rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

i had no idea the sremms had a crew

Yeah, wasn't familiar with this until Lex's post but I'm kind of enjoying it? This Impxct dude has a really weird voice (like Young Thug wearing a mouth guard or something) and his tracks are fire. I'd listen to a whole tape of this stuff.

Huh, shouldn't read too much into this but Slim Jimmy is on 6 of these songs and Swae Lee is only on 1

I'm kind of enjoying it too. Not sremm life level but not exactly mediocre either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_2Eo0No_k

abel teswae

rae sremmorrissey

idk it's great though

i like this one. they're pretty ambitious stylistically.

yeah. the laziest sremm song is not very lazy

great song.

i think this album will be slightly underrated to make up for the first one being slightly overrated, based on a few random temperature readings ive taken

wasn't feeling 'by chance' but this is terrific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkClJp0jSgA

god they're such cunts

what a shitty outcome for a rae sremm + lil jon song

Yeah this might be the first Rae Sremm I dislike. Stay with Mike Will, Sremm!

im ok w this just super tired of dj mustard

same ol same bassline

I've always liked these guys, until hearing this one and combined with the video I think a lot of goodwill I had for them has instantly evaporated, what a disaster

im ok w this just super tired of dj mustard

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same ol same bassline

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for real

i don't mind the beat i just think the hook is really boring & useless

game recognize game

"Chinchilla hella furry!"

New album is awesome. Less consistent than the first but stronger overall imo. Their songwriting is so good. Their best books don't feel "borrowed" to me any more

guess they can afford not to go the librarrurd

when u say borrowed in inverted commas i'm guessing u just mean the writing has greater complexity (= borrows more intricately) and so deepens their idiosyncracy? cos (ignoring the precocity/ghosting gossip obv) i don't think it's ever really felt like something not theirs or artificially overlaid

Lol *hooks obv

Nah it's that the biggest hooks on album tracks (safe sex / pay checks and this could be us) both reminded me explicitly of songs by Ty Dolla and blackalicious (lol autocorrected to "blac malicious") respectively, to a degree that was distracting, regardless if they even were intentionally borrowed. (Unbearably A Boogie is recycling the blackalicious melody again)

those two were often used as arguments for the depth of their Pop bench beyond the singles--and they need that Pop bench bc despite obvious skill as lyricists they are fairly one-D as personalities (which is fine, they just love or die by pop's tools). This yes deepens their music in a way that hides influences but also there's just no record that uses found-hook-sound so blatantly like older ones to me

I liked the first Rae sremmurd a lot but felt little depth of attachment, via auteurist Magic I'm now coming around

that's interesting to me for historical white post-rap-college-nerd-white reasons. blackalicious, really?

'safe sex' and 'this could be us' are the definitive tracks from the album, with the best hooks? no

the other 9 tracks are full of auteurist magic, this exaggeratedly fatal "distraction" p much seems like u just feel more comfortable splaining them now they levelled up from sl1 enchanter to sl2 mage

can't wait til some pfork nerd arrives to tell us which smiths song gift of dab and chief xtendo are interpolating on 'black beatles'

Well that they leveled up is kind of my point

It's not like I was down on them on the record or something, I'm expressing my earlier reticence ex post facto

Speaking of auteur magic I quite like this as Swae Lee's evil twin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Cy-CsszhU

oh good -- Sunday morning listening!

Five tracks into number 2 and it's pretty flawless, so far. They aren't the hyperenergetic pixies that they were on the first Sremmlife but the darker tone suits them, they're still having a lot of fun and the beats still bang (Black Beatles goddamn).

If the second half can keep this momentum up, I can't imagine listening to anything else for the next month or so.

this album is incredible

The fun stuff still bangs, the darker/somber stuff works and somehow these two have still never recorded a flat-out bad song

Take It Or Leave It is basically a good version of White Iversons lol

this album rules

Black Beatles has so many little hooks, the ad-libs are perfection. listened to it like 3 times and have the whole thing m/l memorized

been listening for three days. "Black Beatles" and "Real Chill" are my jams.

Whats the sample on BB? sounds super obvious and its on the tip of my brain but can't quite place it

"I Am The Walrus," iirc

no way they paid for a beatles sample lol

Yes, that was a joke.

The beat reminds a little bit of "Letter" from the Kodak Black album: https://youtu.be/bZbj4x6RzIU

I can't understand ppl thinking the new one is a falloff

I can see some giving a slight edge to the first

i find the sound considerably more engaging throughout this

This is not a response to this thread more the ppl who have decided this one isn't as good as the first as if it's some kind of verified truth

I'm calling them about even for now

"chinchilla hellafurry"

:)

as far as ATL sophomore albums given an iffy reception by a fickle audience, it's somewhere below BOATS II and above Triple F Life.

lol, that's otm

i purposely restrained myself from overdosing on 'look alive' when the video/single came out so that i could jam the hole album front to back without skipping... strategy payed off big time

Agree BOATS II was underrated but this blows that album out of the water

From my view the album seems pretty well received though? All I'm seeing is excitement over it; where are people dismissing it?