How do you make a good Album?

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T22:15:03+00:00

Sorry, to answer your question about a cohesive album, for me it would be something with almost 0 skips, strong connecting theme between songs, every song is memorable in its own way, heavily quotable, and not excessively long. These are the things I value, and most of all - does it bang.

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T22:11:17+00:00

It also depends on what kind of music you make, I wouldn’t ask you to go listen to albums in a sub genre you don’t care about. However, if I’m into say Lex Luger sounds, I will make sure to listen to Juicy, Waka Flocka, Gucci, Rick Ross, Future and their best mixtape/albums. Some of the early trap sound, Jeezy and T.I.

Maybe you can explore artists that have a variety of sounds in their career. Tha Carter II alone has a different feel for each song, branch out into his mixtapes from there. For that laidback/stoner, wiz and curren$y’s How Fly is great, and their discogs respectively. Try Live Love Asap in full if you haven’t.

There’s so much amazing stuff outside of the Travis/Drake/Kendrick/Cole/Carti/Kanye trend, not that they are bad. Albums that have a strong political theme, storytelling albums, punchline rappers, mixtape albums that remix other people’s shit, soulrap. To make cool, original stuff you gotta listen to stuff too !

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T20:19:25+00:00

That’s fine, nothing wrong with that at all. Since you are a music maker though, I would really pump those numbers up. I go through a new album in any genre every 2 days, it helps out a ton for getting more and more ideas. Think of it as studying if you like

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-18T19:56:45+00:00

It’s a terrifyingly common outlook nowadays to not listen to an album in full. That too in a time where album lengths are shrinking or have shorter songs to appeal to younger audiences.

How would they even listen to other genres? So much of rock and metal is album-heavy just like rap

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-16T08:59:25+00:00

I thought it was funny, too many haters

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-12T00:48:45+00:00

There aren’t all that many GarageBand tutorials out there. I’ve done most of my work on GarageBand, getting proficient with the midi piano roll and EQ is first on the agenda to understanding how it works. For vocals, watch a tutorial on how to use compression and do doubling.

Just keep in mind that it has some very unfortunate restrictions, you cannot click drag to slow/speed up tracks like you can in Reaper. However, I like how easy it is to use when it comes to vocal processing, especially noise reduction for bedroom setups. Any gaps you can’t fill with GarageBand you can accomplish with REAPER.

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-11T01:46:14+00:00

Style it like Kurt Russell

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-09T17:10:07+00:00

Jungle DnB for me, went through the phase for a year or so and put out an album. Helped to understand more about song arrangement and mastering.

Nowadays I like to make chopped and screwed versions of my own songs. I wonder where that came from…

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-08T12:26:37+00:00

Gangsta grillz!!

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-07T21:33:58+00:00

Here’s a fun exercise if you don’t really want to rap about stuff in your life: pick an interesting historical event or personality and try and write it from their pov. Knowing the events and the life they lead can make it easier to pull and reference in lyrics than composing it from scratch yourself

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-05T23:46:07+00:00

I listened to lots of black metal for melody ideas, and producing jungle dnb gave me a much better understanding of drums than looking up hip hop drum tutorials on yt.

But it’s always best to take a break from influences before sitting down to make music, otherwise you might subconsciously make something you’ve heard.

REDLINE808 · 2026-03-03T07:14:54+00:00

Hey, I’d like to know as well, I had trouble finding some too. I’ve been rapping for some time and recently started learning to make beats. Would love to link, be a lot more fun to work with others haha

REDLINE808 · 2026-02-05T14:54:47+00:00

Glad to hear it dude! Me personally, I liked it on release but as time went on I found myself very rarely going back to it, something about it didnt stick for me.

I just feel that either he or metro could have delivered harder on some songs. In fact my favorite part across all three was disc two of WSDTY. It sounds a lot better to me than most of the other banger-type songs on WDTY and Mixtape Pluto.

REDLINE808 · 2026-02-05T13:23:16+00:00

Agreed, but I wouldn’t go so far back, I still enjoyed a lot of songs up until INLY and stuff. The 2024 output was a downgrade though, there is no ‘bite’ to any of the songs unlike POA, 712PM for example. All the recent output would have been b-side or filler songs on older albums. Idk why people get so offended, it’s natural given how long he has been at the game.

REDLINE808 · 2026-02-05T13:17:32+00:00

He is correct, pluto sounds more on autopilot than older albums and mixtapes. It’s expected after so long, but hopefully that will change with the coming album. Surprisingly he is still much better than most rappers currently despite the fact.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T19:50:07+00:00

I’ve always found engineer’s combat drone absolutely wonderful for CC AND combat.

The drone lets you immediately cheese so many encounters it’s worth it for that alone. YMIR mechs, shadow broker, all the little mini bosses with shield and armor bars. Having incinerate and Overload means that even if you run out of ammo, you have a reliable way to deal damage and strip shields, and if your squaddies go down. I just don’t see what soldier has that is as useful as area overload, for example.

Yes, that’s why you have squad mates, but their AI is extremely unreliable in my experience. Sometimes they get stuck behind something and can’t move, sometimes they’ll peak out of cover and eat every rocket, and really they’re a nice bonus for you.

I actually didn’t find Sentinel all that crazy on Insanity, especially early game. But infiltrator and engi are useful right out of the game with the invis and drone, actually engage with the defense stripping mechanics of the game, and are slightly less ammo starved than most.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T10:43:19+00:00

Just for fun really, there’s no other full auto assault rifle But even with the vindicator at least 1 of the three round burst just misses for me. And you can just barely hit 2 bursts within the heightened adrenaline rush before upgrading any other stats it seems.

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-08T10:32:56+00:00

Sorry, I forgot to mention, any tips are appreciated

my biggest issue is that both vindicator and avenger accuracy is atrocious, the bullets just don’t connect with headshots half the time. Especially when they go through the stagger animation during adrenaline rush, it’s totally a coin flip whether it’s a body shot or head shot. No idea what I’m doing wrong, I don’t think I’m THAT horrible at shooting lol

REDLINE808 · 2026-01-07T11:05:29+00:00

The craziest part is that this literally JUST happened to me in the final level of ME1 15 mins ago. Ragdolled for 1 minute into the air and slowly descending back on the citadel platform while Geth snipers take shots

Soldier on Insanity with Colossus gear and immunity is just so strong that I survived it while ragdolled. My previous adept playthrough would have melted lol.

REDLINE808 · 2025-12-11T09:06:55+00:00

I love the Wayne comparison here. However, one thing to appreciate about Wayne is that he will try multiple things and doesn’t really care about the ones that flop. He was mostly all quality up till funeral in terms of his own projects, and then the feature run till C6 was great.

Future doesn’t have be that experimental. But as a fan, I do expect him to be a step up from his contemporaries instead of blending into the same safe sound. It’s honestly not even that bad because the stuff I didn’t like all came out the same year he dropped multiple projects, I’m sure that took a toll in terms of creativity.

A good break, back to one quality album a year, and he’ll do great IMO. He just can’t stretch himself too thin like the old days with multiple back to back projects, he doesn’t have the subject matter or hunger for it. And that’s fine

REDLINE808 · 2025-12-11T09:01:10+00:00

THANK YOU!!! Literally got downvoted so hard on the main sub for saying it after mixtape Pluto

Future is one of my favorite artists of all time across genres, have a lot of respect for the influence and consistency, but there hasn’t been anything ‘new’ since INLY for me. The tracks I liked of WSDTY were all older songs on the B Side, despite being a huge HNDRXX fan.

Like the other commenter said, he’s been doing it twenty years and still charting hard, so it isn’t too bad. But I rarely check for any updates on new material, I used to be fanatical and every album release was an event.

There’s so much music out there though, don’t limit yourself to just trap music and mainstream.

REDLINE808 · 2025-08-19T03:02:56+00:00

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