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Is Travis coming out with another album this year?
Is Travis coming out with another album this year?
I really hope so. I still love that he re-did Day & Night with Cudi. That was so awesome.He said Astroworld is coming soon. What soon means to him is a mystery.
Worth noting that Rodeo and Birds released in September, a year apart (September 4th 2015 and September 2nd 2016 respectively), so...
ASTROWORLD FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST 2017 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED
Somewhere in between Mike Dean-soon and Culture album coming soon.He said Astroworld is coming soon. What soon means to him is a mystery.
Is Travis coming out with another album this year?
I remember y'all flamin me for hatin she will by Danny. I just can't stand any of these type a songs. Gettin dome or givin. A line or two is cool. But 5 minutes? Sike.
As varied as this community's taste is, Pop-GAF was nice because people there enjoyed talking about folks like FKA Twigs, Bjork, Susanne Sundfor, Kelela and more. This community basically just recycles the same memes until they're deader than a horse at a glue factory with a hint of music discussion.
Yes.DBR >>> any Travis project.
I definitely didn't see much discussion about those artists you just named, remember posting some shit and everyone responding who like I was back on KTT. Definitely a more entertaining thread in its prime than ours thoughSex rap can be very cringe if not done right. Ask Nas
I definitely didn't see much discussion about those artists you just named, remember posting some shit and everyone responding who like I was back on KTT. Definitely a more entertaining thread in its prime than ours though
This is a good thread, stop hating
This thread is the Drake of NeoGAF threads, gets shat on by everybody and yet everybody keeps checkingthis is power you are playing with songaf-hop and pop-gaf are two sides of the same coin
Blackace era when guys like Esch, Coldvein, Siddx, Yoda, Tguy, Kamspy, etc were still regulars.what was GAF-Hop's prime anyways?
when PD was still here?
Who?Blackace era when guys like Esch, Coldvein, Siddx, Yoda, Tguy, Kamspy, etc were still regulars.
Blackace era when guys like Esch, Coldvein, Siddx, Yoda, Tguy, Kamspy, etc were still regulars.
Blackace era when guys like Esch, Coldvein, Siddx, Yoda, Tguy, Kamspy, etc were still regulars.
GKMC leak was the most ridiculous this thread has ever been.
Blackace era when guys like Esch, Coldvein, Siddx, Yoda, Tguy, Kamspy, etc were still regulars.
When WTT releasedGKMC leak was the most ridiculous this thread has ever been.
...that's such an awful way to go.
Summary of A Waste of Time's Live Roc-A-Fella Celebration:
5:40 - Starts
6:00 - Biggs comes out, talks eaaaarly Roc Strategizing, "Best Out" parties, loading up picnic baskets full of cristal, AF1s unifying boroughs
18:15 - Biggs talks how Hip Hop got his name
13:50 - Biggs talks Jay Z/DMX battle, mentions Jay beating LL
15:45 - Biggs talks Hip Hop's legacy in Hip Hop
16:25 - Hip Hop comes out, talk about Jay throwing money into the audience as a concert ritual and Hip Hop knowing exactly where to stand in the audience to grab it lmao, how him and Biggs got into A&Ring
24:00 - Some talk about In My Lifetime (song), how Bad Boy, B.I.G. and Jay all came together before Reasonable Doubt came together, playing Monopoly with a quarter mill on the table with no album out
27:15 - Recording of Brooklyn's Finest
28:30 - Talk when/if they've seen Jay write
30:20 - Lenny S comes out
35:10 - When was the first time they saw anyone throw the Roc up?
35:50 - How Streets Is Watching came together, feeling the pressure from Bad Boy when things like Reasonable Doubt and Illmatic didn't sell well
39:50 - What early Roc-A-Fella offices were like, passing on signing Fab, how they got it popping
41:35 - "Ain't No _____"
44:20 - Lenny S recalls being Jay's fake DJ for several tours before getting just
46:55 - Signing Foxy Brown, Emile,
47:45 - Young Guru comes out, Guru being one of the only people engineers that Pro Tools at the time, how that and concentrating everyone into Bassline did wonders for their efficiency and label, talk living at Bassline and showering at hotels
55:50 - Why they chose to partnering with Def Jam over being signed by them
56:15 - Just Blaze comes out, how they found him: "We got a producer, and he can do beats like Swizz Beatz for $5000," his value as a producer that didn't need to sample at the time, they clown him for playing video games, Pro Tools' role in Amil's project, how his career took off
1:01:50 - Just talks "Keep It Real Wednesdays," Jay originally saying [unnamed producer] is doing the whole Blueprint 2 but all of the beats sucking, then Guru arguing with Jay about making Blueprint 2 a double album, basically how Blueprint 2 and Keep It Real Wednesdays came together to save the project. "A lot of your favourite producers got laughed out of the room, but then some people off the street got on the album immediately;" "That was like Fight Club for a lot of people;" "If they liked the beat, they cut a check" If you haven't heard about Keep It Real Wednesdays before, this bit is a must listen for some hip hop history
1:07:20 - Hip Hop talks how a legendary beat tape from Kanye changed the whole sound of The Blueprint, H to the Izzo being for Ghostface (Cam also got on it), Ain't No Love being for DMX, Takeover being for Beanie Sigel. Jay doing songs to every song on the tape on Friday and Saturday. Talk about several other major non-Jay joints on that tape too.
1:09:20 - "That was the beat tape where he never had to make beat tapes again," them calling Just next to get some soulful shit and Jay snatching songs intended for Prodigy (Prodigy being the first person to rap on U Don't Know, Busta too) and Ghostface/Wu
1:12:45 - Rappers' shifts at Baseline
1:16:20 - Freeway, Young Gunz & Jim Jones come out
1:17:55 - Just talks about how Oh Boy came together, Jim: "I don't think we were supposed to have that beat"
1:19:20 - "Bleek turned down a lot of heat, FYI:" An early Oh Boy, Whoa, Oochie Wallie, and more, they continue the story about Oh Boy. "Dame heard it and said we're shooting a video to it Friday"
1:22:00 - Dipset being at Cam's house in New Jersey after Cam recording Izzo and was about to put it out as a single, and them all watching the BET Awards and seeing Jay perform the song, Jim: "Ayo, we wanted to KILL Kanye!" (Basically A&Rs at Roc-A-Fella were shopping the same beats to different artists)
1:23:00 - Chaka comes out, talks directing a lot of the videos, developing a lot of the business behind Roc-A-Fella (FYI she is president of Roc Nation today), moving all of State Property into one house "It was just a bunch of beards and Muslim oils coming towards you"
1:28:50 - Chaka talks the family atmosphere
1:35:50 - Just/Freeway talk Philadelphia Freeway, State Property coming out of a failed Beans/Bleek album
1:39:45 - Just notes that Freeway's Flipside was supposed to be the first Jay/Bey records
1:43:00 - Impromptu performance of Can't Stop, Won't Stop by Young Gunz
1:45:50 - Jim talks how Dipset went from Epic to Roc-A-Fella, they talk how Come Home With Me came together, they argue about when Juelz got on Hey Ma, Hey Ma and Oh Boy changing their lives
1:56:20 - How Dipset and State Property came together, Cam telling Dipset to come with the bars every day when recording with them
1:58:50 - A story about Bigface by Chris & Neef, talks Biggs' role in Tough Luv
2:01:45 - Jim Jones getting $9k cheques a week from engineering, getting director of photography cheques #hustle
2:04:50 - Everyone's reactions to hearing Takeover, talk multiple versions, Nas hearing the incomplete version and responding before Jay added the Nas-specific verse. "It was more about Prodigy than it was Nas"
2:06:25 - "Who was at Summer Jam- who made that call to Michael Jackson?"
2:07:35 - [gratuitous pausing] I swear I don't get NY dudes
2:08:50 - Hip-Hop meeting Kanye West for the first time in '96, originally going there meeting with No I.D. who said he had nothing for Jay, but recommended Ye, none of Ye's beats sticking with Jay until This Can't Be Life
2:11:15 - "Did everyone on this stage have a moment where Ye went up to you, said 'I can rap,' and then rapped forever to you?"; how Ye brought songs to them, Hip-Hop and Biggs seeing Kanye's potential early
2:13:30 - "What does Dame not get enough credit for?;" "Dame would split a 2 million dollar overhead 8 ways [between his staff]"
So many great anecdotes.
I wish I could find some videos I've seen on the topic, but rappers of all statures pass on songs that end up being hits. Jay has passed on a number himself.
Then I showed up and ruined everything!
Bless up jay and no id for this album, pure bliss.
Listened to the A$AP Twelvyy just now and his voice kind of reminds me of Vince Staples. Gonna re listen tomorrow, I liked it the first time around.
this ugly god tape has no business being as good as it is lmao
shits classic, had me laughing a few times:
Damn, I am the G.O.A.T, admit it
Bitch your house got roaches, I ain't going, bitch I can't
Yeah, shit's fucking hilarious.
Come here baby put your phone number in my gadget
"Little Dick Clique", until they lay me in a casket
The fact Ugly God produced 7 out of the 10 tracks on his tape is not that significant a feat, but the fact he did so in a sub-genre where production is a bigger factor than who's rapping or about what they're rapping about makes it a much bigger deal.So I feel like being an artist would help my brand way bigger than just being a producer. I want people to know me as a person and not just this piano guy that plays piano. I want people to know when they see me or hear me talk, to know my presence. I feel like being an artist can definitely lead the way and help a lot.
Well, Pitchfork likes it so
Also I don't think we ever really talked about this album in here, might be the most impressive debut by an 18 year old since since Earl...