So is the movie a real thing or solely exists as the albums concept

im not gonna go as far as to say its his best (though I think right now I am loving this record as much as I loved Because the Internet and Kauai, my 2 favs from Bino), but it is shocking to me to see hate for this record. Awaken my Love was derivative dogshit and Atavista was an immensely mixed bag so its laughable to see people praising those 2 records but tearing this down. This feels like Gambinos most definitive album yet. Just pure confidence here to own his sound. Where in the past it felt like he either was too obsessed with his influences or too scared of being seen as corny to the point of making safe ass derivative critic bait (Camp and Awaken my Love respectively) or just throwing s*** on the wall (Atavista), here it seems he's looked at his past work and seen what was truly genuine to him and not just a rip off or try hard s*** and is just owning it

not everything works. Amaarae is absolute dogshit on Talkin my S***. Songs like We Are God, the Khruangbin song, A Place Where Loves Go and the Legend song are either s*** or just boring. But for the most part, this is a really strong album.

My highlights:

Lithonia (i knew not to trust this sites opinion on music as soon as I saw hate for this song. Instantly a top 5 single of the year)

Steps Beach

Got to Be

Real Love

In The Night

Yoshinoya

No Excuses

Cruisin

Real Love is dope its sweet

it’s a short film according to his recent hot ones interview

we don’t know the length yet, all we have is the trailer, I’m guessing 40-60min or something like that

No excuses is the one fr

I think this would be better without the movie soundbites... takes you out of the music instead of having smooth transitions between tracks

Ngl i had to relisten to BTI after your comment and i guess i remember it being more over the place than it actually is

Im looking forward to the movie just as much. He aint missed for me in terms of shows. Swarm aint perfect, but the lead acting is wonderful and it was a very intriguing watch

Mr and Mrs Smith was great to me aswell, he kills it every time with the therapy episodes. That Sopranos influence crazy

Yeah it's boring, I hate this

I just think there are multiple songs on this where donald is completely put to the side by features that are literally on the track longer than he is and tracks that are almost entirely instrumental outside of donald occasionally coming in for a repeated melody that gets lost in the background

a few more where his vocals take up the majority of the song but he sounds so subdued that the second a feature verse comes in its like night and day difference in presence

im glad everyone else is loving it its just not hitting for me but who knows maybe its a grower

hate the autotuned hook thing he loves doing at the moment too it never sounds more interesting than it would without it

Lol yep if he made that part a full song it would've been a hit, instead he decided to follow it up with that Y2K ass 2nd half smh

steps beach on repeat, what a record

What song

Can You Feel Me on repeat

he did it again

real love vocal sounds like eccko

ok, this a real nigga soundtrack.

Steps Beach
Yoshinoya
No Excuses
Dadvocate
Running Around
In The Night
A Place Where Love Goes

Definitely my favorites. Rest of the tracks are great as well. I do feel like there could've been a bit more to the album, feel like tracks like Warlords, Couldn't Be Y'all, and Say Less would've been able to fit on it perfectly. <But for what this is, it's an excellent album and he ends on a high note with it.

Dadvocate amazing song atrocious song title

Up there with homiesexual

Grower
AOTY

THEY USED TO CALL ME A RUNAWAYYY

OH YA YA

Still convinced this is AOTY