CHANCE THE RAPPER

i hated that sunday candy video sooooooo much but i can't really get w/ musicals in general though

aw man that's a great video

yea it's more my own thing w/ musicals, they are just too much for me, i feel embarassed for everyone involved including me as an audience member but i know people love them so i can easily see why people would like it

new song is pretty all right imo http://pitchfork.com/news/65439-chance-the-rapper-lil-wayne-and-2-chainz-release-new-song-no-problem-listen/?mbid=social_twitter

the wayne & 2 chainz verses feel more like a flex than logical additions to the song, which otherwise sounds pretty amazing

2 chainz verses always logical additions imo

idk who produced it but it kinda sounds like a kanye beat that exploded

xp otm

i already regret my earlier post. wayne sounds great... he's kinda doing a "let the beat build" thing

"half a milli in the safe another in the pillowcase / codeine got me moving slower than a caterpillar race" is some real good vintage wayne

Love this guy but wtf is w his features

Tape is fire so far

i thought the song with thug & lil yachty was kind of aggressively offputting but yeah

i didnt mind it, even dug yachty's verse altho he's clearly outclassed

its very optimistic music

up on datpiff now for all those anti apple music people (like me)

Hell yeah this is so good.

i could do without blessings and how great

I could not.

What I could do without is the muddy mixing, especially on the opening tracks.

omg "smoke break"

this is good imo

What I could do without is the muddy mixing, especially on the opening tracks.

i had just cranked it up when vocoder Kanye (?) comes in on the first track, and twice the volume of the rest of the mix.

for all the noise he's made about how free releases should be eligible for Grammys, you'd think he'd gotten have a better mixing & mastering pass on this.

also i never thought i'd hear Bieber over a Mount Kimbie sample.

there is so much jesus on this album that it made me feel physically nauseous by the end

like i'd never really connected w/chance on an emotional level and the amount of god-n-family stuff is p much why, and it's so overbearing here

lots of nice beats though but whatever i can't listen to this again

Godless Europeans smh

my firm view that christianity is a poison is informed 100% by too much, not too little, exposure to it

my firm view is that popular music as we know it literally does not exist without black church music

i'm sure you can trace the history of music further back than that, not that it's a relevant point to make

lol i'm as atheist as could but getting down on this for the gospel speak is laughable imo

could be*

why is it laughable to have a negative reaction to overbearing christianity?

I just don't see that it's overbearing. It's part of the esthetic sure.

Stare at the cue cards, take out the juke parts
Take out the God references, just leave the cool parts

i can assure you my antipathy to christianity is not because it's "uncool"

but you understand that the role of christianity is very different on chicago's south side & in its music than it may be for yourself

i didn't frame my reaction as anything other than a personal response

i think you need jesus brah

i have a real allergy to christianity which is why i have trouble with later prefab sprout records but it didn't really bother me on this record at all?

idk its so joyous and fun who cares

^^^^^

i can understand being put off by the relentless positivity, though. brainwasher (who hasn't posted on here in some time ergo i will speak on his behalf lol) told me he's more into vince staples or it resonates more w/ him, and I can understand that pov even if i like chance more; its optimism can be blinding

ideologically im probably also more aligned w/ vince's worldview but musically i much prefer chance

omg that synth bass in the chorus of "Smoke Break."

musically it feels super generous, i get really caught up in the swirl of it

omg that synth bass in the chorus of "Smoke Break."

my man

but you understand that the role of christianity is very different on chicago's south side & in its music than it may be for yourself

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ooooooooh!

chance isn't all relentless positivity though and i think that came through a lot on Acid Rap

This feels like the lightbeam gospel that TLOP hinted at but didn't really deliver. I love it.

gospel rap (in honor of new chance)

This might be competing with Lemonade for album of the year.

this is way better lemonade is p bad

i do think he has sort of deemphasized his own rapping... this def shares a sort of structure or maybe ethos w/ the social experiment album where the guests are really foregrounded and he feels more like part of a tapestry than the center of attention. it's obv not as pronounced as surf but it feels more of a piece w/ that than acid rap. similarly there was a sociological perspective on acid rap that i found really illuminating & refreshing and that too has receded a bit prob because the circumstances of his own life have changed drastically.