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i'm gonna go ahead and say it's fair to say i've listened to a lot of music over the years. and it's rare, at this point, that something jumps out of my speakers with such force that i'm just in awe. something that moves me, hypes me up to that degree physically. that shit like, never happens. i really had no idea what i was in for with this wayne thing.
i don't know how popular this thought is, but Fly In is my favourite song: just 2:23 of straight, hungry as fuck rapping. songs like that often end up being my favourites, fuck a hook—from this to 75 Bars by the Roots, several recent Em songs, Rewind by Nas, plenty more Wayne songs.
i couldn't believe what i was hearing, what he was doing with his voice, and the more i hear, the more i realize wayne's voice is an instrument. whether it's a feature, a mixtape or an album, wayne is percussive, wayne is part of the beat. would 'No Love' be as good if weezy didn't say '...get em' just before Em's verse? i don't think it would.
take 'the heat', where his quicksilver rhymes, percussive adlibs are just as important, if not more than the gunshots that make up the hook—he is the gunshots, he is the hook. it's unbelievable.
and Fly in... it doesn't even matter what he's saying, it's how he's saying it. he sounds possessed, his tone, his pitch constantly changing, his voice almost catching an ODB-like waver in it. the song is, all at once, the most dangerous, the most hype, the most satanic and the most heavenly thing i've ever heard.
'i'm so 5-0-4 you better kill me here/if you ever looking for me bitch i will be here': just listen to the way he lowers his voice for that, like he's inhabited by some spirit that maybe even he can't control... the lyric, on paper? it's fine, it's whatever. when he says it like that? it fires right through my armour and hits me in the heart. no, the soul. when he says it like that i catch the holy ghost of rap and i fuckin believe it.
someday people are going to realize just what a unique voice this is, what an instrument unto itself, that it's up there with the greatest vocal chameleons of all time: bowie, dylan, whoever you want.
and that's a whole bunch of writing on one song. one fuckin song
i know this is old news to every single person here, i couldn't be later to the party, but fuck it. when i get this excited about something i gotta say something. FLY IN
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by the way anyone know why i can't edit posts? safari or chrome, i just get a blank page
i don't know how popular this thought is, but Fly In is my favourite song: just 2:23 of straight, hungry as fuck rapping. songs like that often end up being my favourites, fuck a hook—from this to 75 Bars by the Roots, several recent Em songs, Rewind by Nas, plenty more Wayne songs.
i couldn't believe what i was hearing, what he was doing with his voice, and the more i hear, the more i realize wayne's voice is an instrument. whether it's a feature, a mixtape or an album, wayne is percussive, wayne is part of the beat. would 'No Love' be as good if weezy didn't say '...get em' just before Em's verse? i don't think it would.
take 'the heat', where his quicksilver rhymes, percussive adlibs are just as important, if not more than the gunshots that make up the hook—he is the gunshots, he is the hook. it's unbelievable.
and Fly in... it doesn't even matter what he's saying, it's how he's saying it. he sounds possessed, his tone, his pitch constantly changing, his voice almost catching an ODB-like waver in it. the song is, all at once, the most dangerous, the most hype, the most satanic and the most heavenly thing i've ever heard.
'i'm so 5-0-4 you better kill me here/if you ever looking for me bitch i will be here': just listen to the way he lowers his voice for that, like he's inhabited by some spirit that maybe even he can't control... the lyric, on paper? it's fine, it's whatever. when he says it like that? it fires right through my armour and hits me in the heart. no, the soul. when he says it like that i catch the holy ghost of rap and i fuckin believe it.
someday people are going to realize just what a unique voice this is, what an instrument unto itself, that it's up there with the greatest vocal chameleons of all time: bowie, dylan, whoever you want.
and that's a whole bunch of writing on one song. one fuckin song
i know this is old news to every single person here, i couldn't be later to the party, but fuck it. when i get this excited about something i gotta say something. FLY IN
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by the way anyone know why i can't edit posts? safari or chrome, i just get a blank page
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