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  • Oct 18, 2023
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    GAWD (African S***Freak Fantasy producer) just dropped another collab tape with WifiGawd last week apparently, also features Niontay

  • Oct 18, 2023
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    beflygelt

    I just found out MIKE did an AMA on his discord and saw this story lmao

    yo what's his discord's name ?

  • Oct 18, 2023

    Ain't no lackey we the main dogs, captains in the state
    He wanna tap in but he way off,
    Hit Patrick for a play

    I'ma grab it and play God, pass it back to Wade

  • Oct 18, 2023
    beflygelt

    GAWD (African S***Freak Fantasy producer) just dropped another collab tape with WifiGawd last week apparently, also features Niontay

    !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybsQFnaRULc

    Aye WiFiGawd is that guy!!

  • Oct 18, 2023
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  • Oct 18, 2023
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    sisilafami

    yo what's his discord's name ?

    just MIKE discord but couldn't make an invite myself, just asked a mod there about it

  • Oct 18, 2023
    beflygelt

    just MIKE discord but couldn't make an invite myself, just asked a mod there about it

    mods not allowing peeps to join?

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    Niontay x El Cousteau x Earl x MIKE

  • Oct 19, 2023
    beflygelt

    just MIKE discord but couldn't make an invite myself, just asked a mod there about it

    Would love to join if/when invites are being dished out

  • Oct 19, 2023

    Feat Niontay

  • Oct 19, 2023

    Need Niontay and Sideshow on a track together

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    babylon sherm

    I feel like I’m nowhere close to grasping this album yet because it’s so massive. It’s definitely the work of a master. This has to be one of the most ambitious rap albums ever no?

    hmm this is interesting! what makes it one of the most ambitious rap albums to you?

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    Phlegm

    hmm this is interesting! what makes it one of the most ambitious rap albums to you?

    Well we can approach that idea from a couple angles

    As a conceptual exercise, this is a journey of personal development wrapped inside of a fake movie inside of a Low End Theory-style guided audio museum tour. We move from the abstract to the personal very quickly in this album and that is a testament to MIKE knowing how much artifice is enough vs. too much

    Sound-wise, production-wise, MIKE’s never sounded fuller. This melds the professional sheen of Beware of the Monkey with the purposefully sluggish and introspective beat style that got him shine in the first place seamlessly and expands his horizons in every direction. A classic MIKE song sounds like you’re walking somewhere uphill in the snow both ways, but like a lot of others have noted he’s much less lugubrious in sound and lyrical content these days, and allowing more moods into his sound palate brings a variety that still seems cohesive. Plus dude doing so much here, you’re getting songs that start like a classic Slums-type beat and segue into Madlib/Dilla shifting tempo experiments. You’ve got a sunny, Alchemist-esque synth loop that Larry June floats over melting into a Radiohead song. You get some f***in hard-ass loops, you get sound collage, you get some s*** that sounds like Clams Casino would sample it to make a beat

    Lyrically I feel like he’s barring the f*** out (first and foremost) and operating at his highest level of writing while simultaneously being the most accessible he’s ever been. You can become a MIKE fan from this album if you’ve never heard him or any of the s*** he influenced before. I don’t think that’s super easy to do. MIKE is really giving Earl a run for that poet laureate of rap title on this one

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    Well we can approach that idea from a couple angles

    As a conceptual exercise, this is a journey of personal development wrapped inside of a fake movie inside of a Low End Theory-style guided audio museum tour. We move from the abstract to the personal very quickly in this album and that is a testament to MIKE knowing how much artifice is enough vs. too much

    Sound-wise, production-wise, MIKE’s never sounded fuller. This melds the professional sheen of Beware of the Monkey with the purposefully sluggish and introspective beat style that got him shine in the first place seamlessly and expands his horizons in every direction. A classic MIKE song sounds like you’re walking somewhere uphill in the snow both ways, but like a lot of others have noted he’s much less lugubrious in sound and lyrical content these days, and allowing more moods into his sound palate brings a variety that still seems cohesive. Plus dude doing so much here, you’re getting songs that start like a classic Slums-type beat and segue into Madlib/Dilla shifting tempo experiments. You’ve got a sunny, Alchemist-esque synth loop that Larry June floats over melting into a Radiohead song. You get some f***in hard-ass loops, you get sound collage, you get some s*** that sounds like Clams Casino would sample it to make a beat

    Lyrically I feel like he’s barring the f*** out (first and foremost) and operating at his highest level of writing while simultaneously being the most accessible he’s ever been. You can become a MIKE fan from this album if you’ve never heard him or any of the s*** he influenced before. I don’t think that’s super easy to do. MIKE is really giving Earl a run for that poet laureate of rap title on this one

    last sentence kinda what i was getting at earlier tbh

  • Oct 19, 2023

    I think the key difference between them is that MIKE has even more growth coming as a "newer" artist and so he's kind of guaranteed to surpass Earl. Although with this project I'm questioning if that's already happened.

  • Oct 19, 2023
    Mims_OG
    !https://youtu.be/Ccy-HjqvbT8?si=Wnb59TcBCbf551On

    Niontay x El Cousteau x Earl x MIKE

    madnesssss

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    music.apple.com/ca/album/demon-muppy-ep/1711060482

    New Niontay EP "Demon Muppy" 11/2

    1. YATKAMAN3000 [prod. TAKA]
    2. Ridewimmie (I95er) [prod. 454]
    3. 2AM Pete's [prod. Harrison of Surf Gang]
    4. Superbowl LVIII (feat. 454) [doesn't list prod credit but i assume it's 454 x sexafterchurch]
    5. In my UA sweater [prod. 454]
    6. Real hiphop (feat. El Cousteau, MIKE & Earl Sweatshirt) [prod. Tony Seltzer]

  • Oct 19, 2023

    Niontay single hard as bricks

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    el cousteau is the one

  • Oct 19, 2023
    Xing Ped

    el cousteau is the one

  • Oct 19, 2023

    Give this man Niontay an Oscar IMMEDIATELY

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    Wh1p

    Anyone want some rage fuel?

    https://youtube.com/shorts/XGJR_ViIiho?feature=share

    is this the fantano interview lol? don't wanna honor with another view

    literally the only thing he had to say is that he's still butthurt from MIKE putting him on his album cover w devil horns lmaoo

  • Oct 19, 2023
    ICEMAN KIR

    https://music.apple.com/ca/album/demon-muppy-ep/1711060482

    New Niontay EP "Demon Muppy" 11/2

    1. YATKAMAN3000 [prod. TAKA]
    2. Ridewimmie (I95er) [prod. 454]
    3. 2AM Pete's [prod. Harrison of Surf Gang]
    4. Superbowl LVIII (feat. 454) [doesn't list prod credit but i assume it's 454 x sexafterchurch]
    5. In my UA sweater [prod. 454]
    6. Real hiphop (feat. El Cousteau, MIKE & Earl Sweatshirt) [prod. Tony Seltzer]

    yooo

  • Oct 19, 2023
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    beflygelt

    is this the fantano interview lol? don't wanna honor with another view

    literally the only thing he had to say is that he's still butthurt from MIKE putting him on his album cover w devil horns lmaoo

    I f***s with Fantano overall but I don't involve myself in his petty squabbles with industry people. That's funny that Mike did that