A-trak on Drake's 'IYRTITL. "It reminded me of Mobb Deep’s 'Hell on Earth."

[mobbinfms]

All this new druggy/dark/denonic sounding shyt with 808s and hi hats is from Three Six Mafia.

Which sounds nothing like HOE.

 

[Hardaway]

far too kind to slob deep

 

[H.S.]

Which songs sound like which songs? What are the similar elements used? Production techniques? Sample sources? Anything?

Can you really not hear the similarities between songs like "Energy" or "0-100" and "Extortion?" The tight, 2-second samples that barely sound like music? The crisp snares? The hard, almost boom-bap kicks? The repetition in the damn-near non-existent hooks?

 

[O.Red]

Gritty raps

Sounds like some cac shyt to say

EDIT: He IS white

 

[jebuz]

A-Trak is a white canadian jew.

does his opinion really matter?

 

[HARLEM AL]

LMAOOOO nikka

Yeah he better get all the way the fukk outta here

 

[HARLEM AL]

of course a bunch of bytch ass nikkas in there feelings gonna disagree with a-trak,

man if you nikkas don't produce please stfu because a-trak was very close with his description of both albums on a sonic level


i dislike drake with a passion but even i'm not gonna discredit the production on his album, that shyt was crisp and it's probably the only drake project i'll be fukkin with for a minute

Yeah you and him could get the fukk out of here lil nikka.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Last thing I was thinking about when I was listening to that Drake album was Hell On Earth. Explain the similarities.

I never thought about mob deep at all. But after thinking about it, and going back to listen to the production of it I can see some similarities in some of the production.
Maybe atrak was just listening to HOE and it was a quick reference to him. I dunno

But I'm just saying, production wise, I can see what he was try a say

 

[Maschine_Man]

 

[Piff Perkins]

The one thing that reminds me of Havoc and RZA is the downtempo/slowed down samples. But as I said their slowed down sample use is more like 36 Mafia or Houston/screw music than east coast shyt. Also Drake's producers tend to use 80s and 90s r&b/new jack samples, which they slow down and add synths to in order to create dark n very melodic beats. Whereas the east coast has largely been dominated by sped up 60s/70s soul samples.

I definitely like Drake's production. It's like mixing 36 Mafia with Timbaland.

 

[NvrCMyNut]

We're giving Drake props for him sharkin other nikkas sounds & getting other nikkas to lay down vocals on them now?

 

[FreddyCalhoun]

Interview: A-Trak On The Year In Music, Drake's Legacy & What's Coming In 2016


This guy is drunk

Mobb Deep

Spoiler

Drake And Future

Spoiler

Get ALL THE WAY the flcuk outta here....

 

[Harry B]

Drake is one of my favorite artists of today, top 3.
But that shyt was not it, like 3 dope songs that I can still play.
Obviously 6 Pm, the second half No telling, Know yourself and the intro.

 

[blizzard man]

Imma have to agree with him, its a very dark album for this era...the crispness of the drums on this is very havoc like... "Madonna" is so mobb deep wu like

u danced all night you deserve it

that song hella dark breh

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Yeah you and him could get the fukk out of here lil nikka.

fukk you dumb nikka, i bet you couldn't even tell me what a pentatonics scale is or what a triad is

also lil , son i'm 6'1 210 i could fukk your ass if you step me, bytch nikka