Albums Reason - There You Have It [Stream x Discussion Thread]

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This might be their weakest signing since Lance Skiiwalker on first listen :\.

They don't need any more signees they need to just push the artist they already have way harder. SiR and Rashad need and deserve better

Agreed esp on SIR. His last releases have been fire but he barely gets promotion at all. I'd like to see him collab with H.E.R.

Lances album wasnt total garbage but he's just a weaker, not as good version of SIR so why bother?
 

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TDE don't sign wack artists, I'm sure he got that work. He raps like a less ratchet Tee Grizzley in that song.

I just hope they don't sweep him under the rug like Isiah Rashad and SiR (both got some good stuff)
Lance Skiiwalker is trash, so your theory is false. Thinking he got signed for his writing and behind the scenes shyt cause I haven't heard 1 song of his that I said, "hey let me go back listen to that"

This Reason dude sounds ok from the song they shared. Nothing special honestly.
 

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What happened to that Kembe X cat

Also i think Ab Soul bout to get bushed soon
He wasn't signed to TDE was he? He does have some piff music, but I never thought he was on with them
 

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Agreed esp on SIR. His last releases have been fire but he barely gets promotion at all. I'd like to see him collab with H.E.R.

Lances album wasnt total garbage but he's just a weaker, not as good version of SIR so why bother?
SiR is dope, and he was dope before the TDE affiliation.

I think the best for him would be to really cultivate that soul fanbase and start touring with artists in that lane... that way he can scoop up new fans. He's surprisingly good live... I wasn't expecting to be impressed by his live performance, but I caught him at the Championship Tour and he sounded good. But that really wasn't the ideal concert crowd for him. It would have been a better look if he was on that tour that 6lack, H.E.R. were on that Chris Brown was headlining
 
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How so? When he came out he was droppin some dope shyt that never got promoted at all, his projects never got any push, and then the last album he made he barely got any cosigns. He doesn't have a modern radio sound but he could've carved out a lane if he was given the platform IMO. Rashad isn't featured on any of the original 4 Black Hippy member's albums. Even Punch and Lance Ski get more burn than him. I guess he was featured on SZA album, but thots aren't his demographic anyway.

he has been on 90059, These Days... off the top off my memory. but to your point all of black hippy never got any "push" until years later with the interscope deal. He's not better than anybody on TDE so he shouldn't automatically get on a song just because he is there especially when they can get anybody else they want lol

Between cilvia and sun's tirade he was a barred out alcoholic, by his own admission. hard to blame people for not investing in someone in a downward spiral.

i dont think top gives a DAMN about their personal choices like that, its business and they've done a lot for him. Q was a lean addict (he used to do shytty live performance so it was effecting him somehow) and is still a pot head, soulo is a druggie, etc. he just hasnt put out what it takes to get whatever kind of attention you guys think he is missing. personally, i think he is doing good. everybody that knows him thinks he is dope and he had a pretty decent sized sold out tour last year. all of it thanks to tde otherwise he would be tut/maxo kream status :yeshrug:
 
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anybody watch mackwop tv? lol, he be giving the inside insight, the back stage pass and all that fly ish. his thoughts on the signing:

 

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Bars were nice but he does sound way too much like Tee Grizzley. If he can grow some more and find his own flow, he'll be in a good position.

Because the writing wasn't trash.
 

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i dont think top gives a DAMN about their personal choices like that, its business and they've done a lot for him. Q was a lean addict (he used to do shytty live performance so it was effecting him somehow) and is still a pot head, soulo is a druggie, etc. he just hasnt put out what it takes to get whatever kind of attention you guys think he is missing. personally, i think he is doing good. everybody that knows him thinks he is dope and he had a pretty decent sized sold out tour last year. all of it thanks to tde otherwise he would be tut/maxo kream status :yeshrug:

Honestly I think he’s doing pretty well too. Not everyone needs to be or can be Kendrick / Drake level of popular.

But, idk if you’ve ever met someone bottoming out on xanax and alcohol or not but it’s not like that other shyt. You can be a functioning oxy addict if you have a connect and money. And doing to much 2C-B or whatever ab soul was into is not as self destructive. The worst downward spirals I’ve seen involved alcohol and benzo abuse. It fukks your mind way way up and is literally harder to quit than anything, including heroin. Idk how bad he was but he’s lucky to have a career at all.
 

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I don't feel like TDE capitalized on this year as much as they should have. I get rewarding Jay Rock for being the first signee and trying to capitalize off King's Dead but man...they basically let the summer pass without a project or even a song from their hotter artists. DAMN and the Black Panther project were huge...I feel like Q should have gotten the release this summer instead of Jay Rock. Then do Rashad in September, and Jay Rock in November.
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