Soooo I'm at work right... I walk into the back part of the restaurant I serve tables for and instead of hearing dishes flying all over the place I hear these FIRE ass beats. I start bobbing my head as I get closer and really hear the music.... One of the dudes washing dishes is obviously listening to the music too so I ask him "Yo what is this?"
SIDE NOTE: I ask questions because thats what the fuck I've been taught to do in my twelve plus years of acquiring knowledge in todays sorry ass education system.
TURNS OUT one of the dish washers my age, dude I've only said whats up to a couple times is the producer behind the beats. If I didn't make that clear, thats what they were listening to in the back of a restaurant... straight beats no vocals. MY MIND WAS BLOWN just evidence that there are talented musicians everywhere when the art being produced is a representation of one self.
Did Travis Scott give the world a release date? Guess we'll find out then.
Where the fuck is 3500? The cover art has me thinking its going to have me feeling the same way I felt the first time I heard Don'r Play or Uptown
some interesting things to see here on the single's cover
It looks as if this picture is very closely related to that of the cover of Days Before Rodeo, Travis Scott's most recent project
no shirt, and the obvious addition of the moon in both hmmmm kind of makes it seem like the cover for Days Before Rodeo was literally taken days before the Rodeo.
"we make up when the sun goes down"
Well it looks as if Rodeo is on the way and the most official source for the project is going to be his website. Not on a Childish Gambino level but it is definitely cool.
The main theme of the site is this compilation of pictures from his tour with the statement " Did you survive the rodeo ?" never leaving the frame..... if you do not know what that means you obviously didn't catch a show on his last tour.
LA FLAME
one of my homies told me Travis has been ghost riding for Kanye... completely obvious? or completely false? who cares the music is great
it's not that theres beef within odd future just dissatisfaction with the image... or maybe dissatisfaction with the common image of the fan. It does seem as if with features like DA$H he is trying to move away from the standard Odd Future fan, maybe thats why all the features seem like an "intrusion." thats what i read another blog call em..... LOOK i don't even know what im saying.
I DON'T LIKE SHIT, I DON'T GO OUTSIDE is fucking great and guess what CHERRY BOMB is pretty fucking great too so who gives a damn.
This is what happens when Ian Connor comes to your city....
Day 1
the first day started off with one simple flier tweeted out by Ian
so we start at the venue, East Down Warehouse... the only venue in Houston allowing artists like Carti and Maxo to perform for their audience by providing a location suitable to house this young anti culture.
Playboy Carti was headlining but there were rumors of Maxo Kream making an appearance until news broke that he was in..... trouble.
Lil Family of Kream did make an appearance.... SOLD OUT
Playboi Carti walked to the stage and it seemed as if everyone was beyond anxious to see what was going to happen next..... the stage had cleared which was odd for a show as such but the stage was set for what I think was the first headlining show of Carti's career.
Of course the dweebs that pull out their phones went into their recording trance but the show was happening people were bobbing their heads and yelling the lyrics they knew
...HERES WHERE THINGS GET INTERESTING...
The entire first half of the show Ian Connor was locked in on Carti and his every move, at one point Ian even pulled Carti aside and obviously critiqued whatever it was Ian had not liked..... I interpreted it as him just learning from the show but I was wrong!
... after the show I walked out the side exit to avoid the crowd intently following Ian to end up running into him.
I pointed out that I could tell he was focused and learning from what it was Carti was doing... he replied "Learning? I know everything, I've been on 8 tours. I'm just trying to teach my lil nigga" it was then that I decided to remember he had spent the entire last summer on tour with wiz and his brothers happen to be A$AP MOB.
It was then that I realized I didn't just watch an aspiring new artist but something far more revolutionary and new.
Day 2
i wasn't going to do shit with my day until I saw this tweet the afternoon after the concert
The boutique, Shalon & Rogers, is merchandised by Ian and located in the infamous SWAT.
I had the opportunity to attend the soft opening of the store were I pretty much just got to kick it with Maxo, Carti, and DA$H and really anyone else in Houston with any culture in their body.
This event was similar except double the people and add about 40 lames on a mission to get their next IG pic.
Off top it was a "party" so I attended pretty far from sober and only distanced myself from sobriety during the time I was there. Really did think it was a cool atmosphere, at its prime it wasn't a party but a simple network of people that all share the same interests.
I don't know if Ian Connor put on the event to direct attention to the store..... or to give the youth that support him the opportunity to meet, work together and further build the culture.
I know I have personally met some good like minded friends and can already see the culture building beyond its original boundaries; if there were ever any to begin with.
no light taken from the musician here though Playboi Carti
CHECK OUT THIS MINUTE LONG RECAP VIDEO I MADE OF BOTH DAYS!
I don't like shit, I don't go outside may be my favorite album of 2015. Sprinkled with the addition of Solace, Earl broke down my expectations of his 2k15 self and made me look utterly immature.
Here is a twitter rant from the man himself.
Pretty neat message from an individual of the youth.
