CHANCE THE RAPPER

The rest of it sounds fine so in the absence of a better explanation I'm going to blame Kanye.

when in doubt

Does anyone think this is better than Acid Rain and the best parts of Surf (i.e. Sunday Candy) though? It's mostly v blissful to me but I have a hard time ranking it over his previous work.

I'll take it over Acid Rap, but Sunday Candy is the best thing he's ever done.

i have the exact opposite opinion of this post ^

I agree that it could use more juke beats, but it still has a juke sensibility in parts. Angels, for instance. The interplay between the horns and beats in the chorus sounds quite jukish to me. The end of Summer Friends, after Jeremiah comes in, the beats begin changing, and it almost hints at a juke jam before it ends. In other places, I think the rhythmic interplay from juke is influencing the way Chance rides the beat. The way parts of the songs seem to flow in different tempi.

Anyone know why it's off datpiff? It says that a complaint has been filed against it from some lawyer firm. Is it downloadable some place else without a subscription?

Apple had it pulled, they have an exclusive

Streaming site exclusives are going to become very tiresome very quickly for a lot of people. No one's going to keep two or three subscriptions going and presumably you can't keep signing up for free trials. So everyone will just end up stealing the thing anyway, especially as there's unlikely to be a physical product in these instances.

yeah I've resorted back to torrenting some things after a two/three year hiatus

i'm in the acid rap >>> cb camp

I speak to God in public
I speak to God in public
He keep my rhymes in couplets
He think the new shit jam
I think we mutual fans

Has he been using his voice differently post-Acid Rap or did I just get familiar with it

Same Drugs is so lovely.

Streaming site exclusives are going to become very tiresome very quickly for a lot of people.

yeah i've missed out on hearing a bunch of stuff now (including this chance). i have a spotify subscription & i've always said i'd be willing to pay significantly more than i do now for a "complete" streaming service (especially if it compensated artists in an improved way). but i really don't know if that extends to paying ~$10 a month to multiple shitty tech companies.

not the thread for that discussion, sorry. hope to hear this mixtape some day soon!

i mean you could just use google and find the mp3's...

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.

Ugh I have considered that too but damn there reall has got to be a better way.

i'm not mad at the streaming wars because i feel like it'll have overall positive impacts on the music business that a Spotify monopoly wouldn't.

Or you'll do really well out of it if you're Kanye or Beyonce and everyone else will get the same shitty treatment.

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.

― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:09 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

i only use Spotify as background music at home w/my gf, and still listen to mp3s in the car like an old person. not having the option to pay for a digital copy of something i like bums me out.

digging Summer Friends today

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.
― a goon shaped tool (some dude), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:09 AM (4 hours ago)

yep
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:02 PM (54 minutes ago)

in my world of young people update: i was talking with a pair of interns working with me last night and it became clear that they didn't know a music marketplace other than the streaming one. They became conscious consumers during the itunes era and have spent all their teens with spotify and youtube. one of them told me she remembered having a big book of cds that she took with her to elementary school.
i always kinda thought that a generation spoiled in this fashion would become dependent and it kinda worked?

we do have a number of active threads discussing music distribution already tho

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?

xp yeah, my bad

i think about this stuff a lot, too; it's hard not to. might be appropriate to use this thread instead of just the individual apple/tidal/spotify ones:

Thread For Chatter About The Streaming Music Economy

whoa this record is really good

the features here are great, even wayne imo lol

i think the wayne verse is amazing. honestly wonder if he's gotten off drugs or something cuz there's emotional & lyrical complexity in this verse that i feel like he hasn't shown in like 5 years.

Hold up, get too choked up when I think of old stuff
Move on, put my goons on, they kidnap newborns
In the streets my face a coupon
Her pussy too warm
All these bitches come to do harm
Just bought a new charm
Fuck the watch, I buy a new arm, you lukewarm
I'm Uncle Luke with the hoes
Pretty bitches, centerfolds
Tippy toes around my crib in their robes, just their robes
Half a milli' in the safe, another in the pillowcase
Codeine got me movin' slower than a caterpillar race

well i'd group that verse in w/ the 2 chainz collab album where he's also very lucid and creative

I like that verse a lot. There were a lot of the same shades of emotional vulnerability and openness on Sorry For The Wait 2, as well, but they were understandably overshadowed by the many, many stinkers on that tape. Underdog Wayne is kind of an interesting idea for him to explore; would love to see him run with it on Carter Whatever # He's On.

i think the wayne verse is amazing. honestly wonder if he's gotten off drugs or something cuz there's emotional & lyrical complexity in this verse that i feel like he hasn't shown in like 5 years.

I don't care for the song, but Wayne's verse is his best in years -- otm

yea Jordan otm

In the streets my face a coupon

a rare reference to Wayne's Scottish roots?

There's only a couple years where "Wayne fell off" talk felt 100% accurate to me. Didn't like any of last year's projects though, don't think I ever made it very far into the second No Ceilings where he rapped over a bunch of cut-rate versions of Drake/Future beats

not hearing the wayne verse as solid at all and while some of that is up to the mix some of it is certainly up to taste.

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.