You'll Hear it All Summer Long

It took the internet and rap game by storm. Making instant top of the chart hits and creating an endless flow of chatter on Twitter and YouTube. Die hard fans were on the edge of their seat for the whole month of April waiting for its release. If you don’t know what album I’m talking about yet, its DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar. The counter album to most of the new modern rap, challenging their ideas, ways of life and style of music. The new style coming from Kendrick has left almost all other competition in the dust, and once again has created competition in the rap game. Making it so other rappers must actually make decent music for it to come close to the success of DAMN. The time, effort, and style that Kendrick Lamar put into is music easily makes it the best album release of early 2017 and half of 2016.

            To help create the master piece that is DAMN. Kendrick required some help from some large and well known in producers in the rap game. Kendrick had help from Dr. Dre the producer who found Eminem, 9^th Wonder who has done work with Jay-Z, Chris Brown, Mac Miller, and even J-Cole. To help the weird and funky style to some of the songs Kendrick requested the help of BadBadNotGood, a producer who is known for his weird style of sounds, most notably helping Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown, and Ghost face killer. All of which has music that is different on every song and the music is not repetitive. Which was essential for Kendrick Lamar’s new album. The music should not and could not have been a success if the music was all very similar in the album. This is hard to come by in modern day rap music the sounds seem to get repetitive, or the song is so boring you just skip to the next. A great example of this was DC4 by Meek Mill, while his earlier music is very exciting and full of songs you can listen too, this album had the same boring beat for every song chased by offbeat and horrible rapping.  Kendrick creates a flow within his music, going from song to song creating a story down the album. Each album is named after a trait or something that is close to Kendrick ex: Element, Feel, Loyalty, Pride, Humble, and lust.

            The music in the album is all so different and all so deep in their own way that if you tried to write about every song and the secret messages behind it you’d be writing for days. Even Kendrick Lamar has admitted to having secret messages in his songs that true fans and people truly feeling the song will understand. Nevertheless, the best song on the whole album is number 8 on the track list, HUMBLE.  The song is one of the shortest on the album, but possibly the best and most influential. The song was produced by Mike WiLL Made it, and has a creative a funky beat. The song touches on several topics, from politics, to girls hiding their real selves behind make up, to telling people to quit acting fake. The song is easily going to be around for the summer creeping its way to the top 100 on billboard.  The song even made it past Swimming Pools, the most other well-known Kendrick Lamar song, on the top 100 billboard. Another great song that makes the album a great was DNA. According to vice, the song is the most “Virtuosic display” on the DAMN. album. The song is all about how everything good that is in his life is in his DNA and has a counter to it also. He talks about how he has been through it all, but since he has he is in a place that no one else can touch him and he is finally successful. In an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple’s Beats 1 Radio, Kendrick stated that his goal of creating music was not for the music to gone quick and he wants the music to live for more than two weeks. Just in that quote can show the effort and time Kendrick puts into his music, wanting to create art that can be look back on for this generation and great talent. This is one of the factors that separates Kendrick from most other modern day rappers. He wants to create art that can help people in their lives while most other modern rappers are in it for the quick money, girls, and drugs. Kendrick wants to build an empire to make him one of the greats, with good music and a good heart. Some may not know, but with Kendrick Lamars last album he was awarded the Key to Compton by the mayor, for his success in music and the money, time and effort he has put back into the city where once he come from.

            Kendrick among several other rappers whose goal is to teach and help young people in Compton who are improvised. His goal is to teach them that there is more than just the gangs and that if you try and try you will succeed and you can get away from the violence and poverty. Kendrick has helped with this by donating millions to the city and helped create multiple community center and community outreach programs. Along with the Key to Compton, Kendrick has also received the honor of being the 63^rd Grand Marshall of the Compton Christmas Parade and the California Generational Icon Award in 2015. Kendrick is very involved with politics and modern society; his album touches on this. In Blood, he talks about the unnecessary gun violence and his character within the album is shot. In Humble he brings up president trump and how he is hurting the country and not helping it. Last year Kendrick Lamar met with President Obama, and they talked about gang culture in Compton and how the government can try and change that and help the people trapped inside the violence. Kendrick Lamar is an Icon of music for this generation, and an Icon that popular artists can help those in need. He has helped change the culture around modern rap music, making it so you don’t just have to mumble and kill people to have decent music. He has changed that, if you rap about who you truly are, where you come from, and the goals you want and the goals you want for others you can be successful in the rap world and make something of yourself.

            Kendrick Lamar was not always the type of rapper he is now. When he started rapping it had a heavy west coast, gang sound to it. A simple 5 tone beat on repeat talking about how hood he is. After releasing a mixtape or two he was known only locally and in Compton was seen as an up and comer. In 2007 Kendrick was able to open for the well-known early 2000’s rapper the Game. With that, it started the ball rolling to the fame that he has today. In 2011 Kendrick was an artist in XXL’s top 10 up new artists, and was then offered the chance to do his first album and not a mixtape. In 2012 he released good kid, m.A.A.d city. The powerhouse of an album that stayed on the top 10 for weeks. With the release of that album he finally moved from rapping about how hard his life is or how gangster his friends are to rapping about personal issues, moral issues, and social issues. A great example of that is Swimming Pools by Kendrick Lamar. The whole song is about how his father was an alcoholic and a bad influence and how he doesn’t want to end up like that. He wants to make himself and others better through powerful song.

            With the success of DAMN. many other artists have fallen behind in the early year release, while it also quickly bumped previous rap albums right off the list. In early 2017 some HUGE rap artists, but their generic music and boring beats were nothing compared to DAMN. and quickly fell into the shadows. Earlier in the year, Rick Ross, Young Thug, Lil Yachty, Big Sean and even drake released albums but they quickly came and fell to the power house of Kendrick Lamar. Part of Kendrick’s success right now is because of the topics he touches in his music that even the white suburbia people like me can relate too. Since he talks about things that can relate too people tend to have more of a connection to music and are more willing to download it and keep it in their playlist. The relatable topics he raps about in this album are politics, social structures, police violence and women and the unrealistic images they have to portray. With the current turmoil that is USA these topics are constantly in the news are people’s lives. People can make that personal connection to the song, and it unites others under the same ideas. When you have a whole generation that does not trust the police and an artist tells you that it’s okay and we need to unite and stand strong against them people are willing to do it. When you have, an artist telling people that the President of the United States is untrustworthy and that the people need to unite and fight against the common enemy. That is why Kendrick is so successful, he is not all hot air that you can’t see around an ego.

            The album itself is a great version of a modern-day concept album putting it up there with Tommy from The Who. The album is a version of his life story going through the trials of his life, while being able to talk about current influences in modern society. The album slows down towards the middle is haphazard with me. I find that the song choice was boring, but I am not a huge fan of slow songs so I’m biased when it comes to that. He then picks up the pace after the song LOYALTY with HUMBLE bringing back the deep though mixed with great music. He ends the album with DUCKWORTH. A creative song talking about his life all in one song, then talking about his success being the first in the name to drive a two-tone mustang. The song is great to end the album, wrapping up the whole album in one song; his life. For those of you who don’t know Duckworth is Kendrick Lamar’s name, his father’s last name and his father is not in the equation so there are some negative connotations with him and that last name.

            The album DAMN. is the best album of early 2017 and is one not to be messed with. The time and effort that he put into the album really shows the talent and skills that Kendrick Lamar has. He out efforts most of the other artists in the game. Speaking about real world topics, real world problems, connecting all his listeners creating a culture and a community. Kendrick had the help from some of the best modern rap producers, creating a concept album that told the story of his life. Each song of the story of his life was different and told different morals to have in this modern world. Each song was different, and there was each type of modern rap song for each style that people like. He had the heavy beats and fast pace music in HUMBLE, he had the slower song that can be played on the radio, LOYALTY, and he had the heavy hitting hardcore rap with DNA. The reason that DAMN. is going to be so much more successful than most other albums is that the songs are so diverse, they are well written enough that they can be played on the radio and that even though that he is a hardcore rapper, he makes his music relatable and fun to listen to. Just wait, you will be hearing this album all summer long.

           

           

            

Vibin Rap Culture (revised)

The world of modern rap music is full of a new always changing culture. Every year something new appears in modern culture and the popularity of the style of modern rap changes. A great way to follow modern rap culture is following popular trends on twitter. Whenever you see a new word that people are using, it always seems to find its way into a new song. A different style of changing culture and the sound of the music is the location that the modern rap music comes from. If you pay close attention to the artist and where they are from the style, tone and sound of the music is different.  However, the genre is not different. That is the relation between culture and the type of music. The genre and the topics of the music are all the same. The breakdown and the nitty gritty prove that the music from different locations and artists background have a large effect on the sound. For example, the New York sound of modern druggy rap. A$AP MOB comes from New York, in most of all of their songs they mention the city, how they grew up and the drugs they run. When you go down to Atlanta its all about the Lean, or codine and how the east side of Atlanta inst a place you go unless you are part of their gangs. There is even a new subculture of druggy trap music showing up in Florida. Many new artists are gaining traction in Florida with a type of drug rap that is all based around its location and even though it is rap it sounds nothing like other rap around the country. You can relate the separation of location to almost evolution of canaries in islands in the Caribbean. The genre is the same, rap. However, when you take location, predecessors and type of living the music is individual on its own, creating different sounds and styles of the same type of music.
           

             This week we are looking at Step Brothers a new album recently released by G-Easy and Carnage. This album comes from the west coast, but not your normal Oakland rap or LA Gang Banger sort of rap coming straight from the hood followed by heavy repetitive beats with action-less threats thrown over top. This style of rap music is coming from the more white style or Beverly hills rap culture. This style of G-Easy is drug rap, but he pushes the tones of pop and womanizing that most modern pop artists do. Carnage however is a Guatemalan native that grew up in the less appealing side of Maryland. Carnage is an EDM producer that deals more with modern trap music. Which is trill sounds building until they collide and drop the bottom out of a sub-woofer and you can feel the bass all the ways in your toes. Carnage has done other work with well known drug rap artists like MIGOS, ILOVEMAKONNEN, Lil Uzi Vert, and ASAP Ferg. In my eyes and most other rap lovers this tends to give him credibility in the rap game. This credibility drags G-Easy back form the ledge of pop and more into the drug rap game. The album is heavily influenced the culture of the artists involved. Carnage creates bass heavy songs that you could see a gangster bumping to in his car, while G-Easy's lyrics are not as strong as the beats.

         The Beverly Hills rap culture is a strange one, unlike other rap cultures it focusses more on girls and what material items they have. It is often that it is less about selling drugs and running drive-bys and more "stealing your girl" and "going down the coast in a convertible". The rap coming out of Beverly hills is often very boring running so close to the line of pop. The use of Carnage in this album though helps greatly. First it adds credibility of rap to the album. Then Carnage's music goes hard, no matter what song EDM or rap, and he adds so much more culture to a rather bland west coast rap culture.  

               Rap culture is a something that is heavily based on location. Where the money follows the change in the style of rap follows. when you have upper middle class, white people taking up rap in Beverly Hills, you don’t have them rapping about the hardships, the drugs they must sell to live, their baby mama's, or that friends and family have died from violence. Like almost every other subculture of rap across the US. Instead you get everything that is good for them, fame, money, cars, girls, and their huge homes. It is very rarely their hardships, or the hardships that others are facing within their local area. Their style of rapping is more about bragging, most of it is how they are better than you and this can sometimes be a turn off of the genre. If you ever went to an American high school I relate the feeling to talking to a duschebag jock, he is quick to talk about himself, he thinks he is better than you, and is extremely egotistic. Another location that is very similar to Beverly hills is New York City. Again, this is a place of money and yet the rapper try and act like they have nothing or are coming from nothing, for example Nikki Manaj came from the city. All she raps about I how big her butt is and how much more things she has than you. However, if you just go to the Bronx you can find A$AP Ferg, who truly had a hard life style with a missing father, no income and many brothers and sisters. The culture that comes along with the style of music heavily depends on where the artist is from.

               The songs on the album are very catchy, and are all about the crazy lifestyle that they live. They talk about all the diamonds around their neck, and the girls hanging off them. This style of rapping has created this culture of young rappers aspiring to be the greats having generic music. The constant bragging about money, drugs, and women by larger artist have made it so new up and comers are trying to act like they have money. They often don’t and you can see it clear as day. A great example of this is Famous Dexter a mumble drill trap rapper. He has had several shows over a couple of years, but in his songs he is holding HUGE wads of cash and is sitting on $300,000 cars. However, his net worth is only $1 million. The constant bragging from the greats has created this culture within rap that they HAVE to be richer than the next person and they have to constantly be telling people about all their money. A great example of a rapper who got away from this trend was Kendrick Lamar. With the release of his new album he raps about traits that he wants people to have, he wants people to be humble again and to be kind to on another.

               The album Step Brothers is a great album; however, it is like the others in its genre. The album is fun and the music was good to bob a head to. However, it did not want to be a risky album and get away from the culture and genre norms. I heard in an interview that the two of them recorded and released all the whole album in a night, so they did not have a lot of time to create lyrics or beats that separate them from everyone else. The album did not so much to the culture surrounding Beverley Hills rap. They continued the same ideas that the only reason to be a rapper is to do drugs and find gold diggers. As much as I Carnage and G-Easy I believe they could’ve done so much more in this album that could’ve had better effects on the listeners and the culture surrounding the music.

A Genre History of Druggy Rap Music

            The world of druggy rap music has changed wildly over the past 30 years. Covering every type of drug, you could think of and every emotion that drug causes. In the late 80s and early 90s when rap music and hip hop were starting to blend drugs were a sensitive topic. This was in the time where there was zero to no explicit content in music, and explicit content then would be considered childish or silly in modern standards. Drugs that were mentioned in this time were considered bad and was almost a PSA not to go to drugs and love your family. Then the late 90s and the early 2000s came around. This was during the rise of profanity in rap music. The Atlanta style rap music came out and started clashing with the west coast drug rap which was largely gang related. It was all about being more gangster than the next person, how many girls you have, how many guns you own, the crew you represent, and how much drugs you can sell. Looking back at this time, it was when crack cocaine was very prevalent in the low-income communities and so when rappers talked about drugs it was always about selling drugs.  It was very rare to listen to a rap song and hear them talk about how much drug they are doing. It was about their upbringing and how they must sell drugs to make an income. Then came around 2009 to present day. Where drugs are almost mentioned in every song. So much drugs are talked about that I can even make my brand about druggy rap music. Modern drug rap has consumed much of the rap genre; however you can still find artists like the Social Club Misfits, that are vulgar and don’t sing about drugs, yet their music can keep up with today’s rap. Many modern drug rappers have made their career around drugs. Rick Ross for example, used to be one of the largest cocaine king pins in all of New York was on most wanted lists for the amount of drugs his organization pushed. He is now an award-winning rapper who constantly raps about his drug money and the girls and cars he gets with it. Many new and upcoming rappers started out as drug dealers according to their songs, for an example Meek Mill. A small rapper who was in a gang was able to get a record deal and make it to the big leagues. After his record deal, he moved from selling drugs to using them. Most of his songs now talk about how he can afford more drugs than people and is “harder” than them.

            Meek Mill’s debut album Dreams and Nightmares in 2012 was his hardest and his most down to earth drug rap album. This album was released through the rap collective MMG or Maybach Music Group, which was founded by Rick Ross and feature other artists like Wale, Gunplay, and Omarion. The collective and their music tend to be more hardcore and ghetto rap with ear damaging bass.  However, with Meek’s album Dreams and Nightmares, it was complex, not all the songs sounded the same and took his drug use and created a master piece with it. Many of the songs on this album are still played today, blasting at parties and people turning up. During its peak the album was all over the billboard top 100, even having the song “Young & Gettin’ It” sit at number 2 for several weeks. Along with this album hard bass and yelling tone, many of the songs feature artists that are well known in the R&B world like John Legend, Mary J. Blige and Trey Songs. That is part of the album that makes it stand out. When modern age drug was gaining traction many of the songs sounded the same, with a free sample beat and autotune. If you are looking for music that follows under that label, lots of Lil Wayne’s music after 2002 was all autotuned and very little talent. Dreams and Nightmares pulls away from the normal and shows that drugs can be implemented into the songs without bragging that you sell drug and smoke Oz’s of weed daily.

            The release of this album was essential to genre. This album advanced the genre to the next level where drugs songs made it to the main stream population. The mid 2000s the general population was still being desensitized to the prevalence of hard drugs used in music on the radio. Meek raps about the amount of weed and alcohol he is consuming bringing into the light that one can be successful and have their mind altered with substances.

            This album is always going to be one of the best albums in the genre. The mix between real rapping, creative enough that the music can make it to the top of the billboard 100 while still relate and have cribs bumping. Not long after the release of this album drug music took a turn to Future and Migos, where they mumble most of what they say, and people that don’t listen to it normally can’t relate to the music and are more likely to turn it off or change it. If you have not listened to music like Meek Mill’s I highly recommend it. His creative style mixed with head bobbing beats and relatable lyrics makes any listen, take a step back, and try and find out who it was. If you are a fan of Meek Mill or Dream and Nightmares, I would recommend also listening to Rick Ross’ later albums. You could also listen to older Big Sean, his music is extremely similar to Meek Mill, they both came up from the bottom dealing with drugs and now sing about their drug usage and their successes. If I were to give Dreams and Nightmare a grade based on the music I would give it a 7, but a grade given to the importance of the genre I would give it a 8.

               

At.Long.Last.A$AP by A$AP Rocky

              A$AP Rocky came into the game strong with his Brooklyn grunge rap music. A$AP Rocky is a Dominican Immigrant that grew up poor in Brooklyn outside of New York City. He had a relatively hard life. His father was not in the picture his whole childhood and his mother had to take care of him and his brother. His brother and he made several friends in Brooklyn, and had their own gang.  When A$AP Rocky started rapping he had his friends with him. They created A$AP Mob with several rappers and several hype boys. Shortly before the release A$AP Rocky’s most well-known album “Long.Live.ASAP”, his brother was shot and killed in the streets of Brooklyn. His love and feelings toward his brother helped fuel his drive to be the best and take the rap game by storm.

               Two years after the release of “Long.Live.A$AP”, he released “At.Long.Last.A$AP, his most well written and produced album he has ever put out. Unlike most rap albums every song is different, and many of them feature other well-known rappers. His music is the good window shaking rap, that you turn the bass up all the way and hold on for the drop. A$AP Rocky’s choice in lyrics makes the music relatable and you are able to sing with it and not just bob your head. Every song in this album is different. In “L$D” he lays the beat with a low heavy bass and a light guitar over the top. In “Lord Pretty Flacko Joyde 2”, he decides to bring out some of his older sounds that have you bobbing your head and singing along. His use of a wide range of beats and songs is why this album stands out more than most. The pure talent that was put into the album show his true capability and his drive to be the best rapper in the game. Many of the artists he features shows his ties with old school and new school rap contacts. Some of the artists include, Lil Wayne, Juicy J, Miguel, Schoolboy Q, and even Kanye West. However, the strongest part of the whole-time album is “Everyday”, a song where Rod Stewart is singing the lyrics of his song “In a Broken Dream” in the background and Rocky’s hyper fluid rap over the top. It is the cherry on the top of a great album.

A$AP Rocky showed lots of his talent with the release of “Long.Live.ASAP”. However, the release of “At.Long.Last.A$AP” sent him over the top and into the hall of the greats. You will be able to find this album in the record books sitting right there next to Kanye’s “Graduation”. The sheer diversity of the album makes it easy to listen to and worth a whole listen and not just several songs. A main reason for this album doing so well was the fact most of his songs were about him having fun, doing drugs and getting women. In prior albums, most of the content was there to prove he was “hard”, to give him street cred. In “At.Long.Last.A$AP” he opens up in some of the songs are even relatable and fun to listen too. The success of the album also comes with who was featured with him. With such large artists, many of his new fans weren’t even looking for his music, but came across it looking for other music.

               This album is pure, visible talent. It came out in the time when rap was still rapping and not just ignorant lyrics with mellow beats that all sound the same. It came out when rappers did drugs, but not when they were so high that they could barely function and talk. This album will stay with A$AP Rocky for the rest of his life. During his most recent tour for a newer album he spent over half of the concert on this album. People were screaming for the unique and hard songs that they could sing along too, dance and go stupid.

               EVERYONE should listen to this album. I would recommend this album to anyone who is looking for new rap or even people who have little knowledge in rap. This album would potentially help people get into rap. The unique and new beats and relatable lyrics would hopefully attract new listeners. I don’t have any complaints about this album, the quality of the records and effort put into the producing are next level. If I were to rate “AT. Long. Last. Asap”, I would probably give it a 9/10.

Oxymoron By Schoolboy Q

The album Oxymoron by Schoolboy Q is a true modern age rap album all about doing drugs and other gangster shit. The style of the music is west coast rap so the beats are simple, have a have a heavy bass, and have lots of snare. This album is great for when you want to act like a trouble maker. You might not do any of the things he raps about, but listening to Oxymoron allows you to feel like you are right there next to him doing drive-bys and selling drugs on the corner. This album opens a side of the country that most people never see. As a suburban white boy, I have never seen a drive by or just hanging out smoking Backwoods and blunts on their front steps. Oxymoron is a druggy rap album and a stoners paradise. The hardcore gangster lyrics mixed with the rhythms and beats that want to make you move create a euphoric sound that will entice your average person who listens to rap, along with a person you like to dance around to a good beat.

1.      Gangsta

This song is true Schoolboy Q, telling where he is from and who he is. Talking about robbing a house when is 9 so he has enough money to buy drugs. He talks about putting his bitches on the corner to sell dope.

“With that yola it came with yo bitch

And see now yo bitch, she gon’ work on that corner

I don’t care if that hoe got pneumonia”

 This song goes so hard and I always find my bobing my head. This song can make any goody two shoes feel like a trouble making hoodrat. The best part of this whole song is when he is talking about how he is always strapped and willing to shoot anyone that causes problems.

2.      Los Awesome

Welcome to a strange beat, with lyrics that hit you straight in the face. This song is all about him being in the crips and doing drive-bys. Along with the weird beat there are some strange lyrics that have you guess how he even came up with it.

“Onion in my pocket like a booty on a midget”

He calls fake gangstas, telling them to come to Compton and he will show them the real side of the city. This is a song that only true fans of druggy gangsta rap will really like.

3.      Collard Greens

If you have ever heard a Schoolboy Q song it was probably this track. This was his most popular on the album and very popular with rap radio stations. The crazy dance beat wants you to get up and sing along. The lyrics however, are a little more intense than most would think. Schoolboy Q uses “Collard Greens” as a way to reference weed without saying it and is very creative.

“Kush be my freagrance,we love marijuana

Function on fire, burn this roof off this motha”

He even calls out us college students saying that everyone smoking and drinking all love Schoolboy Q. This is possibly one of the better songs on the album.

4.      What they Want

OOOOOHH MY GOD. This is the best song for a person like me, wishing I was all big and bad causing all sorts of trouble. This song is all about smoking weed, sipping on codeine and doing bad ass stuff. He talks about how he does what he wants and no one can tell him what to do. It is extremely vulgar to the point where its so good. He talks about having sex until his drug shipments come in.

“word round town that I'm selling hard
hard and I'm talking bout the yayo”

That line truly describes Schoolboy Q, getting some until he gets to mess around with more drugs.

5.      Hoover Street

This song is alll right I guess. I was not a huge fan. Its beat is oddly generic and the lyircs seem to go over the top with trying to prove who he is unlike his other songs. This is a song that gets over looked and for a good reason.

6.      Studio

This is Schoolboy Q's slow song, that every rap artist has on each of their albums. Nevertheless, it stays true to Schoolboy Q and who he is. He raps about smoking in the studio trying to finish up his music so he can get home to his girl. He talks about how his weed is making him think, and he is talking about all the good things he girl is good at.

“She can twist my weed and hit the yac

I can hit your type without the hat”

Only Schoolboy Q, the biggest Dope Head would find a way to make a song about getting really high and getting lost in his own world thinking about his woman.

7.      Prescription/Oxymoron

Drug song to the max. The opening sounds to the song is a pill bottle rumbling around. In this song, however he sounds that he almost regrets doing all the drugs. He talks about his daughter trying to wake him while he is a drug coma. This sounds sad and I would not play it because it seems like a buzzkill with talking worrying about her dad in the background.

“Percocets, Adderall

Xanny bars, get codeine involved

Stuck in this body high, can’t shake it off”

I would pass this if I was trying to get pumped up.

8.      The Purge

Continuing the drug songs filled violence and sex this song opens with Tyler the Creator.  He talks about be busting in to houses shooting people and taking their drugs and listening to the sirens when the people are dying. The beat is really cool, it has the west coast beat, with Tyler the Creators fringe sort of sound with siren in the back ground. This is the most dynamic song on the whole album.

“My Glock, yeah, fuckbuddy, make money, take money

Earn Crack money, drug money, take money”

  

9.      Blind Threats

This is another song that I would skip. It tries to be deep, but it goes over the top and misses the point. NEXT.

10.   Hell of a Night

LET’S GET UP AND DANCE. This song goes so hard and the beat is so good that you want to just get up and move. It might not be about shooting people up and taking their drugs, but it still somehow fits Schoolboy Q and who he is. It’s all about having fun, spending money, traveling, and meeting new people. Damn. Everyone should have this song on their phone and use it to turn up.

“Get up out yo seat, you can have my drink, let me see you dance

Get up off your feet, you can be my freak, let me see you jam”

Schoolboy Q’s true talent comes out in this album. If you were to get anything from this track by track it is to realize you don’t have to be a gang banger or a pot head to listen to and love some druggy music.


                                                                  Check out one of his music videos:  HELL OF A NIGHT

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This is an honest, down to earth blog producing a lyrical breakdown of modern age drug rap. I have a strong opinion, and am hard to change my ideas so if you are here to change what i have to say, you have a challenge ahead. There are many Blogs about modern rap music, however mine is different. My blog is here for people that listen to rap music and people that don’t. I hope to create an environment open to everyone, illustrating to new listeners to rap showing that it is not all 3 generic beats and curse words, and I hope to inform current rap listeners about some of the topics being played for them. Albums will be reviewed and broken down so that people that have inferior knowledge of the slang words and topics and have a better understanding of the music. Much of new modern drug rap uses words and phrases that much of the public do not know. My goal is to introduce these lesser talked about ideas through the artist’s music. Open conversations are how anything in the world makes progress. Comments are open in the bottom of every post and discussions are encouraged to be used. I may challenge your ideas and I hope that you challenge mine, a good heated conversation over music can lead to great things. All viewers of this blog should be able to finish reading my posts and have a better understanding of what they are listing too. You should have the ability to understand new drug rap slang, and even have new friends in an online community sharing their thoughts on new modern age rap music. 

I'm just a suburban white boy explaining modern age drug rap music.