Sep 2, 2015

@WPG you need to get on this guy's level of Trav hate
http://www.stereogum.com/1828174/st...?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign

 

Sep 2, 2015

how is that hate? seems like a fair reading of rodeo to me

 

Sep 2, 2015

Calling Rodeo bs seems like he hates it, to me.

 

Sep 2, 2015

well yeah he dislikes the album and pointed out why, i thought u meant the writer was a travis "hater" or something. as in hes shi--ing on scott for no reason

 

Sep 2, 2015

you can't call people "haters" if they give reasoned arguments for their positions. i don't generally love breihan but that's a fair review.

 

Sep 3, 2015

the thing that kills that for me is that so much of game's appeal was staked on regionalism

 

Sep 3, 2015

i disagree, but even if that were the case, it would make them dissimilar in how they're presented to the public. travis is being pushed as an auteur; i think a closer analogue would be someone like rocky, where the variable is their respective abilities to mimic other styles

 

Sep 3, 2015

The comments are funnier than the article.

 

Sep 3, 2015

Does it seriously bother people when someone isn't the first to do something?

Like, I'm not even defending Travis here, I truly do not see what doing something thats already been done but with a slight twist is unnapealing. I see the appeal in originality, but not the distaste at the opposite

 

Sep 3, 2015

I'm legit asking if my thought process is flawed and if so how

 

Sep 3, 2015

You need to have your own voice. Travis doesn't. He's a few recycled lyrics away from being a cover band.

 

Sep 3, 2015

:Kool::Kool::Kool:
f---ing Charizard

 

Sep 3, 2015

Question for you, @Narsh, @BigCountry, etc

Can you find me a song that sounds exactly like, say, pornography?

If he's as hardcore of a biter as yall say it shouldn't be hard.

I asking because while I understand the components that make Travis Scott are derived from other artists, the end product is something I like that I don't quite hear in that form from any other musician. If there's more music like rodeo that's just as good or better than Travis than please show me because I haven't found s---

 

Sep 3, 2015

When you listen to a song 200+times in a single sitting you get bored of hearing the same thing over and over.
Same goes with rappers who "bite", we've heard the same before from an artist already, so we're bored before their career even begins.

 

Sep 3, 2015

I remember you once brought up the question of what regional sound Clipse belonged to and their example fully applies to this question. But it does still makes me appreciate more how mixtapes have always turned out to be vital in opening doors for so many great acts; from G-Unit to Wayne to Kendrick Lamar amongst countless examples.

 

Sep 3, 2015

Ok so then tell me what rapper has made a song like pornnography, or oh my (because I acknowledge dis side is drake karaoke from both quavo and Travis)

 

Sep 3, 2015

I would go so far as to say with exclusion of dis side and antidote, which are clearly jacking other's styles, every single song stands on its own and doesn't have a clear origin. Just because for 5 seconds he sounds like thug on i can tell or something of that nature, it doesn't excuse the fact that the entire song, sonically, hasn't been done before in its form. Travis DOES have his own sound, it's dark niche 1dagirl production and cheery xx era tracks like the toro Y Moi aided flying high. It's decent raps spit at a growl and singing that sounds unique but threatens to veer to closely to Cudi or future at times (see oh my and I can tell, again)