Pusha T - It’s Almost Dry (Discussion Thread)

[imfromthesouthside]

Album of the year. Future sucks.

 

[Trav]

Finally giving this a spin.

Already hooked with this shyt right here.

 

[Switch]

This much better than Daytona to me the more I listen to it

 

[kaldurahm]

Super late to this album, Push has so many dope one liners, holy shyt.

"You and your bytch, income combining"

I swear Pusha stays roasting his listeners/fans straight dikk head but he's funny as hell with the braggadocio rhymes

I laughed so many times when listening to this joint.

Favourite song is definitely " just so you remember", the way he's rhyming to the beat, the voice, the beat itself



After that I like "dreamin of the past" and "let the smokers shine the coupes". Loved the "scrape it off the top" verse, but Uzi verse can go to the trash.

Solid project, maybe 1 or 2 I'd skip but overall good shyt, great for listening while riding home, lots of great beats on this one.

Also I definitely think the Kanye vs Pharrell version flows better

 

[Preach Jackson]

This jont in the rotation heavy

 

[BigMan]

yeah this officially better than Daytona

 

[boxfullofjoel]

Am stuck on open air now

 

[Mike Wins]

Still in rotation over here. Great example of production, content and rhyme style lining up where each element elevates the others. Equally dope on headphones or in the car

 

[kaldurahm]

The guy is a caricature of himself. He's a mediocre Jay-Z impersonator in lyrical form. The irony is all these cats talkin this laughable "Push makes music for street nikkas" ignore that his resurgence is tied directly to the same hiphop blog CACs they selectively dismiss when one of them pens a review they don't like. White boys loved the Clipse and the Dips - both had significant cache among the hipster doofus set. And if you like Push, cool - like the nikka and his music. Some loser negged me talking about me being a drake stan when I've never listened to a drake album on purpose in my life. Which is the most fascinating aspect of all this: social media and online communities gradually transformed the way we discuss music. People latch onto rappers like brands, and discuss their albums like one would do the latest iPhone - they start from the assumption that, just as the artists claims, the album is a classic. Any attempt to discuss things about it that might not be so good is dismissed as hating or "CAC and c00n" opinions. Or if you're critical it must be because you like another rival rapper. None of these nikkas are interesting enough to support to that tribal extent. It's hilarious to observe but ultimately warped.

Personally, Pusha T kills me because he fails to hit any of the kind of notes I like from rap. There's swagged out, Black Super Hero rap - music that just makes you feel cool because of the sheer arrogance and attitude of the MC. There's thoughtful rap, that delves into day-to-day issues and such. And there's introspective street nikka rap, full of intricate details and reflections and insights into hood lifestyles. Push does none of that. He sells coke in repetitive "clever" bars and is very disgusted by snitches. He is really into watches and name brands and offended when you don't have an adequate grasp of the finest of those things. He has the swagger of RG III if Griffin had a couple hood adjacent friends who sold dope. He sounds like the lost member of Camp Lo. He tried to go pop and it didn't work. He penned corny McDonalds and Arby's commercials. He raps about cocaine in a fukking Arby's commercial. He's a caricature of himself. Like the Henny Youngman or Milton Berle of cocaine rap. I just flew in from Mexico with the bricks, and boy are my arms tired. Take my coke, please! He called himself Cocaine's Dr. Seuss, but he's more Daffy Duck, just tapdancing on wax, spiitin bar after bar about cocaine trafficking while the CACs beam in delight, as if he's performing cocaine c00nery.

The idea of having to be from the street to really get Push is also hilarious. The nikka looks like half a herb and he's the right hand to a legit c00n. And his fanbase is a bunch of CACs and suburban nikkas. Who are yall kidding with this nonsense. The internet done really convinced yall you from the street? That you understand the ins and out of dope distributing? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

To his credit Pusha T has done one thing exceedingly well: kept his feet in room with industry influencers. So even though hardly anyone cares about his mid ass music, it's always be well reviewed and promoted due to his associations and connections, and he'll be able to land shyt like a Jimmy Fallon performance (and good lord was that a swaggerless performance). But the dude is boring as can be and has very little presence on top of his woeful lack of substance.

This opinion really shouldn't upset you. There are 100 other fanboys in the thread to comfort you if you love this lame nikka. Just keep listening to the album and calling it a classic. You'll be okay.

Imma be honest, I do like Pusha T music, but coming into this I wasn't very interested in listening to this album, for many of the reasons you described. I do think you make some good points, but surprisingly I actually enjoyed listening to this album, quite a bit.

I think the key is not to take it too serious. It's simple, he's rapping over some dope ass beats and doing it well. I agree the subject matter/content is a little boring, at least to me, but I also genuinely think he raps well. I think of Pusha T music just purely from an entertainment perspective, him playing a character like a wrestler or a comedian. I found myself laughing a lot about the shyt he's talking on the album.

Dude literally just top tier shyt talks over top tier production. With some funny/witty bars, cool delivery etc.. at least imo.
You can always count on Push's ear for beats, everytime he releases, he's rapping on some of the best beats of the year.

If I were to sum up Pusha T in one song from his catalogue, it's "Lunch Money". If you don't like "Lunch Money" you'll probably never like Pusha T . That's fine, nothing wrong with that.

 

[Izanami]

Great summer album played it a few times this week.

 

[jensyao]

here's an early version of Hear Me Clearly

im surprised there aren't more leftover leaks after the album dropped

 

[BigMan]

obviously i'm a huge fan so you can take what i say as bias but honestly its a talent that Pusha T can rap about the same thing for twenty years and it's still fire and get's respect. I'd say Pusha T's fanbase is very eclectic, he gets the hipster crowd, the kanye stans, the Pharrell/Neptunes stans, the common rap fan, the clipse fans, fans of bars (these folks like the We Got it For Cheap/Re Up gang era), the rap purist fans, etc. Saying his fan base is all cacs isn't true i saw him in 2018 in brooklyn and it was a 90% black crowd. he's also a good feature artist and has the respect of his peers which does alot for him commercially. most rap fans know a little bit about him even if they aren't fans like (Clipse-Grindin, GOOD Music-Mercy and the other GOOD Fridays songs, Kanye-Runaway, Future-Move that Dope, Chief Keef, Don't Like Remix).

I also think its' impressive how Pharrell/Neptunes/Clipse has also occupied a quasi weirdo quasi pop quasi street role in hip hop.

 

[Tsotsi Cape Town]

Pharrell washed Kanye on Production on this joint imo. The replay value in this album is craaaazzzyyy. A lot easier to digest then Kendricks. Beats are knocking, if we keeping it a buck, its only really nit picking shyt with this album. The more you listen, the better it gets, solid 9/10. Push got his lane on lock

 

[Easy-E]

I'm still blown at how much Diet Coke grew on me

I used to hope it wasn't on the album, but, it's Top 3 on the jawn

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

More replay than Kendrick album and that forgettable Blackstar mixtape people pretended to like.

Unusually defend Kendrick doing the voices but he's veered to close to the Eminem yelling flow for my liking. Push uses his voice here like an instrument. The tones, pitches and inflections marry Pharrell's production especially well making the vocal performance masterful rapping without much of the strain like I feel with Kendrick.

Crazy thing is I been playing magic and that "loosie" album could have gave these major releases this year a run had it dropped in Jan. Push say he wanted Nas on this album. I could have seen Push on speechless.