rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

This album... man... The first one had two killer singles and one really good single and some really good tracks, but this is kicking my arse on each one. Black Beatles is the current fave - 'she's a big teaser'

Black Beatles is the best song out atm. Wish it could be huge.

it's weird to me that imago thinks they're jock bullies, they're lovable scamps to me. class clowns if we're going by high school archetypes. think they don't cleave to typical alpha male macho swagger that much esp compared to usual rap modes. it's much more about hedonism than aggressive assertion of power imo. actually i hear more female rap influences in what they do than with most male rappers.

― lex pretend, Thursday, August 18, 2016 12:13 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ yup. just makes me think of hanging out with my best mate when we were 17, working on ridiculous music projects, smoking, drinking, mythologising and thinking we're the bollocks

http://theundefeated.com/features/rae-sremmurd-the-fader-photo/?ex_cid=story-twitter

Great read and important regardless of yr opinion on RS

It's a lovely article. But its relevance to RS extrapolates from literally one photo, and one that isn't without its ambiguities - how do you square it with the Set The Roof lyrics and video, for instance? My uncharitable reading is that the photo simply positions them as heterosex symbols in a particularly current way

people are reading a little much into a photo of two guys who probably used to take baths together

'Just Like Us' is remarkably sweet, especially for these guys. Love the line about 'seeing stars a million times/how come they only come out at night?'

Over Here is the one that doesn't do anything for me.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, August 18, 2016 1:47 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah this is maybe my 3rd or 4th favourite. There's some weird/interesting stuff going on with the vocals and that repetitive 'Aye, aye' thing. Plus there's that noise that sounds like you left the car door open. they used it on the last album but I can't get enough of it.

Just haven't been able to stop listening to this over the last week. It's such a step up from the first one, and that was a great record.

"roof on fire" is the first time I've heard scratching on a non boom bap throwback song in forever

https://twitter.com/annkpowers/status/775407953587400704

idgi

ask ann i guess

in any case, this was my reminder to finally listen to the new Sremmurd, which i will do now as penance.

(reading your comments with whiney earlier regarding spongedoodlebob rap evolution while listening to Start a Party is clearly the RIGHT WAY to get into this album)

wow so this is fucking great huh

http://media.giphy.com/media/efUcLJePY6RkA/giphy.gif

the bass is pure on this record

i'm not gonna lie, i just jumped around my kitchen a whole lot just now

Love this.

yeah i really ended up getting into this one, seems like giant leap over the first one

it's loads better than the last one, which is saying something

You love that spotlight
That spotlight that never goes out

^^^^ same

BLACK BEATLES | JUST LIKE US (rae sremmurd)

:-)

black beatles is the number 1 song on itunes o_O

also the number 1 song on spotify

Also the number one song of 2016

what a tune

the countermelody is more like beach boys "i get around" than the beatles

this tune is a real ear wormer

it's being used as the soundtrack to every 'mannequin challenge' video on the internet, which is some major viral shit.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/entertainment/mannequin-challenge-trnd/index.html

i cant believe how long it took for this song to pop lol

"black beatles" is also the best song title of 2016

it might blow up but it won't go pop

"Black Beatles" hits the Hot 100's top 40 driven largely by streaming, as it bounds 25-20 on the Streaming Songs chart (9.1 million, up 11 percent

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7541878/rae-sremmurd-black-beatles-hot-100-chart-moves

The duo's single "Black Beatles" becomes the highest-charting Hot 100 title to name-check The Beatles, by an act other than the Fab Four themselves, as it rises 41-38,

What Beatles song name-checked the Beatles?

This went to 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyfvYyxjp8

hey hey we're the beatles

Beatle You Can Drive My Car
I Saw the Beatles Standing There
Across the Beatleverse

etc

Let it Be(atles)

You will know "Black Beatles" has peaked when you start seeing outraged FB posts from Baby Boomers.

i cant believe how long it took for this song to pop lol

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 7, 2016 11:33 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark

it actually hasn't been that long at all?

it hit the top 40 like two weeks after they released the video

the song came out in the summer & now its november, feels like a while to me

it has steadily risen up the charts over the period of a couple months like pretty much any hit but you should ask mike will why he didn't release it as a single until late september

amazed but so thrilled it's doing so well

would love for it to make the full pop crossover but not holding my breath

It sold almost twice as much digitally as any other song did today so I'd say a top 10 placement is pretty much inevitable at this point.
http://www.digitalsalesdata.com/diydsd.php?Region=143441

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