Skyzoo checks all the boxes as far as what I like to listen to. But I just can’t get into his music.
Skyzoo - All The Brilliant Things (Discussion Thread)
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NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Tall Black Guy is DUMB behind the boards.
I've been listening to him at work and the "Lo-Fi Hip-Hop" cacs usually are likeWho's that ?
Detroit shyt
Skyzoo has been sampling jazz and using live instrumentation on his albums for a minute, I don't get the TPAB reference. Sonically this fits alongside with the rest of Sky's music for the past 5-7 years.
''2020 vibes, I'm at the march tryna touch the sky//
But noticed that it takes a kill for us to come alive//
I got friends with mothers like Breonna Barksdale//
But we ain't crown Breonna Taylor til her heart failed//
Soft eyes will help you see it better//
Cause when you're all eyes it's harder to piece together.......''
But noticed that it takes a kill for us to come alive//
I got friends with mothers like Breonna Barksdale//
But we ain't crown Breonna Taylor til her heart failed//
Soft eyes will help you see it better//
Cause when you're all eyes it's harder to piece together.......''
Mikeatris
Supreme Mathematik
This is a hell of an album. As far as AOTY IDK yet. I have been playing the hell out of Dope Game Stupid like crazy. Both of these albums are about the same and that is a good thing. Need a break from the Griselda stuff, that is starting to get old now with the repetitive subject matter
Awesome Wells
The Bobby Womack of Crack
I'm kinda the same with his music.
He's dope, but still a little dry at the same time. Back in like '04, he was doing a lot of freestyles that had way more energy and wit. Then he had joints with Primo back then, that I thought were perfect. But he kinda stays in the same lane too much, for me. He's always made good music, but it's never been anything that's blown my mind. He's a quality MC, but if he stopped making music, I'm not sure many people would notice. It would be dope to see him take his shyt to the next level, creatively.
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NYK Loyalist
All Star
I’ve been a fan of him since the 9th Wonder project and this is one of his best. Free Jewelry, Culture Ish, Something to Believe In and I Was Supposed to be a Trap Rapper are probably my favorites but most of the album is fire. Sky has one of the best catalogs in the last 15 years
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
I'd be curious how you rank his albums.
I was running through the discography this week and forgot how much I liked Live From The Tape Deck. That was an interesting time, because Illmind (who produced all of it) hadn't stopped sampling entirely yet, but he was gradually moving away from sampling, and I think that album had a really cool blend of styles.
Going through the discography, I think the ones I enjoyed the most are Brilliant Things, Music For My Friends, Salvation, and Dream Deferred. I liked Great Debater and Retropolitan a lot too. I really wanted to love Retropolitan, but I think it's on the B-Tier instead of the A-Tier for me.
I never got really into Milestones or Bluest Note. I'll try again. And for some reason I never heard all of Easy Truth or Peddler Themes. I'm hopping on those today.
And I never loved Cloud 9. Which is weird because I love 9th Wonder. There's an album Skyzoo recorded all produced by 9th and Khrysis that he did about a year before Cloud 9, and I like that one more.
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
I think @aceboon is accurate on this.
Sky's been adding in a lot of live instrumentation for a while. I even remember him doing little bits of it as far back as Dream Deferred in 2012.
But definitely on In Celebration of Us (2018) and Brilliant Things (2021) it's on another level.
I don't think it's out of pocket for him though. He's been moving in this direction for a long time. He kind of reminds me of Black Milk in regards to how he's gradually introduced more and more live music into his production.
Cool Dr. Money
I’m Lil Jimmy but my boys call me J-Murder!
I’ve listened to it three times all the way through with no skips its fire
NYK Loyalist
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Man that’s really tough based on the amount of projects he has but off the top I got:
1) The Easy Truth
2) Salvation
3) Barrel Brothers
4) All The Brilliant Things
5) Theo Vs JJ
6) The Great Debater
7) A Dream Deferred
8) Music For My Friends
9) Retropolitan
10) In Celebration of Us
11) Peddler Themes
12) Live From The Deck
13) Cloud 9
That’s off the top of the head so if I really think about it I might change a couple but he has so many projects it’s hard. And that’s not even counting his Penny series, the Jazz series he did and a couple I probably forgot
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
That's a good list. I gotta think on mine.
I think it's pretty crazy that 9th Wonder and Pete Rock are about as good as it gets, and Illmind and Skyzoo have amazing chemistry, and yet the full albums that Sky did with all 3 of them are all in the lower end of his discography.
I noticed that Retropolitan, Tape Deck, and Cloud 9 are all in the bottom half of your list, and they're all in the bottom half of mine too. I do have Tape Deck over those other two, though.
I remember being real disappointed when Cloud 9 and Retropolitan dropped. Both are very hit and miss with me. There are a few songs on those that are some of my favorite songs of his, and others that I think are some of his worst. And literally everything about Retropolitan sounded perfect on paper (and even the lead single was fire), but the final product just didn't turn out that way.