Isaiah Rashad - The House Is Burning (Discussion Thread)

AAKing23

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This shyt growing on me fast. Video actually made me like it more. Just a cool little single. This is the type of shyt you bump when you're faded and actin a fool. And that fader article said this is one of two "club bangers" on the album and the rest of it is more on the darker side. And supposedly some of the beats sound like some shyt off j dillas donuts :lupe:



Zay also said the shyt he's most proud of didn't even make the album cause they were too somber :beli:....he better drop those on another tape later. But I got faith this shyt is gonna be special.
Nah we need these :francis: I trust Top but damn
 

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From the Fader article

But you can’t go home again. At least not after you’re a relatively famous rapper, in a station of life completely alien to everyone who you grew up with. He was 27 years old and living at his mom’s house. Dark, widow-making thoughts burrowed into his head: he was lost and only had himself to blame. Was it time to get a real job? Could he ever make anything creatively vital again? Top had told him to take some time for himself, but what exactly did that mean? Had he been shelved? Rappers don’t get sabbaticals; the game waits for no one. Five years in this business might as well be 50. He kept drinking.

Top summoned Rashad to L.A. in an effort to help him recover. He put him in a hotel and got him back in the studio. But the failures kept mounting.

“I took it seriously, but I was drunk in the studio and trying my best to make my confidence swell way larger than it actually was at the time,” Rashad says. “I couldn’t pull off even acting like I wanted to rap for money, or like I wanted to rap to express myself. I didn’t know exactly how to put into words what I felt.”


His house finally turned to ashes in the late spring of 2019. The benders got so out of control that even Rashad knew he was losing his grasp; everything he had worked for was rapidly disintegrating. So he got in touch with Top and told him about everything: the extent of the drinking, the financial ruin, how he barely had money to eat. He knew he needed some form of salvation. Within an hour, he was on his way down to Dana Point, where he would spend the next month detoxing and trying to understand the last three years and the previous three decades.
 
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