Albums Joey Bada$$ - All-AmeriKKKan BadA$$ (Discussion Thread)

[g-ice]

It's definitely not boom Bap. The song before it sounds like it has the Juicy drums.
How would you characterize it then?

Holy shyt, I as started focusing on the production only it is a trap beat to an extent.

Maybe it's the fact that he's not rapping like a trap artist on it that makes it sound different.

 

[mobbinfms]

Holy shyt, I as started focusing on the production only it is a trap beat to an extent.

Maybe it's the fact that he's not rapping like a trap artist on it that makes it sound different.

Thanks Breh. Thought I was going crazy. Hearing trap beats when they weren't there

 

[Menelik II]

shyt was softer than i thought it was going to be. that first half was like some rnb album.

It got harder half way through and actually got to spitting. the tracks with the features were the strongest . Styles laced him

 

[mobbinfms]

shyt was softer than i thought it was going to be. that first half was like some rnb album.

It got harder half way through and actually got to spitting. the tracks with the features were the strongest . Styles laced him

The first four songs can definitely be called soft. But I think they are just upbeat feel good songs. All those beats are nice too.

 

[Menelik II]

The first four songs can definitely be called soft. But I think they are just upbeat feel good songs. All those beats are nice too.

i think hes trying to dodge the boom bap stigma he has, and the current overdone trap wave. I can see his point, particularly about evading trap. However, he sounds best on harder minimal beats, these may be cool in their own right, but don't really suit him. At least he didn't sing on the album.

 

[mobbinfms]

i think hes trying to dodge the boom bap stigma he has, and the current overdone trap wave. I can see his point, particularly about evading trap. However, he sounds best on harder minimal beats, these may be cool in their own right, but don't really suit him. At least he didn't sing on the album.

I thought he was singing on the album? That's not him on Devastated?

 

[PaperEnterprise]

Really good album.

 

[Menelik II]

I thought he was singing on the album? That's not him on Devastated?

youre right

 

[mobbinfms]

youre right

I thought he was singing on one of the first four songs too? I could be wrong though.

 

[Big Mel]

Album sounding a bit too happy jack and light firstbinpression. Super Predator dope though.

 

[Zero]

he's definitely regressed on this album

I know this is his pro-black, "conscious" album but I find a lot of it to be really shallow. there's no real insight like say a dead prez or immortal technique. everything is surface level. and I'm not trying to say that he has to be really profound or anything, but positive messaging doesn't garner somebody a free pass no matter how much some people may want it to.



I used to like this dude a lot and would ride for him, but over the years you can kinda see what direction he was heading and I realize myself and a lot of others liked him because we felt "his heart was in the right place." if we gonna keep it a buck he's like maybe the third or fourth best rapper in Pro Era, listen to their Peep the Aprocalypse mixtape and tell me I'm wrong.



all in all, he and the crew as a whole have kinda gotten away from what made heads like myself like them in the first place, they've definitely kinda entered a phase where they're attempting to do what everybody else is doing, and at the end of the day it takes away what makes them stand out and by default you gotta lump them in with everybody else.




Joey just ain't rapping like he used to, or maybe I've just given him a pass for years because I liked the shyt he was on. come to think of it I can't really think of any quotables from him and my favorite song by him"Survival Tactics" I really like more because of Capital Steez


word to lyrical fajitas

dap+rep

came to the same conclusion a while back myself

 

[BigMan]

Devastated?
The song after it?

you have no idea what trap is just because something is not boom bap doesn't mean it's trap

 

[Medio]

Not bad, features were on point

 

[Canada Goose]

Just listened to the entire album, personal classic off the first listen


I always overlooked Badass and thought he was just some rapper but this album is dope.

 

[The War Report]