The Urban Retro Playlist

Uhm I need to work on how I name stuff, that being said this isn't an album album I mean it has just four songs but we move. One thing I enjoy about music is an apparent development in individuals sounds. I've been listening to Dusten Truce for a while and watched how he's working and is creating a "voice that's very distinct. In this body of work he entire embraced a hip hop direction as opposed to more mixes genres which he usually embraces.

I'll start by saying this year it seems like Cupid shot a number of arrows at artist looking at Kendrick this year as there was always that part for him to come in with the type of freedom on a verse like jumping off a skyline to the sidewalks with that I don't wanna know the repercussion attitude because those moments you feel the goosebumps as your senses come alive like you're attending a party when your parents specifically said No More Parties or you're a valet and someone pulls up in a double r ghost so you get the holy key.
I think the preambles (like the one I did on my first Kendrick playlist) I do normally are becoming monotonous (i'm not sure this is necessarily better but it was worth a try) so I decided to try something different to describe all the songs Kendrick was featured on this year, He's had a good year if  I might add. I think something that really pushed me more to do it was reading the holiday edition issue of gentlemen's quarterly which he graced the cover in some luxury fur (#pretentiousgoals) and got interviewed by Rick Rubin.

I actually got goosebumps listening to a number of the songs in the playlist; The way the vocals and the production were on That Part took me to another dimension, the verse on Maroon 5's Don't Wanna Know was a perfect match(it made me question the selection to feature Wiz Khalifa on their 2012 hit Payphone all over again) and Holy Key which was a rematch of Big Sean's Control.
Hope you enjoy the playlist and find some new favorites on it.

So about a week ago (doing the shmoney that Bobby Shmurda dance), I met up with my very good friends who were also classmates in school to play basketball. We actually played at least once very week back in school. We hadn't seen and played in a while so we decided to set a date to play at the Surulere stadium. I came along with my camera, and took some random pictures of us warming up and what not.
The song of the day Jumpman by Drake and Future from their Joint project What A Time To Be Alive which is actually one of thier most successful song off the tape. Jumpman which is an alias for the greatest basketballer Michael Jordan.
I felt it was only elaborate to pick this sound for the visuals. I actually had to listen to this tape numerous times to warm up to the whole trap sound generally, but I totally loved it right after the initial reservations &  inhibitions.
The song is filled with a number of basketball references, generally laid back and is just a generally chilled Trap sound. I feel like it was a no brainer for Drake to sell/ promote his collaboration with the sneaker brand which was a major deal for him at the time.

The song of the day is Rundown by Damayo ( who I've written about here), which was created of fragments of D'Banj's 2006 mega hit Rundown(Funk u up). I actually remember listening to the unfinished version of the beat and I was like this has so much potential, then Damayo finally released the song and I must say it bangs.