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Black Star keep shining

 

Re: Ice Spice on other beats

https://on.soundcloud.com/g6ZSj6V2QcC9cpbw5

This kicks ass ngl

 

new 41-minute Elucid song/album is absolutely wild and lovably all over the place

 

Why did nobody tell me that Kirk Franklin is on the GloRilla album, this song is extremely my shit

 

Damn Chance The Rapper is on national TV playing songs from 8 years ago

 

I was also thinking the captain murphy project and some more action bronson

 

I’ve been listening to Mac Miller a lot lately to get excited for ballonerism.

I have to say I didn’t realize how incredible his work ethic was. I started to dig into his older stuff and then his production side and then another one of his alter egos.

It also has me wondering just how much the estate really has to release since I’ve seen at least a few more fan created albums of pure leaks.

 

they could keep releasing albums made of leaks for years, but whether they will is another matter. Circles and Balloonerism were mostly finished and he wanted to release them, most of the other leaks were scrapped or never finished

 

on another note I'm seeing The Roots tonight (great!) and I am deathly hungover (bad!). now I understand why concerts on January 1st are rare lmao

 

Will love when redveil really blows up

 

I don't remember all the finer details of last night's show because I took an edible, greened the fuck out and thought I was dying lmao. I do know there was what felt like a 15-minute jam of You Got Me which was absolutely sick and when I left they were jamming on Immigrant Song for some reason (they were a whole helluva lot more jammy than I was expecting but it ruled). was entirely gone for most of Talib Kweli's set but I caught him playing Respiration by Black Star which kicked ass. high quality experience, would not ever do it again

 

re: Ice Spice

US rapper Ice Spice faces fan backlash over ‘disrespectful’ five-minute appearance at Brisbane gig

 

Another new Boldy James project

 

My god lol

 

Not listened to the last two yet!

 

lol

 

Nah, I’m good

 

checked this out the other day and I might have to check out more of these guys

gotta recommend @irthesteve

 

I know this conversation has been had in here a couple of times recently but I have literally almost completely given up on trying to follow Boldy James even though I've loved a lot of his music. There's such a thing as releasing too much imo

 

If he was dropping an 80-minute thing every time it would bug me, but each album is tight and contained and focused. Future and Taylor Swift probably dropped about the same amount of music as Boldy last year if we're going by runtime (and his stuff isn't imposed on me like TS is ha)

EDIT: I forgot about Mixtape Pluto. Future dropped way more music by minute than Boldy did in 2024 ha. I definitely did not listen to all of that.

 

Yeah I do struggle to keep up, but when I get around to listening to them Boldy’s projects are always solid

 

I think his projects being “solid” is what does it for me. If each release was a bit better than solid, I’d be all over them. But he hasn’t had a release (prior to these three that I haven’t listened to of course) that’s really stood out for a couple of years now IMO. Super Techmo Bo was the last truly great Boldy album.

 

Gave the new Boldy a go and couldn’t finish it. It wasn’t bad, it was just really uninteresting. He sounds bored, the beats were average and some of the features were awful.

He desperately needs some quality control