TDE sweatshop

idk how much he got paid to really comment on it

Yeah this s*** needs to not be glorified. end of story

Crunching for a deluxe 💔

Has anyone checked on the engineer?

Uzi

Not the confessions gif

Sweatshop SZA. COULDN'T BE...

She really said

@twitch

I just imagine she lied to them beforehand

LMAOOO

the interesting thing about crunching on album mixes in damn near 2025 is that you dont even really HAVE to do it anymore....like no mix is permanent. you can just update it. like remember when nav's vocals were low as hell on astroworld and they went and fixed it? if there was a huge mistake they could just change it and update it. plenty of albums get "firmware updates" like that. its not like when these albums were printed onto physical products as the main form of consumption

i guess the downside is that you dont want to make an awful first impression with a terrible mix. like the cyberpunk 2077 of music. but i have a hard time believing sza isnt working with people who are getting pretty damn solid day 1 mixes / mixing in real time. so the crunch probably isnt fixing individual songs, but adding textures and consistency across the whole project to create that cohesive uniform feeling assuming shes working with multiple producers

would love if a professional engineer who has rly done this s*** before was on ktt to give us some context because even as an artist myself i cant say ive experienced anything like this

this whole music s*** is so backwards man. for example w ye, we've BEEN at the point for close to if not more than a DECADE now where he's so lazy and washed up he doesnt even make his own music anymore. what glory does this nigga deserve exactly except on some past tense s***?

then you get dumb ass niggas goin on about "well ye got the VISION" or "he a director" or "typical prince avi" like shut the f*** up nigga please. how much hand you really have in that vision when it's all made for you? for the most part he doesnt put a finger to a keyboard, doesnt put chords together, doesnt put his pen to paper let alone fingers to a touchscreen, and just employs niggas insane hours to do it all for him or buys songs he likes off the shelf like he at the grocery store. can you even describe this man as a producer let alone a musician anymore? what does he actually bring to the table? beyonce brings vocals, sza brings her lyrics, because lord knows she not singing without autotune and melodyne.

when exactly did it become "elitist" to value when people actually make their own music, write their own bars, not just have their own "vision" but actually bring that to life, whether on some instrument with jazz or classical training or in a DAW making some electronic wizardy even while lacking that musical training? when did music become THIS consumerist where even in hip hop circles where niggas are supposed to care about this, they're defending niggas that do nothing except reap the spoils and get their name on the music like a mf landlord?? im like a broken record with this and not enough people question it.

oh she was being serious?

I looked at it as sarcasm

anyways all sza's popular songs sound the same.

some of yall have never truly been in the arena and it shows

smh makes sense she make that side chick music

Ye wasn’t wrong tho

Against crunch unless your heart in it. Many of the things we consider to be great were made in more than a 40 hour work week.

I hate this new world lmao

All this just to update the album days later

imagine not being outraged that SZA’s own carelessness regarding HER OWN schedule forced this man to work insane shifts to finish HER album by HER unrealistic deadline

SZA should’ve either pushed it back or finalized it sooner

you couldn’t pay me to empathize with someone paid to sit in a room with sza all day