![]() He's trying to position himself next to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and the Black Star LP on the shelves of people who kind of like rap music, but only when it wears a medallion of profundity on its dookie rope. And as much as I wanna hate on that, I realize his reach transcends the rap fans and hipsters that generally consume this kind of music. There's an inherent grandiloquence and imperiousness that seem to have future thinkpieces in mind. The most odious thing about the cult of Butterfly is its Oprah's Book Club vibe. Andre got the same kind of misguided acclaim for The Love Below, his self-indulgent love letter to Prince and a forerunner to Butterfly's glorified pastiche. Changing direction from rap conventions to already-established musical forms does not equal innovation. ![]() Mos Def, Common, and Q-Tip have been flogging the same reheated soul, funk, and jazz moves for years, to a justified lack of critical acclaim. This is music for grad students and Whole Foods shoppers, and all the focus on the album as a sociopolitical statement disregards an obvious fact: it's not very innovative. ![]() Very important and big and ambitious, and you know you're supposed to like it, but Les B. To Plump A Butterball is like the musical equivalent of The Ten Commandments. Suffice it to say that critics overvalue the "intellectual" in music because that kind of person tends to favor the intellect in general. Now we could rap all day about music and the Cartesian divide, but I'll leave that to the experts over at Rap Retard. A lot of the best raps of all time are entirely self-referential, conceptually ludicrous, or scattershots touching on a hundred little things but focusing on nothing in particular. Thing is, I don't subscribe to the theory that music has to be important to matter. He really said "something." It was very ambitious, and for that I doff my fedora. Kendrick made the album he needed to solidify his status as rap's Serious Artist and Social Critic. When I put on my critic hat and examine the album like a specimen pinned to a table, I know exactly why boners is poppin for this shit. Options (Prod.IDK man, I like the idea of To Pimp A Butterfly more than the record itself. Stream the mixtape below and pick up your copy on Livemixtapes.Ġ4. With this 18-track tape, Bankroll Fresh wants everyone to have a Happy Trapsgiving.Īt the end of the day we will see how all of the various projects released today stack up. Production comes from some names familiar to the Atlanta hip-hop and trap scene like the omnipotent Zaytoven, Mondo, D Rich, Shawty Fresh, King Cee O Fresh Jones and others. The mixtape is largely devoid of features with only four coming from 2 Chainz, Skooly and Money Boochie, who appears on two different tracks. Though many, such as projects from Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Fabolous and Rich The Kid with ILoveMakonnen are slated to arrive later today, Atlanta rapper and 2 Chainz affiliate Bankroll Fresh decided to get in early and release his own self-titled mixtape in the morning. Today is about to be a day of mixtapes as rappers from all across the genre give thanks for their winnings and share full-length projects with their fans.
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