It influenced me to get no b****es

you dont know what you're talking about

Nyet

Alright ill bite, hows it influential?

I dont think its a bad album btw just never seen any measurable influence

Yes

No it’s not

The only influence I could cite is probaly Syre and some of Jaden's earlier songs that are just loosies like Weekend In Atlantis.

I think it definitely did start a more introspective trend in rap, I'm not really sure how to articulate what I mean though.

I guess it just started a wave of younger rappers talking about more existential stuff and more vibey beats? It doesn't really make sense cuz Donald was grown asf in that era

not really lol

he doesn’t hate him. he liked awaken my love and has had positive things to say about particular songs of his

what nigga listened to sweatpants and said yeeeaaaaahhhh this what i’m basing my sound on

People weren’t really translating internet culture into the actual music and visuals yet. You’re taking this for granted if you believe it wasn’t new when BTI came out.

This is now an OK Computer appreciation thread

dropping a lot of visuals, dressing the same way for public appearances and performances, creating a narrative and story arc..

sounds a lot like after hours..

bino been playing with that formula years before abel

Wow incredible insight. No artist has ever done that before and Childish Gambino is definitely the originator of the character act. After Hours simply would not be possible with Bino's OK Computer level contributions!

You ever heard of David bowie

how many people come out and list any influence at all

and on the rare occasion an artist does list influences do they cover every single influence or just whoever is relevant to the interview they're in?

point being, we can't actually judge influence accurately thru interviews, at least not with most artists. We're left to make judgements ourselves on how much x influenced y and etc.

I agree with everything you say here, and still think BTI influenced very little. Worst of all he just copied what Drake, Ye and Wayne did earlier that year.

i dont think he rlly copied drake ye or wayne very much at all tbh i mean lets get real were any of them making s*** like telegraph ave, flight of the navigator, the worst guys, shadows, etc.

that being said i agree bti wasn't that influential but thats not cus its not good its cus it's a kind of inaccessible style. u cant easily replicate unless ur already working w rlly high level production and engineering and all that

Good album but idk who it inspired or looks up to it lol

Just Mitch and Jaden ig