rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

i saw a stripper dance to "silent lucidity" by queensryche once

dayo otm

Nicki is supposed to sound bored! That's the conceit!

Every time I've heard a radio dj say their name (which is twice) they have made a point of explaining that it is ear drummers backward

― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Thursday, December 18, 2014 1:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love how media pretends like everyone is dumb as fucking shit and didn't realize this within like the first four seconds of seeing their name

that's discriminatory whiney

i didn't realise it until 'dranreb ywons'

fully thought this was a female name. like a scandinavian one or something

*emoticon where the person is waving their arms like idk yo*

left yall the open zing goal obv

i didn't realize it until now

i always thought it was "drummers ear,"like swimmers ear or something

I esteem the word sremmurd, it is truly beautiful, but I prefer it without the 'sh' sound which also turns the drummers ear thing into sean connery

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/F81021FC-9344-4E63-8082-E7D3CDF00A58_zpsddfkcxo4.jpg

https://www.thefader.com/2014/12/29/stream-rae-sremmurd-debut-album

idk i like some of these beats but some better choruses plz

like unlock the swag is toxic no thanks

^ ronglife

would have been 100% perfect but for the safe sex psa finale (maybe the big sean one too)

so excellent tho. 'this could be us'!

i couldn't find this stream on uk itunes?

i don't even hate the safe sex finale, it's quite sweet

really good album! the beats are so excellent. not disappointed at all

thumbs up to my itunes for segueing into "one touch" as a bonus track

who here has the best Rae Sremmurd name? I'm pretty happy with La Yelpihs but Divad Ekard is fire.

Diva D!

Xela Nosrehpcam starts off well but descends badly

happy bday La Yelpihs btw

La Yelpihs sounds like a supergroup of female indie vocalists

Mine just sounds Hawai'ian

Vote in the poll btw guys NO (choose one): FLEX ZONE | TYPE

noslen darb motherfuckers

sounds like some kind of post dilla / flying lotus affair

Star Wars 7 character

"llebpmac" might be the worst backwards surname possible

this album <3

Fucked up thing to call darragh xp

not feeling these dudes at all, do i need to permanently retire my part-time goon credentials?

i couldn't even begin to pretend to like this garbage, kudos to y'all

much appreciated gab gnipeels

kind of obsessed with this right now. come get her is perfect

these two are basically tweens. fine for a song like no flex zone but really awkward and weird when they start rapping about sex. "safe sex pay checks" is some kind of questionable nickelodeon song

they're both in their 20s

i know. everything about them seems young though. like the skate-video thing in the no flex zone video. plus their faces

except the parts where they reference Kool Moe Dee and Magilla Gorilla like they went to junior high with 2 Chainz

Uaerraj Eneerg :(

Dnerever Srallod is way better and more Sremm-like

I like Safe Sex Pay Checks a lot, actually. More sceptical about the slightly dated/generic sounding My X, mostly due to Chop.

"my x" is sort of mean-spirited in a way that jars with what they're like elsewhere, if there's a weak link then it's def it

don't get what's off-putting about teen rap even if they were teenagers

hundred
dollar
bills

The chorus of “Safe Sex Pay Checks” is a complete lift of Alley Boy/Ty$'s "RNGM" but maybe that's why I like it so much

like unlock the swag is toxic no thanks

No way, it's sort of perfect.

Whole album is so gleeful. Haven't heard anything so shamelessly fun in a long time. Nice to start the year with.

the beat is v similar to RNGM!

impossible not to love any song that goes 'shots shots shots shots shots shots'

noslen darb motherfuckers

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:40 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this might be the winner

it would be darb noslen in the rae sremmurd formula tho

"throw sum mo" may have underwhelmed a little as a single but it bangs in the middle of the album

this album is great

it is the rap bangerz

oh true xp

also true

it is the rap bangerz

not inaccurate in that only the singles are listenable

I was really hoping for Swae Lee to succeed, all the more so because he was one of the first US artists to try and ride the incoming afropop wave: “Unforgettable” again - which was originally recorded with post-“One Dance” Wizkid - and “Guatemala” in its wake - and “Won’t Be Late”, which had Tekno involvement).

There was also this great afro-adjacent UK remix of “Unforgettable” by producer Jae5 with J Hus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxmZNqqLRV0

i think this song is cute. kind of forgettable and low key for a comeback single, but also the moment (in general) has probably passed them by so i'm not sure our expectations will ever be met... hard to turn back the clock a half-decade plus and still feel fresh and current. but i'm happy they're back

As somebody who tends to enjoy them far more than I should, this is sort of nice. Real low-key... not gonna win anybody over... but not a mess or anything.

It seemed like they had everything lined up for a minute there prior to SR3MM bricking (relatively speaking). But then the choice of singles leading into that project were perplexing and a bit meh (i like pegasus and t'd up just fine, but did somebody think these were hits?)... the album itself was ok but felt a bit loose compared to their best work (or to the then current-ish Ransom 2). This was even before you add in the attached Slim Jxmmi record nobody has listened to since 2018 and the Swae Lee record which felt mostly like him rambling over chill grooves. Powerglide ruled though!

“Powerglide” was awesome, yeah, but I am not sure if I was more into Sremm or Mike WiLL on the first two albums. “Throw Sum Mo” and “By Chance” probably my faves.

Same. "By Chance" is great.

Feel like they both hit a wall (commercially at least) by 2018 or so. Like, they lost some sort of energy or something.
Still some decent tracks, but nothing undeniable after that.

i'm not sure rae sremmurd/mike will lost anything so much as rap started to move away from melody/pop songwriting and towards harder, lyrical, street style rap. out of sheer popularity rap music charts as pop music right now but artists like lil durk, lil baby, gunna, moneybagg yo, polo g make music that is pretty far from i.e. "no type," "black beatles" etc. you can see it too in the way that music by ppl like drake & future have evolved over the same time period.

Yeah. There was certainly a sea change post-Lil Baby/Gunna that knocked a lot of the class of '15/'16 down a few rungs.
I guess I hoped they (Sremm and Mike Will) would find a way to adapt and pivot better than they have (and like MW had done before that).
I like ridiculous just as much (more than?) the next guy, but, interpolating Elvis with Diplo probably ain't the way back to the top for Swae Lee... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6mEXWXeolk

The new album sounds fresh.

I just played “YMCA” (yes, because of its title, what of it?) and I liked it

that flaunt it - sexy - ymca run is good

I like them in general, so YMMV, but there's a lot to enjoy on the new record.
Much better than I thought it would be at this point. Thumbs up.

The main problem with Sr3mm was how unfocused it seemed: a few v high highs but a whole lot of filler. This one sounds tight and plays to their strengths.

47 minutes long? I'm here.

listening now, mostly pretty good (i had to skip "lean so cold," sheesh), especially like when they use older school sounds, like the miami bass touches that pop up in "tanisha" and "sexy" and the amen break-driven electro at the beginning of "flaunt it."

i am less interested in their straight trap stuff, they don't have the same energy and the hooks aren't so sticky. "royal flush" is good tho

ooh yeah also "mississippi slide"

Yeah. Lean So Cold is a brutal clunker coming that early in the record.

i need a model right next to me, i'm talkin lisa leslie

pretty funny to me that rae sremmurd and they. dropped an album on the same day

I'm obsessed with "Flaunt It."

happy 10th anniversary

good grief

Swae Lee album is overlong and pretty casual at times (think "Up in my Cocina", "Touchscreen Navigation", etc.), but fairly enjoyable for an album that doesn't feel like it has much of a purpose. Much as RS tried to capitalize on the 10-year anniversary of BB/Mannequin challenge, it doesn't feel like the time is right just yet for people to miss them/him yet, right? That said, the new album gets a bunch of spins over here, as did Sremm4Life ("Flaunt It", "Mississippi Slide"... it has good tracks!).

Also, Spotify anniversary thingie tells me that my two most played songs are "Powerglide" and "Perplexing Pegasus", which probably says more about how excited I was for them to make something REALLY great after the second album than about the quality of those songs, but I'm not that mad at it either way.

Dip into the new record if you ever liked him/them, I guess?

i have similar feelings. will revisit the third (double) album every few years just to check if it grew into the classic i wanted from them. offshore in particular is beautiful.

new swae seemed good, not great. will listen some more