Migos, "T-Shirt"

fwiw im not the only one pushing against migos monomania here ppl have gotten absurd about it

Son said Migos > G-Unit terms of success. What success are we measuring here? G-Unit Records? G-Unit Films? G-Unit clothing? G-Unit video games? Please help me out.

— Ice (@OfficiallyIce) January 29, 2018

that should show son

Migos mixtape for after you get hardsonned

migos can get back to me when they've got their own video game series

http://www.mobygames.com/images/promo/original/1480535474-1343739158.jpg

g-unit films is not really an album artist

i watched the movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' the other day I forgot somehow they got Jim Sheridan to direct that!

sorry, rescreened it

i don't think deej is wrong for questioning the attention that ppl put into the migos who are competent and formulaic and such could easily leave one cold -- the problem is that they're objectively popular and so the answer is a tautology

not sure if you guys have discussed this or not but iirc they are bigger than the beatles

i have heard many times on twitter that they are bigger and also better than the beatles to i assume its prob true

jordan otm -- popular artist is given attention because they're popular

The thing about Culture is that it's 'formulaic' only insofar as it dugs into the very essence of it's genre and stays there. It's such a pure sonic distillation of what they do, triplets, quarter notes, slow beats, ad libs, without anything to disturb the magic. No personal pain as with Future, no outsized personality like Young Thug, not really any melodies, no distracting narratives, everything is just moment to moment clashes of sounds, differing intensities. Vince Staples claimed he was inspired by club music on Big Fish Theory, but to my mind it was Culture that made rap sound like dance music, all about movement. I freaking love that album. I think I've said it before, but to me it's forerunners are albums like Funcrusher Plus.

i love migos idc they have a strong sound, i dont know if competent and formulaic is any sort of current consensus on them but its kinda interesting contrasted to the opinion on them when they first came out which was technically deficient novelty act, smh cant get no respect

any more thoughts on Culture II? Still don't feel like I've scratched the surface properly. It sounds at once poppier but also less immediate to its predecessor. I like 'Made Men' quite a lot but a lot of the songs kind of drag a bit?

About half of the tracks are at least good to very good, but it all still feels like just a bunch of songs. There's no thought to it. Just another day on the job. Two weeks later they probably could have released an equally long and equally good album. Which tells you something about how nice they are even when they're on autopilot, I guess. But it's mostly frustrating.

haven't revisited it in full, but i do return to some of the highlights. mostly "too much jewelry," "too playa," and "narcos."

i havent really listened to it cause when it came out i had an amazon echo in my kitchen and i cld not no matter what i tried get alexa to play it

some albums have "t-shirt" some don't

otm

It's the 2K10's analog to Wu-Tang Forever, right?
For lots of reasons.

what is

Culture II

what are the reasons

both doing/did well, but without the sense that they'll continue moving things forward commercially
long and sprawling albums, when compared to their breakthroughs
5 and a half minute less immediate than normal opening singles

a few parallels for sure?
Forever is certainly more highly regarded, but, that album took a minute to find its fans.

ok sure

forever is such a flawed masterpiece, like every song has a bad verse

should we start a new poll “culture ii” vs. “wu tang forever” jk culture 2 would win

otm

heh

What ARE records like Forever and Culture II? Not really New Jersey's, but... close.

Supastars is actually pretty great, btw. It’s no t-shirt but it has grown on me.

And the verses on WTF were good iirc? The problem was that they didn’t quite come together as songs, and that there weren’t many real hits.

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Culture II and Wu Tang Forever aren't New Jerseys they are Use Your Illusions, a thing I just made up

Sounds about right. Sr3mm is somehow NOT a UYI though.

Man wu tang forever is way better than this... culture ii is if wu tang forever was recorded by Das efx... migos are not young millennial wu tang I’m offended

I do agree they’re both UYA’s though

"young millennial wu tang"

finally found my rapper name thanks

migos needs more guys if they want to be wu-tang the wu had like 25 guys ghostface killer, ugly sword, the gnarly monk and so forth

and several of those guys released classic solo albums before 'wu tang forever' dropped

who can forget gnarley monk's 'surf ninjas' lp

Yeah I mean I don't think they are on Wu's level

https://i.imgur.com/2CUoH6U.png

i wonder how that's aged

Culture II and Wu Tang Forever aren't New Jerseys they are Use Your Illusions, a thing I just made up

whoa

Wasn't comparing the quality of their work!

Comparing the cultural spot they find themselves in both heading into and out of the follow-up to their breakthrough.

The new Takeoff tape is the best Migos-fronted release of the year

low bar lol

well yeah, but it is good

Have we talked ab out Culture III at all yet?

Wearing my “t-shirt” today

quavo and takeoff announced a new rap duo and offset unfollowed them both on instagram 🙀 is it possible that they are amigos no longer??

yeah