CHANCE THE RAPPER

What I could do without is the muddy mixing, especially on the opening tracks.

i had just cranked it up when vocoder Kanye (?) comes in on the first track, and twice the volume of the rest of the mix.

for all the noise he's made about how free releases should be eligible for Grammys, you'd think he'd gotten have a better mixing & mastering pass on this.

also i never thought i'd hear Bieber over a Mount Kimbie sample.

there is so much jesus on this album that it made me feel physically nauseous by the end

like i'd never really connected w/chance on an emotional level and the amount of god-n-family stuff is p much why, and it's so overbearing here

lots of nice beats though but whatever i can't listen to this again

Godless Europeans smh

my firm view that christianity is a poison is informed 100% by too much, not too little, exposure to it

my firm view is that popular music as we know it literally does not exist without black church music

i'm sure you can trace the history of music further back than that, not that it's a relevant point to make

lol i'm as atheist as could but getting down on this for the gospel speak is laughable imo

could be*

why is it laughable to have a negative reaction to overbearing christianity?

I just don't see that it's overbearing. It's part of the esthetic sure.

Stare at the cue cards, take out the juke parts
Take out the God references, just leave the cool parts

i can assure you my antipathy to christianity is not because it's "uncool"

but you understand that the role of christianity is very different on chicago's south side & in its music than it may be for yourself

i didn't frame my reaction as anything other than a personal response

i think you need jesus brah

i have a real allergy to christianity which is why i have trouble with later prefab sprout records but it didn't really bother me on this record at all?

idk its so joyous and fun who cares

^^^^^

i can understand being put off by the relentless positivity, though. brainwasher (who hasn't posted on here in some time ergo i will speak on his behalf lol) told me he's more into vince staples or it resonates more w/ him, and I can understand that pov even if i like chance more; its optimism can be blinding

ideologically im probably also more aligned w/ vince's worldview but musically i much prefer chance

omg that synth bass in the chorus of "Smoke Break."

musically it feels super generous, i get really caught up in the swirl of it

omg that synth bass in the chorus of "Smoke Break."

my man

but you understand that the role of christianity is very different on chicago's south side & in its music than it may be for yourself

― Listen to my homeboy Fontana (D-40), Friday, May 13, 2016 12:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ooooooooh!

chance isn't all relentless positivity though and i think that came through a lot on Acid Rap

This feels like the lightbeam gospel that TLOP hinted at but didn't really deliver. I love it.

gospel rap (in honor of new chance)

This might be competing with Lemonade for album of the year.

this is way better lemonade is p bad

i do think he has sort of deemphasized his own rapping... this def shares a sort of structure or maybe ethos w/ the social experiment album where the guests are really foregrounded and he feels more like part of a tapestry than the center of attention. it's obv not as pronounced as surf but it feels more of a piece w/ that than acid rap. similarly there was a sociological perspective on acid rap that i found really illuminating & refreshing and that too has receded a bit prob because the circumstances of his own life have changed drastically.

acid rap was p beats to rhymes trad this one is crazily songy p impressive im liking him more like that, didnt listen to surf

yeah i mean this one is obv crazy accomplished on a music & songwriting level and by comparison acid rap feels stripped down. but there was like an overarching aesthetic vision to acid rap that still felt preternatural to me & something like "good ass outro" was just crazy good on a musical level. i do miss that beats to rhymes thing tho, i really was savoring the second "blessings"

is it crazy to admit I like him less when he sings?

CHANCE THE GOSPELLER

i got kinda tired of him listening to him on acid rap even tho he was obvs very good, guess im feeling him a lil more when he like u were saying steps back a bit xp

CHANCE THE GOSPELLER

― johnny crunch, Friday, May 13, 2016 3:08 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5_JmXCNPs6Y

j0rd otm

for me this in no way compares to Acid Rap, but that's ok, can't go home again, etc

jord obvs a lot more chance passionate than me, but i feel like i might be getting into this one

ftr i think this album is great and a logical progression for him, im just picking nits

i got kinda tired of him listening to him on acid rap even tho he was obvs very good, guess im feeling him a lil more when he like u were saying steps back a bit xp

― lag∞n, Friday, May 13, 2016 2:08 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u should listen to surf

Listening to Sunday Candy on repeat, sooooo good. I liked it before, but not like this.

The way his singing is the rhythm track in Blessings is so good.

i will listen to surf i mean tbh i did at least .5 times already before

I love that 'Sunday Candy' is both a reference to the eucharist and oral sex.

I'm loving this so far. It's more immediate and song-oriented than Surf, but it takes the "party and everyone's invited" vibe that I loved about that project and combines it with the joyous and infectious personality of Acid Rap.

I'm also glad that Somewhere in Paradise didn't make the tape. It's pretty lightweight when compared to some of the tracks that did make the cut.

I keep hearing them sing *Never Trump' in the second part of Finish Line.

juke jam is incred imo

oh god the mix on first two tracks

i hope they Kanye that shit and fix it