Bearigator @ Bearigator @ttrpg.network Posts 133Comments 220Joined 2 yr. ago
Honestly no, I've never been to anything close to this size. Usually my wife and I go to smaller shows in ~1000-2000 person venues.
It is for sure a different energy though. Small venues are nice because even from the back you are pretty close to the stage but the feeling of >15,000 people singing along with somebody live is sort of indescribable, you know?
Do you like to go to a lot of big shows like that?
I'd have killed to do something like that for senior week haha.
Weird question maybe, but did they have the Hurricane when you were there? And did it go way too fucking fast? I rode it with a friend and I thought I was going to die. Best ride there haha
EDIT: The pic isn't of the actual ride, just the same type of ride at a different park. I couldn't find a pic of the actual ride
I completely missed Wednesday this week! Travel has my internal calendar all messed up.
This is good stuff. Spanish rap always seems to flow very effortlessly. Does anybody know what the beat is sampling? I know I recognize that little 6 note loop that goes through the whole song but I can't figure out where from.
That is a wild beat, I'd kill to hear somebody to flow over this in English so I could understand it as they went. Cool find!
Here is the lyrics translated if anybody is curious.
If Drake's whole album was like this I'd be very excited.
That "not on no hetero vibe" bar needs to go though
Don't have a good one on Lemmy for my area yet sadly, but you are probably right. It was pretty big though, they sold 50k tickets per day for all 3 days. I talked to people from as far away as Wisconsin and Texas, with most of the people there being from all up and down the east coast.
I was with my wife and some friends, so 7 of us total. Truth be told it was mostly my wife and I by ourselves though and then we just met with everybody at the AirBnB at the end of the night and talked with the other people. My wife is pretty hardcore so we were leaving before everybody else every day and getting back last every night haha.
And it was in Ocean City, so literally right on the coast. We were coming out of VA so we drove up the peninsula. It was a pretty fantastic location honestly. The little amusement park in the center was free for anybody attending the concert, except for a select few rides (giant slingshot most notably) so we were able to ride the Ferris Wheel and stuff if there was a gap in the shows we wanted to see.
I'll check out both of those, thank you for the suggestion! The two weeks before Halloween are pretty traditional rap albums so maybe something kind of off the rails could be fun.
I'll check out the Halloween Havoc tapes! Thanks for the suggestion. I can go with a classic if nothing else jumps out cause you are probably right about the general audience of this sub.
That said, the 2 albums before Halloween are both certified classics imo so we will see haha
It was a 3 day music festival in Maryland! It was right on the beach, two of the three stages you were standing in the sand. Artists there people are most likely to recognize are Jack Johnson, Alanis Morissette, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer and The Lumineers. Lots of other stuff too though. My favorite was Fitz and the Tantrums, though Jack Johnson's set was crazy good. Man puts on a really good live show.
I am assuming he won't be able to go to bed at a decent time. I wake up at 6:30am most days and I know I couldn't go to bed at 6:30pm. If he woke up at 3pm, it would be a tall order to fall asleep before ~4am I'd figure. Which gives him ~3 hours of sleep.
Unrelated to this weeks album, who has suggestions for our October 31st thread? I wanted something horror-core to fit with Halloween, but I've never been in to that sub-genre of Hip Hop really. Or if anybody has a Halloween theme album that is legitimately good. Let me know. I don't want to just look up "best horror-core rap albums" though I can do that too if nobody has any suggestions.
I am currently traveling and will have to update this later to be more thorough. Short version though, this is one of the albums that I used to listen to on repeat when I was in my "old school" phase. I ended up liking Naughty By Nature and 19 Naughty III better as albums, but this was my first Naughty By Nature album so I probably heard it more than those two combined. I mention this because I know I have some bias towards loving this album. That said, probably hadn't listened to this in 10 years when I checked it out during my drive this weekend to prep for this week. I was pleased with how well it holds up, despite sounding very much of the mid 90s. I don't know how something can sound so solidly "90s" and still not sound dated in 2023 but I feel that way about this album personally.
My favorite song is probably Craziest, though my wife hates it with a passion. Second favorite would be Klickow-Klickow. Least favorite song is probably Slang Bang, though I still like it. Something just has to be the worst, even if it is still good overall.. Special shout out to the skits on this album. They were pretty standard in this era and I skip them on a lot of albums but not here. Special "why does this exist" to the track Shout Out because it sucks. I listened to this album 3 times this weekend and I didn't want to skip tracks on principle, but this shit does not need to be here. I don't call it my least favorite song because it barely qualifies as a song. I specifically remember leaving this track off when I burned myself a CD of this album as a teenager.
I can't speak for OP, but some people sleep through alarms if they haven't slept enough. My oldest will legit just sleep through his phone alarm if it has been less than 5 hours since he went to bed. I've just heard his alarm go off in his room for 20 minutes straight before I walk in there and shake him awake. Shit is a problem.
I'm on mobile so I can't do links at the moment, but if you liked Mystic Stylez you might like "Chapter One: The End", that is probably the closest album they did to that. Maybe "Underground Volume One", specifically tracks like "Now I'm High, Really High" and "Ridin in the Chevy" from the start of the album lean in to that slowed down sound.
Not as sure about DJ screw. Ive heard his mixes over the years but I can't say I've ever dated down and listened to a whole album.
I really liked this song. I love pretty much anything on those heavy Boom Bap style beats. I'm also very impressed with the amount of work this music video must have taken, building the little paper city and everything.
Semi related, I feel like when I look up the translations of a lot of the songs that get posted here with our [WORLDWIDE] tag, they are usually pretty political or dealing with some other sort of heavy topics. This is something that I feel is missing from a lot of mainstream stuff in the US nowadays and it is cool to see that internationally Hip Hop might be staying a bit more true to its social roots. Alternatively, we as a group just like that sort of stuff and it is selection bias haha.
If you liked that pitched down vocal style, you should check out some of DJ Screw's old stuff. His remix's are basically what popularized that sound.
You also might like some Three 6 Mafia, as they were influenced by that style.
it’s great production with okay rapping.
This for sure describes Rocky very well and I assume that is intentional. Or at least that he is aware of it. The A$AP collective was formed as a group of rappers, producers and fashion designers. Most notably A$AP Barry and A$AP K never did anything on the musical side as far as I can tell (though Barry is no longer affiliated with the Mob as he is a sexual predator piece of shit). I think Rocky goes more for the vibe and energy, knowing he isn't going to go down in history as a legendary MC.
Is this considered Chopped and Screwed?
I'd personally consider it Chopped & Screwed influenced. Specifically the slowed down vocals and such you are talking about are for sure influenced by the Houston sound, and songs like Bass lean pretty heavily in to it. But songs like Palace and Trilla are for sure too fast to be considered Chopped and Screwed on their own. There actually is a Chopped and Screwed Remix of the album that was posted on the A$AP Mob website back in the day that might give you an idea of what it might sound like if it leaned fully in to that.
Glad you enjoyed the album on the whole, even if Rocky's actual rapping wasn't 100% doing it for you!
I re-listened to the album last night and I agree that it makes the song more intense. It still makes me uncomfortable, but I don't mind it. This isn't an album I would listen to if I was looking to feel something upbeat and that is OK.
Unrelated but I Don't Like My Mind grew on my when I listened to it by itself and might be in my top 3 tracks when listened to individually.
That Jazz beat absolutely makes this song. French always sounds so smooth over a beat that really lets the artist flow on it and this is absolutely it. And Alice Russel was a delight on the track as well of course, but the combination of Hocus Pocus' voice on that beat really made the whole thing for me. Great find!
