today i delved into how i think the beat switch has gotten kinda lazy in recent years. but im not a Professional Hater so i spend most of the video looking at the beat switch's roots back in the origins of hip-hop, and appreciating some of the better ones we've had (in all genres)

what do you think? are you tired of seeing a certain song on a tracklist and thinking, yeah they definitely slapped two unfinished songs together? or do you still enjoy that lil shock value?

can we stop calling them “beat switches” and start calling them “hidden tracks” again?? it’s not a beat switch if it’s clearly two separate songs

valid point. but is it really a hidden track when the feature is listed and its track 3 on an album

Sicko Mode did irreparable damage to the narrative around “beat switches”

Haven't clicked play yet respectfully but what's your list of great beat switches?

🤔 can’t argue with that

what did people used to call it when there were two clearly separate songs as one track on an album? like Cameras / Good Ones Go from Take Care

i didnt format it in that sense but some of the ones i talked about were the weeknd party / the after party + house of balloons/glass table girls, frank ocean - nights and pyramids, and some of th e recent kendrick/baby keem ones.+ pop out - lil baby & nardo wick

and i bigged up some songs that are more transitional rather than a jarring beat switch, like a lot of the tracks on drake's nwts

The best beat switchups are the songs that are actually setup for a beat switch.

Example : 20/20 Part 1 or even FS/LS in some cases.

yea i didnt talk about that song specifically, although i think some of the weeknd songs i mentioned are kinda like that

i didnt talk about the tyler two/three-parter tracks he usually does too on track 10 of his album

medley

Sicko Mode invented

100%. futuresex/lovesounds is a big piece of my video's argument on how cool the beat switch can be when each part bleeds in and retains elements from the other

its not 2018 anymore. we must move on

Good round up. I fast forwarded a little (will listen after work) but I like your perspective about being a new artist and showing "two sides of me" in one song. Interesting consideration

Aside from a few cuts on Utopia ironically enough I can't think of any well done beat switches in a while

i agree tbh. i prefer gradual changes in the beat instead of just flat out swapping beats

yeaa i honestly didnt want to s*** on artists here. especially as an artist. i completely understand every business decision these dudes make. but also as a fan im like. can we go back to prioritizing sequencing and transitions to make a project really feel grand?

i didnt mention this in the video but i think its a side effect of albums getting turned in like the day they come out now, especially at the A-list level. theyre not taking those last few sessions to build transitions and get creative with it. they're still adding and cutting songs lmao. which is cool in some ways. but i think we lose some value here

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Agreed. Drakes been doing it for a while to be fair to him, but he does it in the Sicko Mode format a lot more now and it's just getting a bit too frequent. Here's an example of a (goated) beat switch from his earlier albums

i like the lil baby / nardo wick one on pop out but nardos voice is just perfect for that jarring transition imo

ahaaa yea theres a whole section of this video where i big up drake for being one of the best at this earlier in his career, and i named 4 songs off nwts but honestly most of the album qualifies

that Drake / 21 song you mentioned in the video is a great example of songs i just toss in a DAW & split them up, because i’d never want to play the full thing except during an album listen

Genuinely could be the best beat switch of all time, not even tryna d***ride

Three 6 and Trav the only artists who've done beat switches better than this

also mentioned in the video! Come Thru enjoyers rejoice

prob the most underrated drake track. feel like im the only one with it in my top 10

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