Songs I Thought About A Lot This Week #2
Weekly (lol we'll see) post with songs I listened to and thought about A LOT
Week two. I love each and every one of you that read my writing. I promise we can all one day live out the seminal classic written and performed by our queen DeJ Loaf.
(I didn’t write about it but that Jazmine Sullivan album deserves countless spins)
Made Me the Most Emotional
Punk Monk (Prod. Lucian (Neilaworld), Lukrative & F1lthy) - Playboi Carti
Brodie hit me up on Christmas Eve to come hangout with him and I had to turn him down cause a generational talent was dropping. I wasn’t bout to argue the semantics around this decision cause I was bricked up, with skinny jeans on in my bed.
Instrumental on this joint is craaaazy. The synth that intros is infectious and hits these higher notes that sound like twisted, chipmunk vocals. The bass on this shit is so distorted and muddy that it makes the hi-hat pattern sound like someone is playing them shits in a puddle of honey in the 100 acre woods.
So many elements of this song make it so perfect to me: multiple flow switches; multiple melodic moaning and groaning sections; consistent beat; relatable lyrics/themes; emotional delivery.
Moments that hit extremely close to home.
“One thing I hate the most (Oh yeah). Is some friendly-ass *I cannot say this word* (Yeah)” - (0:40 mark)
I cannot stand overly friendly or even moderately friendly people.
“They tried to turn me into a white boy, but I'm not Lil Dicky” - (1:36 mark)
My mom used to take me to catholic indoctrination classes throughout my youth. This was her tryna turn me to a white boy. I am not Lil Dicky.
“I'm not friendly at all (What?)” - (2:12 mark)
The desperation/irritation in his voice is how I feel every single time I tell people I don’t wanna hangout or be around them.
“I don’t rap, I write poems” - (2:28 mark)
Future Poet Laureate Playboi Carti
This Wave of Hot Shit Inspired by Detroit
American Dream (Prod. BEATSBYSAV) - YN Jay
I was in the grocery store parking lot and I had this song playing in the Civic. Bro… when this fucker said, “I can drop a, ahhhHHHH… I can drop a album in a day that, ahhhh… I can drop a album in a day, that shit light work”….. I could not stop laughing. How can someone sound so disgusted with their own inability to deliver this one line?? He raps like an actor doing separate takes except they kept all the bad takes in the movie and in post production they were like, “eh, good enough.” Ridiculous.
This shit by him been on replay a ton too.
“If I would've been a hooper, then I prolly, nah. If I would've been a astronaut, I prolly get paid more. But I dropped out, I really wasn't made for it”
Facts. I should’ve dropped out too.
Black Harlow (Prod. Knox This That Wave) - Sada Baby
Put your shit on streaming services. This goes way too hard for me to have to open the YouTube app to listen to this joint while I’m laid out, planking for this six pack.
Somebody needs to help these guys distribute their music to the proper channels.
Aaron Judge f/ CASH KIDD (Prod. ???) - BlueBucksClan DJ x Jeeezy
I can’t tell who’s from Los Angeles, Detroit, or from the Bay anymore cause they’re all riding the same wave. Punchline rap isn’t dead no matter how many times we let Big Sean try to kill it. These the saviors.
“I get in and start shootin' like I'm Eddie House (Eddie House)”
Eddie House???? EDDIE HOUSE?????
“Nеw foreign push-to-start like I'm pickin' fights (Skrrt)”
Cars with push-to-start ignition are not a flex anymore. This is a factory default on the lowest priced model of the Toyota Sentra. We give this line a pass though cause omg lmfao… “push-to-start like I’m pickin fights!?!?”
“Gary Payton, I can't hit unless I got a glove (I need a glove)”
Safe, responsible sexual intercourse should always be praised.
“Thick built bitch, she my third down back”
Come on now… I’m picturing beautiful females built like… Eddie Lacy? Getchu a girl built like Maurice Jones-Drew.
“Met a plug in Arizona don't tax for shit. So when I say I'm learnin' AZ, it ain't the alphabet”
wow
“*Cannot say this word* tellin' all these tales like Sonic right-hand homie (*Cannot say this word* cap)”
“Got a PS5 dick, told my bitch I need that Sony (PS5)”
This line don’t even make sense. It’s just goofy as hell lmaoo.
Some Other Shit
ON ME (Prod. Hoodrixh) - Bktharula
The main synth melody that’s phasing throughout my skull coupled with all of her adlibs makes me feel like I’m in the eye of a hurricane, overwhelmed by all the stimuli surrounding me but then Bktharula emerges from the storm, grabs my hand, and leads me to safety while saying, “Yeah shawty a freak with me” and I am shawty, I am a freak with her.
(Possibly the most poorly constructed sentence of my life lol)
5 Hoes is a Tahoe f/ A$AP ANT, Lulu P, & Money Montana (Prod. Lord Fubu) - Marino Infantry
Every couple months I’ll play this song for a half hour straight.
“I make her pay for the penis”
We gotta ban the use of the word “penis” in all rap songs going forward.
(1:35 mark) is the waviest shit ever. Bro is slurring his words all over the place.
ULTRA VIOLET (Prod. BlackMayo) - Thouxanbanfauni
“Ain’t never goin back to broke, I seen bands and I saw hope…”
This Sade performance from 1984
If you got the time you should really spin the entire set. The band is extremely talented. The saxophone player goes the fuck off. Bass player is dropping triple doubles. Sade’s performance is like ‘96 Jordan.
Harambe (Prod. Billboard Hitmakers) - Young Thug
His vocal cords went thru 12 rounds of hell on this joint. Used to ride the bike at the top of the NDSU track to this with tears in my eyes. I was running on the treadmill the other night and started hyperventilating cause of this song. Squeeze pump like asthmas or whatever A$AP Rocky was saying on Raf.
PISCES (Prod. ????) - Kobe Jxrdan
Lmfao mannnnn. Look at this shit.
“And I think that shit preposterous, nonsensical (That shit so stupid)
Rappin' big words, bitch, you ain't think I knew 'em (I go so stupid)
And they synonyms, bitch, I just had to Google 'em (I go so stupid)
I ain't know how to spell preposterous, you think I'm foolish (Nope)”
Somebody perform a lobotomy on me and get the sander out. I’m tryna reach these certain levels of intelligence.