not feeling these dudes at all, do i need to permanently retire my part-time goon credentials?
― gr8080, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
i couldn't even begin to pretend to like this garbage, kudos to y'all
― and I explained the Bechdel Test to her (sleepingbag), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
much appreciated gab gnipeels
― rob, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
kind of obsessed with this right now. come get her is perfect
― misterjoshua, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
these two are basically tweens. fine for a song like no flex zone but really awkward and weird when they start rapping about sex. "safe sex pay checks" is some kind of questionable nickelodeon song
― fennel cartwright, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
they're both in their 20s
― een, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
i know. everything about them seems young though. like the skate-video thing in the no flex zone video. plus their faces
― fennel cartwright, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 05:44 (nine years ago) link
except the parts where they reference Kool Moe Dee and Magilla Gorilla like they went to junior high with 2 Chainz
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 06:01 (nine years ago) link
Uaerraj Eneerg :(
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 09:05 (nine years ago) link
Dnerever Srallod is way better and more Sremm-like
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 09:07 (nine years ago) link
I like Safe Sex Pay Checks a lot, actually. More sceptical about the slightly dated/generic sounding My X, mostly due to Chop.
― longneck, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 09:42 (nine years ago) link
"my x" is sort of mean-spirited in a way that jars with what they're like elsewhere, if there's a weak link then it's def it
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
don't get what's off-putting about teen rap even if they were teenagers
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 10:01 (nine years ago) link
hundreddollarbills
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
The chorus of “Safe Sex Pay Checks” is a complete lift of Alley Boy/Ty$'s "RNGM" but maybe that's why I like it so much
― Evan R, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
like unlock the swag is toxic no thanks
No way, it's sort of perfect.
Whole album is so gleeful. Haven't heard anything so shamelessly fun in a long time. Nice to start the year with.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
the beat is v similar to RNGM!
impossible not to love any song that goes 'shots shots shots shots shots shots'
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
noslen darb motherfuckers
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:40 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this might be the winner
― un chill goon (some dude), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
it would be darb noslen in the rae sremmurd formula tho
― un chill goon (some dude), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
"throw sum mo" may have underwhelmed a little as a single but it bangs in the middle of the album
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
this album is great
it is the rap bangerz
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
oh true xp
also true
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
not inaccurate in that only the singles are listenable
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
xpost
Not saying there's anything inherently offputting about teen rap. I think the teenageyness is part of No Flex's appeal. I consider it a kind of a cute and cheerful singalong at heart and was pleasantly surprised at how good natured it sounded. Lex, I feel you about the mean-spiritedness being jarring, and I think I might just be more sensitive to mean-spiritedness as I seem to find it in more places.
― fennel cartwright, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
they're not teenagers........................
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
pfft
"yno" is such a jam
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
"lit like bic" is incredible, you only have to listen to the first song to refute that point
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
actually heard it on the radio yesterday and it does sound better there than it does played off my browser in my bedroom or w/e
anyway i still need to listen to this
― dyl, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
untrue of both bangerz and sremmlife
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
At some point this year the streak is going to end, but as of now Rae Sremmurd have yet to release a bad song. Amazing streak.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
"throw some mo" is pretty far below the bar of their first two singles though
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Agree, I've been listening to it sandwiched between no flex/no type and it's great
― 龜, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
yeah 'throw sum mo' does sound great on the radio, nicki sounding zzz on muffled midrange really pops out
there's obviously a deliberate lightly absurdity to it which is v funny and tbh rly kinda brilliant imo, like the way its laconic circularity conflates nicki as ogled-by-slobbering-teens-stripper-cashing-in (who better to play this part of course) with inanimate music box doll
clever thing about this album i guess (beyond some cute lines) is how the rare way they embrace their youth lends a more forgiving, even almost sometimes knowing, aspect to the excesses of their behaviour and by extension that of the behaviour of the rap manchildren around them - 'no flex zone', 'my x' and 'this could be us' is a perfectly conceived hormonal triptych iirc
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Totally in love with "this could be us".
― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
ikr how good?!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
btw whiney's retro accusation + trying to work out what the cover art reminded me of + the huaaahhs on 'my x' can only lead me to conclude this album represents an updated run dmc king of pop-punk
apart from 'unlock the swag' which is more like hot snakes or w/e natch
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
This is spot on. It's a very clever delivery.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
*prayer hands emoji*
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
"i can flick the money all night, til my wrist tired"
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Listening to this for the first time now, and it's so infectiously fun. It's all in the delivery.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Also, fuck the "shremmerd" pronunciation, much more fun to pronounce it without the "sh" sound. It does explain "unlock the shwag" though.
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Unlock the Swag is more fun if you hear it as "Allah, the swag. The swag, Allah"
― quan voice (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
this album is pretty good, all the tracks are solid
― dyl, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
i love the idea of waiters on OKC
Listening to this for the first time now, and it's so infectiously fun. It's all in the delivery. --quan voice (voodoo chili)
this undersells the songwriting and general craftsmanship
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 January 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
there are some very charming backing vox on this album. "money make the world go round" on "this could be us", the whoa-oas on "come get her"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
"twerk like she from russia"?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 8 January 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
Putins do it better.
― longneck, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:34 (nine years ago) link
vladivostwerk
turns out i've not actually really paid attention to the 'up like trump' lyrics at all, like the song is a gaseous swampstage for the hiccupping ad libbing, incessant batrachoidal bubble
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:42 (nine years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 January 2015 19:28 Bookmark
this absolutely bears underlining - if ur already not captivated by the first verse of the first song then save everyone the bother and get on back down to a more appropriately basic rung
like take this amazing bit not 3 mins in, why does the stream of consciousness bragging take this quite real, pained melancholy detour and slowly back round to bluffing
Lit sex yes, she show chestBreathe in deep, geeked all weekSunday night, Sunday fightArgue, don't wanna argueHow could you think that I would ever leave you?I see right through youGet money with the same crewI fuck the same hoes like youSwitch 'em out once a week, I'm coolMidnight crew, paint the Maserati midnight blueMoney pool, I'm 'bout to swim right throughWho are you?
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
TOKYO DRIFT THRU THE HILLS
― nose, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link