Albums Skyzoo - Keep Me Company (Discussion Thread)

[Nostalgic]

Ayinde At The March.

 

[Zero]

Where is @Insensitive

I want him to witness this slaughter

 

[Insensitive]

Tbh, I fully agree with this record full of Muzak, ancient NY, generationally removed musings view
of Skyzoo.

He seems endlessly stuck in a sort nostalgic morose, gazing back at the old times.
Times he's sullen about not really participating in because he was too young or too good
of a kid.
Constantly talking about Big, Jay and Nas and trying his best to channel them.

I'mma be real, he does feel like a whole ass rapping museum piece, a sort of facsimile put together by curators.

But that's what I like about Skyzoo, the very on the nose representation of where he's from.

I look at it less as like a poor facsimile and more like a guy trying his best to "Restore the feeling".

Closest example I'd say, is like when a metal band or rock band just gets it "right" while not really
covering or breaking new ground or even really capturing the "Now".


The problem with Skyzoo (and frankly many underground rappers!) is that they're "stuck in the 90s (or the
era of their choice" while being in a totally different world from then.

Skyzoo's "now" shouldn't feel like a constant throw back and I think when he's at his best, he can feel very forward looking.
But even then, I dig those blatant throw backs.

It's like listening to the Black Keys or The White Stripes, pulling from well worn tropes but they're well worn for a reason IMO.

 

[Insensitive]

Skyzoo needs an earnest producer to push him very far.

It's not the pen or his ability to conceptualize, it's that he doesn't have a Dre or a Pharrel.

He's gotten very far as an artist conceptually and lyrically from where he was in 2009.

Production? Hooks? Lyrics? These have all improved.

But his best stuff from the past five or six years have come from him not being in the driver seat.

Like I wore out that "The Bluest Note" Ep.

He needs more things LIKE THAT instead of trying to get off concepts over these faux Pete Rock beats
to the point, he left the knock offs alone and finally graduated to the real deal.

 

[Nostalgic]

Ayinde At The March.

 

[Low End Derrick]

Damn y'all going in on Sky I did like his feature on Nicolay's album:



Maybe he just needs to work with producers not from the school of dusty 90s NY drums.

 

[Max Power]

I first heard this dude on Corner Store I was like

Power of Words not as hard as Corner Store - but you're doing your thing

Great Debater rapping your ass off on this one. Features and production could be better

Dream Deferred this is boring. Maybe a bad day at the office

Music For My Friends

I'm so scarred by Music For My Friends that I can never trust a project from Skyzoo again. I don't mind him on features and I'm happy he has a lane and is ghostwriting because he seems like a good dude.

Others in this thread have described his music much better than I can.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[CHAIN]

For sure. On top of his lack of charisma, there's a facile mind guiding the song and album concepts, a sensibility for muzak reworking of already-used-samples, a mimicry of jay-z inflection with none of the wit or edge, and a proclivity for selling mumbo jumbo as layered "easter egg" lyricism.

Record Store Day is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs I've heard since... whatever the last unintentionally hilarious, overly earnest Skysnooze song was. On Jazz in the Projects he revisits a self-parodical concept he has executed before on his albums: he bores the listener with 3 minutes of nothingness raps, then improbably overexplains the lyrics for 5 more minutes.

This guy is the personification of yikes.

Gotdamn!

 

[Sean7]

reading the comments here, I will say I am a Sky fan. will always check for his projects. his flow is airtight. he does not pick a wack beat. his production is ALWAYS top notch. from my perspective I can see how he is boring to a lot of others. a lot of the songs he makes are the same. his songs are very even with each other, but there are some songs that stand out every now and then and you can better see where he is going with it. one thing I always know is his production wont let me down. he should consider doing another joint album, like Barrel Brothers.

You hit the nail on the head by saying his songs were even, that is one thing I noticed too and it seems they are just blending in together with no real song or two that stands out and you have to rewind it over and over. He is dope but honestly in a boring type of way being throughout the album it becomes sounding of the same with little excitement to keep you hooked kind of like it's the same song over and over.
I am a fan I guess but after Salvation (I Loved his debut with 9th too) his music to me while good did not have me going to listen to it over and over like a lot of new projects and I found myself moving on fast and it sounded like the same album over and over. I agree with most in here on that point 100%.

 

[Sean7]

I fukks w Sky, but it feels like he's been making the same album for the past 10 years

I read enough, will give it a listen on youtube but I am passing on this one. I agree with you guys 100%.

 

[Walt]

This smooth-faced puddinghead nikka keeps puttin out these sad ass no-budget videos too


This album is providin way more comedy than his previous releases. The video where there's two of him rappin was next level tragicomic. Album title keeps crackin me up too. Lonely ass "I could really use a friend or an escort" album title. Kirk Van Houten ass album title.

 

[Lurking Class Hero]

Damn y'all going in on Sky I did like his feature on Nicolay's album:



Maybe he just needs to work with producers not from the school of dusty 90s NY drums.

Didn't know Nicolay was doing Hip hop again

 

[Low End Derrick]

Didn't know Nicolay was doing Hip hop again

Yeah the latest album has some euro elctro songs, but I prefer when he's in his hip hop bag

 

[surv2syn]

You hit the nail on the head by saying his songs were even, that is one thing I noticed too and it seems they are just blending in together with no real song or two that stands out and you have to rewind it over and over. He is dope but honestly in a boring type of way being throughout the album it becomes sounding of the same with little excitement to keep you hooked kind of like it's the same song over and over.
I am a fan I guess but after Salvation (I Loved his debut with 9th too) his music to me while good did not have me going to listen to it over and over like a lot of new projects and I found myself moving on fast and it sounded like the same album over and over. I agree with most in here on that point 100%.

I really became a fan after Salvation. Then Tape Deck. His mixtapes were fire. Then my most listened to project Dream Deferred. Music for My Friends, then maybe climaxing with Easy Truth. After that sounded like he was making same album over and over. Retropolitan gave a different concept with beats. Two projects that stood out more were Milestones and Bluest Note. He doesn’t miss musically and his projects are all good but I haven’t gotten in to his last couple of projects due to a combination of ear fatigue and just so much other music being dropped.