This has been my jam on the drive home from work...

TRavis Scott feat Future Ty $
3500 https://youtu.be/MVxMmMuTk60

This song was my jam last year. It's 8 mins but feels a lot shorter. 2 Chainz had the best verse in my opinion.

speaking of, did anyone else listen to the new 2 Chainz album? The fake/secret Weezy duet album? I like it.

remember when 2Chainz was titi boi?

"Yeah my name is TITY BOI, I don't fuck with hoes that wear SPORTS BRA"

They are really like a different band on every album

Wise rebranding decision. That was a horrible name. I didn't even know they were one in the same until after 2 Chainz was huge.

Yeah, we talked about that didn't we? Collegrove?

It's funny, Wayne is, like, utterly eclipsed by 2 Chainz on that album. Why so much autotune for Wayne? Why did that motherfucker ever use autotune? It does not compliment his style or sound, and it doesn't help him reach new levels, or expand his sonic palate. Just a waste of autotune. 2 Chainz outperforms Wayne all over that album.

It's another WTT lite. Mentor (in this case Weezy) and protégé (Chainz). I like it more than the WATTBA, but I'm just kinda wishing Lil Wayne would stop at this point. He's clearly done making good music. I think the record has a nice sound to it, and a lot of energy but I just wish Wayne wasn't on it.

The Life of Pablo to (finally) make its Billboard debut... First album in history to hit #1 based on streaming sales figures alone!

I guess not many folks have shelled out the $20 to actually buy the album, but most folks aren't me. I heard that the total "sales" extrapolated from the streaming figures are only about ~100,000 ... but the album streamed more than 250 MILLION times in the first 10 days of its release (not sure if that's TIDAL figures or the first ten days of Spotify and Apple, but either way... Yowza.)

Seems like that should be worth more than a hundred thousand sales, but what do I know.

Anyway, another #1 album and historical first achieved by Kanye West. Cool.

Kanye's seventh #1 album. College Dropout and Cruel Summer only hit #2, but still.

I really want Jay Z to drop one more album. A farewell record that's big and epic and just massive in every way, but with a ton of different musical styles and odes to Motown and jazz. Man, I just realized how badly I want that.

Something truly huge, but of exquisite creative quality. With guest spots from Kendrick and Chance and Pusha and Rocky Frank Ocean and Ghostface and Kevin Gates. Prod by No ID and Kanye and HudMo and Madlib and AraabMuzik and Pete Rock and more... classics alongside quality newbs whose names I don't even know yet.

I don't want Jay to be done yet, but I don't want him trying to rap about the same old shit forever. Just one more epic blowout. Something that would make the Blueprint look like the Vanillaprint. This is something I want badly.

Views From the 6 is going to be an Apple Music exclusive (ugh) put April 29.

Drizzy just can't stop tryna be Yeezy.

I got another email from kanyewest.com (via 7digital) with another TLOP download link today. Haven't listened to it all, but there's doesn't seem to be any difference except for the way the songs are listed. Last time each track had the word "explicit" in it. Now they're just track names.

Anyway, seems as though the $20 dogital download price does in fact allow for future downloads of future versions of the album. Which I expected, but still - nice to know.

Also, heard some news about a physical release. No sources were named, but they were apparently affiliated with Def Jam. I guess there's a tentative plan to release a cd/lp version at some point, with bonus tracks and remixes and other fanbait. I'm down, of course.

Aaaaaand I am the only one who's said a word in days. I even worked this weekend and still dropped some posts. Where y'all at?

Parts of Gore are really really good. Other parts I'm working on. Nothing that grabbed my immediate attention which is actually disappointing but i just picked it up today so it will grow on me. Nothing is bad though so there is that.

I'm around just super busy.

New Deftones is very good. But agreed - no one song grabs your right away. The last album did. But whatever. Deftones always deliver very good to great albums. At their worst, they are very good. Can't complain. I still think this will be listened to a lot this year by me. Feels like a slow burn album.

By the by, did you like the Team Sleep live album? It was legit.

oh and Jay just needs some kind of inspiration. Like American Gangster was.

I'll hear the Drake album when it drops. Unless it's an "exclusive." haha.

also I think that Colegrove is interesting. It's so casual. But yet Wayne sounds like he's having more fun than recent mixtapes. I didn't even know he and 2 Chainz had some mentor connection.

I like this better than Like Father Like Son anyway.

Not as much as the first Young Money album tho.

That's what ima gonna wait for!!

It's actually gonna be an Apple Music release, LOL.

Hopefully available on other platforms later.

There is a team sleep live album??? My favorite team sleep shit is the bootlegs from 2001 man that music is fierce. I listened to Gore a third time today while doing some workand its growing on me. There are some layers i am more into. Its by far deftones most complex record.

For me a deftones record used to be rated by how quickly i had to rush and pick up myguitar to play it! But last deftones record thatmoved me like that was Saturday night wrist. Oh diamond eyes and koi no san are fantastic records but not as deftones as the ones before that. However that is the.best part of deftones. They have never ever been a forumulaic band. Every album they put out is different, is a progression. And they have been doing this since 1996. That is amazing