Are Migos the Thelonious Monk of nu-rap?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d20KPaHcTTI

Well, you needn't sleep put it on round midnight hit em with the 44 make em fold in walked bud smokin 2 glocks on my hip like tomb raider my dear

I don't know, are they?

i guess considering we have that terrible Kendrick lamar thread title, this can be the migos one

Lmfao

http://d12vb6dvkz909q.cloudfront.net/uploads/galleries/2157/3-amigos-1.jpg

I think they are, they are usually in shades, they remind me of Monk in how they rap.

And I just saw this youtube comment on one of their great vids, d'oh!

http://i.imgur.com/82yGaJe.png

they remind me of Monk in how they rap.

thx for expounding on the thread title

Thelonius Monche is my favourite rapper.

Mine is Cecil 4 Taylor

haha ok i'm back leaning towards "sock puppet" now

The Thelonius Das EFX of rap.

Migos thread title vs Kendrick thread title vs Shabazz thread title

Migos Play on Stage For Money: Most Important Musical Moment Since Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot?

Mine is Cecil 4 Taylor

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:50 (3 hours ago) Permalink

man,

i never liked migos but 'all good' off the new 1 is awz do they have other jams like that pls sirs

Real talk tho, I'm glad someone finally started a Migos thread even if it's that ferocious creature that hides under your porch.

had No Label 2 and Rich Nigga Timeline on repeat for weeks now

a lot of 'fun singles artists' type rappers have made full-length albums/mixtapes i enjoy but Migos mixtapes just become an endurance trial for me really quickly. especially the new one. that opening track at the top of the thread is 6 minutes for some reason, and it's like 8 tracks in before you get to anything that even resembles the kind of songs they're famous for.

Agreed

this thread made me laugh a lot, thank you all

this thread def goes in the 'probable sock' column for raccoon tanuki

I made a rough draft of a checklist of characteristics the Thelonious Monk of rap would have:

1. Other rappers and critics think they can't rap, but they're actually very technically gifted. Their early works attest to the fact that they can rap straight.

2. Has a hard-to-detect sense of irony in the formal aspects of their performance rather than simply in the text of their lyrics.

3. Subverts rhythm and flow in off-kilter, sometimes subtle ways.

4. Melodically inventive.

5. A handful of well-regarded verses and hooks are "borrowed" from others or otherwise have a murky provenance.

I'm open to revisions and additions.

thanks bamcquern

gonna be honest at first glance i thought this was a numbered list explaining why racoon tanuki is or is not a sock

3 out of 5

Are you a big sock boy or a little sock boy? It is a picture of my post, my glistening post. I want to drown in the sea of FPs.

bamcquern describing chief keef not migos

raccoon tanuki still a sock tho

xp haha that was my first thought.

"I made a rough draft of a checklist of characteristics the Thelonious Monk of rap would have:

1. Other rappers and critics think they can't rap, but they're actually very technically gifted. Their early works attest to the fact that they can rap straight.

2. Has a hard-to-detect sense of irony in the formal aspects of their performance rather than simply in the text of their lyrics.

3. Subverts rhythm and flow in off-kilter, sometimes subtle ways.

4. Melodically inventive.

5. A handful of well-regarded verses and hooks are "borrowed" from others or otherwise have a murky provenance.

I'm open to revisions and additions.

― bamcquern"

Good points although I would disregard all the bit about lyrics as theyre the least important part of rapping and point 1 i disagree with as Monk wasn't technically gifted and that tells you all you need to know about the standard accepted qualia and of techincal gifts and the worth they have

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/9a/ca/92/9aca925d1ed353b9bb9068bc92f5f174.jpg

damn

has r. tanuki ever questioned why the majority of the board responds to his posts calling him a sock?

the moment i knew for sure is when he said there was nowhere to eat in london except bodeans heh

Ok RT, I'll grant that he might not have been "technically gifted," as I put it, but I will say that he was "technically capable," and I know he had a fair amount of classical, formal, and informal training, which is more than can be said of others who were more outwardly pianistic, such as Hampton Hawes.

looking for the poll options mods

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3vmuEgIIAEk0J9.jpg:large

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1059698/thumbs/o-RACCOON-HARP-facebook.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4100/4933880128_2c0f8436bc.jpg

I don't really have an opinion on whether Migos are the Thelonious Monk of nu-rap but I'm enjoying the raccoon pictures, all future ilx socks should be obligated to take the name of a cute animal to facilitate this kind of thing

recalcitrant socks to be issued with a cute animal name by the mods

"Ok RT, I'll grant that he might not have been "technically gifted," as I put it, but I will say that he was "technically capable," and I know he had a fair amount of classical, formal, and informal training, which is more than can be said of others who were more outwardly pianistic, such as Hampton Hawes.

― bamcquern, "

Stick to topic please

https://vine.co/v/h03FzurZYtd

wow incredible find lmao

lol perfect

I made a rough draft of a checklist of characteristics the Thelonious Monk of rap would have:

1. Other rappers and critics think they can't rap, but they're actually very technically gifted. Their early works attest to the fact that they can rap straight.

2. Has a hard-to-detect sense of irony in the formal aspects of their performance rather than simply in the text of their lyrics.

3. Subverts rhythm and flow in off-kilter, sometimes subtle ways.

4. Melodically inventive.

5. A handful of well-regarded verses and hooks are "borrowed" from others or otherwise have a murky provenance.

I'm open to revisions and additions.

― bamcquern, Saturday, November 29, 2014 11:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

6. Hat collection

xxxpost incredible work there goon

someone add this audio to that vine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVnUpl2IKQ

monk x migos vs tanooki mashup: http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHsVnUpl2IKQ&start1=&video2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKshrtLXBdl8&start2=&authorName=snoopsagan

dying @ that vine

Thanks to Vine, throwing dead raccoons at each other is fun again.

when was it not

http://allhiphop.com/2015/01/28/instagram-users-blast-migos-for-posting-1000-check-online/

the check is physically big tho

Watch live stream here: http://www.twitch.tv/daramactire

Atlanta rap trio and video game aficionados Migos will be playing a live session of the Minecraft game for fans today at 2PM PST/ 5PM EST. Jason Probst aka "Minecraft Universe" and friends will be teaching the revered rap group the basics of the computer game in a live stream. Fans will also be able to play and interact with Migos for one hour by logging onto this server address IP: prison.vulcanmc.net.

migos feat stampy

free migos

Pass

http://i.imgur.com/qvb6rag.png

"The trio has such a fervent following after their steady stream of mixtapes that memes exist boasting that Migos are better than the Beatles. "Why wouldn't it be better than the Beatles?" Offset said. "They're legends, but we're legends too now. Quavo was just saying he wanted to meet Paul McCartney, so nothing against them. But they saying we better, so it is what it is."

Watch footage of Migos' arrest via TMZ:"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/migos-members-arrested-on-guns-drugs-charges-after-police-end-concert-20150419

Chip Love • 5 hours ago

I don't get these dudes. I couldn't even finish listening to "Versace". I'm all for lyrical minimalism but when they do spit a line it just doesn't connect with me. It seems the young kids of today are into some seriously questionable stuff. Like Drake and J. Cole. To me it is corny and lightweight. But these are the artists capitalizing financially on the styles laid down by the true groundbreaker MC's. And these Migos guys jacked both Mac Dre and Ol' Dirty's fashion steaze. That's ok. It just ain't nothing new. I worry about this generation of kids. I am getting older but the stuff they like pretty much suuuckz. 11 million plus views for"Versace". Who the heck finds that song inspirational or groundbreaking? Riff Raff owns the use of "Versace" as an adjective, btw.

threw away all of his insights with that closing clause

http://i.imgur.com/LcBd3ya.gif

them jeans with timbaland is so good

this thread title is troubling on so many axes

the new mixtape is v good imo

especially "Commando"

I don't know, are they?

― cheeseburger

yeah this thread title is just . . . *sighs*

like something can be good without needing to be the X of Y, right?

I don't want to overstate things or speculate too much about motivations, but talking about rap in this way almost feels like some kind of "respectability politics", ya know? Do Migos need to be brought "up" from one level to another?

You can plug anything into this schema. Like so:

Sunn O))) are the Mark Rothko of metal
Autechre are the Agnes Martin of electro
Tinashe is the Paul Gaugin of R n B
Ashtray Navigations are the Wassily Kandinsky of guitar noise

etc.

I get that that can be done well or poorly, but it's resting on shaky ground- is my Rothko your Rothko? Do you mean "bright" or "simple" or "suicidal" or "focused" or "minimal" and so on.

yeah commando is dope

No Label I Iis a a banger best of decade type thing. antidodote. add it up. birds. that thing is ridiculous. let's just agree it's almost perfect like the tour pt 1 aright

ive never listened to anything off that that wasn't fight night

wtf Handsome and Wealthy is arguably their best song ever.

1. lol at who started this thread
2. culture is like Migos' old mixtapes but with more Offset and higher production value

Deadz is the shit

it was fun to all line up against tanuki for a couple weeks.

Haha when I played sund4r Bad and Boujee, he wondered aloud if Migos had had any formal training

checking in

One listen out, this is pretty great

chasing full album youtubes cuz i'm not subscribed to any streaming services, finally found one.. its good

good 2chainz verse

https://twitter.com/DefPenHoops/status/825104987130908674

lol

Spin off in the coupe, typhoon (skrt skrt)
I act an ass, baboon
Wrappin' that dope, cocoon
Young rich nigga in the room
Finesse a nigga, no raccoon
Spending M&M's in June
Took a trip to Cancun
Culture album coming soon

this Culture album is v good. Lol! more tenuous comparisons in the factmag review.

yeah this is great

https://soundcloud.com/bootymath/bad-and-boujee-but-its-just-offset-saying-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo

i met her today she talked to me like she knew me

is such a great line

That t-shirt song is the one I keep on repeat at the moment

i met her today she talked to me like she knew me

is such a great line

― lag∞n, Monday, January 30, 2017 3:03 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something kind of paul simon about it lol

lol totally

thanks for that NA

T-Shirt/Call Casting/Bad Boujee/Get Right Witcha is a fairly unimpeachable run

you talkin' bout modern day rap but don't know the culture

its funny migos were the nu-rap whipping boys for a min when theyre obvs such traditionalists

having DJ Khaled on the opening track AND saying "culture album coming soon" (even if followed by 'another one' ad lib) on the first track makes this seem like the budget pre-album mixtape rather than the breakthrough studio album. bad marketing. kinda like chief keef with naming his follow-up to Finally Rich as if it was the third entry in a mixtape series

future calling his album ds2

seems like mostly rappers dont care abt the difference between albums and mixtapes

lil uzi vert's verse is such a blight on b&b :/

digging the album a lot

hmm no uzi verse is good

otm re the 2 Chainz verse.

I love "All Ass."

hmm no uzi verse is good

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 12:46 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*shuffles papers on desk* *picks up report* *puts glasses on bridge of nose* i'm sorry but i'm looking at the data and our analytics dept has determined it's...not a good verse, says so right here

hmm no uzi verse is good

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 12:46 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*shuffles papers on desk* *picks up report* *puts glasses on bridge of nose* i'm sorry but i'm looking at the data and our analytics dept has determined it's...not a good verse, says so right here

wow ilm is full of fake stats what next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9MZJoW0v6A

^^^ masterpiece

<3

Album is great. Needed this.

wow ilm is full of fake stats what next

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:02 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fake news organization ilm :(

https://twitter.com/onbadandboujee

lagoon is the betsy devos of lil uzi vert

uzi vert verse sucks for sure lol

he got lucky as hell & his place there is proof those guys are lying out their ass when they say they knew it was a hit when they recorded it

it's not a super obvious hit IMO, it's kinda low key but grows on you

otm. "T-Shirt" feels way more obvious as a single

i don't hear t-shirt as a hit at all, like 0%

It's already in the top 40

'boujee' has one of the best hooks in a rap song in years, but 't shirt' will be a great single too

let the record state tshirt has been stuck in my head, but i did listen to it a bunch of times before the album came out

"T-Shirt" is amazing.

i like call casting a lot too

Well done, Whiney!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-migos-culture-w462821

i like call casting a lot too

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 31, 2017

first five tracks straight bangers imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAIp28mICOM

i can't get this out of my head

t shirt might have gotten onto the charts via overall momentum but i can't see it lasting as a real bona fide hit. it just sounds super regular

Naw, it's an obvious, immediate standout.

definitely, tho i wouldn't say it sounded like a single, but i'm an old in 2017 so i have no clue what a single should sound like maybe

anyway, it's a brilliant track

man im probably the only one here who actually listened to all those migos mixtapes between then and now & i called 'bad and boujee' as a hit back in august. i can tell you 't shirt' is interchangeable w/ half a dozen records theyve released already

just imo but i cant see that record staying in the top 40

not saying its a bad song or anything

are you negging migos?

deej knows where culture is headed

I've listened to most of their tapes and it has nothing to do with comparison to anything they've done in the past, it's just a really fun hooky song! I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.

I really hate when you do this "no one understands the rap music as well as me" schtick.

t shirt is a cool song and it might ride out the bad and boujee popularity wave but if you stack it up next to fight night, handsome & wealthy, hannah montana, bad and boujee etc i also don't hear it as a hit in those terms

it feels a little low key to me but crazier things have happened... it's a great album opener tho

Rev otm. Times x 1000.

deej has his finger on the pulse of the throbbing, central vein of migos

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DeAndre-Jordan-Face-After-Brandon-Knight-Dunk.gif

I'll give you that it's not as intense as "Hannah Montana" or "Fight Night", but "Handsome and Wealthy" and "Bad and Boujee" are both p lowkey too.

I really hate when you do this "no one understands the rap music as well as me" schtick.

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 4:25 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not claiming to have some inherent deeper understanding of rap music im claiming to have paid attention to it.

and i don't think this is a real hit, its a streaming phantasm record built on the momentum of their first hit in ages.

but i guess we'll see if yall are still singing it in april

*ascends into the sky, laughing maniacally*

(the movement to make t-shirt the number one song of 2017 STARTS NOW)

Isn't that sort of barely there menace the wave now? Didn't 21 Savage have a top 40 hit?

Also, T-Shirt has a great video, which can really drive a steam count skyward

the seed of bad n boujee can be found here at 2:29, the fact that i noticed it makes me the arbiter of the culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mis8vdyWlw

Isn't that sort of barely there menace the wave now? Didn't 21 Savage have a top 40 hit?

Also, T-Shirt has a great video, which can really drive a steam count skyward

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 5:55 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

21 savage's top 40 hit is a future song

i agree about t-shirt's video...in fact id argue that's what let it touch top 40 in the first place

excellent thought leading lagoon don't think we haven't noticed at ilx HQ, there's talk of a promotion

i called 'bad and boujee' as a hit back in august

isn't this some broken clock right twice a day shit tho?

jk i have enjoyed Bout to Bust

he who controls the deej... controls the FUTURE

Mama told me
not to guesswork

isn't this some broken clock right twice a day shit tho?

― flopson, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 6:38 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

purpose of the column isn't to predict the future or anything, like im actively cheerleading for stuff that doesnt have the mechanisms in place to be big all the time (cf 'cross me,') or has an uphill climb to be taken seriously again (we are toonz, Tink, sevyn streeter).

but the same column w/ bad and boujee also called amine, "black beatles" & "key to the streets" so you tell me

that same month, i mean

jesus christ deej you need to blow on your thumb and be a little more three dimensional

jk i have enjoyed Bout to Bust

LMAOOOOOOOOO

jesus christ deej you need to blow on your thumb and be a little more three dimensional

― bamcquern, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 8:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolz

i only found out like last week that aminé was on the radio

why is everyone so mad abt me saying i dont think t-shirt is a real hit? im not saying you cant like the song. im not saying its bad. im saying its like 'timmy turner,' a fleecing the people via streaming 'hit' & we will all know in a month or two if we were right or not

dont denigrate tshirts is what it comes down to

excellent thought leading lagoon don't think we haven't noticed at ilx HQ, there's talk of a promotion

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank u i wont let u down

btw the migos look great in their new videos now that theyre not just dripping in flashy versace and whatnot

Isn't that sort of barely there menace the wave now? Didn't 21 Savage have a top 40 hit?

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 5:55 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

21 savage's top 40 hit is a future song

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No Heart isn't doing too bad either

21 is possibly my least favorite rapper of the current moment

At least of those taken seriously

He's like the most one dimensional drill cartoon & it was sold on pure noisey esque authenticity fetishism. Except all the ppl who said that about drill rap are cool with it this time around for some reason

T-Shirt is incredibly hooky - the kindof song where you'll have the whole club rapping along to every word. It's not very radio ready but then how much does radio matter these days anyway?

did someone say it wasn't 'hooky'?

its not a hit, idc idc idc

Well being incredibly hooky and fun to rap along with can certainly help a song from a hot and successful rap group become a hit. Not saying it is or will be. But it might.

is t-shirt the pannonica of nu-rap?

t-shirt is a head-fake, people

the real plan is [looks at track list]... deadz

excellent thought leading lagoon don't think we haven't noticed at ilx HQ, there's talk of a promotion

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank u i wont let u down

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 9:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great. we're excited to have you on board. frankly, deej has been a great thinkfluencer in the world of young ppl but looking over his recent expense reports stet and the board are....quite concerned....over the trips and considerable resources trying to make a young gentleman by the name of....let's see, yes...."Little Peep"...happen.

so heartened to see people calling out "going to Thailand with the chinks" on "get right witcha"

oh wait

literally just heard that line as i opened this thread and went hmmm

it's a shame because I was so here for this album and "T-Shirt" was obviously an amazing hit in waiting

I would have said something but I was so shocked by the rare problematic word on a rap record that I was rendered speechless

lol

some people can be more blasé than others about racial slurs, whiney

definitely expected more racial sensitivity from a group of non-Latinx who call themselves MIGOS

has anyone heard the origin of the name, i know they all group up together, maybe people called them the three amigos cause they were inseparable, aw

I always assumed it had to do with the "Little Mexico" part of Atlanta, but I don't know for sure

whiney are you really telling an Asian person not to be so sensitive to an Asian slur because I should have expected it? even by your standards this is nagl

I'm not saying you shouldn't be upset or offended!

I'm saying you shouldn't expect other people to immediately dismiss or decry Migos even if you choose to.

And it's also like one of about 50 problematic things about the Migos

it's a shitty lyric, yes.

given how many music journalists' brand is to be WOKE, yes I absolutely fucking expect it! Transpose your terrible argument to any of the social justice blow-ups in the past few years and think about how ppl would react if you said that about Iggy Azalea or whomever. Just bc other people don't get this slur directed at them means they can handwave it away?

And don't do that thing of claiming the POC is calling for extreme measures rather than just an acknowledgement. I like the album a lot, aside from that extremely souring line. I'm not going to ~decry them. But you doubling down on your right to dismiss this slur as unimportant is probably more offensive than them using it in the first place, bc it just exposes how little you give a shit about anti-Asian racism.

Ok, we're actually in agreement because, sure, yes, it is hypocritical that the new breed of "woke music journalism" isn't picking up on this the same way that they would Rick Ross' "UOENO" verse or Drake's misogyny or w.e. But I think my record stands that most of those articles are kind of dumb because gangsta rap, from its beginning with Schoolly D, is a license for people who have been given no voice in America to express themselves, even if and often BECAUSE it means saying crazy/foul/problematic shit.

I mean, Migos talk about stealing girls, selling coke, selling fucking heroin, carrying guns, fucking "thots," giving coke to models.

It's blown-out, cartoonish, offensive, deviant. They're not trying to be "good people" on record

Thanks for whineysplaining a genre I've been into for half my life?

Obvious racial slurs make for bad art regardless of "problematic" in 2017. I let Jay-Z saying "faggot" slide in my favourite song by him in a way I wouldn't for any rapper now.

But my principal beef was indeed with Woke Music Journalists being v quiet on this.

Well, I'm just saying be mad at them, not me

I'm more of a dirtbag left music journalist tbh

Lol

dirtbag left is the new stalinism woke left are the new nazis

from migos to godwin in twenty posts

someone posted a screen shot of the Genius annotation of the ch*nks lyric in another thread iirc

iirc it was jordan on twitter

I will also shamefully admit to looking at genius on this and am now puzzled by the fact quavo's asian plug is tolerating these slurs

I love that Genius is here to explain "chinks" but not "Chi-Land."

kind of rude to out your plug/weed carrier to the world like that

hey guys my drug dealer is the asian man who came with me on that trip to chicago

genius is actually a crowdsourced way to decipher crime references for the authorities, a bunch of old white men crowded around a single computer. they previously relied on email forwards titled "rap music but in normal english"

it's a shame because I was so here for this album and "T-Shirt" was obviously an amazing hit in waiting

― lex pretend, Friday, February 3, 2017 10:43 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im mad doggie people really think this is an 'obvious hit.'

migos out here biting three six mafia flows & three six mafia racial slurs

https://i.makeagif.com/media/1-21-2015/rPgksC.gif

lol

lmaooooo it's so easy to troll deej, though I did genuinely think "T-Shirt" was an obvious hit without even reading this thread

Well, I'm just saying be mad at them, not me

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, February 3, 2017 7:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, I was, until you showed up arguing back!

reasonable

lmaooooo it's so easy to troll deej, though I did genuinely think "T-Shirt" was an obvious hit without even reading this thread

― lex pretend, Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:50 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I'm literally quoting the u mad meme to describe myself u probably shouldn't be patting yrself on the back for being the 42nd person to take the popular bad opinion

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/330359969813770242?lang=en

I didn't catch that line but these are the same guys who wrote "Chinatown". :/

Carrie Battan in the new yorker disagreeing with deej on the T-Shirt debate:

The follow-up to “Bad and Boujee” is a single called “T Shirt,” another piece of drug slang. On the hook, Quavo offers reassurance that the Migos haven’t wavered from their initial premise. “Seventeen-five, same color T-shirt,” he says coolly, talking about buying a kilogram of cocaine. The song is full of esoteric references and off-kilter improvising. “Real mob ties—mob / Real frog eyes—frog / Real whole pies—whoa / All time high—high,” he raps. It creeps along stealthily, Quavo singing behind a fog of reverb. There’s something eerie and sphinxlike about it. In other words, it’s a hit. ♦

enough:

Migos, "T-Shirt"

theres the same extremely obvious adlib in tshirt after "same color tshirt" and in call casting "white boys in the game call em andy milonakis" which is kinda dumb on its own but becomes funny in repetition WHITE

idg what the point of highlighting the ad libs is, from a music writer pov... 99% of the time they're just repeating the last or second last word

adlibs are so crucial to migos music + generally function as musical —memes— that travel outside the songs, so yeah theyre worth talking about

bad n boujee wldnt be a hit w/o the constant adlibs

MOMMA!

see also Black Beatles

ive listened to culture a bunch and its good but i do feel a lil frustration when sensing the outline of a classic rappity rap album that cldve been

i'm still listening to it every day and i think it's perfect tbh

I gave it a try right as it came out, didn't click. Earlier this week put it on again, have been listening to it every day since. I'm completely enthralled by the drums on a track like Get Right Witcha.

heard t-shirt twice while driving around yesterday and it's actually stuck in my head now

we should really make the 'T Shirt' thread the new migos thread. this title... u_u

it's grown on me, this title

so bad its good

culture is a one-trick-pony album but it's a really good trick and I like it a lot

Thelonious "Shirt" Monk

poll the migos

dab of ranch is amazing

xps- it's at LEAST a two-trick pony come on

black t-shirt and the sinner lady

this is fast becoming a classic album for me, although I rarely seem to make it to the end cos the first 4-5 tracks are all so incredible

I'm allaboutt the vibey Chicago sounding back half now

Takeoff possibly RIP…

Confirmed…

man this sucks. you should be in the room the first time a kid (talking here about my kid, ten years old) hears a a migos tune -- just instant response. all the word is this was a quiet guy who just loved making music. thanks to d-40 over on twitter for holding the line on how it's bullshit to be amplifying pictures of a man's dead body and rest easy to a guy who made music a whole fuckin lot of people loved.

Absolutely wretched news to wake up to. RIP.

unbelievable :(
Guy was 28, what a terrible waste.

Terrible news, what a tragedy

rip

Oh fuck no. This is terrible

aw fuck, this is awful

FUCK

what a waste. crushing.

fucking sad.

completely horrifying. i guess i never realized that he was a teenager when they first popped.

feel so terrible for the entire atlanta rap scene, a whole generation dead or in jail

damn. There's literally something like this once a month or so.

kinda didn't wanna chime in on this specific thread but yeah this is very sad

Culture, along with Tribe's last album and Miranda Lambert's The Weight of These Wings, is forever linked for me to that November '16-January '17 interregnum before Trump took office. I felt a kind of wistfulness and a growing dread

yeah, that sounds familiar

i listened to the heck out of culture, love that work

RIP, awful news.

horrible, tragic news. rip.

wtf

Too sad.

He really stole the show on loads of tracks.

Only Built 4 Infinity Links, while overlong like all streaming age hip hop albums, is really good