56 NIGHTS v BEAST MODE v MONSTER

after several months of m/l continuous listening to all four monster and beyond future projects, i'd say beast mode def has the most interesting production, 56 nights and DS2 are most successful at being coherent wholes and sustaining moods throughout (esp. DS2), monster has some of the highest heights and is the most emotionally resonant overall

i agree with all that actually

actually i might say beast mode is more cohesive than 56 nights

ds2 starts off great, sags a little in the middle imo, but has a really good closing stretch (fwiw i have the non-deluxe version that ends w/ blood on the money). def has a very sustained mood throughout though

Really grateful for everyone's best of upthread. I've been playing these on shuffle for a few months but I've been having mixed feelings about this stage of his work. Both Future and Young Thug seem to have left behind the fast chatting bangers (Same Damn Time, Treasure etc) and gone for this reflective, smoothed out, more consistent but ultimately less hooky sound. Listening to these favourites put into a playlist is bringing it all home though - Just Like Bruddas is fantastic, as is March Madness and several others.

No love for Thought There Was A Drought though? I love the way 'gucci flip flops' seems to drip and drop over the beat.

hooks are definitely there on all these imo, sometimes i feel like future is nothing but hooks, "nursery rhymes" for real imo

live from the gutter is nearly as good as anything on these 3 tapes imo

xp the hooks are there, but they feel more buried. not sure about nursery rhymes tbh.

xp yeah live from the gutter is really good, diamonds dancing, digital dash, i'm the plug and jersey also p great to solid cuts from the future/drake tape (which is really just a future tape that drake jumps in on a few times other than 30 for 30 freestyle)

FUTURE/FREEBANDZ @1future
Um ready to drop sum new...FBG

ummm

http://images.rapgenius.com/1e95f6ec387e3631fbf35b4e6fde231d.640x309x1.jpg
the meme that's sweeping the web

also
http://jumpman.space/

https://twitter.com/meaghan_garvey/status/659467550959509504

wrong imo

i dont agree with the ranking but liked her piece on monster quite a bit

oh yea it was great, i love garvey

wrong but the Monster piece was ace

i hear where she's coming from and appreciate her points but I just can't put the inconsistency/length of Monster ahead of something as tight and seamless as 56 Nights, despite its heights. Beast Mode? maybe.

testament to her Pitch piece, tho, that she got me going back to listen to Monster again to see if i'm wrong

whither be monster 2, I ask

bump bc we got all the other promised thanksgiving mixtapes where the hell is the future one

unless we all totally misinterpreted the "freebandz/eardrummer thanksgiving" tweet

future sitting on 55 tapes worth of material, selfish

truly hurtful

thankful for future

^^^^

wish he would stop saying crappy things about women, tho

thats art 4 u

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVADR69U8AAIiTo.png

hold up is future seriously 32 years old

i thought he was a little younger myself but yea

did you think he was older or younger?

xp to j0rdan

tho we do live in a time when 38yo kanye west is somehow an avatar of twitter youth so

yeah i assumed he was like 4-5 years younger than that

da connect album was released 12 years ago so it makes sense.

Future never had the air of a 20-year-old kid when he was coming up, it makes sense to me that he was 26-27 when he started getting famous, like Jay-Z or Nicki Minaj

def a mature individual who has lived a lot of life

did u guys see the future doppelgänger target employee

those were some good memes

haha link?

Google searches for future are kind of a pain in the ass tbh

http://pictigar.com/media/1129168940456099272_1835469750

?

fuck up some memes yeah

i serve the bargain
fuck up some coupons

i forget the rest

best future social media content was that vid of the guy and his gf sitting in the car booming a future tune out the stereo and she's looking dead at the camera totally expressionless with just her head bobbing in amazingly hypnotic fashion

does anyone know what i mean cos i can't find it now

So I like DS2 fine and should probably re listen to the mixtapes but I feel out of the loop as to why this is supposed to be another level from his earlier stuff. Even Honest which I don't like, "I Be U" is more my level than any of his current stuff.

naw, I feel p much the same

https://twitter.com/LydiaKardackson/status/647083181980676096

found it ^__^

Genuinely glad

'i be u' is a love song & more a pop song than a rap one

its probably become a meme at this pt but it doesnt surprise me that this stuff resonated more, bc it has the trappings of more autobiographical tortured soul vibe than aiming for more 'universal' vibes