The vocals almost sound suppressed, like if you compare future and drake on wait for u, future is super clear and he’s sitting on top of the beat, drakes vocals sound like they have some distortion and reverb and they somehow feel a lot wider and less sharp. This makes him sit with the beat more than sit on top of the beat. Compare the vocals on wait for u to any song on clb as well and you’ll see what I mean.

Another example of what I’m tryna explain is on 3.15.20 by gambino, I described it to my friend as the vocals don’t sit on top of the beat at all, they almost have a drum forward mix where instead of it feeling layered it all comes from the same place or the drums punch through the entire beat and pop out, a lot of lofi rap is mixed like that with the vocals in the back with the beat and the drums drowning everything out in a sense

Agreed!

Fr he cant stand the fact people love drake so much

It’s definitely what they intended but I can’t get behind it necessarily, it’s distracting me on some tracks

Like I get why on this project they probably did it as to not emphasize the vocals too much cause the beats are a big focus as well, or to make the vocals more of an element vs the main component

It can it just takes paragraphs

Yeaah lol

Jimmy Cooks works for me at the end of the album I look at Liability like last call at the bar and then JC as the Uber ride back with the bros

mr hudson said that too lmao

he likes the slowed reverb sound he posts it on his ig story plenty of times

I think he’s using a form of distortion similar to what Kanye did on donda like on hurricane, but less obvious, and then I think it’s extra reverb and they might crank the mids up or down I can’t remember which is which, the result is it’s wider and not as sharp sounding. More like an instrument in the piano guitar range than a voice I guess?

Could just be that he recorded some at Donda 2 and the hotel acoustics was not cutting it

came and went damn

What is everyone’s playcount lookin like?? Also wtf is that pfp for drake

im a white kendrick fan

i see tho

stan wars

facts

movies over heres the credits

I’ll never understand how when you pitch down or up a song it always sounds like it’s coming through a filter

And it’s not you I did this with some party and Kanye songs

Yeah I used ableton for this. It sucks but kinda works for this since the original sounds f***ed up anyway (in a good way) lol

I saw people comparing it to bound but bound was kind of a bookend to what he was talking about. This one feels more random. I’m sure they had a reason though

Yeah I always use ableton too

I think it probably got f***ed up when he pitched it down first

Why that boy 21 do what he did? 🤯 🔥🔥

pusssseeeeeeyyyy

bro stop

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it's a weird question imo

if A$AP Yams was alive would Testing sound like this?

you know? there's no point.

Maybe, I just feel like it was heavily inspired by him, and the most similar song to this was produced by him

In regards to the second part, I feel like Virgil and him probably talked about this at some point whereas with testing that was Rockys like first venture on his own