Honestly, it's not even the best context to JUDGE in. You're with your friends. The music is just propping up a vibe, or maybe there are songs you bond over... but the focus is on what's happening with you and your friends, not the music. Some of the best songs ever will never get the aux because they aren't made to be socialized over and require more attention and emotional investment, meaning they will clash with the interactions people are trying to have lol Another crappy side of that idea... is the best music the music your friends will like/tolerate/not make fun of? Or is it the stuff that most resonates with a person? I dunno... to me it seems shallow to grade music by how much it will be enjoyed in a social setting. Some of the best music for that is simple, accessible, and repetitive. Nothing wrong with any of that, but deep, it is not. True art and creativity defy reality with things previously not experienced, that is why we put it high up on that pedestal - it essentially does the impossible, albeit briefly. We taste something akin to our very concept of godliness when we produce and experience art. And we set aside other things to acknowledge that... the beauty of something REALLY good transcends even social norms, starts a new trend in ideas in the process of upsetting others. Sometimes to create one thing is to destroy another - breathe its very air away with the power of a stronger concept. Whereas the stuff you play in the car with friends has the opposite experience in mind, something familiar and comfortable, only treading enough new ground to feel fresh. I mean... I'm pretty sure people don't usually bump Mozart on the way to the club with the homies, but does that make him a skip? Not worth considering at all? Worth noting here, Mozart was a rebel - he really sought to topple hierarchies both in his music itself and his work IN music. And it seems to me that a lot of the music that passes the aux test today owes that to him and people like him, who weren't afraid of displeasing the 'normies' of their times in order to produce and propel the works that would become the framework for nearly all western music. Jeez man... it's almost like everything good comes from taking risks with things people might not understand yet! Who knew that was a core part of what all art has been about? Consider that there was a time in human history where certain chord and note combinations were straight up forbidden to even play because people were scared of how they sounded. It was an experience they weren't ready for, while the same dissonance is championed today - using it effectively is considered a high compositional skill. Create - to bring into existence. As in... it doesn't exist until it is created. The best art is a painting you haven't seen yet, a song unlike those you've heard so far. That's precipice of good shit. The stuff you bump with the homies is borrowing from what sat on that precipice 5 years before. It never actually goes to the precipice itself, because it explicitly does not want people outside of their comfort zones. What it wants is not to elevate an idea to a point of transcendence, but rather to provide maximum enjoyment to the maximum number of people. Which again, isn't inherently bad, but it does limit the bar in terms of artistic expression. The two goals sit at direct odds with one another. The bar on ideas expressed has to be a lot lower to accommodate a room full of people - things that elevate it to new levels of expression will have to be excluded in order to facilitate that accessibility.
Mannnn, Kanye West by Young Thug is so underrated I get why people don't like the lyrical content as it's one of the most repetitive songs Thug has ever made, but the song itself sonically is fantastic. One of his best vocal performances.
Madvillainy is one album I can listen to front to back any day of the week. I agree with Be, it is a flawless album. Like Water for Chocolate is almost there too in my opinion. The Money Store also has no skips, perfect album
love that you guys talked about Be by Common, no skips forsure. Some of J Dillas and Kanyes best beats are on that album. Also Reasonable doubt is no skips for me too my favorite Hov album.
Major respect for speaking on Psychodrama. UK Rap is criminally underrated and it has so many good qualities about it. Heavy is the Head by Stormzy is another UK Rap album I'd say has no skips for me. Anyways, keep up the great content guys! Your podcast is phenomenal.
ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP Kendrick Lamar - DAMN Benny The Butcher - TANA TALK 3 OFFSET x 21 Savage - Without Warning Young Thug - JEFFERY Future - DS2 Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap These projects I can listen to front to back, no skips
It's still got a few skips for me, the Kodak inclusion doesn't help and it's definitely his worst album in terms of replayability at least, as well as his 2nd worst project overall in my opinion at least
disagree,I listen to this project recently.Honestly,I really enjoyed it and the Eminem accents don't really bother me as a lot of other people.The only songs I skip would be Must Be Ganja(cause it's a boring song to me)and Underground where it sounds like the beat(that in my opinion is a horrible beat)didn't match Eminem's rapping.Also Eminem on that song sounded so off-beat that is too messy.
Here are some modern rap albums that i think have no skips: TPAB Kids See Ghosts Good Kid MAAD City Daytona Run the Jewels 2 & 3 Great Hits by Shredders (hella underrated btw) Under Pressure Magic by Nas Jenny Death by Death Grips We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service by Tribe Called Quest R.A.P. Music by Killer Mike Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples
@@NFRPodcast u should do sonder son by brent faiyaz, or maybe ignorance is bliss by skepta. even blonde by frank should get some recognition as every song on blonde is a solid 10
14:37 hard piano is one of the best songs on daytona ngl. the menacing piano and background vocals perfectly sets up push and rick ross to have some of the most memorable lines on this entire album if not push's whole solo career
Mr Morale will always be an album where i listen to either the whole thing or none of it. It's all so interconnected. It feels like im doing the album a disservice and disrespecting Kendricks intent if I rank tracks like I would on any other album.
@@NFRPodcast of course! Y’all constantly provide us with great content, I can’t believe I’ve been following you guys for over a year now! Y’all have upped your game so much, and it’s great to see!
I never skip songs when listening to an album. If I can't handle listening to it all the way through I won't listen to it. I tend to just pay less attention during my least favorite tracks or I will just add my favorite tracks to a playlist. I never put on an album and start skipping songs that's just weird.
as a first listen of course but with repeated listens there's nothing wrong with skipping something, it doesn't mean you won't ever listen to the whole thing
@@coleintheville117 Yeah but skipping a song has a lot of disadvantages. First of all, if you skip a song on your second listen you won't know if you like it more on multiple listens, wich is the case with most songs. Second of all it takes away from the full album experience, especially if it's a concept album (like most Kendrick projects). I personally only skip songs if I heavily disagree with the lyrical content or if I still don't like it at all after multiple listens. Edit: and I'm not saying skipping is illegal or something lol, I do it all the time if I play an album in the backround while gaming, but I'm just saying when I sit down and listen to an album I don't go out of my way to skip something
@@nah8780 obviously when you want to have the album experience you listen to the whole thing, you don't skip a song while still expecting to get the full album experience that's something that you willingly sacrifice when skipping a song, if you plan on skipping you weren't gonna listen to the whole thing anyway, by what OP said you can't listen to an album on your way to work and skip to a favorite cuz you won't get to listen to the full thing. When you want to consume the album as a piece of media and experience it as it was intended you sit down, fully focus on it and listen to the whole thing, but these listens take mental effort and time, one of the biggest advantages of music is that it can be enjoyed in many settings, unlike other pieces of media, (where you have to dedicate yourself to consuming it) in most settings you can't dedicate time and mental effort for a full listen, that's just life, if you never listen to music that way you're just robbing yourself of music.
I just want ya’ll to know that only having 2 for Lu & 1 for Ant (sorry if I got the names mixed up) skips on an 18 track album on MMATBS, is pretty damn impressive. I agree with you guys. I would skip We Cry Together now going through the track list multiple times. But I do enjoy “Purple Hearts” & “Auntie Diaries” still as well. Album is still heavy in my rotation & still a top 3 Kendrick album for me.
@@ryankubinski8789 in my opinion mr morale is flawless 10/10 and and the big steppers side is amazing apart from Purple Hearts. If the song was on the album it would be my number 2 Kendrick album ahead of good kid
Purple Hearts is one of the best tracks… also We cry together is not a skip, just because there’s one scenario you would skip it in doesn’t mean it’s a skip song
@@bnc420 yeah of course, I’m saying that’s very different than it being a “skip”. If it were a “skip” there would be no mood you could be in where you truly thoroughly enjoy it
Kanye West is by FAR mt favorite song on Jeffery, the production is FANTASTIC. Listening to it in the car or on a nice pair of headphones is unbeaten. The bass is so bouncy and everything just works so well.
Auntie Diaries is a hard song to listen to a lot, but for me it really isn't a skip, or the album as a whole (besides Mother I Sober) because of the production and beats.
Really interesting take on the albums, definitely makes me want to look some up as well as revisit others. Why are some artists' worst albums here (Eminem - Relapse) whereas some artists' best albums are here (Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt)? Is it meant to be a random assortment? Wonder what you would say about a classic Eminem album for example (Slim Shady LP, MMLP)
I think it's just a fun collection of albums. It's a nice variety and I noticed a lot of these albums are less talked about than some of the super obvious picks e.g. picking ye instead of like graduation and seeing common on here
Nah, 21 Savage on that track was listening to a cat scratch the walls on repeat, it's unlistenable with his trash autotune. Even from 2:19 to 2:32 on that song is some of the worst singing you'll ever hear from a rapper...
Damn, I’m one of the biggest Dave fans and I still skip Purple Heart off Psychodrama, I wasn’t expecting you to rate it so highly. Dave is going to be making big waves in America soon also I think because he’s been seen hanging out with Tyler, Kendrick, and Jack Harlow, and Megan The Stallion is after making a few IG posts with Dave’s music in the background or in captions lately. I hope he has a big album that blows him up like BBTM by The Weeknd because the talent is definitely there and he’s one of the biggest artists in the Uk for areason
Very few albums genuinely have no skips, even GKMC has skips. The only Kendrick album that doesn’t is TPAB, and every Kanye album has skips mainly because there are so many songs on a lot of them.
The worst take I've heard from this channel is them saying Mixtape, Same Drugs AND Smoke Break are skips. Same Drugs is beautiful and driving around in the summer listening to smoke break is just a vibe bruh
"That's a bad take, man" as a reaction to not liking the hook on We made you is the only acceptable response to such an outrageous statement. That hook is so good wtf man
I feel like it’s difficult to determine what songs are skips considering that you may listen to certain albums in different contexts like Luca said about We Cry Together
I feel like a skip should only be considered when listening to the album as a whole. Everyone would skip We Cry Together if it came on like a playlist but in the album I listen to it and every other song on the album.
@@AmiriHipHop oh shit wussup amiri And like yeah they are different, but that doesnt change the fact that a&t is one of the worst 21 songs he has made and ball w/o you is one of his best
Y’all seem to be misunderstanding what a skip is. It’s not a skip if you don’t revisit it on its own. A skip is a track that, on a front-to-back listen of the album, you will skip. The whole “bumping in the car” analogy doesn’t work for determining skips.
juke jam and smoke break are great tracks n I have tbh I got chance making one of the biggest comebacks in hip hop history especially after how good the high and the lows is
Thats actually true The off season has no skips in my opinion. Some tracks i dont Care that much for, but they are all listenable to the point that i Can atleast enjoy some of it.
For me, a lot of ye projects are nice and cohesive with very few if any skips (other than donda lol). The eminem show is almost perfect but I just dont fuck with drips. New denzel is no skips for me, as well as taboo. Also black album from jay - that, reasonable dount and 4:44 are constantly up there for my top jay album
Frank ocean - All projects ( not even a single skip) Tyler the creator - IGOR Danny brown - Atrocity Exhibition Earl Sweatshirt- Some Rap Songs Future - Saba - Care for me Travis Scott - rodeo Playboi Carti - whole lotta red, Die Lit
- Mr Morale: Crown, Worldwide Steppers, Auntie Diaries - ye: none - The Off-Season: 100 mil - SFTSAFTM: Mood Swings, Diana - ROTO 3: Sunset, Got Me, Sacrifices. - Relapse: Underground, Hello - NAV: All of them, wtf 😂 - I am > I was: break the law, a&t, out for the night, asmr, ball w/o you, good day.
@@NFRPodcast that’s one of the toughest questions for me, but I gotta go Sacrifices that song is a masterpiece. Every feature on that song is unbelievable. But it’s close between that and PTSD for me personally🔥
