What I'm listening to today: "untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.", Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar thinks *big*— his albums have huge concepts and are stuffed with ideas. Which makes this one album, an unlabeled collection of unused songs, easier to digest for me because tracks stand alone more. This one track's amazing, downtempo dark jazz over a trap beat.
The second half of this song is universally agreed to be a style parody of Drake, but it doesn't seem mean-spirited to me.
What I'm listening to today: "Black Ice", Goodie Mob ft. Outkast
This is an Atlanta group from the 90s whose name expands to "the Good Die young, Mostly Over Bullshit", and who introduced the world to Cee-Lo Green (not present here). The mood here is absolutely immaculate and gives a good intro to the timbres the Dirty South was introducing the world to at this moment. Also, a video featuring Big Boi walking a dog in an Astros jersey with the *old* design, the good one
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