Anderson Paak
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Anyone feeling this guy?
Surprised there hasn't been any talk around here about dude -- I'm really enjoying Malibu, and a few off the older one caught my ear, too. Apparently he got signed to Aftermath and the Stubhub prices for his last show in NY (at SOBs) were off the charts, so I feel like he's about to blow up.
Then again, I was raving to a few friends and most came back to me a little lukewarm, so maybe it's just my ear. Speak on it, Soulstrut.
Surprised there hasn't been any talk around here about dude -- I'm really enjoying Malibu, and a few off the older one caught my ear, too. Apparently he got signed to Aftermath and the Stubhub prices for his last show in NY (at SOBs) were off the charts, so I feel like he's about to blow up.
Then again, I was raving to a few friends and most came back to me a little lukewarm, so maybe it's just my ear. Speak on it, Soulstrut.
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I believe there was a bit of discussion about him a few weeks back...or maybe I'm dreaming that up with my 'daylight savings time' addled brain.
But I like what I heard on his soundcloud page....
smatterings of D'Angelo and Soulquarians.
His album was okay. Didn't really grab me as much except for the schoolboy Q track.
Took me a minute to give em' a proper listen.
I adore this jawn:
Really liking how Paak mixes rapping and singing on Malibu, and the production is nice and varied. Took me a few listens, but I can vibe on that album front to back pretty much.
And yeah, the NxWorries EP is what caught my ear first. Link Up, Suede, and Droogs are all my shit.
And this?
Do you even party?
btw i like divine styler ...
Haha. You sound like the human embodiment of a timberland boot that is just screaming "Dead ass, b! Dead ass, b! Dead ass, b! Ayo, Dead ass, b!" while people are trying to listen to something other than fundamentalist boom bap.
But...goddammit...you're right.
The music's all right, but pretty, churchy dudes who flutter their voices and their eyelashes while saying "b*tch" a lot can seldom crack my crust. Pass.
Otherwise:
Eh, I don't know. There's been a new one of these rap-informed flow/classic-soul aesthetic/"...but the boy can sang!" type dudes every couple years for about the last twenty years (D'Angelo is probably the aardvark of this whole shit). They make a nice bright spot for a little while, women nod their heads while trying to resolve the ambiguities, men nod their heads without trying to resolve shit, the dude discovers that Sly Stone had records before Fresh and/or drops his own two-hour Songs In The Key Of Ego, and he's straight CDBaby by the next time the year turns cold, by which point there's a new dude coming up anyway.
I can enjoy this stuff in moments and in its cultural moment--in these fragmented and isolationist days and times, I'm almost always happy when some non-trash thing is getting exposed to and enjoyed by a lot of people at the same time (to me, Anderson .Paak on Colbert or whatever is cool just like ninety-nine-cent cd singles of "Caught Out There" on impulse-buy display at Walgreens' counters was cool)--but having lived through so many iterations of this phenomenon, it's a little like cut flowers, you know? I enjoy it for a little while, and try not to think about it too much (I almost always fail on the latter, which almost always queers the former, but oh well).
I fully support, by the way, each year's listenership's renewed belief that This Year's Dude is Thee Dude. This is, in many important ways, what it means to be a music fan, and I'm really not as mad as this is probably making me sound. I'm just maybe gonna check in with dude a little further on up the road, is all.
"Bitch, you're my bitch unless someone else calls you bitch, only I can call you bitch, 'cos you're my bitch, not their bitch, my lovely bitch"Really? This guy is teh truth or is this guy actually a black/"urban" Spinal Tap tribute artist?Some of the beats are good though.
I'll ask wifey to pump it in her whip and see what it do.
Her judgement is always harsh but fair.
the lyrics are meh but
the schoolboy q song is all about producer Pomo who yall chec as well if youre into the kaytranada sound
https://m.soundcloud.com/bastardjazz/pomo-blue-soda-part-4
Will check out Pomo