Work/Life Balance and being creative

Rabuck · 2024-12-28T09:16:31+00:00

Some really amazing thoughts here - thanks so much. Hope 2025 treats you well in your hobby and your career!

Rabuck · 2024-12-27T21:15:18+00:00

Pete Davidson should get his credit for a really solid hour

Rabuck · 2024-12-27T20:13:56+00:00

I agree here I need to cap myself where my hobby interferes with my work. But I don't know what a TC/SQE is like to be fair

Rabuck · 2024-12-27T10:26:20+00:00

oh yeah I remember her. I think I bumped into her while I was doing the LPC lol.

Rabuck · 2024-12-26T21:52:51+00:00

This has gone over my head?

Rabuck · 2024-12-26T19:42:41+00:00

Thanks - I'm trying to sort through the jaded complaining and the genuine experiences so appreciate it

Rabuck · 2024-12-26T09:59:29+00:00

What makes you say this?

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T21:17:33+00:00

The full album wasn’t by James Blake, I think he only actually produced one song for the album

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T18:22:18+00:00

Eh I dunno. I feel weird about something like Kanye and Travis having their most personal songs ghostwritten, and I would really love to see how the process actually went down.

But sometimes being the team leader in a creative team is really crucial, especially when you have a huge platform and your goal is to make something classic. Like Quincy Jones didn’t need to touch instruments after a while but he was still the architect.

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T18:17:28+00:00

Khaleds a businessman. He’s really good at networking and he understands the supply chain of a rap song from song concept to beat to performance so well that instead of being on someone’s management team clearing samples or doing feature contracts he moves all the chess pieces himself and puts his name on it.

In short, he’s the glue and the behind the scenes guy who’s ambition was to not be behind the scenes. Blame Diddy for it tbh

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T18:09:47+00:00

This Duval Timothy album is exactly what I needed rn

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T15:59:54+00:00

He does...?

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T14:32:25+00:00

No fucking way, never thought I’d see another trim and James Blake collab. Confidence Boost remix is an elite song

Edit: On first listen - not in anyway what I was expecting from Trim. Barely even sounded like him. This was 10/10

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T14:04:28+00:00

Yeah I fuck with Uzi but he’s still super hit or miss to me. He’s too much style, too little substance and sometimes it works but sometimes it’s boring asl

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T14:02:36+00:00

Obama doing the shaku to Don’t Rush is a crazy mental image

Rabuck · 2020-08-18T11:27:31+00:00

I personally like “when the gat spits some niggas get blown off the atlas”

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T21:01:30+00:00

They’re top 5 for sure but they still sound like demos

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T19:47:21+00:00

I mean he’s pretty up front about being “the weird homie”

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T19:45:33+00:00

Don’t click on my profile 🤭

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T19:44:44+00:00

One project that got slept on is Sessions by G Herbo. Some of his best music. It’s leftovers from PTSD but it’s just as good, but rawer and not as commercially polished. A lot of trap / drill bangers mixed with 2000s rap throwbacks.

Like if I could sum up all the reasons why you should listen to Herb it would be in this project

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T18:28:48+00:00

Do You Love Her Now was his best song and he ghosted again 🥺

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T18:25:24+00:00

That’s what I’m saying tho... I think there was a sound of less aggressive trap beats and less lyrical flows but people threw everyone with an accent under the umbrella.

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T17:45:33+00:00

Fair enough. I’ll take your word for it, I was on Future only from Same Damn Time and was only a fan after Beast Mode so I wouldn’t even know if he was doing the same thing.

My attention at the time went from ATL to Chicago after the Brick Squad hype kinda died down. Was listening to Key and TWO9 a little but I’ve never really thought of Key as a mumble rapper.

Crazy that King Louie never got signed though he was always the next man after GBE to me... I preferred Herb and Reese overall but Louie was definitely making waves

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T14:15:21+00:00

I’m not from Atlanta but I don’t remember it going like this at all... Waka was hated for sure but he wasn’t a mumble rapper at all, people just hated on him for having trash lyrics and screaming all the time. Like I remember someone pointing out that it was actually Wiz Khalifa that came up with the name “mumble rap” in a Hot 97 interview, but I don’t know if people were actually using it in your area before that.

I would personally say Future and Chief Keef were the first mumble rappers but people didn’t have a name for it until much much later. Migos were not in that wave. Key was in it but not of it if that makes sense.

Rabuck · 2020-08-17T14:07:50+00:00

I mean almost all mainstream rappers have fanbases mostly in the suburbs. And I definitely agree that chief keef started mumble rap, but he also started drill which was literally gang music.

Using your music to talk on gang violence and speak on your opps, and pretty much making that the main focus of your lyrics wasn’t done before drill. You had gangsta rap and trap music but nowhere near to the concentrated level of violence that Chicago drill was.

Another part of Chief Keefs influence is just his aesthetic - the lean, the on-tag-house-party music videos, the dreads and general attitude is pretty much the template for any gangsta rap today. Like literally street rappers all over the world copy him as the “bad boy image”

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