pedigree spirit

2y

is there a zoomer lil b?

Fever

1y

Certified trapper

Block Muteson

1y

Page bumping me you better have a song to contribute

proper

6mo

bump

americana

6mo

@op needs to keep doing this

Block Muteson

2y

Lancey Foux - Life In Hell (2022)

"Money feels like ecstasy, money make her cum"🤑

Starting things off British- not very promising. I'm already familiar with Lancey, but I haven't checked in as much since rage became trendy. As for how "underground" he is- he's signed to a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. I guess we're using the Melz definition of underground.

At 22 tracks, and with unintelligle or negligible lyrics, this is all about the melodies and beats.There’s a lot of meandering baby voice. None of this is fatal- but is there enough personality to get it over the hump? Thugger, Future, Yeat. The Looney Tune, the womanizer, the tweaker. Who is Lancey? I still have no idea.

I'll say this, he is more polished and flexible than a lot of guys in this lane. He's always had a professional sounding product, and he's more ambitious on this record than the average Opium peon. He knows how to write a song. He can make World on Fire and Pendulum and Lies Will Set You Free. He's a descendant of Ye, of Trav, of Carti the innovator as opposed to Carti the guy who just made WLR. I wouldn't call Lancey a rage beat anime YouTube thumbnail rapper at all really.

He is, however, kind of anonymous in the same way someone like Tory Lanez is: clearly talented but endlessly derivative. Tracks like Ride Til You Die are laughably late to the vaporwave and retro wave party- which isn’t to call them bad. This is just not a rap album. It’s not. He’s got next to no bars. He plugs in a few purer songs at the end which make Carti/Keem/Yeat sound like Nas. There’s not even a reason to pull the lyrics up and read them.

This is a lookbook. It’s a showreel. It’s mercifully diverse and well made. The vibes and textures are on point.

Will Cherry - ULTRAVIOLET (2022)

"She just had to jump up in them jeans; I like 'em healthy" 🍑

Let's get it out of the way. You can tell this guy is more of a producer and musician than he is a rapper. That's not a bad thing. That comes with sensible song structures and strong progressions, he can sing a catchy hook, and for an independent artist everything sounds really tight. So what's the drawback?

Does anyone really want a whole project from the 3rd or 4th best guy in Brockhampton or Save Money? Cause that's what this feels like- like how the worst guy in Flatbush Zombies is also the producer and visionary for their entire style. I think if Will Cherry was a key member in a group, that would be something.

As is, I don't think he's a strong enough personality. There's not really a story here. It's kind of like how scientists go into deep sea caves and rediscover a one thought extinct species- but for the blog era. He's good at separating rapping from singing, not compromising on the two, but when he's rapping the bars are not hitting for me. Some of them throw me off entirely.

If you can avoid the potholes, if you're a bedroom producer type perse, you might enjoy this more than I did. It might even be aspirational. So while this was a painless experience, I have listened to it a half dozen times front to back, it's not as memorable as it is commendable.

GoVanni! - LUST4LOVE (2022)

"I feel like a shell on a snail" 🐌

I was listening to these albums until I felt like I had a grasp on them, but there's not much to grasp here. I'm tired of looking for something that isn't there.

The outro should be the intro to serve as a kind of disclaimer instead of a preamble to whatever is next. He apparently knows he's just filling a niche. He namedrops rage, but I feel like hyper-trap or something is just as fitting given the level of manipulation going on here.

The moments where they kind of chop and screw this nightcore adjacent music was actually cool though. Finding a way to incorporate that more would be a nice signature. Otherwise the only thing that stood out was how many layers of vocals would be wound together at once. So yeah, more hyper-poppy than just rage.

I wouldn't call this grating. I wouldn't call this bad. It's just pretty sparse and well tread ground. There's not a lot of text to study. It didn't stir anything in me. A few years ago I found this artist Juju on SoundCloud, and I wouldn't mind someone like GoVanni! trying to bridge his sound into that.

If WLR and 100 Gecs were ever countercultural, at some point someone will turn it into actual pop music. It's just a race to see who gets their first. That's the freedom you get being anonymous and underground. You don't have to play by anyone's rules. So why bother?

Windmaster

6mo

Will cherry is a dope ktt artist if u didn't know. Bro deserves to be famous

stanley

6mo

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che - Pizza Time

nosgov & xaviersobased - stressor

NETTSPEND - 16

Babyxsosa - Range Rover

wildkarduno - slime krew 2

Zukenee - Pope

YT - Black & Tan

OsamaSon - Flxr

xaviersobased - softer

41 / Jenn Carter - Jenn Jenn Jenn

Caspr - Stayne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPwGd-tqwIE&pp=ygUSanVuZ2xlIGdsb2trNDBzcGF6
Glokk40Spaz & OsamaSon - Jungle

2hollis - trauma

Joeyy - Grade 9

Smokingskul - Money Counter

pedigree spirit

2y

is there a zoomer lil b?