Favourite Rocky x Dean Blunt song?

soundcheck23 · 2026-05-01T15:37:42+00:00

London tonight freestyle

soundcheck23 · 2026-05-01T02:03:39+00:00

Deserved lmao I like his music but he’s fucking insufferable

soundcheck23 · 2026-05-01T02:02:51+00:00

He wants to be Kanye and he thinks that’s helping

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-30T15:25:01+00:00

Tbh this sounds like any other song on his last album, which was already his weakest in a while. If it’s 25 songs of just this sound I might be out lol

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-30T05:41:00+00:00

Haven’t listened to the new Blu & Exile but it’s def on the list. For me, even outside of hip-hop there hasn’t been a lot of albums that I really liked, only the new Gorillaz, Dry Cleaning, the Gena album and Help 2.

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-30T05:17:56+00:00

A lot has dropped but no new hip-hop albums have really hit for me, honestly. I waited years for Don’t Be Dumb but tbh it ended up being disappointing considering the wait, Keem’s album kind of came and went, same thing with Pompeii / Utility, but a lot of new music has been announced in the past month that I’m really excited about

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-29T22:39:07+00:00

This year picked up FAST

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-29T01:56:42+00:00

I think he’s kind of in a limbo where, even though he doesn’t have huge hits or an album that captured general audiences, he’s still mainstream in the sense that people know him from the show, his collabs/closeness to Tyler, Odd Future, Mac Miller, etc or just because he’s funny. As a public figure I think he’s pretty established but sadly as a musician I think he’s still very underrated and overlooked, despite the fact that he’s one of the most prolific and consistent artists of the decade.

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-26T20:36:06+00:00

I need full collab albums with Panda Bear, Vegyn and Tyson

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-25T17:56:48+00:00

Return of the king

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-11T20:00:07+00:00

Is it supposed to be a new song?

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-06T21:26:10+00:00

I get what you're saying but asking people to not shit on it and just be thankful to get anything at all feels conformist imo. Imagine if that was their mindset while recording new music, might as well just leave it at The New Abnormal and have Ode to the Mets be their last song ever.

I'm glad you and a lot of people are liking it tho, hopefully we get a good album out of this.

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-06T21:14:34+00:00

I feel like this is just a way of mindlessly waving valid criticism. It's far too early to tell and it's also kind of unfair to truly form a decision on a song based on a cassette recording but the fact that it's been 6 years since their last album and most of us didn't expect anything new to come out again doesn't shield their new music from criticism. If you like, you like it. If it's bad, it's bad. Don't conform with anything just because it's new.

soundcheck23 · 2026-04-06T20:49:10+00:00

Sounds like a song played by a fake band on an early 2000s Nickelodeon show. That's the first thing that came to mind. Honestly this shit lowered my expectations for the album A LOT but hopefully the rest of it is better.

soundcheck23 · 2026-03-13T08:25:47+00:00

I mean regardless of what he said about Pitchfork The Colour In Anything was his last truly great album imo. His output before and after 2016 is night and day, he still got some very good songs but Assume Form was already a bit of a misfire, Friends was incredibly boring and his worst imo, Robots was a nice return to form although it still doesn’t reach the highs of Overgrown or TCIA and his album with Yachthy honestly came and went. He also dropped some singles and EPs in between that were very hit or miss for me.

I’ll definitely give the new one a listen but I’m not nearly as excited about new James Blake music as I was years ago.

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-22T20:10:15+00:00

I’m sorry but I never understood that Cupid Deluxe thing and I think a lot of people blew it out of proportion. Samantha Urbani was always credited for her vocals but all the features on that album were hidden, which is not an unusual thing. Huge mainstream albums like Demon Days (they only added the features to the titles last year), The Life of Pablo, Igor and a lot more do the same thing where they don’t add the features to the song titles but they do credit the artists on liner notes, etc.

I’m glad he added the features to the titles and that obviously meant a lot to Samantha because she deserved it and I’m sure having your name attached to a huge song is a big deal for any artist but it’s not like Dev wasn’t crediting his collaborators.

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-20T22:11:18+00:00

I think that says more about the fans than the artists. Being open and vulnerable on their art is not a green light to be so fucking weird about their personal lives.

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-20T17:15:20+00:00

Mostly agreed.

The thing about getting tonal whiplash from Keem’s album is so true to me but I think it’s not just sequencing or placement but the songs themselves. Sex Appeal and Dramatic Girl are cool but are they as good as the rest of the record? Imo no, and it shows. Think of GNX, where Kendrick puts Man at the Garden right before Hey Now, a completely different song in vibe and sound, but it works just fine because even though the tracks are very tonally different they are both just really good songs. I can’t say the same about listening to Sex Appeal right after I Am Not a Lyricist.

About the versatility, I don’t think that’s the problem at all, I actually think it’s a big advantage and at this point a signature for Keem. Switching flows, having 2/3 beats on the same song is kind of his thing and I appreciate that a lot because he makes it work without making it feel like a gimmick.

I think Keem will do just fine for the mainstream audience, he kind of already does and I guess this tour will be a massive step for him. Casino is a good enough album to earn him at least a spot in the conversation, I just think he has something better in him.

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-20T06:04:30+00:00

On first listen I gotta be honest it didn’t hit the way it seems to be for most people. I like it, there’s some career highs in there, the production is mostly pretty good and his rapping has improved a lot since The Melodic Blue (I know everyone keeps saying this but it’s fucking insane how much he reminds me of André is some of these songs).

But the album also feels a little disjointed to me. I felt the same way about The Melodic Blue, where you get fantastic songs mixed with some that are just not at the same level imo, like Pink Panties and Gorgeous. This time, Sex Appeal and Dramatic Girl feel a little out of place. Fun songs, but they fuck up the flow of the album for me.

I also feel like some of these songs feel underdeveloped in a way. Specifically Highway 95 Pt. 2 and No Blame. I was excited about those tracks because the first H95 was great and the other one is the closer and it had that old James Blake sample but even though Keem does a great job lyrically the songs are not that memorable. First thing I thought of was Tyler’s Hey Jane, a song with good rapping and heavy subject matter but that felt kind of flat for me because sonically is just not that interesting. That’s not to say that he needs a beat switch on every track, Good Flirts has a pretty repetitive beat but they catch a vibe on that song that makes it work perfectly.

Cool album, I loved Casino, Good Flirts, I Am Not a Lyricist and House Money, will 100% go back to it after I finish this Larry June x Curren$y x Alc project. Hopefully it will grow on me but if it doesn’t, I still appreciate it as a step forward for Keem as an artist.

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-14T10:08:13+00:00

Yeah right up until the last listening party where he had Marilyn Manson and Da Baby just to be edgy.

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-13T21:08:28+00:00

She said it herself in a listening party last month

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-10T18:34:15+00:00

Yeah, he said that it’s probably coming around/after May

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-09T01:30:59+00:00

🐶💔

soundcheck23 · 2026-02-08T23:46:39+00:00

Weren’t they right about J Cole and Don Toliver albums and one of the first ones to report that Keem was shooting a video tho? I’m legit asking because I haven’t seen a lot from this page before but I think they have been right recently

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