rae sremmurd - sremmlife (6 jan 2015)

don't get what's off-putting about teen rap even if they were teenagers

hundred
dollar
bills

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

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.

the beat is v similar to RNGM!

impossible not to love any song that goes 'shots shots shots shots shots shots'

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

it would be darb noslen in the rae sremmurd formula tho

"throw sum mo" may have underwhelmed a little as a single but it bangs in the middle of the album

this album is great

it is the rap bangerz

oh true xp

also true

it is the rap bangerz

not inaccurate in that only the singles are listenable

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.

they're not teenagers........................

not inaccurate in that only the singles are listenable

pfft

"yno" is such a jam

"lit like bic" is incredible, you only have to listen to the first song to refute that point

"throw sum mo" may have underwhelmed a little as a single but it bangs in the middle of the album

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

not inaccurate in that only the singles are listenable

untrue of both bangerz and sremmlife

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.

"throw some mo" is pretty far below the bar of their first two singles though

"throw sum mo" may have underwhelmed a little as a single but it bangs in the middle of the album

― 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

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

Totally in love with "this could be us".

ikr how good?!

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

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

This is spot on. It's a very clever delivery.

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

*prayer hands emoji*

"i can flick the money all night, til my wrist tired"

Listening to this for the first time now, and it's so infectiously fun. It's all in the delivery.

Also, fuck the "shremmerd" pronunciation, much more fun to pronounce it without the "sh" sound. It does explain "unlock the shwag" though.

Unlock the Swag is more fun if you hear it as "Allah, the swag. The swag, Allah"

this album is pretty good, all the tracks are solid

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

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"

"twerk like she from russia"?

Putins do it better.

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

"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 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 chest
Breathe in deep, geeked all week
Sunday night, Sunday fight
Argue, don't wanna argue
How could you think that I would ever leave you?
I see right through you
Get money with the same crew
I fuck the same hoes like you
Switch 'em out once a week, I'm cool
Midnight crew, paint the Maserati midnight blue
Money pool, I'm 'bout to swim right through
Who are you?

TOKYO DRIFT THRU THE HILLS

http://uk.complex.com/music/2015/01/rae-sremmurd-sremmlife-track-by-track-breakdown/safe-sex-pay-checks

Slim Jimmy: Young Thug got on it, he liked the song. Nicki Minaj, we met her in the studio. She was looking like a goddess.

Swae Lee: She was working on her album, and we were working on ours. We were going to do some collaboration work, but it was just crazy.

Slim Jimmy: She walked in looking like the most beautiful woman on the planet, and everything was in slow motion. Then time stopped. I couldn’t say anything because my mouth wouldn’t open. I was trying to say “Hi,” but I couldn’t.

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 (14 hours ago) Permalink

The songs are good but The delivery was the most immediately appealing aspect of the album on first listen, and Swae Lee's sing-song on No Type and No Flex Zone are still my favorite things about those songs after dozens of listens

I guess you could say that Slim Jim couldn't snap out of it...

https://weeklyguiltypleasure.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/david-caruso-3.jpg

my fav thing about their delivery is the amount of fun they seem to have with their voices - all these switch-ups between rat-a-tat stuff and sing-song warbles and growling and slurring and squeaky outrage. it's very nicki

but j0rdan otm about the craftsmanship too, these songs keep on giving

I don't remember if this Baauer/AlunaGeorge collab was posted elsewhere on ilm, but this song still kicks, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITYj52gXxU

yeah i remember it from...somewhere else and it's brilliant

ya this gets better and better

this could be us <3

This could be us could be pretty huge I think.

I don't remember if this Baauer/AlunaGeorge collab was posted elsewhere on ilm, but this song still kicks, too

http://www.youtube.com/v/tITYj52gXxU&fs=1&hl=en

― Evan R, Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:14 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i remember it from...somewhere else and it's brilliant

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:18 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

you guys talked about this in the r&b 2014 thread

Usually those Converse/Adult Swim-style "we put three unassociated artists together; blog about us" songs don't hold much interest beyond a few listens but this one still gets me. It's like these guys are incapable of a throwaway

"safe sex pay checks" is so good... i love the sort of valley dude voice they affect on the chorus