Weekly Music Dosage #1

'Black Mass' - Travis Scott    La Flame the successful 'Rodeo' rapper has been teasing his new album 'Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight' for a while now,  it has kept being pushed back because of the mixing done on it by producers such as Mike Dean. The fans are still very hyped for the album because the new song with Young Thug and Quavo entitled 'Pick Up The Phone' was great and his production is still great. Travis Scott has three types of songs, the first type are druggy, deeply produced epics like '90210' and 'Drugs, You Should Try It' that brought him fame for being different and fun to listen to. He also has songs like 'The Prayer', and 'Mamacita' where Scott demonstrates that he still has enough bars to make a whole song without his druggy melodies. The third is a combination of both on songs like 'A-Team' and his breakout hit 'Antidote'. This song is definitely one of his rap-heavy songs, one verse where he talks about his lifestyle and how he stays away from the limelight while in his love life. The most interesting bar in this song is this one-

'Never asking questions
Never giving answers
That's the code, that's the code, to the masses
Black bastards, black masses'

In history African-Americans were treated poorly by the white men and their questions were thought of as not worthy of replies and their answers to their questions were treated as meaningless. Through the rule the white men made, their thoughts and ideas were meaningless. He relates this rule to how the perception of young African-Americans is skewed to the masses, where they are not always taken seriously with their ideas because of the stereotyping associated with them. 

     The production has a trumpet beat along with some percussion and it resembles the beat of his song 'A-Team'. This is essentially a one verse song, that may be a preview of a full song that may appear on the new album. I've been listening to a lot of Travis Scott lately and his fans and I are craving for some new music.

'Where Did I go Wrong' - Lil Yachty
    Lil Yachty's close friend and collaborator Digital Nas had some old tracks he did with the now huge rapper Lil Yachty laying around, and rather than scrap them he released them, and in the 4 tracks he dropped, this gem emerged. A nice 8 Bit-esque piano riff carries the track along with simple hi-hat for Yachty to pace himself on. Lil Yachty sings softly at the end of his verses, which keeps you tuned in because the beat changes whenever he sings and whenever he raps. The nostalgia it brings through his harmonies at the end of his verses and the production are still fresh one year later.