The Urban Retro Playlist

To be honest I was motivated to write this after seeing the video which was released at the 2016 VMA's by Kanya West. This song was off the Life Of Pablo album which I've talked about here. 

When I originally got the album I didn't have this song, until I got the updated version which had this song and St. Pablo which I love so much. As the year progressed I wasn't listening to TLOP as much but I thought the two song I mentioned above were awesome (Though St. Pablo more than Fade). 

After doing some research I realized there were actually four samples the song was built off of as opposed to the two that were apparent to me. The samples include:  Fingers Inc.’s Mystery of Love (Club Mix), Hardrive’s house song, Deep Inside, Ms. Barbara Tucker’s vocals from I Get Lifted, and  Rare Earth’s (I Know) I’m Losing You.

I love the very progressive oldies vibe it has to it, I think it'll be elaborate to say it's groovy.

Also, the heavy vocoder effects on the vocals gives it this smooth feel while you listen. It's not the most lyrical or thought provoking song, but from what I understand the song is about falling out of love and could be about drugs as well because of what "Faded" means and the part where Barbera Tuker's vocals go "Oh, I've been lifted..." 

Finally, Post Malone was pretty lucky to be on the track. He was introduced to Kanye West by Kylie at a party and he asked that they worked on something. When they got to the studio he recorded something and Kanye West liked a snippet of it and worked with that.

I finally got to listen to Ozzy's tape sometime last week and it's too wavy, I've listened to it everyday from when I got it till now numerous times. He really changed up his style , it's pretty similar to how Travis Scott's style changed and if juxtapose further you'll realize there are a lot of similarities. 

I'm still trying to figure out what genre the music fits into (though I'm not trying to put the music in a box and expect only vibes like that, but to give an audio like description) but I'll just come up with something that has wavy or thrill in it, though it cuts across hip hop and acid house among other genres.

This song particularly has heavy Acid house elements, dance hall riddims and contains several samples that include gun sounds and patois elements. The beginning is actually quite similar to Kanye West's New Slaves of his Yeezus album.

I personally like this song because it's so unconventional, I had to convince someone that the person who did the song was Nigerian. I think the way the vocoder effect was used is something people would seldom do, it was very heavy and could depict or create this impression of distress in my opinion. I'm yet to fully piece the story together fully but it obviously is related to Suzie's demise, during the song there are choices presented to Suzie on how she'll prefer to go I presume.