PROD BY F1LTHYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJw7YwDTklMAlbum definitely coming
>>121533139i didn't think he would really get evil again. not sure if the beat works that well with his vocals desu, i think f1lthy's gotten a lot worse/less interesting since like 2018. album's probably gonna be called cold visions yeah?
>>121533139Nice
>>121533156He seems pretty depressed again. Last couple of projects, songs etc have had downright haunting lyrics. His verse on TLDR was very depressive.
holy fuuuuuuuuuuuck
Album coverCold Visions
Evil Bladee
not music
>>121533139>I got so old I got embarrassed to be even here you know>I only care because you careDamn, he is so done lmao
>>121533186Ripping off sewerslvt, i see
COLD VISIONS!
>>121533139EVIL EVIL EVIL REIGNSSSSSS
>>121533297who?
>>121533231still better than the beatles
We need new ecco, not bladee.
>>121533536shut it fag
>>121533297You don't know what you're talking about
>>121533536no we don't he stopped being good before he even dropped an album. unless he's doing [zzzz] xxposed mirage forget wys type shit again i don't care. he was a good rapper he's not a good singer and the upper register doesn't suit him. old production was way more interesting too, all those gritty, warped textures to the synths and stuff. listen to the beautysleep bootleg it's his best
>>121533767With TLDR dropping new ecco would probably be him using his old voice.
>>121533815it was nice to hear him using that voice again but the lyrics feel like they've gone downhill too. maybe it's just that i was in high school when i was into the earlier stuff but it felt like much stronger imagery. he had some cool almost cyberpunk motifs that are mostly gone now. lines like "no iris black star and cross / powerline i hold the charge" and "drain angel stay under surveillance" have something to him his new stuff doesn't
>>121533767beauty sleep is great but e is still better
>>121533536ecco is only good in featureshis album blows ass
its out
>>121537315AOTY boys
>>121533139WOD bladee is back what is this 2018?
jannies fucking deleted the album thread lol
>>121537547can't have 2 bladee threads but 20 taylor threads is ok
>>121533139This shit needs to be left in the 2010s
WE ARE SO BACK
>>121537656this is what I've been waiting for since the late 2010s.
>30 songsholy FUCK
>>121537564they warned me for it too lol. anyway, favorites so far are king nothingg and end of the road boyz
>>121533297what a shallow comparison, if anything Bladee is influenced by Basquiat and Pollock
fanservice
Holy shit One second is insane
holy shit I paused my goon sesh for this
>>121537682yep, this feels like a nod to some of the older discog in such a good way.
Evilchads won
>>121533297stfu and fuck severpedo
The yung sherman track is crazy
>>121537995i agree, the ambient outro is insane
The Thaiboy verse was actually really good despite his flow and lyrics kind of sucking on TLDR
>>121537974it's like a mix between icedanser, redlight moments and WOD. might as well be called WOD2. it's so good.
>fanservice to his "OG fans"oh so its gonna suck ok
>>121538097i mean you can listen right now and form your own opinion
>>121538097stfu bladee bangers just dropped
that first outro got me stressing this might be it, what an album to go out on
Unironically the only artist of the last 20 years that matters
would've hit a lot harder and been a lot more culturally important if this came out with this sound like 4 years ago. some pretty good songs but it feels like too little too late and culturally redundant after 5 years of consistently shitty bladee albums unfortunately
His best since Crest, easily. Might be Icedancer level honestly
Yeah just dropped AOTY and his last ever album
>>121538216>after 5 years of consistently shitty bladee albumsmassive cope
>>121538216>listening to music because its "culturally important" and not because it just fucking SOUNDS GOODwhat the hell is wrong with this board
>>121538080Nah it’s so much more than WOD2. It feels like all his classics combined. Probably is his swan song to that old bladee. Not sure if it’s the end of his career would be weird to do at 30
>>121538235yeah easily. cant go out on a loss is pretty clear, also makes it sound like he knows his new music sucks and is doing one last good album lol
TLDR is the best thing the boys have done in years. This album is hard so far. Yeah yeah they fell off, but I'm still gonna bump this album and thread. >>121538053They don't know
>>121538216This has been in development for at least 2 years. f1lthy was teasing their team up for ages
>>121533139This album actually kinda sucks.
Can’t end on a loss is one of the best outros I’ve heard in a long time
>>121538267he knew psykos was going to be shit and purposely released this after
>>121538239like it or not, this sound has been done almost to death in the underground already and hearing bladee hop on it and not do much interesting for 30 similar sounding songs doesn't bode well for repeat listens. still better than troon bladee for sure tho
It would be an amazing end to his legacy if this is his last album. He’s 30 now. You’ve got kids who are 15/16 that are beginning to define what’s popular. Half his fucking age. Bladee knows what’s up
>>121538258not weird if youre a rappertime to move on and make some serious art!
>>121538314Yeah it’s not that original but bladee does it better than most and brings his unique vibe to it
Bladee has come back like the second coming of christ. Those who follow him and treat him like a sheppard will be met with virtue. I praise my glorious sheppard, savior, and king of sweden
>>121537974I don't think this is done so intentionally. It feels more like he's spiraling back into some negative thoughts, drug use, and having been into some pretty gnostic ideas the past few years but seemingly unable to resolve material obsessions he seems lost, and turning 30 now probably feels like he's made no progress in life which is why he's back to feel so alienated and anxious as he was when making his old music. He's clearly developed a lot from that time though so this still feels very new, and I hope he feels better soon.
>>121533139Music for teenagers.I doubt anyone in this thread is older than 25.
>>121538316He should have copped a Nettspend feat
>>121538396incorrect. get off the thread.
>>121538354he did some interview around when Psykos came out with Lean, they were drinking lean and kratom in thailand when recording. hes been back on da goop for a while now. Prolly best to slow down and take a break and get sober
>>121538396i'm 30
>>121538316his original fans are now late 20s into their 30s too. i guess it's either cater to your fans or just stop altogether.the entire sad boy swedish clique is essentially boomer-lite at this point. i guess it's just time to embrace it. i was 21 when i started listening to lean and bladee in 2013, i'm now 32. it's just over isn't it?
>>121538405nettspend doesnt have the aura to be able to featured on a bladee project...I think someone like xaviersobased auramatches bladee more
Yea this album is kinda making me depressed
>>121538428which interview is that i need to watch it
>>121533186his mouth is the velvet underground banana
>>121538449that's how you know it's working
>>121538396Nah I’m 26. Bladee will always be special to me because I basically grew up with his music. I’ll always be a bladee dick rider because this man is a special artist, raw and based as fuck.
>>12153839627 hereI grew up on his musicgot me through a lot of hard timeshe will always be special to me
>>121538216The Fool is the strongest tranee period album and it stands up with his best older albums
>>121538450https://www.papermag.com/yung-lean-bladee-psykosim reading lyrics rn and in Yung Sherman he's saying they're both going to rehab yeah he's definitely taking a break
he's the Beethoven of our generation unironically
That first outro track is so brutal man... Fuck.
>Me and Yung Sherman at the gym working out and getting tannedzyzz trance production arc
>END OF THE ROAD BOYZ>KING NOTHINGGcrazy
>>121533139All Hail King Nothing, Hail
This album is Bladee’s Disintegration
>>121538349Continue the legacy and drop some shit of your own please. Otherwise you'll just be another obsessed fan and that's it, you'll feel depressed when the room quiets down and you wonder could I be even more dope than Bladee or Kanye or THE BASEDGOD( well that's impossible to be more dope than Lil B but you can try). My advice is that most newbies and even veterans can get stuck in one or two genres and burn out creatively too quick. Look at Ye and how diverse he is, or how open minded Bladee is with noise, texture, and vocoder. Him SpaceGhost Purpp, Leandoer, Travis Scott, Cudi, and 808s & Heartbreak are why melody and singing became a focal point over rapping in their song structures. It's not that the lyrics weren't important they became more important as certain vowels and letter sounds were enunciated. But even most music geeks wouldn't have the courage to belt it out on a vocoder at even a run down DIY punk venue let alone at least a house show in someone's basement or whatevs. Just don't be a loser work hard unless creating shit ain't your gig
>>121538524Asian girls are so beautiful bros...
>>121538396im 28 lil bro
>>121538396I'm 31...
>>12153839627 now
>>121538396I’m 28 bubs
Is that Ecco at the end of END OF THE ROAD BOYZ? I honestly can't tell
>>121533139God I love the black kray track
>>121538538Not that anon but anyone who has tried releasing music knows how saturated the market is. Especially underground rap which now has the 90s alt rock effect of it no longer being underground and major labels creating industry plants. If you want to make music just make it for musics sake, if you have thoughts of legacy and fame you will just be unhappy.
okay but when is ecco2k gonna make more music?
>>121538703Worst song off this album is better than ecco’s entire discography
>>121538703never hopefully
>>121538216there isn't a single shitty bladee album hes literally the most consistent artist since the 80s
it's killing me that he dropped a "did you assume my gender" bar on this
>>121538930Good Luck was pretty bad desu
>>121538930good luck was bad and spiderr and crest were mids. psykos was decent but hard to compare to his other stuff
i love how he just yells COLD!!!!!! all over this lol
>>121539112crest was fantastic
>>121538930>there isn't a single shitty bladee albumgood luck has been erased from our collective minds
>>121533139What's up with the "I never will see you again and I hope you understand" line from Yung Sherman? Is he cutting ties or something? The song is so sad if that's the case ;-;
do you think he'll do one last tour in the USA?i haven't seen bladee live since 2013 when i saw him with yung lean back when i was 20. i can't believe we're all so old now
>>121538396There are literally 5 years in between 25 and being a teenager
>>121539112>thinks spiderr and crest were mid>likes psykoslmao
Eversince bros... can we finally move on? Am I old now?...
>>121539265No, it just gets worse from here
>>121539175hes talking to the listener
>>1215392652017 bladee was peak bladeeD&G was the pinnacle and plastic surgery was his best overall single
>>121539288Oh yeah that makes sense. Thanks anon
>>121539249>likes spiderr at allunjustifiable
>>121539273疲れた
>>121539306of course still makes it sad for us :(
This is the saddest bladee album, even much sadder than Eversince ever was, because we're finally witnessing the death of bladee. I still had hope after Spiderr but it's clear now that he can never seem cool or trendy like he did up until 2020/2021. He's old
>>121539361he's probably gonna focus on painting from here, he would make a good wise old gnostic painter
>like bane in his maskBANEPOSTING WILL NEVER DIE
The production style is so dirty and fucked up it actually makes me sick
>>121539358I doubt this is the end. He's a creative person. He might feel this way in the moment, but assuming he's doesn't completely go off the deep end regarding his drug use, he'll snap back. Hopefully at least. I'm not a parasocial weirdo but addiction sucks, so I hope the best for him. Don't lose hope. DG is eternal
>>121533139I love f1lthy so much brosthis is sick
>>121539361He’s the most popular he’s ever been so I don’t know where this narrative comes from.
>>121533139ME AND YUNG SHERMAN GOING REHAB THIS SHIT IS VERY SAD
THANK GOD HE'S NOT DOING GAY ASS FAGGY ELECTRO POP SHIT...THIS IS SICK...PLEASE SIR COME TO USA
What happened to rip?
>>121533139The only cool cultural experience I've had that was comparable to what was characteristic of the 20th century was the post-covid drain gang concert in the US. I've been do dozens of punk and metal shows and there has never been as much energy and authentic culture. His descent into cringe has been miserable, I thought we would never get anything like his WOD collabs again outside of leaks like Anything. He couldn't have had a better return to form, its a perfect synthesis of his best aesthetic decisions
>>121539639You don't get it.
whoever used to mix bladees vocals need to fix his fucking mix chain, jesus
>>121539941i miss him man he runs circles around lusi. didn't he have some heart problems a while back?
>>121539996Stop being a pretentious fag. Bladee has never been trendy and this album is by far the best project he’s dropped since Eversince. This is bladee at his best, hopped on these rage beats and showed all these opium fags who’s the king
>>121540078I don't know but I hope we haven't heard the last of him
this is his last album isn't it
>>121533139Honestly I thought the album was great.A couple of the rage songs felt a little repeative but overall enjoyed it.Hopefully he comes to Canada again.Bless all of you.
>>121540157I don’t think so. TLDR makes me think they’ll drop a DG album as well.
>>121540218This album is so good but TLDR was kinda mid imo. Ecco verse was good but some of bladee's melodies were kinda forced and cliched. Overall the track sounded too safe and standard
>>121539265>>121539361No matter how much I like Red Light, Icedancer, and even The Fool. Eversince is Bladees best album, maybe it's the association with a certain period of my life but regardless whenever I hear Sugar or Rip it makes me feel a way.As a side note, I wish more of my friends were into DG. Never really had anyone to enjoy the peak years with.
>>121540340I liked TLDR but it was too forgettable. This album is different and way better for sure. I just don’t think Bladee is retiring, I was the guy who compared this album to The Cure’s Disintegration and I really meant it. I think he’s coming to terms with growing up and getting old, that’s why this entire album seems like a homage to everything he has done before, it’s like his last “young” album.
>>121540340tldr felt like them returning to an older style but on autopilot. was exciting in what it represented but the song itself wasn't that good besides ecco's verse
anotha classic oh mah lawd
>>121540445Yeah I was obsessed with DGSBE throughout all my teenage years (2016-2022) with zero friends to share it with. At this point Eversince almost hits too hard for me since he's talking about his wasted youth as a depressed loner. I thought it was beautiful when I was 14 but now it's too sad to listen often. Red Light and Icedancer are the ones I can listen to forever
>>121541059It’s kinda fucked he always talks about how he’s lost hope/his life is going nowhere/etcHe’s a world renowned artist and subcultural icon who does whatever he wants all day and is probably rich. What does that make me?
>>121541266a blade-e
>>121541266When he dropped Eversince he had 10-20k spotify listeners and not enough music money to live off of. He spent the previous few years only being known for association with yung lean, and then he witnessed his mental break+Barron's death in Miami firsthand. It's pretty easy to understand his angst leading up to Eversince. He seemed much less depressed by the next year when he solidified his cult following
>>121541266i mean depression and anxiety transcends money and fame especially if you're getting fucked up daily at 30
yeah he can quit this is it
KING NOTHINGG is so fucking good
9.5/10
>>121541796the sound effects are insane. the roblox kid screaming on end of the road boyz too
AOTY AOTY AOTY
Can't believe Bladee has to step in and save music one again bros...
GENERATIONAL ALBUM
>>121533536only if he stops taking it up the ass
>>121533297>slvties…
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACKJUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS DONE WITH BLADEE HE DOES THIS SHIT AND PULLS ME BACK INWODG2
The most cohesive and highest quality Bladee album. Truly feels like an end of an era and a conclusion to 10 years of innovation and creativity.
Bladee is smart he knows that his 10 years of creativity is up. This is a great way to end it all. He can become a painter full time he makes bank off that shit
>>121544259How could he be a painter if he only has 10 years? Why do you guys put these limits on yourselves?
C O L D V I S I O N SO LDVISIONS
im crying bros
Hmmmmm it’s fireGgs blader
are people taking bladee serious? I thought all of his stuff is ironic
>>121545800nice dubs>his music is better than anything you listen to
PROFOUND SADNESS
>>121545800Unironically a lot of his lyrics are really good. There's a lot of variety to his work and each album feels very distinct from the last and has its own identity, some of his lyrics are really funny and comedic, some are abstract, some are haunting and very depressive. He's a pretty interesting writer ngl and there's a lot to chew on with some of his tracks and he keeps on building this 'drain mythology' with each album building on the last and adding more and more to 'drain gang' it's very cool.
>KING NOTHINGG He seriously hasn’t sounded this unhinged in ages
bladee needs Jesus badly
>>121546534Yeah, he's one of the best lyricists in rap/hiphop. His lyrics are on the same level as those of Death Grips, although in a completely different stylistic bracket
>>121546534it's interesting, revisiting the lyrics from both bladee and ecco i loved when i was in high school the ecco ones feel really weak, overwrought, cliched, etc. but the bladee ones pretty much all hold up. when i was younger both seemed cool to me in the same way but bladee had channeled something much more lasting than just the superficial coolness
>>121546962What about thaiboy's
>>121538715what the fuck are you even saying? this album is fucking shit, bladee has lost his essence as the time has been passing by, the songs of this album are all the same, it shows that he didn't put his soul in them, they sound so fucking basic and industrial, people just like it because "it's bladee"when you hear an ecco2k song, you can hear his soul in them, the music is made with love and not just because, so shut the fuck up honestly
>>121547206i'm at song 11 and my fucking god i don't want to hear this anymore, it's all that fucking basic trap 808 and basic composition, this is a fucking shit.no originality, no soul, no nothing. i'm done listening to bladee honestly
HAIL KING NOTHINGONLY KING THAT KILLS FOR NOTHINGHAIL STORMS COMINGRARE FORM JUNKIE
>>121547187english is his third language he always just had funny bars. i couldve graduate from yale but young thaiboy chose the fame>>121547206ecco has sucked since like 2018. weak lyrics, banal themes. i believe he thinks he's making the music with love and that's worse because it means he's really this shallow and midwitted
>>121547238youre describing f1lthy
>>121547271>weak lyrics>banal themesdid you really hear PXE? did you even understand it? did you understand the sensibility with which he produces his songs? did you analyze the lyrics? i don't think so.saying that the worst song off this album is better than ecco’s entire discography is the most retarded thing i've read in years
>>121547352They don't care, they just hate cuz he started singing in a high pitched tone so they make up some bullshit about weak lyrics and banality when PXE was nothing like that.
>>121547352yes man i was the biggest ecco dickrider for years and then i graduated from high school. pxe is>be yourself!>fuck what everyone else thinks!>you don't need to conform to society!>exist in the world rather than in your own head (this one's actually good)the art direction is cool and some of the sounds are interesting but these are very basic themes and the songwriting is forgettable. do you like read books at all? i feel like you're attributing way too much depth to the themes in his music because you've never seen the very basic themes of struggle with identity and interiority vs exteriority explored anywhere else
>I'm waiting for disaster or something else bad to happen>I'm in this beauty pageant and everybody's laughing
I don't like sad evil Bladee anymore. I'm too old for this.
>>121547434oh yeah that's another thing, the high pitched voice sounds bad! it sounds strained and it lacks the expressiveness he had singing in his (natural) lower register. he has less melodic range now and he was also just a better rapper than he is a singer. losing the more rhythmic element of his vocals hurts his music a lot
>>121547480unfortunately your choice of image indicates you are a gay out of touch retard
>>121547499>gay out of touch retardJust like Bladee....
>you're attributing way too much depth to the themes in his music because you've never seen the very basic themes of struggle with identity and interiority vs exteriority explored anywhere else.so music for you is only about lyrics? what are you even saying. what i'm describing is the sensibility of the music he produces. the lyrics combined with the music is an experience. what do you expect from him? singing about the critique of pure reason? music has a lot of ways to communicate sentiments an ideas
>>121547480some of us are still sad
>>121547446Provide some examples for themes you would find better and more complex.
I think this is a very creative album. I love how some of the tracks combine very funny laugh out loud lyrics with really dark themes.Bladee is too funny man, the whole 'I'm old' shtick with him turning 30 on this album and on Don't Wanna Hang Out with "I was kinda the CEO you know" like he's some old ass guy telling a couple of kids how "you know I was actually the CEO of this Drain Gang thing back in the day" that's fucking funny man
>>121547541i'm a music > lyrics guy but my original post (>>121546962) was about lyrics so that's the direction i was thinking from, and specifically a direction in which bladee's music holds up far better than ecco's with time. in terms of the overall sentiment i agree he had something really special on his old stuff. i would get legit goosebumps listening to beautysleep and reading the lyrics. felt like world-creation through his music. the gritty hollow synth sounds and weird percussion and everything drowned in reverb was really special. nothing on e or pxe comes close to that just on novelty of sounds besides a couple of the gud tracks (cc, blue eyes) and aaa powerline. i can relate more to this now than ever, i've had a lot of nights of k-holing and feeling my identity fracture and yet the last time i felt that unity of lyrics and sound from him in a way that affected me was when the aaa powerline single dropped. to be clear bladee fell off hard too but this album is far better than anything he's done since at least the fool. this isn't just another bladee album, it's cannibalizing all his past work, feels like an anti-greatest hits. his lyrics on this are more tongue-in-cheek than ever before and i think it's intentionally supposed to play on the fact that so many fans have wanted a return to a trap sound from him and he's giving it to them in an intentional strange, warped way. haven't fully thought this through but there's clearly a lot more to this than it seems, i was disappointed on first listen but reading the lyrics there's a clear irony or even like fatalism to the whole thing. assuming it's his last album it's like the opposite of a triumphant ending.
It's interesting how he deliberately uses incorrect grammar in some lines.
>tfw the ripsquad Lusi synths come in
>>121547724Bladee is like the Swedish Lil B and I mean that in the best way possible. The lyrics are so damn goofy at times. It's essentially a dark comedy album. Something else that still makes me laugh is everyone in drain gang saying "yep, bladee was struck by lightning in thailand" and refusing to elaborate.
>>121548108>comedy albumI wouldn't really go that far. He's just pretty witty when it comes to writing, but a lot of it is very genuine too eg. DONT DO DRUGZ
>>121548144Yeah I'm exaggerating a bit. Do agree there are a lot of moments where he reveals his genuine emotions or turmoil. But there is a very comedic element. The man talks about getting a Sad Meal at McDonald's and calls himself autistic for keeping it real
>>121548108>Something else that still makes me laugh is everyone in drain gang saying "yep, bladee was struck by lightning in thailand" and refusing to elaborate.the bladee Christ chronicles
>>121538396born in the same year as bladee>im literally him
This might be the last big drain album so let's enjoy it fellas. Bladee is solidified at this point so I appreciate him still doing shit for us fans. Album feels bitter sweet like the end of a series or great game. Regardless of the future, thanks to the trashstar and may he find peace and happiness.>>121548108Given Dresden ER and some comments by ecco, I'm thinking he ODed in Europe. The lightening story was how he put it the fans.
I like eggo, he cool and he got swag like crazy. I hope he makes another album, his production is interesting.
can someone link a download for cold visions pweeze
>>121548608are you a new fan? the lightning story goes back to his 2019 fader interview, 3 years before spiderr. he got struck by lightning in thailand when they were recording trash island.
>>121539361hip hop isn't really cool anymore, he rode the last wave of hip hop the way the post-punk bands rode the last wave of punk's real relevancy (in fact I see bladee very much a Morrissey figure and as an 'anti-hip hop' artist in that he completely subverted classic hip hop by making it introspective, weird, and self-consciously deprecating). The fact that he appears in corpse paint for the intro mv on this album shows he knows it's over. He could make some punk (like lean) and black metal crossover records and pursue his painting career. His contribution to late-stage hip hop is certified and evergreen.
>>121548947No, I've been shit posting about bladee forever. The story doesn't make sense. They were in a situation where he couldn't go to the hospital? Bladee had a near death experience but I think it was od not a lightening strike. Although lightning is more fitting so print the legend, as the cliche goes. I'm just glad evil bladee came back one last time.
>>121549262they were 100% on drugs dude you can get executed for possession in thailand. print the legend either way
>contributions from James Ferraroneat
>>121548736here you gohttps://mega.nz/folder/Q0IznCwQ#EYfr-FqBXovQJZtwoFPFlgI'll keep this link live til the thread dies. Otherwise you should get soulseek (slsk) as it's already up there.
>>121549255>hip hop isn't really cool anymore, he rode the last wave of hip hop>late-stage hip hopYou know I was gonna talk shit on you for this but then I thought about it for a bit and realized that even the underground scene now and the underground rap sounds on soundcloud have been picked up by labels now and are getting 'gentrified' and it might actually be over, at least this wave of rap. There'll definitely be another new one probably sooner rather than later because everything moves so fast now and any kid with a laptop could potentially be the next drain gang.I feel like 1c, Xaviersobased, hi-c etc. are that slightly newer wave after drain gang, sadboys, black kray and goth money records. But it seems like the mainstream might be picking up on that jerk sound pretty quick if general audiences take to it. It's been used in some mainstream tracks I think, at least so I've been told.
>>121549399thank youuuu!! I also found it on hiphopa.net
It's the caCOLD VISIONSjamasI'm a #coldvisioner
>>121549510hi-c's a veteran, is he getting buzz again? he blew up back in like 2019-2020, i always lumped him in with that crowd
How many fucking times does he need to say "Cold visions" jfc
>>121549620I feel like that RCB crowd and affiliates are getting kind of buzz again online, Hi-C, Lil Shine, Lil Yawh recently. I've just been seeing them popping more on the algorithm. Xavisersobased and 1c are definitely the big wave right now in the underground imo. Surfgang novagang and so on. I dunno I'm just rambling
>>121549686lil shine has time, blowing up when you're like 14 has perks. lil yawh did have a song blow up recently, i forgot about that. 1c and particularly xaviersobased and nettspend are the current wave for sure, not sure who's up next though. i'm not as tapped in as i used to be. novagang was a 2020 thing, most of their members left, and surf gang blew their shot in 2021 when babyxsosa and caspr left right after their album. giane's out of the underground at this point, produced for kendrick and baby keem and earl sweatshirt and everything
>>121547724I don’t remember which song from the new album but he just randomly says shoutout to sponsors and that shit was so funny to me for some reason
>>121549637IM HAVING COLD VISIONS
>zoomers unironically listen to this dreckgrim
>>121551778another millennial filtered, why don't you go have a cold brew with oat milk and listen to the decemberists
i like the album, i enjoy listening to it.
>Even if it's God's will I can't chill>Try to be normal I'm too ill
>>121533139bladee? more like baldee.
>>121551778im a millennial
>>121551778Name a better album that's come out this year, old timer
I don't think its perfect but its so long that I've essentially been gifted 35 new minutes of insane new bladee music on a random Wednesday. Feeling pretty blessed (^///^).
>>121551961This
this album is so fucking bad it annoys me u guys will force urself to say this is good just because its got the same prods as wod.
>>121551957Diamond Jubilee
>>121552116f1lthy is kind of the worst part of it, im just excited he's changed directions in aesthetics and lyrics. reneging on spirituality/religion and turning back into a piece of shit drug addict while now having gnostic neuroses as well is something i can relate to and he pulls out some crazy flows on this i've never heard from him before.
>>121552116filtered
for me personally, its Terrible Excellence
>>121549516kys tranny
>>121554091seethe cissy ~
i want eversince 2
>>121554864buddy you'll be lucky if we get another album at all
>>121554091SAD BOYS AND D9 IS 4 THE FAGS!!1
>>121554995No, this Bladee is for eastern European homophobes who do drugs and get drunk all day. You can have the Crest and 333 bladee
This album is bleak. This nigga is a drug addict for sure this sounds like the musical equivalent of scribbling curses on the walls of your house
>>121555111Cold visions
>>121555058fun fact yung lean literally sings this in fun fact
>>121533139I feel like we should have drainer threads more often, but I also can't say I check /mu/ religiously.>>121541059Once in a while you should listen to it alone, might bring up some old memories potentially good or bad.Glad to hear you still enjoy Red Light and Icedancer.Wishing you the best, godspeed.
goes hard. thank you Drain Gang CEO.
>>121555496it used to happen way more often, nobody even posted about the album for like half an hour after it dropped and then jannies deleted the thread for being redundant with this one. i miss the codeine in my blood pham threads
>>121533139my goat is washed
>>121555058You didn't get it
It's beatiful
this is my personal Illmatic
>>121564494>full speed make the city bleed smoking dirty weedi never thought we'd get bars like this from him again bros
>>121564494I was thinking it was like Illmatic earlier, in that it's a series of stream of consciousness portraits of dejected, isolated modern urban life. I don't think it has the stand out catchy songs of Illmatic though. It's too abstract and grotesque for that. Bladee is an extremely introverted artist, there is almost zero wider social consciousness beyond the awkwardness and alienation of having to exist in a social world as an estranged loner; whereas by comparison Illmatic is consciously social. I agree though if you put the emphasis on "personal" as it's a more interiorised landscape of what Illmatic does for the NY landscape.
garbage
>>121555111My initial reaction was that it was actually too bleak. But I think that earlier anon who found the comedic side to it is actually on the right track. You have to remember that at this point"bladee" is practically a stage character and a self-made legend with its own mythical background. There's a tongue in cheek to this album that isn't obvious. His early works are the most sincere, but even those had plenty of self-parody and character acting in them.
>>121565272it's art inspired by industrial trash/garbage yes https://youtu.be/4bQrqmKCREk?si=bFvyVBV-ZUQcZrDQ
COLD VISIONSOOOOOUUUU1500 ON A TEE THAT'S THE REPTILIAN IN METHINK I REMEMBER BEING HAPPY BUT IT WAS JUST A MEMORYTHINK I DEPLETED ALL MY SEROTONIN TOOK A LOT OF ETHOUGHT I HAD MURDERED ALL MY DARKNESS BUT IT CAME RIGHT BACK TO ME
>>121533139this is the first project that clicked with me first listen
>>121547682>Provide some examples for themes you would find better and more complex.i like how this is left intentionally impossible to answer, because in the most literal sense EVERYTHING that can be thought or comprehended that wasnt previously listed is up for grabs. every artist talks about what they want and subject matter is varying(and impossible to enumerate)- which makes it that much worse that ecco goes for the most trite and run through bullshit possible. you can smugly pretend like a rolodex of "complex themes" for you to to critique needs to exist to justify the criticism but it doesnt really- its objectively not stimulating to hear the same shit you get from any other artist or media. anyway, examples of themes that would be better than what was previously listed is anything not previously listed
>>121533139"not many brain cells left"yeah.
>>121549516literally just use ytdlp>>121554995agp genocide fr>>121555646not that theirs 100% an audience for it but the existence of threads depends on those willing to make it, you should consider making what you want to see>>121566470the last album i liked was ice dancer, trash island was bad but then it was very clearly over on thankgiving 2019 when e dropped
Funny how Bladee is all depressed because he fell off when really it's just shit producers like F1lthy
Shouldve let Ripsquad & Whitearmor do itA few magical moments but mostly forgettableI'll be going back to WOD, Eversince, Icedancer, PS EP with a few of these and some psykosPsykos felt like a new sound and a mroe honest admission that hes too old for hyperpop, it felt much more honest than this, still a drain tho
>>121540340TLDR instrumental sounded better off iphone leak videosproduction ruiend it
currently obsessed with WODRAINERone day I'll know what 'drain' means
>>121567684a lot of songs sound better in their more raw, less polished version why peel sessions used to be a thing https://youtu.be/rNdfumwxqt4?si=37QPieHM2Mn0Zrkv
Next ecco project solely produced by Ferraro
>>121567671>it felt much more honest than this, still a drain thoyes, it's why my initial reaction to this was negative. I like his more mature work since EXETER, and this initially sounds like a rejection of that to relive his pre-EXETER days. I think he's done it very self-consciously though and he's expressing his anxiety here about his image and legacy. The redditors who think this is a return to form ("WE'RE SO BACK XD") piss me off.
>>121567534F1lthy and ripsquad are decent but whitearmor is a true genius and poet and the Marr to bladee's Morrissey. I even used to think bladee was unworthy of whitearmor's talent, but later saw how they build on each other.
>>121567835imagine being as keyed as me and anon heretrue drainer
>>121567863Rip is up there with whitearmor imo, but it's true that Bladee + WA is greater than the sum of its parts
When Whitearmor is inspired nothing can beat him and bladeeBut on avg Ripsquad Bladee is just so cracked compared to whitearmors misses
>>121567671There's several ripsquad prods on here bro
>>121567534bladee is more popular than ever, he didn't fall off at all.
>>121567981ripsquad just produces above par modern beats for bladee to rap over, with some nice twists here and there (it's good I like it). whereas whitearmor actually challenges bladee's range as a writer and a performer. I don't think he ever misses, he's just on another level to the average hip hop producer so a lot of what he does goes over people's heads.
I'M IN MIAMI DOING TAI CHII'M IN THE FOREST WITH A HIGH PRIEST
Yeah, I'm thinking it's boutta be a white boy summer for real
i listened to about 15 minutes before turning it off. Was about to shit on bladee because this was my first listen of his stuff but looking at this thread this clearly isn't a high point.listening to eversince now and the production is already way better
>>121568503nah i would say it is a high point for sure, especially the production at least in terms of being interesting and new. it doesnt sound all shiny and clean like The Fool, but the album itself a lot darker than his other recent stuff so if fits. i still wouldn't say this is the first bladee album people should check out if they just want to see what he's about though. i would recommend eversince, icedancer, or The Fool as an intro
Third listen. It most definitely has clicked. I think he's probably feeling the pain turning older while his audience is increasingly gay zoomers who call him "unc". Turning 29 this year so I feel him. The references to old draingang + sadboys really hit me.
>>121568503filtered
>only god is made perfect>i don't like people>terrible excellence>red cross>king nothingg>othersideholy shit
C O L D V I S I O N S
>>121533139Didn’t he just drop psykos?His work ethic is crazy.
kino
WHAT IF I NEVER MAKE IT BACKFROM THIS DAMN PANIC ATTACK
CANT LET THIS GO ON
we're hitting unc status, bros...
>>121533297shut the fuck up you egotistic annoyance, it's ripping off chief keef if anything
>>121575182so glad this dropped in time for me to turn 30. bladee always felt younger to me for some reason, weird to think he's this long established artist now with fans who grew up listening to him
the fact that bladee is extremely more mature than these middle aged industry dudes is sad
>>121567873fr
>>121568503eversince is how i got my bf into bladee, and it makes sense as a gateway since its so hard on depressive themes which are more universally understanable. but i always think with bladee its worthwhile to like his other shit like gluee or even redlight, or any number of solo tracks like into dust. everysince is almost too comfortable, it makes too much sense to be your expectation for bladee since the rest of his work isnt really like that (eveyething else is far more varied and not as self contained )
>>121567835>The redditors who think this is a return to form ("WE'RE SO BACK XD") piss me off.plebbit niggers obsessed with ecco and pela (before e) and e after that are the bulwark behind pushing bladee into hyperpop (or at least fueling it by eating it up) they also hyped rs/ f1lthy after icedancer and the prevalence of these two influences are what has marked bladees descent. its always been plebbit pushing both these. they larp as drain but they arent and are the ones who encouraged bladee to keep on the path after icedancer (funny friends edit!! im drain guys!!111!!! im drain!!!1!!!)this album very clearly doesnt stray very far from bladee post 2018, so why anyone would actually believe "le evil bladee is back!!" is retarded. we have sherman which is good, maybe if bladee puts out more it will be sherm and wa and we might get close to a return to form. this is only a small step, and it feels more like lean influenced change than anything. like its the drain verse recolliding with sbe
>>121578602You just sound bitter desu
>>121533139The main problem with Bladee lies in his lyrics which in general are horrendously simple (except eversince, which is passable).
>>121578602please dont lump RS in with newgencome on man... dont do this
>>121575056Best song desu
i still legit cannot believe that we're getting bladee lyricism like this in 2024. it definitely is a return in some ways, but he's coming back to his older sensibilities changed and more mature. he's dropping bars about how every rapper out now is his son because it's true, and it's obviously true. the evil drug addict intensity is even stronger now that he has like religious neuroses and he's actively chosen to fall back into pessimism and hate from "enlightenment". he's also referencing lyrics from all over his career, memes that he spawned, etc. it's his most self-aware album by a LOT. insane album and i had genuinely just stopped listening to new bladee a while back
>>121580963this verse is fucking ridiculous. harder than ever
>>121580963>he's actively chosen to fall back into pessimismNo he hasn't. He hates that shit and has a moment of clarity on Don't Do DrugzYou don't choose to fall back into depression. You're taking away the wrong lessons from this project imo.
>>121581110you're right, i didn't mean actively chosen. more just intending to emphasize that this feels like the opposite of "the light is brighter after the darkness", that after achieving some feeling of clarity falling back into depression and bad habits feels far more oppressive and that's manifested in the music. also just that the very dark headspace is where i'm at right now and it's cool that i can identify so much with this even if it's objectively not a good mindset to glorify
>>121581141Hope you get better we're in this together bro.
>>121575056GTB SLIDING IN THE HELLCAT BUMPING FROM FIRST TO LASTWHEN I DIE THEY GON MAKE A PARK BENCH SAYING THIS IS WHERE HE SATME AND YUNG SHERMAN GOING REHAB THIS SHIT IS VERY SADME AND YUNG SHERMAN VENICE BEACH MAN THIS SHIT IS VERY RADME AND YUNG SHERMAN AT THE GYM WORKING OUT AND GETTING TANNEDI NEVER WILL SEE YOU AGAIN AND I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND
>>121581167not even noon and i'm doing lines already but it's going to get better. i've always been sure of that
New Bladee interview with a photoshoothttps://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/bladees-drug-of-choice-is-godVery succint>He's watching Fist of the North StarBASED
Bladee is better when he's on drugs and fucked up 24/7, we need him to stay this way
>>121581329No.
>>121580978>make my way out the hole like Bane
>>121581295>Bladees drug of choice is GodDoubt.
>>121581788it's god and also weed, ketamine, kratom, cocaine, codeine, 2c-b, mdma, 25i, mephedrone, percocet, klonopin, the list goes on
>>121581141Loss and gain is a consistent subject across drain gang albums. Bladee going through a dark period is offset by the knowledge he has gained over the years. Like in 'Message To Myself', he is telling himself to stop being a bitch because the past has shown that he worked through the bad and excelled.
Anyone here also make music? I got interested in making music because of dg, I feel like it's the first truly productive and creative outlet and hobby I've had in my life, but I don't have any friends at all so I'm just making stuff by myself and not uploading anything anywhere.
Back 2 Life was pretty mid because Loesoe dropped the ball on production, but the ripsquad tracks save the album and True Love > The Kingdom > 3 Star Reunite > Mr. CEO are some of Thaiboy's best tracks and arguably the best 4 track run across any of his albums.What did you think about Back 2 Life? I still go back to those 4 tracks a lot.All the Way is also pretty great, and Alive is decent
>>121582399you should check out inspiration from 90s and 00s UK scene — jungle, garage, dnb, dub etc — for inspiration. Whitearmor was influenced by Burial and Enya early on.https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/121071361/#121071361
>>121582458I will check out that thread, thanks
>>121582432I like it a lot and the production overall is smooth and aesthetically pleasing imo. I think it's a coherent work.
>>121582399there are semi regular production threads on this board so look out for them or make one yourself. check the archives too. I guess there are discords for producers too but you'll have to hunt for them because I'm not a producer.
>>121582486I agree that it's coherent, but for me a lot of the slower songs are just pretty boring for me to listen to.
>>121581295>Would you like to go to space?>No
new bladee>>121584445
