i realize these posts are pretty redundant for everyone here, who jumped on the bandwagon years ago, but still. the vocals are so crazy.
― Treeship, Thursday, 9 February 2017 06:17 (seven years ago) link
ilm is a safe space treesh don't sweat it
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
It's p funny when people say they're already so over YT when really his star is still in the ascendant.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 9 February 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOSw2MF8uao
uhh this song is insanely good
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
Yeah this is great
― devvvine, Friday, 24 February 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link
That's one of his best vocal performances ever. I can't believe he's still getting better
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
the video is really interesting too i think, hes such a twitchy and concealed visual presence but in this video (and in the song) it seems like hes opening up, and the song is called safe, this is very compelling art to me
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
yeah, it's really, really direct. He usually keeps his head down in his videos (and even on his recent album covers). But here he's not hiding his face or obscuring his words at all. I love his wild stuff, but I'd very much enjoy a full record this open
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
and aesthetic of the the song too wow, its all working together, and yeah i had the same thought of a whole album like this
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
he's the best recording artist of the past 2-3 years and it's not even close.
― evol j, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
i find rap videos often do the thing where they cut every 1.5 seconds so you never really get a good look at their face direct into the camera for more than a word or two, appreciate videos like these with extended shots
― flopson, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
yeah, like, I've seen probably a dozen YT videos, but never even noticed some of those scars on his face before
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
hadn't read your post about how he's always looking down when i wrote that but ya totally true
― flopson, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
his unabashed queerness is v compelling too
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 February 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
great song, great cadences
― imago, Friday, 24 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Lmao LJ :D
Great great song.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 24 February 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
xp ;~)
― flopson, Friday, 24 February 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
this is very good
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 25 February 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
got 2 b safe
― gr8080, Saturday, 25 February 2017 06:32 (seven years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSfhPCBvMf/
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
new album out friday.
seems weird.
sick i hope its all like safe
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
very weird
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 07:56 (six years ago) link
👍👍👍
― just sayin, Friday, 16 June 2017 09:15 (six years ago) link
Weird in the best way. Just hope he can score a proper hit with one of these songs. He's an underachiever chart-wise.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 June 2017 09:16 (six years ago) link
Those are my least fav kind of longneck posts. This is like when you kept insisting keef was lost in the weeds making shit no one would ever care about right when he'd just released what became two of his biggest records
Both artists dropped before streaming really made a real chart impact. Thug has not "underachieved" on the charts
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 16 June 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
gonna listen the shit out of this album
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
wow... so far this sounds like yet another step up, even from Jeffery which I thought was brilliant. The production alone..
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
That's basically what I'm talking about. Since streams do count this time there's no excuses if none of these songs chart. Future managed to get it done with Mask Off, and now he's undeniably a top tier artist, even though I vastly prefer his pre-WATTBA music. Before that his highest charting song featured Drake and we all know those songs don't really count.
As for Thug, Pick Up The Phone was last year's song of the summer in my circles and his highest charting song, but it still only reached #47 on the Hot 100. Not even Good Times managed to make him into a household name. What I'm afraid of is that he has lost his window and will never be the star he could have been - if only the charts had been more like what they are today when he had his breakthrough. Jeffery was good, but it still lacked something. More people were talking about the dress than about the music.
I always liked Faneto, btw, and Can You Be My Friend is one of my favorite singles this year. Keef has still spent a good few years in the wilderness and he'll probably never be the star he could have been, even if those years probably were for the better in helping him figure out what he wanted to be and do.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 June 2017 10:10 (six years ago) link
xpost to deej, of course.
I have no idea why or how Mask Off was chosen and made a hit. Totally boring compared to a lot of other tunes he's released lately. I'm So Groovy, Fresh Air, Coming Out Strong would all have been better choices IMO
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 16 June 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
afaict RapCaviar has only added one song from Beautiful Thugger Girls. It's the one w Future and it's hardly at the top of the list, w three 2 Chainz songs higher up.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 June 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
damn, "do u love me"
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 16 June 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
this is super great--highlights so far are "do u love me," "on fire," and "relationship"
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 June 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
Not even Good Times managed to make him into a household name.
First off, sentences like this are mind numbing bc it suggests you don't know what would make an actual hit for him anyway--this is by many miles one of his less popular records. "Pull up on a kid" and "best friend" and "with that" were way, way bigger
But also my point is you're talking about the artists like its their fault that they didn't chart--that *he* "underperformed" bc streaming hadn't been incorporated into billboard when it was always a broken system. Maybe!!what matters in rap is not what the charts arbitrarily support at any random time? Maybe there's more to the zeitgeist than that? In retrospect the people who were getting amped to "we dem boyz" or whatever seem more out of touch w what was happening in rap than the kids who were listening to "in the woods" keef and "underperforming" thug records
Also @ dog Latin the label actually pushed "drayco" but "mask off" was the people's choice
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 16 June 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
we were all like drayco? fuck it, mask off
― mh, Friday, 16 June 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
mask off is really catchy and the flute loop is really infectious, this weird ilm anti-mask off sentiment is bizarre to me, i'm not a big future guy or anything but when i heard mask off i got why it was big
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 June 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I get why it's big, it's just kind of boring imo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 16 June 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
One man's boring is another man's "hypnotic"
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
plus that Prison Song sample is dope af.
― evol j, Friday, 16 June 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
where's the RMDE gif when i need it
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
so this is Thugger's HNDRXX I guess?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Sunday, 18 June 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
that's a pretty good comparison, tho HNDRXX faded for me after I initially loved it. time will tell what i think of BTG, but i do know that "on fire" is a jam
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
favs are the one w/ future, 'on fire' 'get high' and 'do u love me'
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
daddy's birthday
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
in the interests of cross platform consistency i should mention i decided im not that into the future record upon repeat listens. idk, hook is kinda rhythmic radio corny to me
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 22 June 2017 05:34 (six years ago) link
Well, there's no Rich Gang alchemy present on that song, for sure.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 June 2017 07:18 (six years ago) link
which future record?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
Relationship, the one on BTG. I think it's fine but it doesn't feel as effortless as the Thug/RHQ stuff. A high bar, obviously.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 June 2017 09:51 (six years ago) link
they shdve collaborated before they became legends
― lag∞n, Thursday, 22 June 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link