Pusha T - Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude (Discussion Thread)

JulesWinfield

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This is great. Only song I wasn't immediately feeling was the Ab Liva joint. Not sure what was going on with those drums but it might grow on me. Everything else was dope.
 

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Also co-sign whoever said Beanie Sigel sounded like Ab-Liva at first. It wasn't until halfway through his verse that I recognized him. Crazy to hear how different his voice is now.
 

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Ab-Liva ain't the greatest rapper but can hold his own, I just wanna know why Push makes him rap on such awful beats all the time?

First Suicide on MNIMN now Got Em Covered. Re-Up Gang Motivation from Wraith was the only good beat.
What's the deal Push? :sadcam:
 

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Didn't read the thread before listening because wanted a pure first listen but wtf is up with these beats?

Beans killed it but the production is :scust:
 

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I am not feeling a lot of these tracks, and theres not enough of them to make it a project I really like...it's like 90% the production, Push needs that really dark, cinematic, eerie shyt....some of the Kanye influence is evident, these 'artistic' style beats....on 'Keep Dealing', which is by Nysheim Myrick, has that classic Bad Boy sound, you can hear BIG, Shyne, Nas on these type of tracks.....but Pusha kinda frustrates me sometimes, and he's one of my favorites, he spits too much of that glossy shyt on dark tracks....and I get it, he's showing off the luxurious side of that life, but 'keep Dealing' needed a grimy verse, not a Celine verse.

he needed to go bar for bar with Sigel, thats the kind of a verse that track demanded....
 
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This shyt's fukking awful. This man is near 40. What is he rapping about? Seriously wtf is he blabbing about? You all need Jesus and so does he
 
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The project is decent
I fukk with MPA
I seen the features on the track and thought to myself that they all sound the same rapping
Little did I know
 

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This project is a nice appetizer til "King Push" drops, i dont really have a problem with the production like most on here... I don't understand why MPA says featuring kanye when he only does background vocals for the hook... Beans sounds different but lyrically he still is a beast , liva was dope ...this should've had lunch money as a bonus track...
 

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Whoever said this sounded like a Clipse album minus Malice hit the nail on the head

Production ruined this project for me, not that the beats were trash, but too experimental.

It's cool to hold me over until King Push but this should've been a mixtape
 

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This is fire, Push ate every verse. The Beans joint is crazy, so good to hear him rapping again. The Kanye joint is dope as well, reminder me of some classic Ye on that hook.

MFTR is probably still the highlight, Dream killed it.
 

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Anybody find it odd ''MFTR'' is produced by Boi-1da
and Pusha took shots at Drake on the song?
 
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