does it not hit the same way or is that how the algorithms telling you to feel?

I keep repeating it and repeating it but you cannot tell me a song that is basically "Respectability Politics: The Song" would have popped off in 2025 the way that it popped off in 1998 bruh I'm telling ya

I forgot this came out tbh

Assuming the timeline isn't fractured it could still work
I reckon Chiraq the movie gets erased from existence on this timeline too

They tie the song into the meme about Yearning & there'd be a dating app trend with girls saying 'You better not be about That Thing until we've had a few dates '

Let me fire up the time machine actually, this way Erykah Badu can finally get the credit that Lauryn Hill undeservedly gets

They killing it as soon as hill telling them how they showing off they ass cause they thinking its a trend

i aint gon lie im fw this production

Using one of the catchiest and most well produced and performed songs of the late 20th century in any genre isn’t a fair example of this idea

Nah let her have fun . People not giving her respect either way . In women rap Simz and can Tierra whack can rap their ass off while never getting the same respect as doechii. Let them have fun

The reason artist change up what they do is because they see how much infinitely better they rap than others while never getting the same looks at all

Meg doechii Nicki cardi are viewed as pinnacle of women rap . While others can’t even get a play

The thing is, most of them do it badly and really genetically

There's literally no point for it existing, not for the fans, nor potential fans - it serves no one, and I don't think it serves the artist themselves neither

It's a nothing

damn. Lotus was good i'm surprised this is what her new joint sounds like

Trap/rage has ironically killed off any other type of banger

Niggas cant make an aggressive or party record without trap drums and most of the hype records before 2009 werent like that lol

Also this

Its gotten to a weird place where visibility > skill

It started with Wayne but he at least foundationally has some skill

An alte simz album would go crazy

So what this doesn’t work I still think it’s fair for artist to try

Vince staples just made a rock album let artist create whatever . Being hip hop purist gets them nowhere . Doechii bit Rico nasty then got credit like she created it

Her best song

yh this nice

Mixolydian

Jerk music out now

I haven’t listened to simz in years.

Why she on that kind of beat

I like the song with jt on this project

But yea.. rough listens all around .

Seems like she was doing a fun little one off drop, I can't judge her harshly off this imo
This 4 track EP seems abit more commercial than her usual sounds
2nd beat on the album sounds like a modern Drake beat

i'm not a Simz fan

I blame folks who tryna act like SIMBI is a masterpiece too
Album is the most overrated of the past decade
When underwhelming stuff gets heralded as great, it can have a negative effect on their future releases

Sometimes it feels like white women view listening to Simz/Sampa The Great/noname (before she scared them off)/Beyoncé etc. as a form of reparations or something

(With Noname I'm speaking about before she scared them off)
(They call her a Queen & publicly treat her like that but Beyoncé's album sales never match up to what you'd expect)

idk, seems like just a one off

she was on her last project singing in Spanish with a Cole/Drake flow on a samba type beat

I think she’s just a kid from London which might as well be like New York in Europe, probably hearing all this s*** daily