Albums NoDotWon & The Vampire Dynasty - S.S. Polaris LP (NOW STREAMING ON SPOTIFY!) Discussion Thread

[FruitOfTheVale]

Like the beats and your rhyme scheme it’s dope

Respect for tuning in breh appreciate it!

 

[mozichrome]

listening now. these beats wavy man.
i'd say my fav song is Stars so far

edit: really good listen. really good job with putting these lyrics and beats together

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

listening now. these beats wavy man.
i'd say my fav song is Stars so far

edit: really good listen. really good job with putting these lyrics and beats together

Me and @ShaDynasty spent the better part of the fall & winter putting it together, appreciate that it clicked for you!

 

[KingSol81]

Excited for this. A few rappers had asked for these beats before but I knew I wouldn't want to hear mid rappers on my beats. NoDotWon is actually a spitter and came with a whole concept that fitted and added on to the concept of my beat tape.

This can't miss.

You did the beats?

 

[KingSol81]

Your concept and ideas are golden!!! Can’t wait till everyone hears the tape

Whats your "rap name"? Both features were dope, I probably been sleeping on you breh.

 

[KingSol81]

Man you really gotta upload it on other platforms and streaming services. I have a friend that’ll add it to his weekly new artist drop promo but most people don’t use audiomack

Yeah, would be dope to have this on Deezer in lossless quality, sites like itunes and spotify degrade the bitrate quality even if you send them lossless files. I'm guessing this won't be able to go up on the major streaming platforms cause of some of the samples though?

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Yeah, would be dope to have this on Deezer in lossless quality, sites like itunes and spotify degrade the bitrate quality even if you send them lossless files. I'm guessing this won't be able to go up on the major streaming platforms cause of some of the samples though?

Yeah sample clearance for a couple of them will be tough, it will go up on streaming next week though

 

[Chip Skylark]

Whats your "rap name"? Both features were dope, I probably been sleeping on you breh.

St. Michael Valentine

The homie @FruitOfTheVale has been blessing me with a spot a couple of times.
He’s dope as fukk and I appreciate the looks

 

[KingSol81]

I do, haven't touched it in years though. TheColi is my primary social media for music rn, I'm working on changing that

Thats a necessity, this needs to be heard on bigger scale. I'm on my third front to back listen, taking it all in, which says a lot for me, most projects the past 5 years get the skim treatment from me.

Unfortunately we live in an age where the music can't just speak for itself, you're social media presence will dictate the reach your music could have to a pretty significant degree. I know a lot of young artists who are dope but they either have one foot still in the bullshyt or they don't wan't to play the social media game, for the latter I always tell them all you really have to do is get enough bread to pay someone to manage your social media presence, theres honestly thousands of kids out there who specialize in that kinda thing that will do it for relatively cheap, its like modern day online street teams.

You cool if I post about this on some other forums, B1 in particular? I definitely know some cats who will dig this project.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Thats a necessity, this needs to be heard on bigger scale. I'm on my third front to back listen, taking it all in, which says a lot for me, most projects the past 5 years get the skim treatment from me.

Unfortunately we live in an age where the music can't just speak for itself, you're social media presence will dictate the reach your music could have to a pretty significant degree. I know a lot of young artists who are dope but they either have one foot still in the bullshyt or they don't wan't to play the social media game, for the latter I always tell them all you really have to do is get enough bread to pay someone to manage your social media presence, theres honestly thousands of kids out there who specialize in that kinda thing that will do it for relatively cheap, its like modern day online street teams.

You cool if I post about this on some other forums, B1 in particular? I definitely know some cats who will dig this project.

Much love bro I'm with you on needing to fix the social media presence. I'm not inclined to do it like that but I do want this project to get out there more, I'm filming the 1st video off the project tomorrow so I'm gonna start running some promo for that on IG soon.

And hell yeah feel free to share it! The spotify/tidal/etc. link will be up next week if folks ask.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

Aite so I just wrapped up my first listen. @FruitOfTheVale @ShaDynasty @Cole Cash . I'm not exaggerating and I'm not saying this just to be nice, this is one of the best projects I've heard for the year so far hands fukking down.

A common foe is not ya alliance
This world is cold cool to a minus
It don't add up
All this motherfukking time gon catch up
What's a wish upon a star when you don't have luck
Ain't no visions of a star but you don't have guts
Rise I must
Navigation through the roughest tides and gust
Calibrations calculated via trials and lumps



Hold on new night fall
Intoxicated night calls
Howl after howl itching for the day you might call
Flashes of chapters lost
Round after round
Swear this crown brought you back from the crash you caused



The production on this is flawless. From the samples that were picked to the mix. I love the swing and snare on Adios. I love the diversity as well. Those spacey vocals chops on Crash Course, the outro on Horizon Event as well as Sol Model reminded me of 40 (OVO) / Clams Casino. The drums on 'Where I Left My Heart' are hard and the fact that the beat slows down tying into the theme of the record, man. @Chip Skylark killed his verse.

I love how everything ties back the theme and concept of the album. Not a single bar was wasted on this.

I'm gonna come back to this post and update as I listen more but off first listen this is an amazing project bro. Will you be releasing on Spotify ?

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Aite so I just wrapped up my first listen. @FruitOfTheVale @ShaDynasty @Cole Cash . I'm not exaggerating and I'm not saying this just to be nice, this is one of the best projects I've heard for the year so far hands fukking down.

A common foe is not ya alliance
This world is cold cool to a minus
It don't add up
All this motherfukking time gon catch up
What's a wish upon a star when you don't have luck
Ain't no visions of a star but you don't have guts
Rise I must
Navigation through the roughest tides and gust
Calibrations calculated via trials and lumps



Hold on new night fall
Intoxicated night calls
Howl after howl itching for the day you might call
Flashes of chapters lost
Round after round
Swear this crown brought you back from the crash you caused



The production on this is flawless. From the samples that were picked to the mix. I love the swing and snare on Adios. I love the diversity as well. Those spacey vocals chops on Crash Course, the outro on Horizon Event as well as Sol Model reminded me of 40 (OVO) / Clams Casino. The drums on 'Where I Left My Heart' are hard and the fact that the beat slows down tying into the theme of the record, man. @Chip Skylark killed his verse.

I love how everything ties back the theme and concept of the album. Not a single bar was wasted on this.

I'm gonna come back to this post and update as I listen more but off first listen this is an amazing project bro. Will you be releasing on Spotify ?

Bruh reading this this made my mfin day forreal!! Thank you for taking the time to do a breakdown

And yessir the album will be on Spotify and other streaming services next week, I'll definitely update the thread & thread title when that happens.

 

[Insensitive]

EDIT: It's out!



If the forum link above doesn't load for you, copy & paste this one (and delete the spaces):

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Fly shyt breh.



I'm just here to show support.

How long did it take to get all of this recorded, mixed & mastered ?
How long have you been producing, song writing etc. ?
How much did you produce on here ?

I'm trying to get back on my musical grind and this is inspiring.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Fly shyt breh.



I'm just here to show support.

How long did it take to get all of this recorded, mixed & mastered ?
How long have you been producing, song writing etc. ?
How much did you produce on here ?

I'm trying to get back on my musical grind and this is inspiring.

Respect!

We (me and the producer) started chopping it up on here about doing an album last summer. I wrote a couple of the verses for it in the summer but the actual concept for the album didn't formulate until the Fall. I started recording in October, last song I recorded was around Christmas. Mastering took roughly three weeks, mixing generally happened the same day the music was recorded.

I've been seriously songwriting since 2012, I was writing lyrics before then (around '07) but I only started recording in 2012 and my writing changed as a result.

I didn't make any of the beats, I was moreso hands-on with the direction of the album concept. @ShaDynasty found a lot of the dialogue samples that ended up on the album after we discussed the concept, somehow breh managed to find literally perfect samples for this project

Real talk, doing this project inspired me to grind harder... I always wanted to make a concept album but actually getting it done and being good w/ the end result was a great experience. Now I just want to get it out there more

 

[Insensitive]

Respect!

We (me and the producer) started chopping it up on here about doing an album last summer. I wrote a couple of the verses for it in the summer but the actual concept for the album didn't formulate until the Fall. I started recording in October, last song I recorded was around Christmas. Mastering took roughly three weeks, mixing generally happened the same day the music was recorded.

I've been seriously songwriting since 2012, I was writing lyrics before then (around '07) but I only started recording in 2012 and my writing changed as a result.

I didn't make any of the beats, I was moreso hands-on with the direction of the album concept. @ShaDynasty found a lot of the dialogue samples that ended up on the album after we discussed the concept, somehow breh managed to find literally perfect samples for this project

Real talk, doing this project inspired me to grind harder... I always wanted to make a concept album but actually getting it done and being good w/ the end result was a great experience. Now I just want to get it out there more

I feel you on all of this breh.

Much respect.
I've been rapping/writing since I was a teen but I fell off on the song writing & beat making
like 5 years ago.
Still learned a couple instruments and studied music but producing/rapping fell off for me.

So to see brehs who've I've followed over the years like yourself, @TEKBEATZ, @spliz and
others drop projects and do their thing. Inspires me to continue and keep on going.

@ this achievement.

I hope you get all kinds of spins/listens from here on out.