How to Impress God

On paper a Saba and No ID collab album sounds like a classic but idk all 4 of these singles are kinda underwhelming. All of them sound like they're missing something

crine didn't realize the singles spanned back so far

These two dropped last year, but they might have scraped that version of the album

yeah added those thanks, lemme ask what do you use mobile or on your computer?

90% of the time mobile

Head rap was stronger

video

Dion cooked

love all the singles

Well okay then

Wish more people worked with No ID and Just Blaze

top of the year it is.

0% chance this comes in January

new Rolling Stone interview. Date confirmed for January.

So when Saba received a pack of more than 100 beats from No ID while he was on the road in 2022, it wasn’t exactly unprecedented. Still, Saba took it as another test: “He just trusted me with 100-plus beats. He gave me a shot. Let me just get something done.” Though Saba was already in the midst of major life changes — losing Squeak, leaving Chicago, and buying a home in Los Angeles — he managed to make 13 songs that reflected the transitory time.

...

As No ID sees it, somewhere along the way, his own genre shamed the beatmakers and romanticized the “huge, larger-than-life people who sit in chairs and tell everybody what to do” instead. “I felt like, ‘Man, I became too much of a producer. I need to be a beatmaker again.’” So he challenged himself to build an arsenal of beats that would have been good enough for Biggie.

When I ask the pair which songs they had the most fun with, No ID asks to go first. “Go ahead,” Saba concedes. “Thank you, Confucius,” No ID says, smirking. There’s one called “30secondchop.wav,” a thick-skinned cypher between Saba, his brother Joseph Chilliams, and his cousin Jean Deaux that came from a quick production trick No ID was teaching Saba one day. Then there’s “Crash,” a sweet serenade about the type of dates that turn to sleepovers. Both Raphael Saadiq and Kelly Rowland heard the track in passing at the studio and asked to jump on. “One day, Kelly’s like, ‘Can I, uh…’ I’m like, ‘You want to sing on that?’ She’s like, ‘Yeah, I was waiting on you to ask,’ ” No ID recalls.

ridiculously long rollout smh

them Chicago boys locking in tryna make CLASSICS... 2025 for Saba and Chance

and a new Noname album hopefully, shiiiiitttt

not coming in january by the way

Loosie

instagram.com/reel/DC4rHcvSM8K/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

i know them hard drives overflowing. this is tight

this is gonna be f***ing amazing