y'all underrate AML cus it's his most beloved and successful album

by far my fav Gambino

Me and Your Mama is my favorite song of his to this day and I feel like it got completely overshadowed by Redbone

me and your mama is a masterpiece one of my fav intros ever

This is me but with Yeezus. Not every damn synth heavy song by a rapper is “Yeezus influence”

Until someone drops an abrasive electronic punk rap album about the racial trappings of the fashion industry, then we can dead all those comparisons

That song is an out of body experience

It’s so hard to rank Gambino albums because they’re all so damn different from each other. Not in a Kanye or Kendrick way where there’s still a rap album at the foundation of every record, but each Gambino album literally sounds like it was made by a completely different artist.

Because the Internet and Bando Stone are definitely the most comparable, but even then Bando Stone is way more pop/alternative leaning than BTI ever was.

Which really makes me wonder why he felt like it was time to drop the moniker and (assumedly) make music moving forward as Donald Glover. It never felt like he was bound by any expectation or creative box as Gambino

DELIVER US.

Ooooo. An interesting thought.

But trust me, if you provided better examples than "17 tracks, 1 hour, beat switch on the 9th track" I'd try to rock with you on that.

Not to mention, the albums that influenced those albums that influenced THOSE albums (etc.) aren't brought up. Like those few specific albums invented certain types of music/albums lol it's silly to me

Run time is the same
Track number is the same
Album divided in two halfs perfectly with a beat switch on track 9
Summer is a main theme
Genre is pop (first Donald album with that)
Steps Beach sounds like Blonde

Just because they don’t sound the same and the Sonics and production are different doesn’t mean these are all coincidences lol. They’re not. It seems like he took cues from Blonde as far as presentation in general, more than sonics.

Donald specifically said he wanted this to be one of those summer albums that sticks with people and one album he cited was SOS, but it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to name Blonde as another one of those albums in recent memory that he could’ve been referencing.

Peep my recent post. I’ve given more examples than that

Real Love so hard

Also curious about this

the criteria is just a bit loose man, but i'm not gonna tell you you're wrong. it's entirely possible, sure

it just gets old lol

Just seems like too many things in common to be coincidence. And maybe people bring Yeezus and Blonde influence up a lot because they’re legitimately influential works lol these are landmarks that changed the sound of music

Cruisin' needs to be the next single

In that case, Frank Ocean's Blonde has that Daft Punk Discovery influence

I have a friend who put this s*** into his s***playlist in HS and to this day that information makes me feel fear

Wrong. That’s 1 hour 1 minute. Plus stop ignoring all the other points. Discovery isn’t an album about summer divided in half by a beat switch

So 1 minute makes all the difference?

Okay.

If you showed someone these two albums and they had no knowledge of the runtime or specific track length or genre label on streaming, would that person really walk away thinking that Bando Stone was inspired by Blonde?

I like dadvocate a lot

There's a beat switch halfway through too

Gambino has SO MANY songs with beat switches. You can't be f***in serious.

And heavy summer themes

Because the Internet, STN MTN/Kauai, 3.15.20/Atavista all out now

Also idk if y'all realize this but albums that clock in at exactly one hour are extremely rare

rateyourmusic.com/list/jross/albums-exactly-one-hour-long

Here's a list. And I'm positive that it doesn't even have all of them as it doesn't even mention Blond.

My god, you are genuinely f***ing stupid

He isn't a serious poster. I don't know why I just don't have bro blocked like other users on here who provide nothing of value to any discussion lol

S*** I'll tell him that he's wrong for you then, and even provide reasons as to why lmao