Draw Down is one of the best songs of the year to me. It shows what a crazy, complex, genius of a dude he is. This guy made the catchiest 14-16 bar hook i've ever heard.
For one.. the title.. Draw Down doesn't mean anything to me. It took me a while to figure he was saying "i'm a pull a draw down on all of them"... which in itself is an abstract way of saying i'm going to point a loaded gun at you.
Then.. the hook alone.. is like 14-16 bars of raps. THE HOOK IS 14 BARS MINIMUM. It's split into I guess 3 sections, of about 5 bars. The first is the most catchy, the second is a chant (i'm a pull a draw down on all them), the 3rd is hypnotic rhymes that works brilliantly with the earlier part. Oh and he starts the hook as soon as the song drops. He starts singing in the background halfway through the hook and the beat changes a bit too. The first time hearing this you literally have no time to understand what's going on. The first verse hasn't started, in 1 hook he's given us 3 flows/melodies and said "nikka you might be swept by my sword" LOL. That's some poetic shyt to say in a hook. AGain, it's like 14 bars but it doesn't feel like it.
Verse 1:
The beat settles down again and he's onto the 4th flow of the song.. this time he's shouting and super clear to understand. After the shouting, the beat actually ramps up again (like the drop at the start) he switches seamlessly into the singing, which contains two melodies working together. So he's shouting when it's smooth, then singing when it's a harder beat. When the beat is open he attacks it with the shouting flow, when it fights back with the 808's and bass.. he rides it smoothly with the singing flow. That must be on purpose right?
And then from there.... he's pretty much rapping in another flow that's unlike the previous 2... but... feels more like free expression rather than a specific flow. No cadence or flow after that sticks fro more than a rhyming couplet or at a push 3. So it's like... shouting... singing.... off the cuff stuff towards the end.
Like... how do you plan to write that? Do you even plan it? If you don't plan it, how can a mind be so sick to come up with that? I don't know.. so.. despite being explicit and sexually grotesque it ends up sounding like Thugger has unlocked some kinda spiritual rapping flows to stick this all together seamlessly and effortlessly. It doesn't sound like he's trying but when you think about it... it's fukking nuts. The beat and Thug switch gears throughout the song. Seamless.
Then we back to that 14-16 bar hook. LOL.
This is a trap rapper called Young Thug, making a song loosely about pulling guns on people. It's complex but people will dead ass look you in the face and dismiss it's creativity and originality.
For one.. the title.. Draw Down doesn't mean anything to me. It took me a while to figure he was saying "i'm a pull a draw down on all of them"... which in itself is an abstract way of saying i'm going to point a loaded gun at you.
Then.. the hook alone.. is like 14-16 bars of raps. THE HOOK IS 14 BARS MINIMUM. It's split into I guess 3 sections, of about 5 bars. The first is the most catchy, the second is a chant (i'm a pull a draw down on all them), the 3rd is hypnotic rhymes that works brilliantly with the earlier part. Oh and he starts the hook as soon as the song drops. He starts singing in the background halfway through the hook and the beat changes a bit too. The first time hearing this you literally have no time to understand what's going on. The first verse hasn't started, in 1 hook he's given us 3 flows/melodies and said "nikka you might be swept by my sword" LOL. That's some poetic shyt to say in a hook. AGain, it's like 14 bars but it doesn't feel like it.
Verse 1:
The beat settles down again and he's onto the 4th flow of the song.. this time he's shouting and super clear to understand. After the shouting, the beat actually ramps up again (like the drop at the start) he switches seamlessly into the singing, which contains two melodies working together. So he's shouting when it's smooth, then singing when it's a harder beat. When the beat is open he attacks it with the shouting flow, when it fights back with the 808's and bass.. he rides it smoothly with the singing flow. That must be on purpose right?
And then from there.... he's pretty much rapping in another flow that's unlike the previous 2... but... feels more like free expression rather than a specific flow. No cadence or flow after that sticks fro more than a rhyming couplet or at a push 3. So it's like... shouting... singing.... off the cuff stuff towards the end.
Like... how do you plan to write that? Do you even plan it? If you don't plan it, how can a mind be so sick to come up with that? I don't know.. so.. despite being explicit and sexually grotesque it ends up sounding like Thugger has unlocked some kinda spiritual rapping flows to stick this all together seamlessly and effortlessly. It doesn't sound like he's trying but when you think about it... it's fukking nuts. The beat and Thug switch gears throughout the song. Seamless.
Then we back to that 14-16 bar hook. LOL.
This is a trap rapper called Young Thug, making a song loosely about pulling guns on people. It's complex but people will dead ass look you in the face and dismiss it's creativity and originality.
