Albums Dave East - Survival (Discussion Thread)

[PaperEnterprise]

I always rooted for East. He just doesnt have it...he is a subpar rapper. Never practiced to make creative songs. Basic corny songs.

 

[head shots101]

Nah this shyt ain't hitting me aside from a few songs

 

[Rell Lauren]

Finishes very poorly. Goes downhill and never finds its stride again. 20 songs was unnecessary. Needed better people in the room to help him cut some songs from the final list.

 

[Prolific_1011]

Nice listen.

 

[head shots101]

This shyt wack

 

[Rell Lauren]

I give a 2.5/5. A really bad second half ruined the album.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Listening to it now while I get ready/on my commute.

Intro is ok.
Turned Penthouse after the first verse. The hook is awful.
Godfather 4 is the song that grabs you. Shouldn't happen at track three, but it is what it is.

I actually liked Penthouse, but that type of song shouldn’t be the second track on an album, that’s like a deep album cut, number 12 or something

 

[mson]

I thought it was cool

 

[AMcV'88]

this is what people expected from Dave.......an absolutely average album.
listening to it I'm sitting there like outside of the Nas joint, what am I really going to listen to again from this album ?

he has flashes but for the most the bars are nothing to write home about, forgettable. nothing on here had me starting the songs again.
the beat selection is pretty strong but I felt he did some wrong things with certain beats.
concepts are cool but he didn't really pull them off interestingly enough. just absolute run of the mill material.

even the guests aren't anything to write home about.
Nas apart but even then that feels like a Nas song to me. Lil Baby gave Dave a worse verse than he gave to some kids in London.

this what happens when you take too long to put your debut album out and put out "heat check" releases. songs that should have been on your album end up on other shyt, songs you record and save for your album end up falling out of favor because you done them ages ago.



Hate Me Now still his best release.

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

I gave it 3 listens. Album is decent but it’s too long. It’s almost an hour and a half it drags on towards the end.

Song with Fab is legit one of the worst songs of the year tho

 

[ISO]

Song with Fab is legit one of the worst songs of the year tho

nikka that shyt heat

 

[spliz]

this is what people expected from Dave.......an absolutely average album.
listening to it I'm sitting there like outside of the Nas joint, what am I really going to listen to again from this album ?

he has flashes but for the most the bars are nothing to write home about, forgettable. nothing on here had me starting the songs again.
the beat selection is pretty strong but I felt he did some wrong things with certain beats.
concepts are cool but he didn't really pull them off interestingly enough. just absolute run of the mill material.

even the guests aren't anything to write home about.
Nas apart but even then that feels like a Nas song to me. Lil Baby gave Dave a worse verse than he gave to some kids in London.

this what happens when you take too long to put your debut album out and put out "heat check" releases. songs that should have been on your album end up on other shyt, songs you record and save for your album end up falling out of favor because you done them ages ago.



Hate Me Now still his best release.

Kairi Chanel

 

[spliz]

nikka that shyt heat

Yea that nikka buggin. Sounds like a track LNDN DRGS would make.

 

[AMcV'88]

nikka that shyt heat

yeah, I'm no fan of this album but that is one of most enjoyable songs on it.
(even if I thought it was the wrong choice of delivery from Dave at first)

 

[Redwing80]

Big East fan but not what I expected at all

The music he been previewing he never released sounded way better

Maybe itll grow on me