Albums Black Milk - "Everybody Good" (Discussion Thread)
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Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
Breh, “Ain’t Nobody Coming Down to Save You” don’t sound like it was mixed right. Song is loud for no reason
The imagery!
But that's exactly how I felt too, like his beats were way too damn busy! Thank you for explaining my problem with early Black Milk.
But breh didn't give up on the noise and actually managed to arrange it amazingly well in this album. The music is still busy, but in the best way possible. I'm gonna listen to this music for years to come.
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Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
Phontes verse on No Wishes is the verse of the year thus far
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
He definitely had an experimental phase when he started fukking with live drums where he had a lot of busy and hectic beats. Post Tronic album for a couple of projects he had sone hectic beats
The imagery!
But that's exactly how I felt too, like his beats were way too damn busy! Thank you for explaining my problem with early Black Thought.
But breh didn't give up on the noise and actually managed to arrange it amazingly well in this album. The music is still busy, but in the best way possible. I'm gonna listen to this music for years to come.
Tronic is still my favorite blend of his production styles
Phonte
criminology
hearse initiator
black milk is doing something no one else is. Idk what it is exactly. It’s such an easy listen in a good way. You can pay attention or just vibe. I would just run DiVe back over and over. So far this has a similar quality.
Aje
All Madden
Only one listen straight through, but I enjoyed it. Seemed a lot more melodic (not in the auto-tune way these young buls do it) but more breezy. "Feelings Don't Feel" was my standout thus far. 
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Down Got Up
At this point he's mastered the blend of live instrumentation and traditional rap production better than just about anyone.
At this point he's mastered the blend of live instrumentation and traditional rap production better than just about anyone.
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Down Got Up
At this point he's mastered the blend of live instrumentation and traditional rap production better than just about anyone.
Yep, he totally killed a Michael McDonald sample on there, very. Very, very slick using instruments/session cats to replay it. I won't say which track though.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Album is really dope.
He's found a nice pocket to work in creatively without over-producing some of the tracks like he has in the past, at times. He's always done high quality music. It's just wack that not enough people are tapping in or even speaking about it. He's been consistent for a minute.
He's found a nice pocket to work in creatively without over-producing some of the tracks like he has in the past, at times. He's always done high quality music. It's just wack that not enough people are tapping in or even speaking about it. He's been consistent for a minute.
Sounds like he let a 2 year old bang on the pads for 5 minutes and was like
Love this track, but I'm definitely in the minority. I had people in college heated whenever it came on.
Edit: Unrelated, but your description fits this track too.
My ex used to cringe every time I threw that album on in the whip
Imagine how good that album would have been with different drum programming smh
The imagery!
But that's exactly how I felt too, like his beats were way too damn busy! Thank you for explaining my problem with early Black Milk.
But breh didn't give up on the noise and actually managed to arrange it amazingly well in this album. The music is still busy, but in the best way possible. I'm gonna listen to this music for years to come.
Big black milk fan. From his early early days banging on the mpc 2000. He needs and needed to change the velocity on his kicks and snares so they sound more natural. His kicks have always been fire. And he mastered swing/timing ala dilla.
He on the tracks referenced he's trying to get on his just blaze and let them drums open up and breathe but you gotta remember just will play real drums over a beat, he will play real drums, sample those and play real drums over the samples.
((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL
RIP MR. SMOKE
Blacks best shyt is when he keeps it chill. I think he was trying to come up with a signature sound and it just didn't work out like he hoped. Every single time he kept it simple it always resulted in better music.
The imagery!
But that's exactly how I felt too, like his beats were way too damn busy! Thank you for explaining my problem with early Black Milk.
But breh didn't give up on the noise and actually managed to arrange it amazingly well in this album. The music is still busy, but in the best way possible. I'm gonna listen to this music for years to come.
Black at the low-mid tempo is where he shines
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Sounds like he let a 2 year old bang on the pads for 5 minutes and was like
Yup lol. Wasn't a bad album but I remember it was such a shift from the previous albums with more live musicians. And was basically a mess. But clearly that album made him a better producer/artist because his next two - No Poison No Paradise and If There's A Hell Below - were easily his best albums IMO. That's where the chaos got refined and perfected.
The thing I really love about this four album run (including Fever and Everybody Good) is how well mixed everything is. He's got some of the cleanest - yet still dirty - snares. The basslines and stabs are powerful without distorting. Everything just works, at a time when so much rap production kinda feels like sludge that blends together. Seems like the direction of a lot of rap today would benefit from more distinguishable basslines alongside 808s. This album is so melodic while still being hard and I couldn't help but think like damn...imagine Thugger on something like this, it could spark a shift in the wave.
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