crew ie: Khaled tracks
but there is also something else going on that may or may not be influencing that rap crew
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
except for "Love in This Club" : D : D : D
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oops, wrong quote.
one mo gain
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― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
drove around LA all last week with nothing but Trilla, a Johnny Thunders comp and citizen Steely Dan disc 4...Trilla got some serious burn
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
HELLA snowing
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah trilla is gonna be rap album of the summer for me
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wau "All That Money". Seems the beat is probably more Miami Bass than anything else we've been talking about.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess there's some of that in the "Drifter"-through-"I'm So High" strain.
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
if dro releases "all that money" as a single its going top 10
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I would politely disagree with that, but I'll be hoping you're right cuz dro is my ninja
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah its wishful thinking but it should be number one summer jam imo, and he has name recognition at least
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
have you guys heard the "touch my body" remix with ross and the-dream? it's massive.
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
StayGDUp109 (5 days ago) +10 Reply | Spam u shoulda put a pic of mariah carey not rick ross fat ass lol
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 March 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm kinda tempted to agree with whoever said the trance influence is > than the snap/crunk in R&B upthread even if those two are on the remix, because I have no been feeling this Mariah song....is it a club song?? I don't get it...
dl'ing the remix now though
― Preview of the Matrix 12, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
walruses are hawt
― The Reverend, Friday, 28 March 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link