Recently, C-Low released a new album "Friends Accompany Me Through Difficult Years", and some netizens questioned C-Low's album and felt that C-Low's vocals were not good. In response to various questions about him, C-Low posted a Weibo response, which also brought Efojeni. Say: Not everyone wants to be Evgeni.
C-Low and Evgeni were former teammates, and together they formed a group called Easy Boyz Gang, or "EBG" for short. But later, C-Low broke up with Evgeni, and as for the reason, he himself tweeted that year.
Later he also posted a diss for Evgeni
As for the contradiction between C-Low and Evgeni, as an outsider, I am not good to comment, after all, the two people I have never been in contact with in real life, but I guess there will be many people who say that C-Low is rubbing Evgeni.
I disagree with this statement. Because 3 years ago, C-Low sent several weibo posts and even sent songs to Des Des, and it did not bring much traffic to itself. On the contrary, after being on the new generation of programs last year, his fame gradually increased.
For how to get positive traffic, C-Low must be very clear, this kind of rubbing former teammates not only can not get any positive traffic, but also scold, so I really don't think C-Low is rubbing Evgeni, after all, C-Low is now famous enough.
Personally, I think he really just doesn't like people like Evgeni in his heart, so he doesn't miss any opportunity to take him. In the future, if he surpasses Evgeni, maybe when he occasionally tweets, he will bring his former teammate with him.
Although I don't think C-Low is rubbing Evgeni, and in terms of heat, I don't think Aifugeni has anything to rub, his Weibo re-ratings are all brushed, and his real traffic is not as high as you see.
But I still think that C-Low really doesn't need to do this, people have to look forward, can't always be entangled in the past people and things. After all, Evgeni didn't provoke you anymore, the road was facing the sky, and it was just a matter of going to one side.
Speaking of Back to Evgeni, he is a very good rapper, and the music that comes out after becoming famous is still online, and there is nothing to be black about music alone.
It's just that at present, he doesn't feel so much time in music, you can see how often he participates in variety shows. He is now more of a variety artist, but the music is not too off the chain. This is a personal choice, some people want to be pure musicians, some people want to develop more ways.
Let's get back to the point, about C-Low's new album, some people question that some people also like it, let's talk about his new album in the end. Today is the twelfth issue of "Paper Chat New Album", like this series of friends welcome to leave a message below the tweet, like.
C-low's new album "Friends With Me Through The Difficult Years" may not be so "new" for friends who have paid attention to C-Low, because the total production time is four years, in which many live performances he has performed some tracks, and has released some subtitle MVs after the show.
The reason I wanted to talk about this album is because C-Low himself is a musician I really like, and I have a lot of expectations for his new album. He said he was a musician rather than a rapper because I didn't listen much to hipHop music before him, because I didn't think his rap level was top-notch.
If you talk about producers, he doesn't make songs for others much. For his musical experience more through the party, he often plays some Disco, Continental dance music or other synthesizer music, the atmosphere of the scene is usually very warm retro, very appetizing to me.
For the expectation of this new album, it is more to see how C-Low expresses some of his production skills and musical aesthetics through some of HipHop's ways.
This album we have a total of three Discs, namely "Friends with Me", "Through the Difficult Years", very simple use of Skit's name to form the album title, the third part is three Bonus Track.
The first two Discs are also a very different emotional performance, the first part of "Friends With Me" look at the name to know, the musical style must be more joyful and brisk. What friends can do together, it must be played, even if their emotions are very Down, they will be infected by friends.
The mood of the second part of the song is relatively gentle, although it is a difficult time, but C-Low does not have much meaning of wanting the audience to empathize, there is not too much depressing color, or relatively gentle and calm.
Listening to the whole album, I thought about a few keywords for this album, namely retro, synth, and sampling. The essence of this is sampling, because this album is not a very typical or standard HipHop album.
There are too many single accompaniments that have a very obvious musical style orientation in essence, complete melodic lines, drums are not four or four beats, many can be used to compose music into other styles of music, C-Low just play out the rapper can rap this "basic skill" in any rhythmic accompaniment.
But sampling is undoubtedly one of the most HipHop aspects of this album, each song on this album has more or less samples, niche or classic, C-Low this hand uses HipHop to make other music, and it is really good to play.
The quality of the singles on this album is good, so I have to pick some songs that make people shout "absolutely" to talk about. My favorite single in the first part was "C-Low is Back."
The sampling of this song is undoubtedly the most classic of the whole series, jay-Z and his wife Beyond's collaborative single. "Crazy In Love", this song is also a 2004 Grammy Best Rap Vocal Collaboration, a classic not to be missed.
C-Low this song samples the trumpet of the prelude as Loop throughout the song. But unlike the original song, this song only borrows a loud tone of the trumpet to create a more exciting emotion, and more emphasis is on the rhythm of the arranged part.
In addition to the more original drum beats, there is a very complete Bassline, this set of Bassline even largely overshadowed the drum beats, which was originally a very tough rhythm, and became more dynamic under the Bass.
The way the original song is presented is pasted in rhythm, which highlights this number even more. Although the sampling of this number is classic, I think this arrangement of C-Low is more perfect to control.
The second song I like more is "Local Area Ushered in the Hot Summer", it is indeed a song that is very suitable for summer, listening to this song gives me the sense of picture is the disco party with a dazzling ball of light, surrounded by hip waves and the inferior smell of tobacco that chokes the eyes, and I have to stuff a bottle of IPA into the arms of the hot girl with an explosive head next to it.
The original song synthesizer of "Hot Love" sampled by this song is not used much, mainly to highlight this very beautiful Bassline, and the composition performance is a little more. And the sample of C-Low this section is also very beautiful, more wow synthesizers added, in addition to making the music brighter, but also for this Bassline to bring more Boostie sense, made a very serious 80s taste, the fishing boat added later to sing the late melody is also too fun.
In fact, synth Funk has been around for decades now, and there are also DJ AK in HipHop music that does Popin dance music, but it is still the most suitable effect of piling up synths. Those modern synthesizer electronic sounds out of Future Funk is a bit of a sheep's head to buy dog meat, Boogie Disco is the eternal drop god.
In fact, in this part, everyone prefers "Welcome to the Twenties", this song is also very good, on top of some classic Disco synthesizers and drum sounds, made a very modern, very futuristic melodic timbre.
But it's clear that I prefer some Bass music, and the rhythm is the first priority. And this song is because the timbre is so beautiful, so that I feel that the vocals are slightly stretched, and I can't keep up with the sense of technology of the timbre.
This song is not suitable for headphone playback, more suitable for some stereo scenes, such as the underground electronic Club, which can present a more psychedelic sense of technology in this song, and playIng Future on the retro rhythm can also be a little sour, think about it with feeling.
In the second part, I prefer the song "Solo III", sampling Kanye's "The Life of Pablo" of my favorite "Real Friends", C-low this song in addition to sampling, in the way of mixing and rhythm drumming is very Kanye's shadow.
The content of this song is more EMO-oriented, and Kanye is also at the stage of releasing the album "The Life of Pablo", which is known to the public for suffering from depression. The reason I like this song is precisely this, being able to express my feelings through the remix of the second creation in some sample homages. Instead of following the big stream of EMO is 808 plus singing melody, that kind of primary stuff is really boring to listen to more.
"January on Moon", a pure music, is a song that truly embodies C-Low's skills as a producer. As we all know, doing accompaniment is based on the flow arrangement of rappers, making slight changes in rhythm and format, and does not perfectly reflect some of the producer's ideas.
Therefore, the pure accompaniment album or pure music album made by some producers is the embodiment of the real level. The song is like this, it seems to be just a simple layer of Loop, but in fact, the producer's control of different paragraphs in the music is gradual, there will be no too abrupt ups and downs, but it will not make the music appear flat. The best passage of this song is in the middle, and the addition of Jungle makes this gentle and dreamy song full of spirit.
The third part is my favorite part of the whole album, and not joining the main theme of the album may be because of the lack of content and theme, but I don't want to bury a few quality songs.
The most absolute of these parts is "Outside the House", which has a very strong Citypop flavor, and the reason for liking it is simple, because the works of Yamadachi Areuro are sampled. Tetsuji Hayashi, Jiri Goto, and Daru Yamato are my favorite three Showa-era Japanese musicians, who were instrumental in the era when CityPop began to westernize.
There's not much to say about this song, sampling Yamato Torō's work from the early eighties, when there was such an application to synthesizers, it was simply a god. C-Low's song also lives up to such a classic sampling source, on the basis of the previous tenderness, giving a more distinctive nineties era label, more romantic.
C-Low's album, we can't enjoy it from the most serious HipHop music point of view, before my judgment of the song in addition to the arrangement itself, is rapper's personal emotional and technical control. This album is basically impeccable, except that C-low's own rap technology is not outstanding.
As a producer, C-Low perfectly shows his musical aesthetic, production skills, understanding and gameplay of sampling, good or bad this is a bit subjective, at least for my appetite.
Secondly, in terms of emotional performance, the first part is all fun, party music, C-low big white voice rap is nothing wrong. The second part is heavy on feelings, although C-Low still has no change in tone, but people mix well, through the secondary creation of human voice color, giving a close accompaniment to the control of emotions.
This album, not shaking, not dry, not Flexin, is different from hipHop music as we traditionally understand it. However, the characteristic style of the arrangement and the perfect musicality displayed are the focus of this album. All I can say is that this album C-Low played, right from the beginning of these four years of polishing.