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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Lil Uzi Vert's fourth studio album 'Eternal Atake 2', how the rest of rage (and hip hop in general) has passed them by and if they can ever recover from being Kid Cudi'd .
Démar’s rating: 3 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 3.5 / 10
P.S. Meteor Man has gotta be Uzi's worst song ever... Right?
The Love List: We Good, Chips and Dip, Space High
TIMECODES:
1:06 - Demar not looking forward to EA2
1:48 - Lil Uzi’s best album?
5:25 - Debut album numbers
6:50 - Lil Uzi being left behind
10:45 - Liked Songs on Spotify
11:53 - Past Lil Uzi Reviews
13:01 - Big Time Rush
16:55 - We Good
18:16 - Lil Uzi Vert is behind Rage music
21:00 - Black Hole
24:41 - Lil Uzi Vert being sober
26:38 - Yeat vs. Uzi
27:38 - The Fall Off
31:48 - Demar is a little sad
32:31 - Playboi Carti & Lil Uzi Vert are lyricists
37:21 - Demar is a self-proclaimed ‘Outlier’
39:27 - Used to be a prime-time hook-maker
42:10 - Lyft Em Up
43:50 - Meteor Man is their worst song ever
46:14 - 2016 Hip-Hop Mount Rushmore
50:35 - What is the future for Lil Uzi Vert?
53:47 - Production-based artists
57:45 - The Cover
1:00 - The Scores
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Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 2 / 2024 / hip hop, rage, elecrtonic, trap -
Somehow we've made it to 200 album reviews on Album mode! Shoutout to everyone who's been following us since the days of only video and shoutout to everyone who's subscribed since we've made the jump to YouTube. Here's to 200 more!
TIMECODES:
3:14 - Taylor Swift is one of the more interesting ones
4:11 - Cleo Sol/biggest regrets
7:18 - Leaders on the Nas resurgence
8:05 - Separating the narrative from the artist
10:48 - Kawhi Leonard’s album
11:34 - NewJeans
12:49 - Démar congratulates himself
13:22 - Vince Staples
13:57 - High on Gunna
14:57 - Post Malone
15:52 - Adriel takes credit for Brent Faiyaz
17:25 - SoundBytes
19:00 - Diddy in the SB Hall of Shame
21:41 - Retro reviews
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Tyler, the Creator's eighth studio album 'CHROMAKOPIA ', how his production has had a slight regression and how Tyler, the Creator has reached a point where we care enough to release such a personal album.
Démar’s rating: 7 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7.5 / 10
The Love List: St. Chroma, Sticky, I Killed You, Balloon, Hey Jane, Darling, I, Thought I Was Dead
TIMECODES:
3:26 - Fans that have to be like Tyler
5:49 - Difference from Goblin to Cherry Bomb / Childish & Cudi
7:26 - NOID / NO ID
10:05 - Tyler is their Kanye / what Kanye used to do
13:23 - Test case for how you hear an album
14:00 - Quote from Tyler
16:40 - Knows how to make intro’s
17:37 - Making them blend
17:51 - St Chroma
20:08 - Sticky is simplistic
23:35 - Mashup of all his sounds on this project “Rah Tah Tah”
25:44 - Darling I
27:10 - Grabbing from all his sounds
31:26 - Dark and sad guitar on sad a
35:14 - Lil Wayne and Tyler don’t miss
35:44 - Doechii
37:40 - Glo best feature / distinct voice
41:15 - Hey Jane / pregnancy scare
48:30 - Going through a fear on inadequacy
52:26 - Better lyrically dance albums
53:02 - Tried to escape being funny
56:27 - Part of the new big
58:44 - Being left of center
59:57 - Looks different every time a project comes out
1:02:00 - Almost a throw back
1:09:36 - The cover
1:12:30 - Move the goal post of what’s good
1:13:45 - Scores
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Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA / 2024 / hip hop, soul, pop, -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Yeat's debut album 'Lyfestylë ', how his production has become a playground, whether his lyrics matter in anyway and if Yeat's music is something you need to 'get' to like.
Timecodes
1:58 What’s a Yeat?
4:34 Is he building a world again / trailer?
8:39 How many songs saved from this artist?
10:13 Demar has 92 Yeat songs saved
11:30 You are watching a master at work
11:37 If you are a producer and Yeat calls it’s the best day of your life/push all the buttons 13:07 problem with the production on this album / squeaky sound
15:23 You can’t say you don’t like it/you don’t get it
16:35 Love is blind comparison
17:20 muddy vocals
19:54 if I didn’t read the lyrics I couldn’t tell you what he is saying
25:12 1/18th hip-hop/production to rage to/ different production that hip-hop fans are used to
26:11 White passing artist with hip-hop tropes in his language / what he is wearing
27:10 Not trying to divorce himself from hip-hop / pushing it away but still being a part if it
28:56 The bell is back / lifestyle he pulls out every trick
32:14 Song sound more like music
33:25 No party Adriel has been to where yeat will get played and people will
34:40 Tech n9ne fanbase comparison
36:00 Can yeat make a #1 song?
36:56 Lyrically rough
38:16 Eminem test
41:21 American Idol test
47:00 Is this good rapping?
54:33 Makes a lot of A- B+ songs
56:30 AI cover?
59:03 The Scores
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Démar’s rating: 9.5 / 10
Adriel's rating: 4 / 10
The Love List: GEEK TIME, LYING 5 FUN, SO WHAT, GOD TALKIN SHHH, THEY TELL ME, NEW HIGH
Yeat - Lyfestylë / 2024 / hip hop, electronic, rage, trap -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss GloRilla's debut album 'Glorious ', how she's transitioned from being a singles artist, her masterful ear for production and the album's stunning features.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 7 / 10
The Love List: HOLLON, TGIF, STEP, I LUV HER, PROCEDURE
TIMECODES:
2:02 - Background on Glorilla
2:24 - FNF
3:29 - Live review of the FNF / saw the vision
5:57 - Fivio Foreign feature
8:30 - Understanding of how things work in the internet age in terms of Glo
11:36 - Trap banger women picking better beats
15:10 - Step/shooting synths
17:21 - What you know about me / can’t sing
17:38 - Wipe me down
19:50 - Sampling a record they play today in the club
20:10 - T-pain, not gotten old
21:45 - Feels like we’re back in 06
22:30 - Autotune in the T-pains era compared to this era
23:55 - Sounds like a comment section
26:34 - Almost incriminating herself
29:09 - Fine tuning of the production made the song better
31:17 - If it happed in male rap it would be egregious
32:30 - Women in the dating world talking about their prospective
33:22 - Whoever this record is about I hope it put fear in him
35:08 - Doesn’t have the same ring to it if a man said it
37:37 - How it is for her career / this whole album is Memphis
39:18 - Features come to her world
41:30 - The cover
44:05 - Vinyl cost
45:05 - Adriel discriminates
45:58 - The score
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GloRilla - Glorious/ 2024 / hip hop, crunk, trap -
J. Cole just dropped his latest single 'Port Antonio' and it sounds like he doesn't understand the damage he's done. When he stepped outside the beef he sealed his fate but somehow he's still rapping about being the best. The duo breakdown Cole's misguided raps.
TIMECODES:
1:05 Instagram only drops
2:25 Dat Piff / Going back in time
4:08 Coming from The Fall Off
4:44 Like when things are addressed in the music
5:10 Don’t think Drake and Cole will be cool
9:04 He made the adult decision
9:55 Drake and Kendrick will never be cool
13:00 The best rapping was coming from J. Cole
15:22 Like a Wilt Chamberlain-type character
17:18 Drake & Kendrick battling for GOAT status
21:15 His life is going to be better since he backed out of the beef
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The allegations are flying in. Diddy is facing more allegations in civil court, and the number of allegations is staggering. The patented duo breaks things down.
TIMECODES
4:50 120 allegations coming forward
7:03 Going after the accomplices
11:03 Put doubt in celebrities
11:52 Trump comparison
12:18 Power dynamics
13:48 Every time their phone rings, their heart drops
14:59 Diddy’s name is so corrosive
17:29 What is going to be the burden of proof
17:36 50 cent + Ma$e on the right side of history
18:32 Who will get the pass and who won’t
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This week, Démar and Adriel discuss Leon Bridges's fourth album 'Leon', why Bridges can't really make a bad song and whether he's actually a blues artist instead of R&B.
TIMECODES:
2:08 Largely successful at the start of his career
2:30 Coming home
4:09 Typed in Leon into Spotify / Who is the best Leon
6:52 In this group, that doesn’t make bad songs
7:24 Not as R&B when it comes to some songs
11:34 Blues artists
12:24 Rod Wave
14:06 Needs Shaboozy
15:36 Zach Bryan feature
16:17 If they had a feature on them, they could have popped
18:40 A little country tilt
19:40 When a man cries
21:05 Breaking the fourth wall
25:51 If you can’t relate, then you’ve never been in love
27:40 He’s talking about everyone else in relation to him / speaking outside himself
29:44 Similar to Kid Cudi / fans want to hear your pain
32:00 The album named after you
35:13 No skips
36:50 The Scores
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Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10 Adriel's rating: 7 / 10
The Love List: When a Man Cries, Laredo, Panther City, Simplify, Peaceful Place -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Tommy Richman's debut album Coyote, why leaving off his break out singles 'Million Dollar Baby' and 'The Devil is a Liar' is a mistake and his unique combinations of influences in Michael Jackson, Tyler the Creator and Justin Timberlake.
Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: WHITNEY, TEMPTATIONS, LETTERMAN, ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, VANITY
TIMECODES:
1:59 - Million Dollar Baby
4:41 - Great Expectations
6:34 - What is it a mistake leaving the singles off your album
7:38 - When “Crew” came out
8:05 Plant allegations
9:30 - Unofficial Brent Faiyaz's Canadian manager
10:25 - Just because you have not heard of an artist doesn’t mean they don’t exist
11:24 - A blend of 3 legends
13:23 - If someone was a pop star but they weren’t a nerdy theatre kid
14:25 - Would temptations have gone viral?
19:22 - I don’t know what his real singing voice sounds like
21:24 - Don Toliver comparison
21:41 - hearing it live without the effects on the mic
22:46 - Vanity
26:36 - Joji comparison
27:58 - Démar wants more features
31:09 - Ice Spice route
35:13 - The vibe of his lyrics are not as important
36:45 - Passively, it slaps more
37:37 - It’s giving ‘I’m an artiste’
45:40 - No skips
46:50 - Demar is concerned
48:55 - The score
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Tommy Richman - Coyote / 2024 / pop, R&B, Virginia funk -
The feds have Diddy up of sex trafficking a racketeering charges and it ain't looking good. Diddy has already been denied bail twice and is officially awaiting trial. Also we reach back and talk about the Kendrick Lamar - Drake - Jay Z - Lil Wayne Super Bowl debacle and wonder if Kanye West can ever do the Super Bowl.
TIMECODES:
00:55- Diddy arrested
4:15 - 1000 bottles of baby oil
8:10 - What reason do you have to have that much baby oil?
8:30 - A lot of people aligned with Diddy
9:37 - Seems what he was doing was known
12:25 - Giving his masters back
13:13 - 100 mill lawsuit
14:10 - What the public thinks of who should be next
15:43 - The group of men who openly date teenagers
16:33 - The Superbowl
18:03 - Lil Wayne is not a Superbowl-level artist
19:03 - The beef: will Kendrick be able to perform Not Like Us
20:48 - Think Drakes gone down another level
22:44 - Normally, a hit song with that subject matter would be a big deal 30:32 Kanye getting the Superbowl in the future
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Fousheé's second album 'Pointy Heights', her melding reggae with other genres and her trying to escape the shadow of her influences
Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10
The Love List: 100 bux, birds, bees, feel like home, closer, war
TIMECODES:
1:29 Test case – black female artist not making R&B
2:36 Female Teezo Touchdown?
3:45 One of those names Demar sees everywhere
5:30 Reason for the name of the album
5:50 Birds, bees
10:25 Not for the traditional hip-hop/r&b listener
10:19 Interpolation of pass the dutch
11:55 Easter egg for the black listener
12:30 closer / giving late career kid cudi
22:17 Loversland
24:00 Reach a point where everything you like doesn’t have to influence you
28:36 2 more albums before people start to notice
29:17 versus are catchier then the chorus – birds bees
30:17 Feels like home
31:15 Identify crisis to her artistry
32:28 The cover
34:00 Vinyl cop
35:31 The score
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Fousheé - Pointy Heights / 2024 / alternative, indie rock, reggae, dream pop -
This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Fat Dog's debut album 'Woof.' its über dramatic production and Fat Dog's repetitive lyrics actually give you something to grab onto while the production swirls.
Démar’s rating: 9 / 10
The Love List: Vigilante, Wither, Clowns, All the Same, Running, I am the King
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Fat Dog- Woof. / 2024 / New rave, rock, punk, dance -
This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Doechii's third mixtape ' Alligator Bites Never Heal', her clear as day Fugees influences and how an album can feel like a drag even though it's amazing.
Démar’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: BULLFROG, BOILED PEANUTS, DENIAL IS A RIVER, SKIPP, HIDE N SEEK, DEATH ROLL, NISSAN ALTIMA, HUH!, FIREFLIES, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL
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Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal / 2024 / rap, hip hop, alternative rap, alternative -
This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Sabrina Carpenter's sixth studio album Short n' Sweet, her underrated cheeky songwriting and her constant tug of war between pop country and pop R&B.
Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
The Love List: Good Graces, Bed Chem, Espresso, Lie To Girls, Don't SmileThe Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help
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Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet / 2024 / pop, pop country, pop R&B -
A quick one for Tinashe and her seventh studio album "Quantum Baby" where wonder if she's the most anonymous popstar of her generation.
TImecodes
1:50 If you are a pop head
2:34 2 on
2:56 Her tone is not distinct enough
4:12 Victoria Monet comparison
5:38 What do you think this album is missing?
5:59 People she should collab with
6:37 Zelda or Super Mario water level
9:12 Nasty is the worst song / made to be an internet song
11:13 Is this the part of the song that the artist would want you to click on
12:18 Secretly a sexy drill song
14:32 The score
14:55 She great for demo’s
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Démar’s rating: 7 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 6.5 / 10
The Love List: Thirsty, Red Flags, No Broke Boys, Cross That Line
Tinashe - Quantum Baby / 2024 / pop, drill, R&B, UK garage -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Post Malone's sixth studio album 'F-1 Trillion', his abandonment of artistic risk and Post Malone's journey across genres.
If you want a ticket to the Polaris Prize Gala in Toronto, drop your favourite Canadian album from this year in our Insta DMs!
Démar’s rating: 3.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 6 / 10
The Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help
TIMECODES:
1:59 - The lead up to F1-Trillion
3:35 - He’s been sliding from his last few projects
5:38 - Getting to a point where the production is like water
7:47 - Who is getting platformed in regard to the features
9:04 - Shaboozey feature missing
10:45 - Zach Bryan
13:09 - Pop Country
14:11 - I heard these in Canadian tire for years
14:42 - You play this in a place to acquire things
18:27 - Hip-hop didn’t accept him when he came in
21:10 - First time real life is impacting the genre an artist makes
22:04 - Hide my gun
25:33 - Losers, self-loathing is really good in country music
30:35 - What Don’t Belong to me, upbeat but not upbeat to move to
32:17 - Song structure is all the same
33:23 - For his career, this is a big win
36:28 - Drake feature comparison
40:29 - A plus for the demo doesn’t look like us
40:55 - You can’t start somewhere else and go into hip-hop
41:36 - Is he a culture vulture?
44:00 - Interview where he said you can’t be deep in hip-hop
45:54 - We kicked him out
46:52 - The cover
50:20 - The score
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Post Malone - F-1 Trillion / 2024 / pop, country, pop country -
Can't lie to y'all when we saw Drake and 100 gigs in the same sentence we thought it was over for The Boy. Instead it's a BTS data dump with songs attached. Also Rachel Gun drops one of the worst breakdancing performances in Hip-Hop history. Strap in for a weird one!
Timecodes:
1:15 Drake is someone we don’t always get the BTS
2:04 in-between what Drake should do and what we think he should do
2:38 Tin foil hat theory
4:10 Drake is the artist that would drop a documentary and everyone goes to see it
5:08 Didn’t realize he is the type of artist that records this much of his process
7:34 If he could start again, he would be a dancehall/Afrobeats artist
10:36 This guy has a knife, and I bumped his pocket
11:29 Suffering from putting out too much music
12:53 Talk up
18: 11 To see him viewing himself as MJ from the early days
20:08 The video of him in the studio talking about Too Good
22:30 Olympics
23:13 Looks bad for PHD’s
24:08 Had the audacity to dance as poorly as she did/made a joke of the culture
25:21 So bad people thought it was a bit
26:56 The internet / real or fake outrage
29:25 For you as a white person on the opposite end of the planet and make a mockery of hip-hop
33:15 Underestimation of the importance
35:27 How important/impactful Canada is to hip-hop
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This week Démar and Adriel discuss Latto's third album 'Sugar Honey Iced Tea', her surprising versatility and adopting Drake and Doja Cat as influences in her music.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: Big Mama, Blick Sum, H&M, Liquor, S/O to Me, Look What You Did
TIMECODES:
4:00 - Didn’t know she had this in her
5:57 - Golden Age of Women in Hip-hop
7:13 - Timestamp Drake record?
9:56 - Drake doing ‘Song Cry’ on every album
15:04 - Meg is in the Logic zone but Latto is not
15:31 - Blick sum
16:35 - Latto might influence me to carry a gun
17:06 - Missy Elliot comparison
18:05 - Big Mama - Drakeism
19:08 - PS1 drill
20:30 - There she go / mike jones flip
21:46 - Ear Candy
23:40 - She does stand alone on these influences
28:00 - Their favorite songs were all the samples
30:00 - Lyrics
33:24 - Fuck you with a sexual connotation
35:14 - Some of these lyrics we can’t sing along to
39:38 - Take a shot every time you hear drakes name
42:00 - She doesn’t need anyone on the hooks/features
47:00 - The cover
51:12 - The score / no skips
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Latto - Sugar Honey Iced Tea! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, trap -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss Ice Spice's debut album 'Y2K!', her being more of a rage/opium artist than drill, lyrical reductionism and whether she's more celebrity than musician.
Démar’s rating: 5.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 4.5 / 10
The Love List: Phat Butt, Popa, Plenty Sun, Bitch I'm Packin'
TIMECODES:
5:35- First project of hers that people will remember
6:46 - Stand-out features
9:30 - Yeat would sound like Mob Deep on this
9:54 - Making Central Cee that type of rapper on this project
10:16 - Ice Spice is staying away from anything lyrical
15:08 - Popa and bitch I’m packing
17:15 - To see that she is capable is a plus; why does only one song connect
19:30 - Maybe drill is not the best place to be in
19:48 - BB belt
28:25 - You’re better off just rapping over the song Lil Wayne-style
30:50 - Miss Poopy Pants
31:08 - We have to talk about who Ice Spice is
36:47 - Why is she yelling
39:25 - A lot of self-awareness on this project
40:14 - How this affects her career
43:13 - That half of the album I didn’t expect that to come out of her
44:27 - Crushed by her celebrity
47:18 - Being a singles artist is more work
48:21 - She’s almost becoming what Lil Yachty was
48:49 - The cover
54:28 - The score
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Ice Spice - Y2K! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, opium, rage -
This week Démar and Adriel discuss the supergroup ¥$ (Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign)'s second studio album 'Vultures 2', Kanye's juvenile lyrics, reused motifs and incomplete songs.
Démar’s rating: 2 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10
The Love List: River, Field Trip
TIMECODES:
1:04 - Surprised it was going to drop/exist
2:33 - Ye in the NBA Youngboy Zone
3:05 - Vultures
4:25 - Struggle raps for almost an hour
5:30 - Ye was someone who would make an album, scrap the album, and then remake the album
7:40 - similar to White Dress
10:55 - Don’t want to say he ruined all these songs
11:42 - Ye’s lyrics are almost elementary school
12:20 - The Kanye effect
13:30 - Ye is a producer at this point
16:37 - Does it twice on this album
20:10 - Ye is in a space where he used to be adjacent to conscious Hip-Hop
22:25 - The rapper version of Ye needs to retire
26:41 - When Ye is involved in any of these songs, he brings too much baggage
27:45 - Sky City
31:45 - All you have is a cool idea / what message
33:00 - Thought of all the artists that sound homogeneous
34:00 - Remember when he used to have a direction in his project
35:10 - He’s looking washed
39:50 - What are we asking of Ye at this point
43:13 - When people get divorced, you go back to the age you got married at
46:12 - in the worst stretch of music in his career
47:24 - Feels like he’s out of ideas
53:44 - The cover
58:45 - The Score
1:02:15 - The Simpsons comparison
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Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign ¥$ - Vultures 2 / 2024 / hip hop, rap, trap, - Show more
