The Donuts vs. Modal Soul | ALBUM FACE OFF

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Last Updated: June 28th 12:54PM EST

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Donuts

Donuts hands down

donuts, are you stupid?

it's objectively donuts but modal soul is more important to me personally

cmon bro

Donuts. RIP Dilla RIP Nuja

donuts are you stupid for sure and honestly i've never fully loved nujabes stuff tbh. obviously the sample selection piano and musical chops are pretty incomparable but never liked his drums

Donuts on some days feels like the best album ever to me

I listen to every week

Don't do this

I want to like this but I can't in earnest being from Detroit

But almost

imo you appreciate nujabes a lot more when you look at it less of instrumental hip hop like it's often categorized but instead as downtempo or nu-jazz using similar sampling styles to hip hop

his successors really took this and fleshed it out more; Uyama Hiroto & Haruka Nakamura are like natural evolutions of what Nujabes was doing esp. on spiritual state

I dont mean to be disrespectful but I never liked these two being compared

The styles are very different. Modal Soul sounds more jazzy than hip-hop.

for sure i grew to listen to it for that, that the dry and nondescript drums work towards that goal of downtempo jazzy melodic stuff where harder rap drums would throw the formula out of whack, but personally I think people set him up (OP included!) when comparing him to people like Dilla or Madlib

yeah i agree, i don't think they belong in the same category at all. there's a small overlap in their style of artistry and context but that's it

modal soul

this is not a big enough deal to warrant the overreactions itt

Hot take but I always felt Fat Jon was a better and more versatile producer especially when you factor in his group projects.

Nujabes is still a GOAT but there's not much that he did to make him stick out from Madlib and J Dilla or his protégés.

Imma go with Modal Soul

not familiar with modal soul ima check it out