"He can rap on this WEIRD ass beat mang holy shit 10/10 aoty my nigga lmao"

>"He can rap on this WEIRD ass beat mang holy shit 10/10 aoty my nigga lmao"

This is literally the only argument anybody makes when I ask them why they like this shit. I fucking hate the experimental hiphop scene. Why is it just a piss competition about who can make the most annoying and earhurting beats? Do you in all honestly listen to this album and find yourself enjoying it?

If it is that easy to be "innovative" I'll just record my fucking washing machine or remix my own farts and people will look at it as something "artsy" and good.

The album is boring, music is supposed to be enjoyed and this is far from enjoyable, just someone showing his rapping skills.

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Not everyone is (You), though.

This but unironically

none of the beats are too out there or experimental.

experimental hip hop is a joke, compared to experimental any other genre, it's barely different from normal hip hop.

Yes. It did a great job to capture the feeling of anxiety, lose of control and delirious euphoria.

I like the album because it goes well with Danny's persona and lyrics. He raps about being high on XXX and Old, but the production reflects that on here, and it's interesting.

Also completely agree with

You're lame. And all those buzzwords are lame.
>muh every piece of art is supposed to have a message.

>anxiety, loss of control, and delirious euphoria are buzzwords

But I liked it and found it interesting.

Yes they are and I find them in every thread that discusses Danny.

Is it super innovative? No
Is his rap skills something that rivals the best? No
Is it still a really fucking good album, with some of the best bangers of the year? Yes

But desu, I can't really name a rap album that sounded like this in the past couple of years. (And if anybody does, please throw them my way) That doesn't make it innovative, it's just a breath of fresh air.

Lol, yeah they're up there with SJW, white guilt, alt right, memerap, other trending topics, the list goes on....
Adjectives are buzzwords, right?

This

The beats aren't that experimental and most of them aren't annoying though.
They're just a little darker in tone.
Every piece of art absolutely has a message you entry-level fuck.
Either way what is your problem with a piece of art having a message?

what's your aoty then user

tell me so i can reduce it to a >muh something

That's your opinion bud. Many people like this album. Who cares what you think?

/board

XXX > AE > Old =/= The Hybrid for me, senpai

If you think this project is better than XXX, I'm afraid you're just incorrect.

>anxiety, lose of control and delirious euphoria
show me some examples of this by posting lyrics pertaining to each word

do it yourself and listen to the album lazy fuck

not him but holy shit are you serious?
>genius.com/Danny-brown-downward-spiral-lyrics
just read the lyrics to every song. it's literally the theme of the whole fucking album.

XXX has too many weed dealer-tier guest verses where AE only has one (ab-soul)

>all words are buzzwords

literally only two features on XXX senpai. and it's a good bit longer than AE.

You stupid fuck.

Alright I'm still waiting for the _great job_ at capturing those themes because this doesn't really do it

I'm sweating like I’m in a rave
Been in this room for 3 days
Think I’m hearing voices
Paranoid and think I’m seeing ghost-es, oh shit
Phone keep ringing but I cut that shit off
Only time I use it when I tell the dealer drop it off
Had a threesome last night, ain’t matter what it cost
Couldn’t it get hard, tried to stuff it in soft
Had to fuck em both raw, keep my fingers crossed
Been grinding on my teeth so long it's swelling up my jaw
Nothing on but my bathrobe and pinky ring
Your worst nightmare for me is a normal dream
And if I learned anything
Is don’t nod off with ya motherfucking cigarette burning
Knocking on my door but I won’t answer
Residue on mirrors, Jojo dancer

which is a serious disadvantage. the best hip hop albums get in, make their point, and get the fuck out
prove me wrong

>reads first lyrics
>wtf there's no theme

how is anyone this retarded? It's not rocket science you fucking mong. He literally addresses all the aforementioned characteristics in that passage alone

you don't see themes of anxiety or loss of control in those lyrics?
lol you are a fucking numbskull

>song is literally about losing control, anxiety, and deliriousness
>"where's the loss of control, anxiety, and deliriousness?"
The song is fucking called "Downward Spiral" and you still don't see the theme? I almost think this is bait, but in case your skull is actually as thick as concrete here's a short breakdown.

He's been in his room for days on a drug bender. When he picks up some girls, he can't even get hard. Like him doing drugs, he isn't even enjoying the sex, but he keeps doing it anyway. This is called addiction. The only thing that stops the bender before he kills himself is he falls asleep with a cigarette, setting the bed on fire and triggering the fire alarm. When the fire department shows up, he's still so out of it he doesn't answer them knocking on the door.

This should be a wakeup call for him, but he just goes back to the lifestyle. In the next verse he talks about how guilty he is for his addiction and what it's doing to other people, but that guilt just fuels his addiction even more. He knows the only way it can end is when he eventually dies.

There, I broke down the song for you so you can understand the themes a little better.

This is really pathetic OP. I see a lot of people shitting on hip hop on this board, but very few who dislike it simply because they can't comprehend it. You shouldn't be on a music board.

>just someone showing his rapping skills
on a rap album? what the fuck is his problem?

Think of literally any other experimental hip hop album and it's more interesting than Danny Brown's.
He was just at the right place at the right time to be gifted rave reviews and every pretentious lame hopped on the bandwagon to accessorize their taste with the token rap album of the year.
It's not very good music.

anybody got a chart of experimental hip hop albums? don't know much about it

bad album

danny brown had some good tracks on old but that's about it, he's a meme

>annoying and earhurting beats
I just listened to a few tracks off this now and I can tell you don't listen to much electronic music.

I wouldn't say it's innovative either, but for completely different reasons to you. This album has mass appeal - it has been watered down to make it palatable (I'm not saying that's a bad thing, by the way). If it's still too much for you, that's on you.

It doesn't help that your critique essentially amounts to "hehe it sounds like a washing machine and remixed farts." Maybe try to be more specific.

>He raps about being high on XXX and Old, but the production reflects that on here
Only in the genre of rap can something so stupid-sounding be considered a good thing.

>what is psychedelia

Reminds me of any Dead End Hip Hop review.
The couple more traditional dudes get all up in arms about this kind of "weird shit", like it's some groundbreaking departure.

god that channel is cancer. myke is the only one who knows what he's talking about, and he's also the most annoying guy on the panel to listen to

it's a shame because they're pretty entertaining, they should cover general topics rather than just hip hop

>they should cover general topics rather than just hip hop

they do. Check out their discussions w/ Sophie(who's a stupid bitch but she doesn't talk much so it's okay). It's the only thing I watch of theirs anymore other than the occasional review that I know Kin will end up talking himself into a corner on. Those are pretty funny. Feefo pisses me the fuck off when he talks about music but is the most sensible man in the room when they talk about politics or free speech, etc

>general topics rather than just hip hop
>dead end hip hop
Come on son

But yeah I agree their insights are a total fucking snoozefest and their political opinions are usually pretty boring and predictable. I really only watch the reviews for Myke and Beezy. I like Myke's solo channel a bit too

>Come on son
What's the problem? They shouldn't specialize in hip hop because they don't know enough about it

>I like Myke's solo channel a bit too
I just can't listen to the man speak for more than two minutes. But he definitely has much more music knowledge than anyone else on the panel, even if it's just black metal and various goth genres

I think this album is too serious for its own good. Danny might have a decent flow but his lyrics are god awful, I'm not usually one to let that get to me too much but he literally changes words to make them rhyme and throws in lines a simple 16 year old would write. Really wanted to love this, big fan of XXX, thought Old was a misstep and then this came. It is an improvement and a decent album but makes me think XXX was a fluke

Beezy is a cool guy and when he talks about something he likes he makes some good conversation (Nonane Gypsy's tape for example). Shame he is such a traditionalist that he doesn't talk about anything any way new or different.

Make can be funny and knows a decent bit about alternative hip-hop, but think he's a little biased against some more poppy/happy stuff that is actually good (kendricks pimp a butterfly for example) I know he liked it a bit but he wasn't praising it because of the poppy sounding tracks.

Feefo is my favourite , seems like a really cool guy and knows what he likes. Might not have much insight into musical ideas but I like his opinions in the conversations.

Kinge is great when you can tell he has what he says planned out and likes an album. Too much of an old head and when he doesn't have his thoughts planned out he rambles and makes no points for minutes at a time. Love listening to him when I'm baked because I find it hilarious

>I think this album is too serious for its own good
Agree, the serious songs on this are extremely boring and ruin the mood for me. I think if it started off slow and ended at him dying from OD on White Lines or something like that, it could have been incredible.

pretty solid synopsis. You can always tell when Kin hasn't prepared at all for an album but he'll spew random thoughts as if he did, and usually everyone will call him out at some point. His opinions outside of music are dog shit though. There was one about Wayne's black lives matter comments where he was actually trying to blame Wayne for inciting or encouraging racism and that he's to blame for self-hating blacks or some shit. It was emnbarrassing
I don't think it takes itself that seriously after the first half desu. You're trying to tell me Ain't It Funny or White Lines are trying too hard?

How did pic related make (You) feel?

Summer ended long ago, why are you still here?

He adresses them but not in a great way, he's literally just scratching the surface. I went into this expecting some visceral picturesque shit that rips you in all the right ways but it ultimately ended up as vast disappointment. Even I can write better shit than that, check it

I will never shoot myself but sometimes I look down from that cliff
I hate myself I love myself, it's just that kind of relationship
Kobain in my veins, thinking of suicide again
Early morning vicodin to numb the pain that I am
Showing emotion but do not play me violin
I will do the same motion while holding a knife to skin
Play another sad story from my life again
Got lied to as a child and I think it affected me for the rest of my life
My granddad acted like I was dumb, lied in my eyes said I was his son
Mom was my sister, brothers were my nephews
How the fuck do you expect me to respect you when you make me feel like I was born in a test tube
Outsider in class, no one to sit next to
Do you really think the preacher knows the whole truth
The secrets of the universe and everything that holds you
What lies will they tell in your obituary
You can't find the meaning of life in a dictionairy

I got a call saying that I'll die tomorrow
My reply, fine life is borrowed
Something 'bout how the stars grow
Step in the dark and turn my heart cold
Last night I died for the eleventh time
Hate how you look in my eyes and read my mind
Don't believe adults because they're dead inside
That's something my innocence taught my pride
My addiction was feeding tumors, asking for trouble I should've seen it sooner
Believe the shooter, believe in jesus or buddha
There's too much smoke in this room to see the future
Don't fall for true lies, how does it feel behind two eyes
Maybe we're all too blind, a due death in due time

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

meh/10

what is subtlety

you spelled dictionary wrong

dude that's awful, how are you attacking Danny? I can't even tell what meter you wrote this by... is this just some kind of free verse?

he probably doesn't know what a meter is

it's in 2 you assholes

This is FUCKING cringe damn

is this you?

If that album hurts your ears than your ears would literally bleed if you heard something that was ACTUALLY abrasive.

You might as well just blatantly say "I have not listened to a lot of music at all and therefore can't comprehend why a lot of people would enjoy a slightly experimental but still very accessible record."

fuck off, tell me what's wrong with my lyrics

not my fault if you're jealous or the metaphors go over your head

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

lmao do you mean duple? And over 3/4ths of that is either not in duple or you would've had to condense your bars like crazy. Lemme guess user, are you a Tech N9ne fan? hahah

dude, live a little longer then you'll see by yourself what's wrong. don't assume your worldview is special. it's not.

>Lemme guess user, are you a Tech N9ne fan?

daaammnnn hot opinion go easy on the poor kid!

hahahaha
your metaphors have the subtlety of a baboon

Not him but you have zero context. You state reasons like why you're depressed or that no one understands you, but you don't state anything else that could relate. Your lyrics suck man, they're aimless complaining.

Advice, if you want sympathy, at least TRY to show you've had a hard life and you're overcoming it through literary devices like alliteration or even a complex internal rhyme scheme. If you don't know anything about that then you're fucked. It's not the listeners job to make a song appealing, it's the rappers job, and Aimlessly stating that it's My fault that I don't get the metaphors mean that you're compensating for being a shitty fucking lyricist.

>duple
also known as 2. my rapping technique's not that good, just appreciate the lyrics

says the enlightened danny brown fan. my worldview isn't just fucking and getting high. if you haven't suffered in life you might not relate to this. it's called internal struggle

it's not about me, it's bigger than that. it's a struggle we can all relate to, the human condition

>There's too much smoke in this room to see the future

Holy FUCK I can't go further TRASH

>it's about the human condition
AHAHAHAOHOHOHO GOD THIS CAN'T BE REAL

Assuming is the worst thing you can do as a human.

Pussaaaay

Hi Hopsin

Believe the shooter, believe in jesus or buddha
There's too much smoke in this room to see the future
Don't fall for true lies, how does it feel behind two eyes
Maybe we're all too blind, a due death in due time

I dare you to critique me faggot

literally no one cares about your internal struggle if you can't say anything that would give anyone more understanding of their own. you just sound like a little kid crying.

I've just never heard anyone say it that way, it comes off really weird. Anyway your lyrics are just too scatter-brained, they don't follow linearly.
>Last night I died for the eleventh time
Hate how you look in my eyes and read my mind
Don't believe adults because they're dead inside

what the fuck does the "hate" line have to do at all with its anterior line? You're just hurdling from cliche struggle to the next with any depth, and wallowing in self-pity without showcasing any personality. In a word, it comes off as insubstantial

I honestly think these are pretty creative lyrics. Beside I love the rhythm his words create, you can read his flow.

Theres literally NO devices used. NONE. Dude you're making prose at this point.

you need to make your words flow better bruh

>buzzwords
faggot

Not only that, but it's shitty, edgy prose that the writer thinks is deep.
there's my critique faggot

finally Hot Opinion does something worthwhile and draws out this comedy gold for us.
I can hardly brathe omg

show me your raps then

yeah I'm not perfect but I've got talent

alright alright alright here goes

[ahem]

one thing
I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
(All I know)
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
(It's so unreal)
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to (watch you go)
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time

No talent bruh here's a few bars for you

user smells like poo,
his raps like doo doo

Tells us he's got talent
But he's actually a huge bitch

>i've got talent

either this is the best b8 of the year or you're as delusional as a first-round american idol contestant crying when simon is mean to them

>I've got talent
hahahahaha no you don't bro
>show me your raps
I don't write music lyrics

>Showing emotion but do not play me violin
>I will do the same motion while holding a knife to skin
Holy shit you should spearhead a rap-rock revival, because these are Linkin Park tier lyrics
You don't have to be Jay-z to critique shitty rap lyrics you autist

damn dude that's actually pretty fucking good

audibly kekking

oh SHIT garbage rap user BTFO

>"He can rap on this WEIRD ass beat mang holy shit 10/10 aoty my nigga lmao"
That's weird, I've talked to plenty of people about this album but the discussion usually is centered around the lyrics. I guess the beats are fun and all but the reason I love the album is that it can go from fun and turbulent to straight-faced and soul crushing all in one line.

If given proper flow and delivery (maybe change a few small things to flow better) I think this is better than most of Danny's stuff on AE

We're talking about Danny Brown here, subtlety does not exist

yeah this is pretty good but mine was better

very funny dick

like I would go on that shitshow

that's what I thought bitch

it takes knowledge to critique. you don't know shit about rap, I study lyrics

Very funny dick but I'll show you a trick
Say rapping is hard amounts to one flick

My rhymes are tight an user is a prick
But something about him is that he's actually a virgin BITCH BOOOOIII

>I study lyrics
You had better study harder because your lyrics fucking blow.

Everyone critiquing that user who started rapping for his lyrics not being connected or having flow when read have obviously not listened to AE because it does the exact same thing with even more juvenile lyrics

imaging being so hungry for schadenfreude you actually take this obvious bait

Samefag omg

Also AE is part of a series. Clearly you haven't caught the mix of seriousness
And subtly that marks the album as a whole

that was my whole point. I know I'm not perfect, but I'm better than danny brown. I didn't even refine those lyrics and they still outshined him

Yo check it

I was sitting on my ass
Sitting in the grass
My dick flops around like tryna catch a prize bass