CHANCE THE RAPPER

Yeah, Wayne is mostly good again in 2016. Such a relief. 2015 was dark.

I listened to this again and that first track is definitely Kanye's fault, to the extent that I wonder if it was actually 'finished' before his vocals were even recorded, and the whole mix was squashed to allow Kanye to trample all over them. That vocoder is so much louder than Everything else and so out of place that I can't think of another scenario.

kinda in love with this album

ha, not sure why everybody rips the mix on the opener. It sounds very deliberate to me; there's supposed to be a sense of disruption.

it's cuz it sounds terrible

yeah i tried to justify it a few diff ways but I couldn't land on anything solid. its just really bad

On Spotify now. So happy. Smoke Break is the greatest.

i pay roughly $30 a month for Spotify, Apple and Tidal because being able to virtually anything I want for the amount that used to buy me 3 CDs is pretty fucking cool and i pay way more for cable TV, which i care about way less.

This is an awesome mindset. I'm happy to pay for a service or two, too, b/c I never want to pirate music ever again. But what does Spotify provide you with that Apple and Tidal don't? They don't have exclusives, do they?

― Evan R, Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:10 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah Spotify has the least in the way of exclusives but it's also the one i've had the longest and use with the most ease and keep most of my playlists on, so it's the one i would keep if i was only going to have one.

I approve of this new mixtape

Aaah, there is nothing more resoundingly uplifting than this.

it's great to hear a rap album that's from the POV of, like, a grown man and not some hideously malformed manbaby caricature a la Kanye or Drake or various others

(granted most of what I don't like about modern rap is the actual sonics as opposed to the narratives/personas - this one sounds p great too)

luckily there are a lot of rappers who are not Kanye or Drake!

https://twitter.com/nicosegal/status/797105458070728704

no more 'donnie trumpet', only nico now

good, it was a dumb name anyway

more memorable than Nico tho

it was dumb, but i never even realized it was supposed to be un/related

same

yeah me too.

lol yeah i never made that connection

ditto!

me neither, was a p cutesy name tho, chance crus worst quality

Nico segal is a way better performer name imo

shdve changed it to nico horn-guy imo

thought i made a poorly formed tweet awhile back about Donald Trumpet but apparently not.

i'm sure he's a nice dude but he's only an okay trumpet player, there was something a little too gleeful about branding himself like "I'm the guy! The guy in the hip-hop world who plays trumpet!"

now i'll have to stop referring to my bandmates this way (Jeff Trumpet, Ben Trumpet, Joe Trombone, etc)

u cn still do it imo its good

like the violin girl, whasserame

Miri Ben-Violin?

questuba

not even the worst nickname in the band imo, the drummer goes by Stix

saw chance last night in Phoenix, pretty good cathartic show after this week. only complaint is that, during the 4 acid rap tracks in the show, he barely rapped. Like he would only do the first third of each line (if even that) and let the audience finish the rest while he ran around the stage like a madman.

Coloring Book is great but has too many slow songs esp in the front half, needs more stuff along the tempo of All Night and No Problems. i get the gospel theme but chance is so good at wholesome pump up jams should be more of those

I haven't returned to Coloring Book nearly as often as I have Acid Rap, possibly because "All We Got" is a clunker of an opener and starting off with that track makes me want to put on something else. The amazing songs on here are amazing, though, and "Mixtape" and both "Blessings" have grown on me a lot since seeing Chance live last month

Album of the year

love this album a lot but the new Tribe is untouchable

I might actually like the Jamila Woods and Saba tapes more than CB but whatever the case, this scene/crew/not sure what to call it is amazingly fertile right now. I don't like the Noname tape as much as some others do--I find her to be dour to an extent that becomes dull--but that's also worth hearing.

I haven't listened to All We Got more than once

ATCQ It's awesome, but I feel like I've somewhat heard it before. Coloring Book is unique. The Jamila Woods tape is probably also in my top five or something. Haven't heard Saba or Noname, but the OddCouple tape was cool as well.

i haven't listened to this anywhere near as much as acid rap, tho much more than the social experiment album. i think he deviated from his core sound a little too much... i think "mixtape" is just awful, and idk if "smoke break" really works well at all.

but as far as making a single aimed at radio "no problem" is probably as good as anyone could have hoped for in terms of working on commercial and artistic terms, and "summer friends" is one of his best ever songs. i've been listening to the "blessings" reprise ever since he performed it on TV, and "angels" and "juke jam" are great too. i don't think this in my top 10 which i wouldn't have expected prior to its release but it still has its uses to me.

Jordan mostly otm, but this is probably top ten material to me based on the high points alone.

One of my fav things about Chance is those tiny little moments of vulnerability or sentimentality that he slips into nearly every song. I love the Noname album because it's loaded with even more of those. She has all these casual lines that just gut me.

Typically I don't listen to rap to feel bummed out, but she summons those feelings more effectively than any other rapper right now—the injustice of being dismissed or talked over or not having the love you give reciprocated. So her album isn't the joy bomb that Chance's is but it's a triumph of expression in its own right.

summer friends is one of the great songs of the year in any case

Summer Friends is great but I can't stand the fake Bon Iver bot. It's the album's worst recycled Kanye West trope.

isn't it actually bon iver?

it's a sample of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScYn10D2vo

yes, which actually features bon iver

yeah I know it says right there on the video

cancelled the last three dates of this European tour

had tickets for Friday :(

coloring book classic imo

bon iver should be thrown into a dumpster