Oct 14, 2022

i never listened to a lil baby album until now. no wonder marsh says he’s frustrated by this…

 

Oct 14, 2022

It’s album of the year. You’re just not listening with the right pair of ears

 

Oct 15, 2022

Looks like it’s gonna be one of the best selling albums this year lmao
@Marsh thoughts?

 

Oct 15, 2022

Expected. I like a few songs but I'm not a fan though. Checked the singles and didn't like them, so I didn't even check the album.

 

Oct 15, 2022

Yeah, you’re better off not checking out the album. There’s really not anything here you haven’t heard before. Just more of the same Lil Baby. He’s good in small doses (which is why people like his features) but over long a--- projects like this he is boring as f---

 

Oct 15, 2022

Trap is always pretty much the same. Collab projects feel a bit more interesting. The one with Gunna was ok, but as solo artists I think both s---.

 

Oct 15, 2022

Is it mumble rap’s omission of clever, eloquent storytelling and wordplay that is disliked by the older hip-hop community?
The lackadaisical delivery and lyrically sparse approach that a majority of new wave mumble rappers such as Migos and Rich Homie Quan practice clearly upsets fans of hip-hop’s golden era great emcees- the likes of Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, and Q-Tip - whose flows (delivery) were paradigm-shifting, and whose delivery was precise and professionally effortless.
Furthermore, the sociopolitical awareness that eminent emcees like Chuck D, Poor Righteous Teachersand Tragedy Khadafi bring to the consciousness of hip hop is clearly absent from mumble rap. From Brother D’s “How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise?” released in 1980, consciousness has, to a greater or lesser extent, played a key role in the evolution of rap vis-à-vis its social and political context.
But what if the current cultural context is informing the production of mumble rap? In the contemporary western world daily life is fuelled by widespread consumption – of both products and images. They in turn saturate social media in an attempt to raise social status, a process that is itself highly disposable, and filled with bite-sized snippets of communication in the form of emojis and text abbreviations.
To understand mumble rap I think it’s useful to consider the thoughts of cultural theorist Paul Virilio. He philosophises on the ideas of the dromosphere – the sphere within the evolution of humanity where speed inevitably causes the accident – and the picnolepsy – an almost epileptic consciousness generated by the perceived speed and immediacy of the world. Cultural cause and human experience both are interlinked.
As the dromosphere becomes heavy with information, people’s physical experience slows down in a bid to absorb as much as possible. When life becomes devoid of speed, gaps appear between the slowing down and fast pace of information, triggering a picnoleptic consciousness. It is within these voids and this consciousness, I would argue, where mumble rap is created.
Mumble rap is a negotiation that offers relief from the invisible acceleration of life, yet concurrently praises the disposable production-consumption model that ignites this acceleration in the first place. It is creativity born out of boredom.
To this end, mumble rap represents much more than at first it may appear. The picnoleptic experience is channelled through almost incomprehensible lyrical delivery, while locating certain tangible status symbols and narratives (such as acquisition of money, speeding cars, and overseeing drug deals) meagerly in the lyrics themselves.

 

Oct 15, 2022

Bismillah issa evil world we live in

 

Oct 15, 2022

My current favorite lyric on the album

 

Oct 15, 2022

people listening to this unironically like

 

Oct 16, 2022

Probably the worst album I've heard

 

Oct 16, 2022

Assalamu alaykum Mr Morale & the big steppers out now

 

Oct 16, 2022

You must’ve not heard Revival lol

 

Oct 16, 2022

Dude legit sounds like he has brain damage lol, so I can see the appeal to the twitter people

 

Oct 16, 2022

Modern trap is just so generic and boring. Bring back the hymen inspector and the snow man

 

Oct 16, 2022

In still confused why he did that self proclaimed goat album cover then made a 1 hour album of the most generic a--- songs. Chill bro.

 

Oct 16, 2022

He probably has a lot of yes-men around him. Plus, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen one of his interviews, but he seems pretty slow.