Darkest Before Dawn his best album
Daytona is dope but really think the hype & controversy surrounding it elevated its status. also very short
Imagine calling Sweet Serenade average and I say that as someone who can’t stand Chris Brown.
Maybe it's Spotify's garbage ass quality but the snippet sounded harder and I'm not the kind of guy who says that.
Album's gonna be a classic
So glad I blocked that clown
All he does is bait, be a hater and tell people they're clueless kids who don't know about hip hop like him
damn this is mid 😓
Here's the quote you were looking for.
wait till 88 speaks on the beat before you start this "no stem" rumor because the beat came from a beat tape.
You know beat tapes were how producers got placements and recognition back in the day? what makes you believe that 88 keys doesn't have the files?
Yeah and in a lot of those cases from sample based producers they would never use the stems for a final mix. Anything Madlib and Dilla ever produced for example, they just sent the beat and the final mixes were just 2 tracks, the vocals and the beat. Busta Rhymes said this on Drink Champs, his albums were big budget affairs with Janet Jackson on them but they never used stems for beats from Dilla, it just came straight off the beat tape and they looped it
No More Parties in LA definitely never had stems, Madlib has said he doesn’t keep stems he just exports his mix of the beat and deletes everything, all of Madvillainy was made that way
Now take that information and see that the beat here is a literal loop that has scratching all over it, even through the verses which is very not typical. 88keys said that the beat was originally an interlude on his beat tape and it would make sense for an interlude to have that vocal scratch all over it for just a short piece
One thing I hate about the discourse on here is I can’t ever draw conclusions without y’all saying it’s a reach, everything has to be spelled out and 1000% confirmed for y’all. I have more than enough information to draw this conclusion, this is blatantly a loop from the beat tape with the opening sample and kick added. If you need 88keys to spell that out then I guess y’all just don’t really know s*** tbh