jeremih birthday sex

basically ok with this song getting played all the time this summer

You mean this:

'Saright.

we're getting to a point where i can hear ABOUT a song 100 times but never actually hear it.

somewhere buried in this thread is a youtube

omg kevin. did you know that max isn't the first person on the internet to talk about "birthday sex"? y rly k thx bye

me-ow!

this song featured in a discussion i had with a friend a little while ago about the death of the metaphor in chart pop. "let's make a song about birthday sex, called 'birthday sex.'" because, you know, "16 candles," who can tell what that's about?

anyway, it's ok. B-/C+.

GIRL U KNOW I-I-I-I

i love this song, a+

upon listening: this shit is just an excuse for the I-I-I-I part, and that's fine w me

if this is what post-dream r&b is going to be like, bring it on

top 5 singles of the year easy

IT'S YO BIRTHDAY SO I KNOW YOU WANT TO RIIIIIIIIDE OUT
EVEN IF IT'S ONLY TO MYYYYYYYYYY HOUSE
SIP MO WEEZY AS WE GET UP ON MYYYYYYY COUCH

YOU SAY YOU WANT PASSION,
I THINK YOU FOUND IT

"sip mo weezy"

Is there anything that cannot be bootmashed with Can's "Augm" ?

it's the best day of the year, girl

can't help but think of lisa stansfield here

been around the world and i-i-i...

lol

u&k

OMG, so not u&k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWzCyw5LNU4

way prefer that to the sub-agent x gash your buddies came up with tbh

Birthday Sex is way too TMI for me but I am digging the shit out of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI4rLK0vJ4w

we talked about it a bit on the R&B thread -- it was funny that jordan was all "WORST SONG OF THE YEAR" and i was all "BEST SONG OF THE YEAR" before either of us knew the other's opinion

stupid but i kinda like it. esp when westwood plays/intros it. i think he sold it to me (as a stupid but likeable POS). my favourite part is when he goes 'AhAAAhhAAAAHHHAAAAHAAAAHAHAA'.

great album.

is it just the one Mick Shultz cat producing every track?

it is, yeah.

I wouldn't call it a "great" album, it's very samey...

I'd like to hear the whole album.

i like 'imma star'

love imma star

even if we only go to my-y-y house

is the album out or leaked or what is the deal?

man i really think that song is boring as hell - i was being a bit fatalistic on the r&b thread/jukebox but i do think it's a really below average song - don't see how the production is really at all noteworthy

words can't express how much I hate this kid

okay I take that back somewhat, the second half of "I'mma Star" is pretty great

"Birthday Sex" is just stupid, though, and not nearly as fun as it should be

I-I-I-I-I-I hope that th-th-th-th-th-this becomes the new au-au-au-au-au-autotune

uh oh

That Brooke Hogan version is a trainwreck from which I cannot look away. She changes Moet to Southern fucking Comfort.

IT'S TIME TO EAT
PUSSY RESERVATIONS

why is this not already someone's display name?

sip mo, weezy
http://www.therundown.tv/wp-content/photos/lil_wayne_drunk_030108.jpg

lolz at beaucoup

is the album out or leaked or what is the deal?

― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was released 3 weeks ago

man i really think that song is boring as hell - i was being a bit fatalistic on the r&b thread/jukebox but i do think it's a really below average song - don't see how the production is really at all noteworthy

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cool showy synth textures, rhythm constantly shifting between triplets and straight 4/4, a big dramatic outro that sounds completely different from the rest of the song -- ymmv, but it has a lot going for it that is 'noteworthy' in the context of the stuff it's being played between on R&B radio.

birthday sex riddim is upon us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcBsfWipJ3A

it was released 3 weeks ago

― blame it on the jews, got you feelin' cankles (some dude), Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:41 PM Bookmark

lol I had no idea either

ships is otm about "I'mma Star" btw, the more I here it, the more I like it

at what point does a beat become a riddim? when jamaican dudes rap on it?

pretty much

Fell under the spell of "Imma Star" and grabbed the album. I agree that a lot of it is really samey, but I'm loving "My Sunshine" right now. "Runway" is pretty awes too.

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/news/Kevin_James-Mall_Cop.jpg

"Imma Star" is fabulous, the album is pretty good on first listen. Consistently lovely-sounding.

raindrops is fucking amazing....like unbelievably good. buh bye is pretty great too.

J0rdan OTM, "Imma Star" is so so boring. Y'all are fucking insane!

I like "My Time," though!

the last minute or so of "imma star" is really good, it's basically mid-level dream but that's cool w/ me. ship, when you're lauding its "outro" are you talking about that or the strings @ the end?

the rest of the song is bland as fuck, tho

You know the really awesome thing about "Birthday Sex" that no one ever talks about is those Aretha "aahhhhr-OOTS!" that pop up during the bridge. Somehow all the retro-soulers have left it to a teenager to bring back that one.

the bridge is great - the drum rolls coming up to the "aahhhr-OOTS!" part are awz too

yeah the last minute of the song is what i mean by outro

DON'T NEED ROGER EBERT OR THE PAPARAZZI
TAKE MORE THAN A RED OCTAGON TO STOP ME

Is this "up-tempo" mix of "Birthday Sex" at the end of the album the shitty technoid version yall were complaining about? It is kinda :'(

Album isn't as bad as yall are making out. Not on a Dream/E Red level, but I like it on a Ciara/Foxx level.

most of the posts about the album seemed pretty positive to me?

I dunno, seemed most ppl were pretty indifferent.

def bonus points for working roger ebert into contemporary hip hop track

just checking if anyone's on my level with this album yet?

ain't heard it yet -- any non-singles in particular that might convince me i need to?

is that including 'break up to make up'? i dunno man, if you havent triangulated something you might wanna check out outta the three so far i'm not sure anything's gonna sway you any further -- feel like i'm spoiling it now but ok how about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIMsP1KBjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Km0yRMUU4

also did you see the 'imma star' video??

oh wait lol is this the thread where the guy who splashed out on the new fabolous cd is wary of making a hasty purchase

yah I love "Imma Star" and the video, but didn't really dig "Birthday Sex" or hear anything else off it. "Starting All Over" sounds good.

ha xpost

damn "Break Up" is catchy as fuck

basically i like all the songs on the album - i can see how people might hear it as generic, or (staaaans) terius-jocking, or repetitive, but i guess what it comes down to is i like the kid jeremih a lot (andy k compares him to saadiq in his amg review - otm!!) and you really get the feeling this is exactly what he and the schulz guy always wanted to make; there's real charm and talent in the attention to detail they've put in to what is pretty much the most 2009 record you will ever hear that even when it's on something i wouldnt normally be mad for like the gaga-goth europop on 'runway' it still draws me into their shit cos it's somehow just theirs and theirs alone, i dunno.

nearly embarked on a schulz - peanuts folly there BUT I DIDNT

yeah listening to those last couple songs I heard a little bit of a certain high joyful tone I identify most w/ Saadiq and (dare I say it) Stevie Wonder -- always annoyed me when people referred to "Birthday Sex" as being somehow post-Dream when if anything it's just yet another guy with a high voice who's similarly post-R.

like ok, 'jumpin' there is on the face of it like every lame ron browz wannabe banger you expect to come across - but tell me that's wack, with that rollercoaster chorus and all? shit is riveting imo.

ha i didnt dare say stevie either! that breakdown on 'starting all over' in partic is just pure class for a hundred reasons: i'm saying hacks is the last thing these guys are.

the thing about post-dream/post-r is that yeah (musico)logically of course it's post-r because that's what the-dream is. but yknow, not playing dollshouse or anything but i could well imagine terius being more of an issue in these guy's minds as they were making it. in any case however it's wayyyy more interesting as post-dream just because of the delicious irony of 'birthday sex' in its mystic obviousness actually being a genuine international solo hit: time will wash this irritation from the history books but never, i bet, from terius' very psyche. (or so i like to imagine.)

(staaaans)

I was listening to Sly & the Family Stone's "Stand!" as I read that and heard it in my brain as:

staaaaaaans! staaaaaaans! STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!!!

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

― goole, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:55 PM (1 month ago)

yeah this a fab album straight up and down.

love the clicky clacks in 'Break Up to Make Up'

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

― goole, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:55 PM (1 month ago)

― goole, Friday, September 18, 2009 12:04 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know what you're thinking...and you're right

http://www.bearsandbellies.com/kevin_james.jpg

You say you want passion
I think you found it
Get ready for action
Don't be astounded

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

― goole, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:55 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/news/Kevin_James-Mall_Cop.jpg

― max, Friday, July 31, 2009 5:37 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

ask the same question twice, get the same joke twice.

his came up as a broken img to me anyway

yes it looks like that is what happened.

xp

christ, that king of queens show ran for 10 years? we had a series of that on morning terrestrial a couple years ago i think, it fukking sucked

i say that as an everybody loves raymond fan btw

this album is mad generic and samey, I can name 5, maybe 10 better male r&b albums this year. it's not bad but it's not worth getting all hyped over, tho I do like Jeremih's personality

it's one of those albums that you listen to a few times w/o paying much attention and then realize that nothing on it is bad and you love it.

have y'all heard Pleasure P's album? Trey Songz (album & mixtape)? J. Holiday?... cuz all of their albums are way better than this.

maiayayayayayayayayayayai haus!

i haven't heard Pleasure P but i support him as his name sounds like some fictional they'd have in like a Lethal Weapon type movie in the late 80s, perhaps played by damon wayans

BTW the best song on this album is "My Sunshine" the uplifting ray of sunlight over a funeral scene fade out into end credits ballad. Check it.

i don't know about uplifting but i think you're right about funeral scene - "how could someone just take your soul so fast / and now youre gone"? and "if i could hold you again" might be a standard line but once i realised you could hear the chorus as having a double meaning............. :(

incidentally the abrupt switch in tone from that song into "...bet you'll fall in love with my ride!" is my favourite cackle of 09 i think.

brainwasher i take the point those other albums might be being underrated here (especially pleasure p's) but wtf man ur trippin so, so hard if you think you're gonna make that point on the basis of them not being as "generic and samey" as the jeremih

this record is brilliant yeah, listened to it more than anything else this year probably. quite surprised by how both the big ballads are so good, after initial "this sounds like what u2 make" reservations about "my sunshine" i've been listening to it loads now. don't like "runway" too much tho.

guess i really gotta listen to this again

wow fuck me, i've been sleeping on this album like crazy. loving some of these deep cuts, "buh bye" is killing me

i've sort of slept on this album except for imma star but i think theres a really good chance i would like it?

i really want to like this album based on posts on ilm but i can barely listen to this guy sing longer than 15 mins and not many of these songs hold up to "birthday sex"

i love the production on "birthday sex" but songwise i think "imma star" and "buh bye" are in the same conversation

see that's the weird thing--i think i like his singing?

what else has Mick Schultz produced? sounded like LOS to me

xp yeah his voice has really grown on me too

whoa why did i capitialize mick schultz there

it sounds very teenage to me-- it has that reedy quality a la beiber tbh

"buh bye" is great and so is "my ride"

this could get me in trouble but kinda sounds like a much more confident and sound chris brown

I really like that trick where part of the beat drops out and it's just him singing the chorus or whatever, like towards the end of 'imma star' and 'my ride'

sarge how do you feel about "break up to make up"? that song is a pure joy to me.

chris brown is a better comparison than bieber yeah -- but i think chris's songs work more because of their teen pop trappings

the production on "raindrops" !!

ship i really dig that song except for the insanely retarded metaphor in the chorus -- what's with this song & the new jt/timbo & fast food? anyway, the production on this album definitely surprised me -- altho it prob shouldnt have bcuz of how many subtle production tricks are in "birthday sex" -- and it's def why i keep wanting to like the album

i've kinda tuned out the lyrics -- "break up/make up" is a big red flag at lazy couplets ahoy -- but the vocals and the melody, especially on the bridge, are so great. baby James and I have bopped along to that song many a time.

aww

^^how can anyone dislike the song now

i held off listening to the album for ages b/c "birthday sex" was so perfect, but in that fragile don't-know-if-i-want-any-more way - it's a lot better than i thought it would be, but i think i agree w/jordan about his voice - it doesn't bother me in small doses but so much reediness over 45 mins is a bit much.

i'm streaming this right now--i think i just really like the sonics of it enough to carry the parts where the songs or his voice aren't quite up to par? so i'm like on the cusp of purchasing it but with my self-imposed 2 records/week limit not totally sure if/when that'll happen.

i'm so glad i put this on my ballot, just listened again today and it just gets better

I was just listening to 'raindrops' on headphones and when the thunder sound happened I actually took my off my headphones and looked out the window

"imma star" is on constant rotation here on kauai right now and i'm totally hooked. that little vocal glissando on "ice" is genius.

"imma star" is so good to nod your head to

did i mention that starting all over is the classic deep cut

OTM, besides the singles which are all incredible the can't-live-without-em cuts are "starting all over," "my sunshine," and "buh bye"

i shall always be inordinately fond of this album, the one thing that felt like it really came right out of nowhere to steal my heart in 2009.

and the kid had good videos too.

this year's contestant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWF-2a_TtUw&fmt=35

... yeah it's okay, i could get used to it?

pretty good!

doooope

Agree re the Jeremiah album, endlessly pleasurable to listen to.

haha that reminds me whenever i search for one of his videos on youtube it always autocorrects to 'jeremiah'

I have a Google Autocorrect in my brain it seems.

i dunno it's weird, i never really thought we'd ever hear from this guy again for some reason...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVENqMrTi3o

<3 HURRAH THOUGH

inevitable procession of the luda verse makes this track seem more slight and generic than it really is, needed to assert itself a tad longer before and maybe even during. still v v v good though - schulz is a beast, like who else other than these guys would bother chipmunking the chorus so very lightly like at 3mins

hey what a good song

mad sexy

man this is good

and yeah the schulz production is great, he really owns this sound

I like, but could do without the Luda verse really (though on first listen that could just be knee-jerk thanks to Bieber)

yeah luda's unnecessary but doesn't really take away from it for me - def hope the next album is light on guests

first album is a classic to me now

who is schulz?

Mick Shultz, guy who produces all of Jeremih's stuff and amazingly hasn't been snapped up to work w/ anybody else major yet afaik

good song!

the luda verse is really dope

song is great too

his music is like bubbles

girlsay
ooh hoo, ooh hoo
i liiiiiike... *

it is actually spelt schulz btw in case it looks like i'm getting corrected on the low up there

corrected on the dl

damn i forgot all about that bertell song as well - holds up niiiice imo

whenever i read this thread title i think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqXHk8PxiQ

it is actually spelt schulz btw in case it looks like i'm getting corrected on the low up there

― r|t|c, Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:18 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i fucked up when i said "Shultz" but it actually is Schultz

lolz, both wrong

truly a black day for rechtschreibung

what u make of the song ships?

i listened to it once but almost nothing really sticks with me after one listen, should come back to it tomorrow when the baby's not asleep.

this is cool but its success just further bums me out that the dope Keri song "I Like" that was a hit in a bunch of random other countries will never get a proper U.S. release

oh is this charting?

not yet, i'm just thinking it probably will

that keri 'i like' has really grown on me lately - props 2 ships.

sad that i have to remind myself the jeremih one exists, still captivates whenever i press play though.

haha this kid is like my one oasis of musical innocence in a cold world - i actually do worry about him :/

did that song even get released as an official single

I was disappointed they didn't give "Break Up to Make Up" a singles push. That one sounded like a hit to me.

It wasn't high art, but that self-titled Jeremih album was really an oddity: A major-label R&B album written and produced entirely by a singer and his producer. That was really refreshing. Judging by the Ludacris feature on the first single from his next album, though, I'm guessing the new one will be more of the typical by-committee R&B album.

this album is really good yeah, was gonna revive this thread last night as found myself digging it out again. even the really bare "songs" are really great.

I was disappointed they didn't give "Break Up to Make Up" a singles push. That one sounded like a hit to me.

It wasn't high art, but that self-titled Jeremih album was really an oddity: A major-label R&B album written and produced entirely by a singer and his producer. That was really refreshing. Judging by the Ludacris feature on the first single from his next album, though, I'm guessing the new one will be more of the typical by-committee R&B album.

― Evan R, Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:03 PM (2 days ago)

oh no doubt, it's just a really solid play front to back, and jeremih is very clearly talented. lots of standouts and i agree "break up to make up" should have been huge; it's grown to be my favorite

"break up to make up" is a crab n' b classic

dig this -- drumma boy i believe?

http://hulkshare.com/ez0jrfg1bvky

so who has heard the new one?

'waiter (the 5 senses)' is pretty incredible

enjoying "i like" in small doses

new...album? wait holup

didn't even know it was out... kinda remarkable how little i check for us music these days really

just pressed play

shit i had no idea he had an album out!! where is the buzz

Kicking it in april 2009

kellman's just lukewarm :(

he's been harsh there imo but i need to think about it some more

one play through and not much is sticking but then again first one took a few listens. shultz brought it on a few tracks tho

Damn, I have been avoiding this thread for so long, but I had figured that jeremih birthday sex was some indie band.

nothing relaly jumped out at me on first listen - no 'make up to break up' or 'birthday sex'. feels more like a long, really well produced EP than an album. kind of reminds me of lloyd's like me the young goldie in terms of just being a solid collection of songs where the production really suits the singer and vice versa.

wanted to turn it off when the 50 track came on though

'waiter (the 5 senses)' is pretty incredible

― i feed these skreets (tpp), Monday, October 4, 2010 5:03 PM (3 weeks ago)

!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SN97m0M4s

like whoa

the fact that terius inspires such great knock-offs kind of cements his awesomeness imo

The second half of that is O_O.

Terius should totally steal that trick from Jeremih.

"Sex Intelligent (Ambient Mix)"

wow what just happened? "waiter" was just kinda decent for me but "the 5 senses" is stunningly beautiful

i have to listen to this again

alright loving this now, what was i listening to the first time i heard "take off" "waiter" and "love don't change"?

actually i remember digging the "take off" beat

schulz man...the outro to "i like"

luda gtfo

"broken down" is like, hey ceelo this is how you do retro with some panache without being so damn obvious about it

Album is GREAT. I agree with "like me" similarities in that he's going with what suits him the best throughout, gorgeous melodies, no stupid tricks that ruin the flow.

god 'my sunshine' is just the most devastating song. you'd think his youthfulness would work against him on a song of such import, but actually it's what makes it: you just wouldn't want to ever wish this level of heartbreak on someone so young.

nicely put, love that song

the new album is very good btw! R&b cru sleeping on this one

^mte

gotta really listen to this a bit and get into it; initial impression is that it's spectacular

this is a really nice album -- trey & ne-yo take Ls imo

"dawn on me" should be a hit, damn

i lol'd at "let's take 9 shots/ just call it 50"

i guess that would be "down on money" - more classic tagging

"take off" sounds like jesse mccartney to me, in a good way

"holding on" is really the only one i'm not fucking w/ cuz it's mad tedder

i love how he affects a real deep almost dancehall voice on "down on me"

"down on me" -> "waiter/5 senses" is a pretty much perfect stretch of r&b

"take off" sounds like jesse mccartney to me, in a good way

― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 15, 2010 3:58 AM (3 hours ago)

yeah this is my favorite

"wanna get up" d-_-b

ship have you checked this yet?

i was wondering that too

wasnt on october rundown

new album deserves new thread
Jeremih - All About You (the second album)

eh i dunno, there are like 5 people who post to this one

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/cairo/114/critic.gif

more or less see this album as sorta like the awkward self-conscious teenage growing pained older brother to the exuberant little bubbleworld of the first. (by that i'm not saying the earlier record wasn't derivative, just that it was derivative in its own way; it's the difference between 'birthday sex' and 'sleepers', the stronger suggestion of jeremih speaking through other ppl's voices and seeing the stuff he does through other ppl's eyes.)

like i mentioned on the rolling thread though i'm not really into being overly critical of this album cos even on its least successful cuts i still think there's always something earcatching to enjoy, either on the production or vocal side, and yeah basically i remain fully supportive of these talented & (especially so in a barren r&b year like this) unusual dudes.

by the by a couple of cuts on this (mainly the two after '5 senses', but in small doses elsewhere too) totally make me think jeremih should probably have a career on stage or in glee or something.

agree the new thread is unnecessary btw, if it wasn't already clear.

i think this compares pretty badly to the first album, actually - seems a lot of the arrangements are stripped further back, which makes jeremih's reedy voice stick out a lot more - it gets kinda one-note over the course of an album. and there aren't any standouts on the same level as "birthday sex"/"imma star"/"raindrops".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6lEf3po6Q8

anyone heard this? nothing special or anything but a link for completist stans

sorta bummes at the lack of talk about his new one, which i thought was prety strong actually. he's someone for whom i'd check all his new shit

good song!

"All About You" is such a good album. The production is great and Jeremih himself seems to have a really likeable personality - romantic, sweet and sexual without seeming too sleazy or overly macho.

I had no idea his name was pronounced the way it is

it's with a long "I", right? he says it in a few of his songs and on his twitter he writes "my" as "mih"

i'm guessing most of you slept on this album

i definitely did, but there never seemed to be as much excitement around it as the first, just hard to get motivated. also not crazy about "down on me" but its success at least means there'll probably be a 3rd album.

think it's Jer-MI with a long I

long i definitely but all three syllables pronounced imo

'holding on' is the unsung hero of this album (which is so so good btw)

the way he sings "for all we know / this rocky road / would just be the transition to unstoppable" is orgasmic. p.s. i am 99% sure i got those lyrics wrong

i always end up pronouncing it jeremiah

that's pretty much what it is minus the 'uh' at the end

yeah ships "down on me" is prob the worst song on the album, glad he got a hit at least tho he deserves it

"down on me" is awesome

this song is in a dope scene from putty hill

i think there's a perfect balance of sleaziness & charm that really makes the song work -- i realized it when i was thinking too much about "love faces" & how trey songz really lacks tact in his songs, but i feel like jeremih in that song is sorta like a dick that would actually get a girl cuz his jokes are funny ("let's just take nine shots, we can call it 50") -- that balance of sleaziness & charm is also a big step up from "birthday sex" which i love as a song but jeremih's persona on that song is pretty ridiculous

the baltimore doc? didn't that come out like almost a year before "down on me"? or do you mean "birthday sex"?

yeah, "birthday sex"

i listen to "down on me" kind of fascinated with how bizarre and uncomfortable jeremih can make his voice sound on it (and i like the way his voice sounds on a lot of other songs), but i'm neither annoyed or enjoying it, just kind of agog like wtf is he even doing

i keep wanting to see that movie for no reason besides i used to live off putty hill road

my 10 year old cousin was trying to argue last night that he was caribbean

the most important part of "down on me" is that it means drumma boy has had two of the biggest rap/r&b hits of the year

goin fi

'holding on' is the unsung hero of this album (which is so so good btw)

the way he sings "for all we know / this rocky road / would just be the transition to unstoppable" is orgasmic. p.s. i am 99% sure i got those lyrics wrong

holding on is great, yeah. love how the chorus sounds like it's just one note but secretly it's not

i'm pretty sure 'down on me' and 'wanna get up' have the exact same bridge

Gonna Drop some new music in a few, i hope ya'll ready!!!
12 minutes ago via web

first album is classic 4 all time

duh!

was just jamming it the other day!

wish jeremih's song with wale on the radio didn't have wale on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczSedrQ2Ik

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5innG_SeKcQ

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

via deej

intersting screencap

:)

love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL7rLYn4nl4

YES! YES! YES!

The leaks from Jeremih's upcoming mixtape have been one pleasant trifle after another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GczUakNMH-k

yeah totally, wish he'd just put the tape out cos the tracks arent doing anything on their own but together it might all potentially be a vibed out little classic

what a funny career arc he's having, probably never more popular and respected right now but never less likely to have a solo hit again

I don't know how popular or respected he is, at least outside of ILM. I think a lot of people find the boyish tint of his voice annoying.

Agree his window might be closing. Bei Maejor is kind of doing the same thing, but with more gravity.

ok "popular and respected" is a slight stretch but people who mighnt have cared for his solo stuff now like him on hooks do they not

and i think his window's wide open, i'm just not certain he quite knows how to really distinguish himself solo any more

bei maejor is a charmless idiot

I would have thought Jeremih would have gotten more of a bounce from that really fun Diggy song earlier this summer, but that track didn't have the shelf life I expected.

I'm really conflicted about Bei Maejor. I think he can be a sharp songwriter sometimes, but that's not the same as liking him. "The Truth" was a really cold slab of storytelling, and "Til We Get It Right" was just an absolutely wonderful track

bei maejor is a charmless idiot

― r|t|c, Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:59 AM Bookmark

forreal. strictly sean garrett status.

bei major is like the male jhene aiko to me... i listen to their shit and i think "this is supposed to be everything i want in r&b" but i find both to be rather dull

there are a couple of really great songs on both of the bei maejor mixtapes I listened to

obv nowhere near on jeremih's level

feel much the same as j0rdan re: bei maejor, when i've listened to his stuff it's like, all these ingredients that should totally be up my street but then i completely forget he exists

with a name like that, how could he bei mienor?

http://members.shaw.ca/shinygeodude/brock/dp125sweatdrop.jpg

on the sole basis that a visceral reaction to r&b these days is as rare as a positive one i should probably go back and check bei maejor's stuff out again; the only thing i can specifically remember about the most recent tape is thinking this some of stuff is not talentless but i just haaaaaaate youuuuuuuuuu

also i kinda feel like i wanna defend sean garrett there but life is 4real too short

I guess I'm still keeping an eye on the guy because each of his mixtapes has been better than the last. Plus I really like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbKq2iy6UQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3omnnaOpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AScSrMslwE

d'oh, never knew this sample source, or that it was a sample

http://www.youtube.com/v/G1rIp2kCESc&hl=en

.......

i weep for the chilluns that don't know LSG

bei maejor's single w/ waka is cool imo

Mixtape finally drops tomorrow. Here's the latest track, with a lovably remedial Gucci verse and a just-plain-awful Tity Boi verse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyhSa7CvMVM

awww shit the mixtape is dope

mike will made it is having another strong year

lols a strong year really is what i mean. this year is going slowwwwly for me.

really feeling 'fuck u all the time' too

"773 Love" that was also on the Mike Will tape is so awesome

this version doesn't have that agonizingly long Mike Will intro though

it is so dope

i hadnt heard the title track til now, love it

that & 'feel the bass' are current favs

This mixtape rules

Yeah this is good.

huh, never noticed the soft "doot-doo-doot" background vocals in the chorus of "Birthday Sex"

not really feeling the mixtape. i prefer the jeremih who sings r&b songs

choice rtc posting itt btw

yeah this has like a joint and a half. i heard schultz is back working with him on the new album though so it's all good

concur

also about the mixtape too

"773 love" is all-time, so good enough for me

why yall so cray about that tune idgi

i mean it's perfectly fine, nuffin wrong with it but uhh...

I agree with j0rdan

just getting around to this tape... think it's really fucking good

thing i love about this is that the beats are weirdo but not just for the sake of being weirdo. there's a real interaction there... he's not just showing them off or even singing over them. it's a beat-driven tape but w/ real strong songwriting. he just does a lot of cool things on this.

also "rated r" is the best kells rip i've heard in a bit

Yes.

new song "Ex - To - See":

https://soundcloud.com/officialjeremih

still think this guy has the most ridiculously self-defeating career ever, wtf is he waiting around for

Diddy executive producing his next LP. Dreaming of a weird, Mike Will-ified LTTP.

yeah that is kinda promising. whether or not it has LTTP-like vision, that's some major juice behind the project.

managed about 40 seconds of this new one

From the new Funkmaster Flex tape. I like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMJPlmFy1ok#at=172

have been really enjoying this Disney Channel chick's single and was surprised to see that it was produced by Mick Schultz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLE48i4XY0

i like the video's "me & u" homage

strong year for former disney stars huh

whoa schultz is my age

https://soundcloud.com/shlohmo/shlohmo-jeremih-no-more

I really like this EP

People keep singing this at karaoke at Bush Gardens in Seattle, because of someone's birthday party taking place. This is all I have to say about this song. (FIRST POST!)

Lots of nice odds and ends on his cutting-room scraps EP

http://www.datpiff.com/Jeremih-NOMA-Not-On-My-Album-mixtape.632683.html

his new mustard single is trash. go back to making r&b songs breh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vsbBjgiII

This song is absolute fire

Oh yeah before I forget *puts on lex blocker*

keep forgetting to listen to the shlohmo ep

This teaser EP has me excited for the album, but I'm worried about the Mustard influence, too. Read an interview a few days ago where Jeremih took credit for "Show Me"—as he tells it, he was one of the song's primary writers, and was supposed to be on it instead of Chris Brown—so in his mind he claims some ownership of that whole sound, which is scary. There are so many more individualistic sounds he could be running with instead.

When I was creating 'Don't Tell 'Em,' I was feeling a way because I was a part of the 'Show Me' record, with Kid Ink and Chris Brown, as far as from the writing side," he said. "I was actually on that song before Chris. Nobody really knows this: The day I wrote 'Don't Tell 'Em' was the day 'Show Me' went No. 1. It was like, 'Man, can you believe the song that I helped on and that I was on, went No. 1?' I was like, let me make my own..."

I mean, that definitely explains a lot, but at this point I expect more vision from Jeremih than "I'm going to make my own version of that one Chris Brown song"

shitting on "don't tell em" privileges the auteur over the banger and when it comes to jeremih i'm not sure i can get with that

the great thing about 'late nights' is that he had a bunch of diff sounding beats on there

ok 'No More' EP is dark & raw & great (lex will hate it)

the Chance cameo is pretty pointless though

shitting on "don't tell em" privileges the auteur over the banger and when it comes to jeremih i'm not sure i can get with that

the great thing about 'late nights' is that he had a bunch of diff sounding beats on there

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, August 5, 2014 2:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

schultz co-produced it, it stil sucks

it's a good song with some cool moments that a lot of people like, it's okay if it's a tad generic

the guy's first ever single was a blatant rip off of the-dream, it's not like he's some historically original voice who must not be tampered down at any costs

i like it when he sings

Even the part where he sings "Rhythm is a Dancer"?

what's wrong w/ him singing "rhythm is a dancer"

It's tacky

it works. the song has other parts that work anyway.

i think you guys are being a bit too serious about this song.

i think if Jeremih only had the Shlohmo EP out right now, or only had a standard issue Mustard radio song out right now, i might be tut tutting right along with you guys about the direction he's heading in. but instead he's got them both out, plus another EP, plus a release date for the album, and all of it's pretty dope to me and i'm happy to see dude winning.

Yeah, I don't want to overstate my aversion to the single. It's not a travesty or anything. It's just a bit of a bummer that the guy is on a hot streak and this is the single we got. I really don't think it does justice to how spirited or inventive his recent output has been.

It's probably a 50th percentile DJ Mustard single; I'd be excited about it if it were a 70th or 80th percentile one

i think it's pretty good. only part that annoys me is "girl you know I'm from Chicago/ I act a fool, Bobby Brown wit it" because he delivers it like a punchline but Bobby's not from Chicago, it's just a string of unrelated lines.

the one drawback of the song to me is that the "don't tell em" part of the chorus is kind of drab, which is a shame cuz the pre-chorus "oooh why why why why" is really great imo. but even the "don't tell em" part is ushered in by this little roll of hi hats and a satisfying lil bass drop so i still fuck w/ it.

It's just a bit of a bummer that the guy is on a hot streak and this is the single we got.

i was higher on 'late nights' than most people on this board iirc but 2013 was a lost year for him imo and we were almost halfway thru 2014 w/ stagnant buzz before this single dropped so i don't really agree w/ this statement

yeah. even if i didn't like the single, the Shlohmo EP had been delayed for like 6 months, and the album (which thank god is no longer called THUMPY JOHNSON) had been delayed for like 18 months. now we're getting 3 projects in the space of a couple months and a whole shitload of songs that sound nothing like "Don't Tell Em."

i don't recall having heard a jeremih song since "birthday sex" but "don't tell em" sounds p good to me.

you never heard "Down On Me"? that was technically bigger than "Birthday Sex"

Huh, it went to #4? I don't know how I missed it, but it doesn't sound familiar.

drunk late night jaymc knows all the words i bet

Haha

Good album cut

https://soundcloud.com/europeangelique/jeremih-nobody-but-u

"Don't Tell Em" in the top ten now

Still no album art or release date. Going out on a limb and predicting this isn't coming out in five days

"don't tell 'em" is a fucking smash, it's one of the biggest songs on pop radio rn and still increasing. also it's gonna chart high in the uk. how does jeremih manage to do this every few years

there isn't even a video for "Don't Tell Em"

Just checked with his publicist; she says the release date is TBA next week ("hopefully"). Says the album is in and everything. Would be interesting to hear the logic behind the marketing of this thing tho

i think the idea of them doing nothing to distract from "don't tell em" and then being like "bam here's the album" is interesting (if it works)

how'd they never shoot a video though

how many billboard top 10 songs since, like, 1990 don't have an official vide of any sort? can't be more than a dozen

Yeah it would be a cool experiment. Nothing they could do would make the song a bigger hit than it is now so why bother, I guess. They can promote the shit oh of some future single.

I don't watch or really like music videos so I don't mind that this song doesn't have one. (It's almost kind of refreshing coming on the heels of 2014, which saw critics write almost as much about videos as they did songs)

kind of refreshing to see that a song can smash without a video too, a video dropping seems to have so much more impact than the music dropping (cf "2 on" - that song had been around for MONTHS earlier this year, to little reaction, and then the video dropped and boom, everywhere)

pity it's not a better song but oh well

i've come around on this song a bit but i'm still hoping the album is full of old-school jeremih joints

'dont tell em' isn't bad exactly but it's kinda lame in the same way i feel about 'we dem boyz'

I know "Show Me" came first and you love it but imo "Don't Tell 'Em" has a better singer, a better rapper, a better hook, even a better interpolation

also way better, more propulsive beat

other than better rapper i dont really agree about any of those things! and 'dont tell em' feels like such a cheap conceptual bite, too

the house reference feels so much more forced ... like the 'show me' ref was about the beat too

weird this was such a slow burner, such a bit of fluff

"show me" is better but i always thought "don't tell em" was being underrated -- i think jeremih shines thru that song anyway once you can divorce it from "show me"/mustardwave in general

i've come around to "don't tell 'em" and rather like it now. maybe i'm just pleased to see that a song in 2014 has finally legitimately crossed over from being a big hit on hip-hop radio to becoming the same on pop.

"Don't Tell Em" is tied w/ "Rack City" for highest charting Mustard song, history will forget "Show Me," y'all lost

also i was never really bothered by "don't tell em"'s similarity to "show me" bcuz jeremih was originally supposed to have "show me" so i can't fault dude for trying to get his slice

but ppl like kev or whoever lamenting that "don't tell em" isn't jeremih enough shows the blind spots of auteur fetishization imo

Jeremih's voice is more valuable than his aesthetic -- he has deep cuts with a distinctive sensibility but when he makes a hit it's just a cool hit song with Jeremih's cool voice on it and the shape it takes doesn't really matter

imo denigrating "auteur fetishists" can be useful in a rockist context when people are putting britney spears down or whoever and there are some problematic racial/sexist implications, but me pining for the jeremih of old is hardly the same thing

i mean i just thought it was a lame song and preferred the kind of career jeremih used to have and his old style. i understand him having to hop on trends tho (and obv his career was built on biting dudes like the-dream anyway, so..)

but anyway i've come around on the song a bit, i think it's a respectable 6/10 joint, but it's obviously more of a mustard (who i'm ambivalent about) vehicle than a jeremih one. there's not a lot of technical or emotional range; it's a limited song

yeah it's fine but what stops me getting excited isn't so much where it fits into jeremih's career as where it fits into mustard's; it's a mustard vehicle that isn't even in the top tier of mustard 2014 singles

i don't think it's much to get excited about as a song itself but as an agent to get his album matriculating i feel pretty good about it

which perhaps is an objectionable way of looking at the song but such are the economic realities of popular r&b in 2014

Chart News ‏@chartnews 16s16 seconds ago
Billboard Hot 100: #6(+1) Don’t Tell ‘Em, @Jeremih Feat. @YG [16 weeks]. *new peak*

release the album

Nov. 11

And oh good J. Cole, French Montana and Flo Rida are on it

http://bit.ly/1tiIMOl

guest rappers being the worst thing about any R&B album just feels like a given now, i pretty much ignore them. either it's someone terrible or someone good phoning it in.

Jeremih in album delay shocker

https://twitter.com/Jeremih/status/529348439608655873

Still no final album art or master. No release date set.

4. “Dumptrucks”

isn't the real breaking news from that tweet that he writes "mih" instead of "my"

Yeah not sure when he adopted that up

i put a lot of work on this album wanna give MIH fans the best #LateNights

obnoxious

he's done that forever lol

He's just trying to make people stop mispronouncing his name

MIH vs. #mylaugh

weird http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6327425/jeremih-holding-back-his-career

This is straight out of an Onion article about Joe Biden:

Jeremih and his touring entourage are reportedly under investigation by police for causing $700 worth of damage to a Fuddrucker's restaurant in Billings, Mont., on Nov. 5. Police claim the singer's crew threw beer bottles when a manager intervened after a 17-year-old female employee complained about the group flirting with her. Charges haven't been filed, but a local radio station, KRSQ, is banning Jeremih's records. The singer didn't respond to Billboard's requests for comment after the accusations, but on Twitter he blamed the "unfortunate incident" on racism.

Not sure if I buy the "reclusive" angle—he's not, really—or that any of this rises that far beyond normal A&R disorganization. Interesting to learn he's probably to blame for not having a video though; lotta people wonder about that one

buried the lede here:

Late Nights, which the singer describes as "clatchet" -- that's classy ratchet --

Clatchet and Rank Too

http://www.ticketfly.com/event/950903-jeremih-new-york/
i am carefully excited

A couple publications are saying Late Nights is scheduled to come out Friday, but they aren't sourcing where they got that date from

when i saw he had released another single i was like "at this point i think that's enough singles to be an album"

This one sounds closest to something from Late Nights: The Mixtape. Not a bad thing

That would be "Oui", right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtcP0PFifpE

Pass Dat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-EU_ahEj8

A couple publications are saying Late Nights is scheduled to come out Friday, but they aren't sourcing where they got that date from

Definitely out Friday.

"Oui" sounds great on the radio but "Pass Dat" is incredible and really sets my expectations high for this album

agreed

yeah, jeremih is one place where the three of our tastes really intersect, this is great

"pass dat" wasn't on the tracklist they released so i guess that's not a thing anymore

song with ty is great

"pass dat" through "drank" is sick

well what do you know, FINALLY.

It's wonderful

was bummed for my train ride to end this morning before it got to finish it.

oh my god this album is fucking awesome

easily one of the best albums i've heard this year

if you took out "give no fuks"/"feel like phil"/"royalty" and cut the tracklist down to 12 songs i would consider this a nearly perfect record. every other song ranges from good to incredible.

really great

im ok w/ GNF & FLP but "Royalty" has gotta go

thinking this is ultimately p good (unexpectedly so from my pov) with fitful lucid periods of inspiration. would have liked to go higher cos u can see almost touch a special album, or what a special album would be like, thru the party smoke but even with rejigging i think it might still just come up a couple songs short. a wonderful extendo ep for sure however

probably that's the cup half empty view idk. give it a few weeks

obv agree that the rap karaoke bloc (lol is thugger too pricey now or was jer like fuckit yo i got this) carries the blame with big sean saboteur in chief, constant low key struggle to fully recover its thread after that

'remember' is my guy tho d-_-b

vintage twista verse on this

ya. that one had me wishing 8ball & mjg were still in the popular rolodex

this does 'sexy' kind of effortlessly IMO...morseo than the ty album

btw in tyworld i think the wiz & ty EP is low key his classic this year? curious abt RTC's opinion on that (I know it sounds un-promising)

are people into jeremih also into bryson tiller ?

this does 'sexy' kind of effortlessly IMO...morseo than the ty album

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, December 8, 2015 10:01 AM Bookmark

maybe i'm just a sexy dinosaur but this seems an interesting if not eccentric criteria for this that hadnt overly occurred to me. i guess it would successfully come under modern 'x n chill' standards but

can't see how ty even comes into the equation beyond a general stripclub leer

are people into jeremih also into bryson tiller ?

― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, December 8, 2015

on the YouTube playlist one slipped into the other and I didn't notice

constant low key struggle to fully recover its thread after that

last three songs might be the album's best stretch though. "paradise" omg

i had forgotten j cole's verse on "planez" ;_;

What does everybody think of the Rihanna soundalike on "I Did"?

j cole's vers on planez is a contender for worst rap verse on a r&b song ever.

*verse

is there a version without that?

not an official one but someone made an edit w/o cole's verse lol

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

it would be easily one of my singles of the year without that garbage

oh boy do i love this record

"Impatience" is fantastic

I want to love this but I keep imagining Kehlani singing these tunes. All those guest appearances on shitty records destroyed my good will.

maybe i'm just a sexy dinosaur but this seems an interesting if not eccentric criteria for this that hadnt overly occurred to me. i guess it would successfully come under modern 'x n chill' standards but

can't see how ty even comes into the equation beyond a general stripclub leer

― r|t|c, Tuesday, December 8, 2015 8:07 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the original beach house was totally sexual tho ... songs like "DTF" and "Forbidden Fruit" explicitly so

This album I don't hear Bryson Tiller so much...he sounds like Drake. This is spare in a way that's more Sam Cooke 'night beat'

this guy makes the Migos more palatable than they've been for me for some time.

Poor promotion pissing him off.

good lordy did this album flop remarkably

i have discovered that "oui" is the best song ever

i heard it in a bodega last night and i was singing it and the guy at the counter was also singing it and it was magical

xxp Not suprising considering the lack of promotion and the three year delay. I wonder if it was ready to drop when Don't Tell 'Em was on the radio every five seconds.

honestly im not sure it would have sold then.

jeremih is a great example of an artist for whom people know his songs but have no idea who he is

heard it in a bodega last night and i was singing it and the guy at the counter was also singing it and it was magical

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, December 14, 2015

sure it wasn't Adele?

jeremih is a great example of an artist for whom people know his songs but have no idea who he is

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, December 14, 2015 6:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah his elevation among certain circles is a bit cassie fan club

"Impatience" is fantastic

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, December 8, 2015 3:31 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

i have discovered that "oui" is the best song ever

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, December 14, 2015 1:16 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

nah, "Paradise" is

"paradise" is amazing but "oui" makes me dance involuntarily

i feel like the opening third of this album touches greatness but doesn't always get there or maintain it, but the final third (excluding "don't tell em") really fulfils that promise

I feel that way about the whole album: it's just below great or near great

it's too soon for me, i've been enraptured by bits of it but i haven't been compelled to loop it, but i haven't especially been in that sort of mood

oui & paradise are both bottom third of the album imo

"Oui" is the most "Late Nights The Mixtape" of all the songs on here

i thought late nights the mixtape was bad at the time but idk

Most of his full length projects have underwhelmed me at first—they seemed either uneven or somehow incomplete—but they've all had a lot of staying power so I suspect this will too

oui & paradise are both bottom third of the album imo

insanity

ctrl+f "remember me" introuvable

amazing song

Just listened to this for the first time. Paradise is so beautiful. It could well replace Another Song as my favourite song of his.

jeremih is a great example of an artist for whom people know his songs but have no idea who he is

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, December 14, 2015 6:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah his elevation among certain circles is a bit cassie fan club

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, December 14, 2015 1:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he would have to have done nothing commercially successful since "Birthday Sex" to even qualify for Connecticut Fever status

my bf and I had to drive home late at night from Pennsylvania and we were listening to this album and "paradise" was playing as we pulled up, parked in our garage and came home and it was such a smoochy moment somehow

the # of people who were really into his debut but not 773 nights has always been weird to me

i think 773 nights crazy

they're vastly different records

the # of people who were really into his debut but not 773 nights has always been weird to me

― 龜, Monday, December 14, 2015 4:52 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who does this even apply to? i was one (relatively few) vocal fans of the first album, and i have mixed feelings about the tape but "773 Love" is a great song, i wish it had gotten on the radio.

lex, deej, i think

he would have to have done nothing commercially successful since "Birthday Sex" to even qualify for Connecticut Fever status

― Shkreli, Martin & Wu (some dude), Monday, December 14, 2015 9:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i wasn't talking about sales, i was referring to the romanticisation and elevation of an artist on to a bit of a weird pedestal. i mean, that's not a bad thing, i was part of cassie fan club, if you hear it in the music you hear it in the music, but it shouldn't be surprising when others aren't quite as enraptured by the minutiae of their breathing

so you're just talking about...music fandom? interest in a particular artist? why the hell is Captain Hyperbole telling anyone else to tamper down the enthusiasm?

i'm not? i'm describing the nature of the enthusiasm as similar to that for cassie circa 2007

it is possible to talk about music fandom without couching it in objective sales and stats figures

Bought the album. I like it a tiny bit more each time I play it, definitely a grower.

this feels hit and miss after several listens but the hits are quite good. i generally need more time with jeremih to warm, willing to be patient.

i'm not sure how i missed the remix of "planes" with chance but this is an instant replacement

(i think the beat is slightly different too?)

the beat's completely different. it's kind of annoying that there's no version of the original beat w/ Chance on it, since that was presumably what existed before Cole replaced Chance on the song.

there are some really great tracks on this album and it feels of a piece. i still might prefer the Shlohmo EP that no one talks about though.

xxp 'slightly different'?

can't stop playing "oui" my gawd that song

i'm kinda over "oui" already, like really how many times is he going to recycle slight variations on that one melodic line for his choruses

"pass dat" is great and should be huge

any verdicts on his live show? He is in my city tomorrow but I have nobody who wants to go with me, in two minds about whether it's worth going solo.

Def Jam has a knack for fucking up anything Jeremih-related but i do hope they capitalize on "Pass Dat." The Weeknd and Young Thug already did versions of it, they could use either/both of those for an official remix that would be huge but i think the song could do really well on its own too.

pass dat is the definite upper tier keeper on this one for me

"oui" into the hot 100 this week

Pass dat is a perfect song

pass dat >>>

also jeremih's "co" songwriter Chi Hoover is one of my favorite rappers rn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRWs6BH5rjA

jeremih has written a lot of hits, do we really have to tinfoil hat his writing credits

there's no tinfoil hat, this is true ...

i don't know how long he's been working w/ him but he was involved a lot on this last album.

guess i'll post this here too :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Fh1SkjXPQ

This album has grown on me exactly as I hoped.

It's hard to make songs this sticky that still have the restraint to reveal themselves slowly over time.

http://www.mtv.com/news/2741361/jeremih-the-black-knight/

It’s Jeremih’s essential paradox: persistent unknowability in the face of skyrocketing fame....“The black knight, at the end, has always had to be unmasked,” he explains. “He always had to take off the helmet one day. It’s like the phantom of the opera, you had to unmask him. And right now, people are still in the stages of unmasking me. A lot of people don’t know how I talk. They don’t know how to say my name right. They don’t know a lot of the shit that is me, underneath the helmet.”

article is accompanied by two heavily filtered photos, neither of which clearly show his face

That was so good yesterday

new tape out

i love that it's called late nights europe but the first song is titled dubai

They don’t know how to say my name right.

how's that

oh never mind, someone says it at the start of 'london'

God nothing saps the energy from a track like Wiz Khalifa. It's incredible, really.

I'm going to Scandinavia in a couple weeks so I am very excited to reach the middle stretch of this tape

good tape

yeah this sounds pretty tight to me... the european theme is really wedged in there ("british headboards" ?????)

but there's some really sick tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoODs46jsX0

listened to it twice yesterday; it's good but i don't really feel compelled to return so much.

I felt the same way about the original Late Nights tape at first; wouldn't be shocked if this grows on me almost as much

you may be right.

i like amsterdam & hamburg

http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/jeremih-pass-dat-remix-feat-chance-the-rapper-the-weeknd-and-young-thug-new-song.1971025.html
url says it all

this song he did with justine skye is sublime https://open.spotify.com/track/1gU8cKaMCIiG9Zqj84hfsd

i hope yung berg listens to balearic

So no one but me listened to Merry Christmas Lil Mama? I don't blame them. Chance/Noname track was great. Otherwise Chance p much outsang this guy which is uh

Not very topical obviously but I was struggling to hear how dude's meant to be a singer

this the right place to talk about MihTy? i'm really into it, it feels v hermetic and, true to what Jordan was saying last year about Yung Berg/Hitmaka, balaeric

it feels more like a jeremih record than a Ty$ record though, just in aesthetic—clean, crisp lines and deep sonic hues within a more formalist hip-hop soul structure, rather than the loose, proggy thing that Ty$ often does on his own records

Starting All Over is a timeless classsic imo.

CTRL+F might be letting me down but no sign of the Martelo remix itt. Though given it only seems to be available on myspace (!!) maybe not so surprising...https://myspace.com/mrmartelo/music/song/jeremih-birthday-sex-martelo-refix-72225869-79634301

He's in the ICU bc of Covid :(((

prayers up

:'(

what the fuck

TMZ is saying he's on a ventilator; hoping he's okay.

wow i hope he recovers :(

he did :)

*blasts Are You Live*

jeremih's first album in two years since a collabo with Ty Dolla is... a Christmas album with Chance the Rapper.

Also Chance's first album of the year! Just weird!

it's a sequel to a previous christmas mixtape they made a few years ago

okay, missed that. Pretty high-profile project without much hype.

is anyone ever hyped for christmas albums?

imo they’re really good too

the first volume iirc was just kinda thrown on soundcloud as a mixtape, feel like it’s a pretty low key project for both of them

is anyone ever hyped for christmas albums?

― ufo, Friday, December 11, 2020 4:40 AM

I've a friend pitching a book about them.

I didn’t even know he had an album/tape out this year until I randomly googled him tonight. It’s amazing how stuff just happens but you don’t necessarily ever hear about it

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyJihFoIZ6EhqBgrSgJ6otctgQcSmbmCG

thats his mixtape from a decade ago, probably re-released or something

he did release a new single recently tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xCsiK9cZ8

yeah pretty good!

he just needs to put an album out bcuz it will be awesome, i hope they're not trying to chase a hit or anything w/ him at this point

i love dude but that ship woulda sailed a decade ago if it was gonna

really nice track

what happened to this guy

Looks like Some drama , some quiet periods , some songs that haven’t taken off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremih