chili

8mo

jesus thread took a dark turn, and i'm not even talking about D's death

insertcoolnamehere

8mo

@Delfunk24 it's also how the audience receives art these days.

Like, I'll provide a real life example.

I teach after school music at a public school in the Bronx for 3rd graders right. This week we went over "genres/type of music" and used some of their fav artists they named (e.g. taylor swift, ishowspeed, ksi, one girl said dd osama and kyle richh, etc.) and through that, I showed them other types of artists and eventually went to D'angelo.

Lot of em wasn't even feeling him lol. Said his voice sounded ugly.

(also earlier I brought up Off The Wall by MJ and half the class was too caught up in the album cover and how "weird" he looked, one girl even said he looked zesty. mind you the man is just smiling lol.)

and while it was funny because these are 9 year olds and it's just interesting to hear their input even if it's negative, it does hammer home the point that the zeitgeist has made it so this type of music doesn't even register to the ears of the young. Look at how dijon is received now, as "hootin and hollerin" music on twitter and that'll get likes and retweets.

And yes, D'Angelo's interesting way of pronouncing lyrics was always talked about from Saul Williams liner notes in voodoo to the label calling it "D'Bonics" but even with ALL that, niggas still wanted to listen. Niggas still wanted to go buy those albums. And niggas still wanted to go to the shows.

Meanwhile, 3:50 is too long of length for a song now (most shocking comment I've heard so far from my class imo)

I told @xingu about his musician friend a few weeks ago this (and every present musician needs to think about) and that you REALLY have to decide more than ever why did you want to become an artist in the first place. If it's intrinsic and the journey itself brings you a sense of inner peace and understanding within your own life, you better f***ing keep at it.

But if it was because of external reasons like reputation and the sensation of chasing success, ngl, you should hang up your jersey cause you'll be so very very depressed. We're probably in the worst era of musicianship in a while where trying doesn't get you anywhere and the works that break the mold get trapped under the wave of "not viral enough"

And the extra "oomph" of D'Angelo dying is the realization that s*** is really cooked.

We tell everyone that s*** is on the internet but we forget to realize that...the marginalized never really evolved with that line of thinking and everything for them is STILL in 2025 given to them via radio.

Don't think niggas gonna realize the scope of all that we lost until like 30-40 years from now when a black youth dem from this instant gratification generation digs through the archives of the days of yesteryear and hears a "The Root" and thinks it's AI because they just can't fathom a song like that being accomplished as a human feat unless they were white/came from the Jacob Collier School of musical excellence.

tl;dr: It's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better

fancy lacriminal

8mo

whats this

Lil Uzi Horizontal

8mo

I see it leaked by KTT's own @PADYBU

PADYBU

8mo

Yessir

fancy lacriminal

8mo

whats this

Lil Uzi Horizontal

8mo

I just had asked you, can I plz get an mp3 version fam?

PADYBU

8mo

How about ALAC? I just don't want to further downgrade the audio quality by bouncing MP3 to MP3

Lil Uzi Horizontal

8mo

I just run an iTunes library of all mp3 and m4a. Do ALAC or FLAC play on iTunes?

PADYBU

8mo

ALAC plays on itunes, I'll upload that for younow

Lil Uzi Horizontal

8mo

Sounds great, appreciate you forreal

PADYBU

8mo

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eob6PB6J

Enjoy!

PADYBU

8mo

Yessir