That he can recognize an element of music outside of his sphere (trap vs gospel) and incorporate it into his music, requires a certain level of emotional depth to understand how it can even work with your music, since music is built on sounds, tensions, etc. and from there has written and recorded music that does go into those emotional depths and leans into those traditional sounds his producer is more familiar with to create a new sound in trap

like it or not perception plays a big part. like tweaking on drink champs and poppin pills on kai cenat stream does way more harm than good. his breakfast club interview did a lot to endear him to people. all that helps people get engaged, more people wanna check for him, more big artists wanna work with him which gets more fans involved and makes bigger records, incentivizes the label to put the machine behind him, it all builds up on one another

yak is honestly best of his generation and u either hear it or don’t

lot of these other niggas been hyped but yak is a legend fr he’s a musician

maybe most introspective guwop song

You say that, and it’s true, but then on the flip side there’s a Kodak meme from the stream with 50M views that’s being taken as hilarious and overshadowing that situation

This what I mean by he’s an interesting individual because he’s in a space where he’s almost expected to have those issues now that it doesn’t necessarily harm his clout per say

He’s a chill guy

He was the chosen one

he’s a legend fr

i see what you’re saying yak is a legend regardless and ill always check for him getting back to the mainstream could be around the corner for him i wanna see him get there and back on everyone’s radar

Man I posted wouldn’t do it on the last page peep that if you never heard it

Too bad these songs are trash tho

too bad these songs are trash tho

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i don’t even think it matters what amount of success he would have, i feel like it’s more about if he’s sober or not

critical+mainstream s*** he don’t have on lock as often or as much as some of his counterparts but he had huge moments

but fr his rapping and songwriting ability is unparalleled

what’s holding him back from larger critical acclaim is less bc of his legal issues. carti is one of the biggest rappers rn with a quarter of the output as his peers and allegations held against him that’s awful

i just don’t think someone as authentic as kodak will have mainstream appeal. as “effortless” it’s made to look, every carti rollout has had a big creative team around him that’s usually full of the most creative young people in their medium.

i don’t think kodak is going for that kind of pull, relationship with audiences. i think he drops music to be heard and that’s it.

a sober kodak isn’t gonna turn around and make a gkmc, but i think his pen will be more focused and hopefully deliver an album mainstream can’t ignore

this s*** got me thru rehab no kizzy

how you sound to me

Great post as always man

Kodak had authentic ass hits back in the day too he didnt need to do forced rollouts or gimmicks really

Like from 2015-19 he had hits if you were outside

Very uncalculated for better or worse

I wouldn’t do it is good but cmon man. We can all agree Gucci is much more legendary in comparison to Kodak but he is not as good of a musician and that’s okay!

Him, Pop, Juice and X would’ve been Mount Rushmore

Crazy to see the fall off since Project Baby 2