Buryly

5y

Lupe did it before?

Elaborate

Buryly

5y

Tbh none of his image comes off as forced to me

Kdogone

5y

He literally got tired of being told to portray the rapper image deemed marketable after this moment here.

flizzy

5y

From an interview with Pitchfork in 2006:

Pitchfork: I read this interview with David Banner a year ago where he was saying that Southern rap sounds different from New York rap because people listen to it in cars. That's how they experience it, so the levels of bass matters. The version of your album that leaked is the first rap album I've heard that I would call an iPod album. The way it sounds, it seems more geared toward close listening, and sound-wise it's soothing in these weird and interesting ways. It's more intimate, the way you use your voice on the beats and the kinds of beats that you use.

LF: Well, when I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music. I always want landscapes that are not too, like, warrrrng! The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing too much, it's going to take you away. If the hook is too distracting, it's going to take you away. The hook just needs to be enough to get you from one verse to the next. And they actually mixed my album with the beat all the way in the back.

But the music is in the back and the vocals are on top because it's listening music. Like, I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop. I really don't like hip-hop like that, that much. So I can strip down basic principles of certain things and apply it to everything else. And that keeps you interested, changing the art form, making it more avant-garde. Because I can't play any instruments.

Kdogone

5y

He literally got tired of being told to portray the rapper image deemed marketable after this moment here.

Buryly

5y

Forgot about that

flizzy

5y

From an interview with Pitchfork in 2006:

Pitchfork: I read this interview with David Banner a year ago where he was saying that Southern rap sounds different from New York rap because people listen to it in cars. That's how they experience it, so the levels of bass matters. The version of your album that leaked is the first rap album I've heard that I would call an iPod album. The way it sounds, it seems more geared toward close listening, and sound-wise it's soothing in these weird and interesting ways. It's more intimate, the way you use your voice on the beats and the kinds of beats that you use.

LF: Well, when I write, it's intimate. I write in the car, and I don't even hear, like, ambulances driving past me because I'm in my car, listening to the music, writing. I record in an attic with no booth. It's not like I'm in the dark with candles, but it's like a house, a home, and I record like that. I think that plays into the music. I always want landscapes that are not too, like, warrrrng! The stuff that I make and the things that I talk about, you have to listen, so if the beat is doing too much, it's going to take you away. If the hook is too distracting, it's going to take you away. The hook just needs to be enough to get you from one verse to the next. And they actually mixed my album with the beat all the way in the back.

But the music is in the back and the vocals are on top because it's listening music. Like, I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop. I really don't like hip-hop like that, that much. So I can strip down basic principles of certain things and apply it to everything else. And that keeps you interested, changing the art form, making it more avant-garde. Because I can't play any instruments.

Stan Smith

5y

Didn’t Mask Off go #1 or some s***? But yeah taking a staunch approach against d*** abuse was the norm at the time. Not the songs upon songs from top rappers talking about pills and lean lol.

Plankton

5y

You realize people listen to d*** music and are still against d****, right?

Swz3000

5y

Personally think the opposite, always got the impression he made a conscious decision to become a woke rapper, and literally changed his whole vibe (hair, clothes, lyrics etc) to fit that image from a brand / marketing POV, because it became a viable route for money making.

Probably being too harsh cos he has obviously done real things to support some causes but still

Jim Halpert

5y

If only he could make great albums

Jim Halpert

5y

If only he could make great albums

Stan Smith

5y

Not everybody.

Jim Halpert

5y

If only he could make great albums

Buryly

5y

I hope The Fall Off will be his first great album

Jim Halpert

5y

i have had this hope for all of his projects

i cant believe i still have hope

i dont think the fall off exists though. but im a skeptic. i dont believe in things until they have a release date

Buryly

5y

He implied The Fall Off will be coming out this fall considering the election theme he previewed and FNL's 10-year anniversary is coming up too. He came close with FHD and while I like that album, feel there's something missing that makes it fall short

Jim Halpert

5y

FHD is fine and i guess his best work. But you cant have stuff like wet dreamz and then on a very heartfelt and almost great song say things like "give a virgin the urge to rape me"

he is king of shooting himself in the foot