CHANCE THE RAPPER

Huh. I thought it was just something that rhymed with "Rapper." I was a big fan of "Romancing the Stone" when I was a kid, and the bad guy in that movie has an alligator pit, and he's aways saying "look at those snappers!"

They could have named him Chief Teef

Ha!

album is out

CocoRosie is on this...

lol

lmao at the contributors

So far, this is not good...

I really want to like this cause I'm getting bored w/ unambitious 30-minute rap records but uhhh

it feels mean to dislike this cause it's so good-natured and warmly arranged but at this point I guess I should just accept this is Not My Thing

I will conclude my remarks by saying "Roo" is quite nice

i did not love roo, but a few other tracks have been pretty good. i'm sure whatever playlist i make of this album will be good, but not at the level of the last two.

hot shower is awesome lol

just got to the randy newman collab and uh...

I like 5 Year Plan, but generally this is not corny enough :(

the outro isn't bad, but the middle section grates like crazy

Is this as bad as they make it out to be? Loved Acid Rap and Coloring Book but the comments I’ve read on this one are not positive at all.

it's not horrible, and I did find the more palatable material crops up later on. it's just a lot of his thing to deal with in one sitting

It’s definitely not bad, but the first two tracks leave a bad taste that lingered. I’m definitely not allergic to his sentimental stuff (Same Drugs was either my fav or second fav CB track), and I think the album as a whole will make more sense in a live setting, but I definitely think it’s a step down.

It's backloaded, yeah, but it's a step down. Nothing as good as Same Drugs, Summertime Friends or Sunday Candy. The productions are too boring.

Def Chance’s New Jersey but still good

this is pretty underwhelming, i like chance's sound so it's still generally pleasant and the production is very lush but the hooks aren't there compared to his previous work and it's pretty forgettable overall. absolutely does not need to be nearly 80 minutes either, but barely anything does. maybe there's a good album in it with half the tracks removed idk

I think the general reception to this is already too negative to even qualify as a New Jersey.

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I like it^

let's be real chance probably should've left this song off the album pic.twitter.com/KQMIwsmaf3

— charles (@charliewinsmore) July 27, 2019

Definitely cool that a white Twitch streamer with this as his avatar is dunking on a black man for being happy.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/991617769786372096/GxsKCmk7_400x400.jpg

I love Chance. The tweet is still funny

the backlash to it is somewhat understandable especially since chance is kinda corny in general and that grates with me sometimes even though i'm generally a fan, but still seems quite excessive - it's not a bad terrible album just bloated and a bit underwhelming. after listening to it more there's definitely a pretty good album hidden in there, like "all day long", "found a good one", and "zanies and fools" are all excellent among others and it's generally a pleasant listen just too long

man, I think I have strong differences in opinion about comedy with anyone who found that tweet funny.

the tweet's as funny as that song is good imo, ie. not.

this album is not very listenable for me

Album is very good. Criticism is bizarre

Clearly a better album than coloring book imo

this album is good ... for me to poop on

pretty funny how quickly ilx falls to the consensus pressure

this a blast what are yall (naysayers) listening to?

It’s mostly good, just long. I’m gonna try to listen again and start with Eternal.

haven't listened to this yet, but definitely felt in the Twitter air that the knives were going to the out for Chance

i think the production feels generally more polished than coloring book but the average track quality is a bit of a step down, even though coloring book has "blessings" and "how great" which are too much for me

The twitter response has definitely felt like a pile-on, disproportionate to the album quality. It’s been kinda hip to hate on chance since that “ol happy ass” tweet

... yeah, the negative reaction to this record is outrageous

"i got you" is phenomenal let me hear it at a roller rink

man, i dunno anything about twitter response or pitchfork or whatever everyone else is saying; I just know I listened through this about three or four times and there's a lot more bad than good. I like Hot Shower, We Go High, Big Fish. Not sure I wanna go back to mine for more.

i haven't had the opportunity to really dig into this album yet but in listening to it a few times i feel like the memes have really led the conversation here. everyone loved the ol happy ass tweet and now every review basically just says "ol happy ass." (this raises the question of music criticism's function when it makes the same point as a meme but in 1,500 more words, but that's a discussion for another thread.) i guess you could say that the ol happy ass tweet (to be general obv) crystalized feelings about chance instead of drove them but my problem w/ the discussion around this album is that it feels like it's just picked up from where it left off without actually engaging much w/ the album. it's hard for me to imagine the theoretical album that would've shifted the conversation on him... so i also don't think this album, which sounds kinda dope to me, is getting a fair shake

he def didn't help himself by turning "they go low we go high" into a chorus i will say that

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― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 29, 2019 7:39 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

great review whiney

it's true it is great

there's def some stuff on here that doesn't really work -- the song that sounds like vampire weekend for instance -- but in the context of the scale and ambition of the album (the thread of musical omnivorousness as whiney points out) i don't really mind them so much

Thanks guys!

The omniverousness works for me in a way that it doesn’t with, say, Cudi because there’s still this Chance way of rapping that basically stays the same from track-to-track. It’s not like “this is my rock song” (yells) it’s mostly like “what if I was Chance over a rock song”

Anyway, the title track has been in and out of my head all day...