rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

"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?

Yeah, this is a cut above BOATS II - which was a very good album. This stuff though? They sound like they're forging their own genre.

love love love this album, zero disappointment at all

they have such an impressive range in every direction

All I'm seeing is excitement over it; where are people dismissing it?

― Evan R, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

it's gonna sell like 500 copies

was shocked to see last night that the last album went platinum

i think that's basically all streams for the singles

This stuff though? They sound like they're forging their own genre.

naw.

you can draw a continuous line from atlanta rap as it existed a decade ago to where rae sremmurd are now

yeaaaaah can't agree w that xp

Yeah, this is a cut above BOATS II - which was a very good album. This stuff though? They sound like they're forging their own genre.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:15 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

huh, judging by my Twitter feed (not a representative sample I know) people are really juiced over it. Haven't seen anybody claim they've fallen off.

Feels like they carried a lot of the excitement surrounding their debut over to this one and that's pretty impressive imo. They're not gonna do Fetty Wap numbers but it seems like they know their audience and are reaching them

it's gonna sell like 500 copies

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 17, 2016 12:13 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well prob more like 20k but its sales are gonna be bad yeah

the question of whether its better than boats ii is kind of interesting (albeit pointless)

the first boats is a pretty bad album though outside a couple tracks. that the second boats seems better is in part bc of the wide variance in quality between the two

RS1 and RS2 are much much closer in quality. I will probably listen to the best songs on RS2 more than I listened to the best songs on BOATS II. They are both similar in that the singles undersold the albums although BOATS II even moreso (lol Feds Watching)

feds watching is a great song

"look alive" was a far more bizarre choice for a lead single

watching grown adults discussing rae sremmurd like it was literature is to behold the end of art

― imago, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 1:31 PM

Art needs to end once in a while.

And of course there are elements similar to a decade old ATL rap in what they do. Who wrote songs like Look Alive or Black Beatles even five years ago, though?

i feel like they fit pretty comfortably in some kinda nexus of post 80s kanye & future & gucci & keef etc etc

I'm Turrican up in yo hood

Actually I'm not gonna post here except to ask how yall deal with rae sremm's terribly progressive attitude to women