It is time for the recommendation of foreign new specialties once a month, and this time it is recommended for foreign new specials in May. First of all, I apologize to everyone, because I successfully entered the second debate of the paper, which led to this delay and failed to catch up with the beginning of the month.
This year's may new album is not lively, and there is no album of international superstar grade except for J Cole. In fact, over the years, May, although it is not a big month for the release of albums, is still quite lively, and there will be one or two superstar-level albums every week.
There are also a number of classic albums in May, such as Playboi Carti's Die Lit three years ago and Farewell & Good Riddance by Juice WRLD.
In fact, following the trend R.I.P is not a Chinese characteristic, and the album of juice became one of the top ten best-selling albums in the first half of 2021 after his death. It seems that foreign followers are also chasing a few popular songs to listen, and the moon abroad is not round.
There are also many may classic albums, and both Muye and Rocky are particularly fond of may albums. The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP.
My favorite is Ice Cube's solo debut album Amerikkkka's Most Wanted, an album of greater historical significance, one is the dissolution of N.W.A. and the other is the peak of Cube's personal career.
Without further ado, start the inventory of hipHop's new albums abroad in May of this year. The first Friday of May 7 was recommended, and the first recommendation was Tee Grizzley's Built For Whatever.
This album invites Quavo, Big Sean, the big name, the rest are Lil Durk, YNW Melly, Lil Tjay, G Herbo, King Von and other new generation of first-line players, counting the lineup luxury, RIP King Von.
There is no hot single in this album, the album as a whole is not hot, the main reason for the recommendation is that Tee Bao is too versatile, any style of arrangement he can contribute a good performance, can realize their shortcomings to invite people who are better at cooperation.
Their own melodies are generally sung by others, such as the one that cooperates with Lil Durk, and his paragraphs use relatively smooth and low compositions, Durk's paragraph composition is more in line with the aesthetics of the current Melody Rap, and at the same time, through some harmonies, the connection between paragraphs is also very smooth.
This album also has some of Tee Grizzley's previous classic Flow performances, or the kind of semi-fast mouth-and-mouth flow that doesn't step on. His Flow is within my acceptance range, although he does not step on the remake but still has a certain Amount of Flow arrangement, the arrangement of the upper and lower sentences is more regular, showing a feeling of backshoot, and the rhythm is still there. Here's Aitta to pharaoh and learn a little.
The second recommended album was K.A.A.N's Kaizen. This dude is actually not a big brand, just a YouTube rapper, and Token's kind of Tubing Top Stream is not comparable.
However, this album did improve significantly, away from Remix's fixed fast mouth, and more of the album used some BoomBap accompaniment, and there were quite a few full Basslines, which was very appetizing to me.
Although there are many previous fast mouth shadows, the speed of speech is still relatively fast, but the fluency of Flow is still comfortable, and the proportion of fast mouth and Flow orchestration is well mastered.
The arrangement is very full, and many singles are basically out of breath, I don't know if it is a sentence by sentence or he is originally iron lung. However, the rendering effect is really excellent, and it can be called the benchmark template of the new generation of BoomBap.
This album in addition to K.A.A.N's iconic Flow is the rhyming technology, the previous single because everyone's attention is mostly on the airtight fast mouth technology, this time the rhyming technology reminds me of the early JID.
If you can get rid of a little of the deep influence of the previous fast mouth, and really engage in a little bit of rhythm, K.A.A.N's technical level is not inferior to JID at all.
The second week ends on May 14th, and this week is really the New Year, J Cole, Kanye, spicy chicken set songs. But Spicy Chicken is 2009 Mixtape with three new songs that don't make sense.
Kanye is even more of a fan of teasing, the new EP is called "Dear Donda", when I saw the word "Donda" instantly climaxed, the result is not the "Donda" I wanted, just five old songs about the mother.
One album you can't miss this week is naturally J. Cole's The Off-Season. Actually, I don't think this album is much better, better than "KOD", but compared to "2014 Forest Hills Drive" and "4 Your Eyez Only", it is really almost interesting.
It's not that the arrangement or control is poor, after all, there are a lot of my favorite spiritual song elements, but we are used to Cole's HipHop teaching director role, Cole's mood has changed, and I have not changed. Listening to Storytelling, and then listening to his complete transformation, is not very comfortable.
The expression of this album Cole completely abandons the previous narrative, adds some traditional HipHop performance flavor, a little more Brag and arrogance, and of course, with Cole's achievements, it is completely fine.
The arrangement on this album is also a little more primitive, with a full Taste of New York. Actually, I just like a single, which is "My Life" with Morray and 21 Savage.
Cole really appreciates Morray and is willing to make a song on his album that completely follows Morray, while also giving him so many pages of a song that even royal rap has to play in this song.
The music of this street life story is obviously Morray's creative theme, of course, it is also related to the content direction of the entire album, if in the past, Cole would never have produced such content.
Although the rating of this album is average for Cole's historical results, the commercial results are still OK, and everyone still buys it. The album made Cole the first singer in HipHop music history, the first six albums to be the number one seller in the first week of release.
However, perhaps it is everyone's word of mouth that makes this album a bit weak, and at present, only "Pride is the devil" cooperated with Xiaobao has broken through the gold sales. Of course, in terms of Cole's fame, as long as there is enough time, platinum sales are sooner or later.
Another recommended album this week is Kodak Black's "Haitian Boy Kodak", dare to release an album with J Cole one day that is pure death, even J Cole's little brother Earth Gang has to make a wrong song, Kodak's wave of operations is really confusing.
Although there is no heat, but in such a small week, this album of the general in the box can still be listened to, and find something to do for the boring Friday.
Compared with Kodak's previous works, this album is a lot more difficult to listen to. Originally, Kodak's hoarse and feminine voice was not suitable for singing, and as a result, he still loved to sing, but he had no talent in composing, the melody creation was incoherent, and the singing was like a bean. It can only be said that thanks to his voice, some pure Rap singles still sound relatively flying.
The main reason for recommending this album is that Kodak is still quite interesting, and his IQ level is the same as That of Li Peng. In addition to often putting himself in prison, he also wanted to rebuild Haiti, which was really bold.
However, Kodak's production is still quite high, this winter Trump stepped down to pardon the world he just got out of prison, he can have new singles every month, and after this album, will maintain a new album or EP every month, it is estimated that it is too idle when squatting a lot of saliva songs. I can only hope that he will not sing, otherwise he really can't listen to it.
The third week is until 5.21, I think this week is really boring, I can only recommend two Rappers with unique voices. The first is Young M.A's Off the Yak, a hardcore actress from New York. This sister's voice is really very unique, neutral enough to recognize that I am male and female. If you don't look at your face, you will definitely think of it as a black man.
The reason I've always disliked female rappers is that I think that female voices are not suitable for rap, and sometimes in the remake place needs to be intensified, and the female tone is really dramatic. This female rapper has no such problem at all, and it is the main reason for my recommendation.
However, this album I think the performance is average, not as good as the previous EP "Red Ful". Mainly the arrangement and vocal mismatch is relatively large, in this album, her rap tone is relatively flat, basically no ups and downs, that is, no emotions.
Although the voice is dominant, it does not have a particularly good Flow foundation, and there is no mood, which sounds like chanting, and also erases the advantage of the voice itself.
The second recommended is 42 Dugg's Free Dem Boyz. This man's voice is exactly the opposite of the female rapper above. The sharp and hoarse, is the enhanced version of the new generation of Asian forced Trap rappers, a bit of the American version of the elf feeling.
Of course, this voice is more recognizable under the blessing of Auto-Tune, and it also makes The Mumble Rap appear cleaner.
However, he still likes his voice, basically there is no effect in the vocal part, and the effect is still good. At the same time, his choice of arrangement on this album is also more powerful than other new generation rappers, the sense of Trap is more obvious, and the auxiliary nature of the melody is relatively large.
Both albums are about listening to a piece of music and getting a feel for how different voices harness HipHop music.
From the fourth week until May 28, there are two blockbuster albums, one is the anniversary edition of Juice WRLD's theologty "Goodbye & Good Riddance", which is actually two songs.
However, the unpublished works of juice have hundreds of songs on the Internet, and the official anniversary version is really not sincere enough to have two new songs, and it is not a new album that is not within the scope of this discussion.
Another album is DMX's posthumous work "Exodus", this album is really quite strange, after DMX died of drug overdose, the whole world is in R.I.P,, the result of NetEase Cloud each single is a pitiful single-digit review, really quite evil, I don't know who followed R.I.P, in the end has anyone heard his songs.
After the death of DMX, many big names contributed their Verse to the album in memory of him. Jay-Z plus Nas, two generations of New York kings, bring the purest Taste of BoomBap to Bath Salts.
Most of the singles are very high-quality, but there are also some song accompaniments that are a bit problematic, such as "Money Money Money", the two strings Loop present a very urgent and nervous feeling, but the female voice is ethereal, Ad-Libs is the iconic ROAR of DMX, and the three emotions are completely incompatible, and it can only be said that this producer is not very qualified. This big-name collection of legacy works has not been able to show the level it should have.
The music in May really wasn't exciting enough, and apart from J Cole, there wasn't an album that took into account both quality and traffic. But by the time I started writing this tweet, I've already released a couple of good June albums, so please look forward to it.