Dec 10, 2025·2 repliesKendrick is carrying the rap game on his back
Dec 10, 2025KayTrayKendrick is carrying the rap game on his back
https://twitter.com/BuzzingPop/status/1998488951720652907Crazy
Dec 10, 2025https://twitter.com/hiphopallday/status/1998560246491656480
quadraI would hate him to for winning so much
- Dec 10, 2025·1 replyKayTray
Kendrick is carrying the rap game on his back
https://twitter.com/BuzzingPop/status/1998488951720652907This is without even dropping an album
- Dec 10, 2025·2 replies
Bobby_96I remember when they were up there with Nickelback and Maroon 5 in terms of getting constantly hated on by Indie rock hipsters online.
streaming can favor music that's easy to listen to. which I think helps out people like Gunna, Post Malone, and Coldplay a lot. background music.
Dec 10, 2025·1 replylltr basedwellstreaming can favor music that's easy to listen to. which I think helps out people like Gunna, Post Malone, and Coldplay a lot. background music.
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- Dec 10, 2025·2 replies
BRAVESpecial album, been somehow underrated since 2011 even if properly represented
it's a great album, and I almost forget how good it is until I re-listen. but part of that is that it was retroactively market corrected by Drake's future releases where he improved on the sound.
Over My Dead Body is great, but a song like Champagne Poetry or Tuscan Leather is so much better at doing the same thing I'd rather listen to those. I could go on, but it's like how XO Tour Life never quite sounded the same after I heard P2 for the first time.
That said, I feel like the first four songs especially encapsulate this feeling of being 25 and going out clubbing when you have a real job and are paid, but are still young enough it's all fresh and exciting.
Drake to me is like the final frontier of Adult Contemporary. maybe it's because I'm a late bloomer but as I've grown up, I've related to Drake's music progressively more (i'm 27 for reference)
- Dec 10, 2025·2 repliesJohn Mauve
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I think this is one of the hidden links for why the Weeknd managed to have that massive hit that broke all those records and is now flopping.
The song was easy to listen to and slot on playlists, but it leaves no impression. I'm not sure how it's supposed to make me feel. I understand the Weeknd is trying to sound like MJ, but every single MJ song made me feel something. Even when it was about an unconventional topic.
I've been in the mall a bit lately. They're always playing Weeknd songs there and I can't tell them apart at all.
You see his big hit, Timeless, and it's just a frat boy song in the same vein as Low Life. That's what people want from Abel. Not this high art nonsense.
- Dec 10, 2025lltr basedwell
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I think this is one of the hidden links for why the Weeknd managed to have that massive hit that broke all those records and is now flopping.
The song was easy to listen to and slot on playlists, but it leaves no impression. I'm not sure how it's supposed to make me feel. I understand the Weeknd is trying to sound like MJ, but every single MJ song made me feel something. Even when it was about an unconventional topic.
I've been in the mall a bit lately. They're always playing Weeknd songs there and I can't tell them apart at all.
You see his big hit, Timeless, and it's just a frat boy song in the same vein as Low Life. That's what people want from Abel. Not this high art nonsense.
No I agree. I think streaming is particularly beneficial for music that is easy to play in the background
- Dec 10, 2025·1 replyFree YoungBoy
This is without even dropping an album
Dec 10, 2025lltr basedwellstreaming can favor music that's easy to listen to. which I think helps out people like Gunna, Post Malone, and Coldplay a lot. background music.
Coldplay precedes streaming by, like, 20 years
Dec 10, 2025lltr basedwell?
I think this is one of the hidden links for why the Weeknd managed to have that massive hit that broke all those records and is now flopping.
The song was easy to listen to and slot on playlists, but it leaves no impression. I'm not sure how it's supposed to make me feel. I understand the Weeknd is trying to sound like MJ, but every single MJ song made me feel something. Even when it was about an unconventional topic.
I've been in the mall a bit lately. They're always playing Weeknd songs there and I can't tell them apart at all.
You see his big hit, Timeless, and it's just a frat boy song in the same vein as Low Life. That's what people want from Abel. Not this high art nonsense.
Popular music has always been the music that was the easiest to listen to, that’s not a product of streaming
- Dec 10, 2025·1 reply
The subconscious is doing a lot of crazy s*** when properly guided by the right bassline-riff sound idea for your (often separate) melodic design principle. That’s what primes you for just humming the catchiest s*** ever, either from a dream or from just playing a guitar or piano. I’m strictly talking about Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Drake, Kendrick, Esther Dean, Prince, D’Angelo, Max Martin level topline building tho, this doesn’t apply otherwise. Keep just writing however if that’s not what you care about
- Dec 10, 2025·1 replyBRAVE
The subconscious is doing a lot of crazy s*** when properly guided by the right bassline-riff sound idea for your (often separate) melodic design principle. That’s what primes you for just humming the catchiest s*** ever, either from a dream or from just playing a guitar or piano. I’m strictly talking about Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Drake, Kendrick, Esther Dean, Prince, D’Angelo, Max Martin level topline building tho, this doesn’t apply otherwise. Keep just writing however if that’s not what you care about
While you're right to an extent, exposure plays a big part of that. Some of the melodies or textures or small moments that occupy my mind in the calm moments at night or when I'm walking around town or when I pick up a guitar can come from the niche artists too
- Dec 10, 2025lltr basedwell
it's a great album, and I almost forget how good it is until I re-listen. but part of that is that it was retroactively market corrected by Drake's future releases where he improved on the sound.
Over My Dead Body is great, but a song like Champagne Poetry or Tuscan Leather is so much better at doing the same thing I'd rather listen to those. I could go on, but it's like how XO Tour Life never quite sounded the same after I heard P2 for the first time.
That said, I feel like the first four songs especially encapsulate this feeling of being 25 and going out clubbing when you have a real job and are paid, but are still young enough it's all fresh and exciting.
Drake to me is like the final frontier of Adult Contemporary. maybe it's because I'm a late bloomer but as I've grown up, I've related to Drake's music progressively more (i'm 27 for reference)
Ahhhh Champagne Poetry. Such a beautiful track. I only feel as comfortable saying as such because it is also sexually attracted to my ears. I’m in there
It’s in my top five Drake songs ever, I love the sample the bassline, and the pockets Drake occupies on the beat. What an A+ level flow, not to even get into the literary lyrics all the way
One little brilliant thing too for lovers of the art of rap itt: you know syncopation happens in the notes? He’s syncopation the lines, entire figures, ie Friends in high places and friends that I hide still/Still managed to Moonwalk straight through a minefield. This device is in overdrive on his Churchill Downs verse
And all that fancy talk aside, he just employed the perfect pitch and delivery on that beat
- Dec 10, 2025John Mauve
While you're right to an extent, exposure plays a big part of that. Some of the melodies or textures or small moments that occupy my mind in the calm moments at night or when I'm walking around town or when I pick up a guitar can come from the niche artists too
Oh absolutely, my argument is about the methodology not the level of artists to a***yze in case that seemed so. And on that topic, you’ll often get a lot of inspiration from very niche and even completely unknown acts that give you something that would skyrocket you to top 10 on the hot 100. But beyond anything commercial, I know we’re in that type of thread, it is this approach that would imbue your melodies and figures with such strength, niche or otherwise
Your second sentence is ultimately the goal
Dec 10, 2025https://twitter.com/hiphopallday/status/1998560246491656480quadraDamn
Dec 11, 2025lltr basedwellit's a great album, and I almost forget how good it is until I re-listen. but part of that is that it was retroactively market corrected by Drake's future releases where he improved on the sound.
Over My Dead Body is great, but a song like Champagne Poetry or Tuscan Leather is so much better at doing the same thing I'd rather listen to those. I could go on, but it's like how XO Tour Life never quite sounded the same after I heard P2 for the first time.
That said, I feel like the first four songs especially encapsulate this feeling of being 25 and going out clubbing when you have a real job and are paid, but are still young enough it's all fresh and exciting.
Drake to me is like the final frontier of Adult Contemporary. maybe it's because I'm a late bloomer but as I've grown up, I've related to Drake's music progressively more (i'm 27 for reference)
Over my dead body sounds nothing like champagne poetry or tuscan leather
- Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025·2 replies- Dec 11, 2025·1 reply
90k
- Dec 11, 2025Midzy
90k
Feels high
Imma say 70 
Dec 11, 2025https://twitter.com/HipHopAllDay/status/1999142516944179363Midzyi'm sure it'll perform well on apple music but spotify seems to be fully rejecting hip-hop at this point. he had 12/15 songs debut over a million there last time, wouldn't be surprised if it's just a song or two with this album.
overall 80k-90k is probably a fair assumption.
- Dec 11, 2025·1 reply
He’s still clearing 100K, gotta factor in physicals
- Dec 11, 2025TheFader
He’s still clearing 100K, gotta factor in physicals
this