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  • Updated Sep 7, 2022

    I'm in audio school and the other week we were just listening to some grammy-nominated mixes on thousand dollar speakers and it got me thinking. Lots of people say that "The Chronic" is one of the best-mixed hip hop albums of all time, but trap seems to have a lot of bad mixes in it.

    I can't really think of a trap song where i'm like "damn, this mix is clean."

    Any nominees?

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    Barter 6

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    Rodeo

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    rico

    Rodeo

    vocal mixes are eh tbh

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    Maybe some of the trap beats on that Compton album by Dre

  • Sep 5, 2022

    without warning?

  • Sep 5, 2022

    DS2 up there

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    Edgewood
    Savage Mode

  • Sep 5, 2022
    ImAUsernameLike

    Barter 6

    I love that this is the first response

  • BRUNTZ 🖤
    Sep 5, 2022

    great question

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    y'all keep throwing names out here but u not saying why the mixes are good

  • Sep 5, 2022
    RICHAXXVOYCE

    Edgewood
    Savage Mode

    Why?

    Mike Will Made it & Ear Drummers
    Metro

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    rico

    Rodeo

    op said trap album

  • KOL Meezy Mestizo

    y'all keep throwing names out here but u not saying why the mixes are good

    you didn’t ask us to, you just said nominate albums

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    RICHAXXVOYCE

    Edgewood
    Savage Mode

    Savage Mode mix is immaculate

  • DS2 and Street Gossip

  • actually every Carti album

  • Sep 5, 2022
    ImAUsernameLike

    Savage Mode mix is immaculate

  • Sep 5, 2022
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    ImAUsernameLike

    op said trap album

    I'd consider Rodeo a trap album. Trap is beyond the lyric content. It's a sound now

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  • Sep 6, 2022
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    rico

    I'd consider Rodeo a trap album. Trap is beyond the lyric content. It's a sound now

    rodeo not even trap sound

  • Sep 6, 2022
    Dedication 666

    rodeo not even trap sound

    Hard to limit it to one genre but it definitely heavily trap inspired

  • Sep 6, 2022
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    rico

    I'd consider Rodeo a trap album. Trap is beyond the lyric content. It's a sound now

    piss on your grave, impossible, flying high, pray for love, 90210

    thats damn near half the album that has zero trap elements idk why folks keep arguing this

  • Sep 6, 2022
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    Culture

    Tillie def set a lot of trends with those mixes

    I also really liked how SMF sounded

    Bainz and Alex Tumay did they thing

  • Sep 6, 2022

    Voice of the Heroes is my favorite engineering on a trap album. Everything sits perfectly together; the drums are so unbelievably crisp and punchy without dominating the mix, the vocals are super clear, and the melodic elements in the instrumentals are bright and rich.

    I think the most impressive accomplishment of these mixes is that the vocals don’t sound like they were recorded perfectly 100% of the time, and a lot of the beats are just loops and trap drums. Some of the songs are staggering when you max that volume out.