CHANCE THE RAPPER

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.

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