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Westside Gunn - And Then You Pray For Me (Discussion Thread
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on more listens i understand the critiques. certainly not one of his better projects
BK The Great
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Is And Then You Pray for Me really your last album?
This is my last solo album; I still wanna do other projects. I still want to do one with Conway [the Machine] and Benny [the Butcher] again. I still want to do a Hall & Nash with bro again. And even if I do like a “Gunnlib” or something like that, I would probably make it an EP, like six or seven songs. So I don't think I have to go in the studio and make 20 records ever again.
But the energy always takes me there, so my projects are always like 15 to 20 [songs]. But now I feel like I can just relax. Now I'm going to go back to my old formula. I might go to the studio and make five or six records today and drop it on Friday. I'm going back to them days because I don't want to hold on to nothing. And Super Flygod, he just became a thing—he's here now. He's born, so it's just a different energy with me now. I wanna dance on beats, but I don't want to wait—I just want to drop them like I used to, man. Get a picture, smack the parental [advisory] on i,t and just drop it. I started that wave, man. Now on Twitter, it can be fukking anything. They're gonna be like, “New Griselda cover.”
That's what I started. It was just like every week I was doing a brand-new song with a crazy cover. I put the parental on it, and we just made that a thing. There's so many things that I've done over the years that now it's a thing.
This is my last solo album; I still wanna do other projects. I still want to do one with Conway [the Machine] and Benny [the Butcher] again. I still want to do a Hall & Nash with bro again. And even if I do like a “Gunnlib” or something like that, I would probably make it an EP, like six or seven songs. So I don't think I have to go in the studio and make 20 records ever again.
But the energy always takes me there, so my projects are always like 15 to 20 [songs]. But now I feel like I can just relax. Now I'm going to go back to my old formula. I might go to the studio and make five or six records today and drop it on Friday. I'm going back to them days because I don't want to hold on to nothing. And Super Flygod, he just became a thing—he's here now. He's born, so it's just a different energy with me now. I wanna dance on beats, but I don't want to wait—I just want to drop them like I used to, man. Get a picture, smack the parental [advisory] on i,t and just drop it. I started that wave, man. Now on Twitter, it can be fukking anything. They're gonna be like, “New Griselda cover.”
That's what I started. It was just like every week I was doing a brand-new song with a crazy cover. I put the parental on it, and we just made that a thing. There's so many things that I've done over the years that now it's a thing.
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
JID has probably the Illest verse on Mammas Primetime. That nikka is filthy.
Metal Face
Superstar
boom nap and generic trap beats 
steadyrighteous
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It is partially the trap beats - most of them aren't good.
But a good example of why this is just a misfire is when Ross shows up on his track, and Jeezy shows up on his. All of a sudden those songs don't sound horrific.
Westside Gunn in general is not a good rapper, and his voice is very specific, and this album proves that he's only tolerable over certain types of beats.
This isn't a "gimme my boom bap" argument, it's simply saying he found a formula that made him tolerable and by trying something new he's shown that he's incredibly limited by his unique rapping voice and lack of lyrical ability.
It isn't that complex a concept to grasp, but he's an indie artist and he's his own boss, so nobody could hear that album before it dropped and tell him it wasn't a good idea like an A&R or a label team would.
u mad son?
All Star
album was trash, first track was dope thats it
Playaz Eyez
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Though this album is like a 6/10 for me, him making this album in another country during Paris Fashion Week makes total sense
Gunn isn't a bad rapper at all, he just has a weird voice, weird cadence, and doesn't care abut being the best rapper. A "generally not good rapper" couldn't doIt is partially the trap beats - most of them aren't good.
But a good example of why this is just a misfire is when Ross shows up on his track, and Jeezy shows up on his. All of a sudden those songs don't sound horrific.
Westside Gunn in general is not a good rapper, and his voice is very specific, and this album proves that he's only tolerable over certain types of beats.
This isn't a "gimme my boom bap" argument, it's simply saying he found a formula that made him tolerable and by trying something new he's shown that he's incredibly limited by his unique rapping voice and lack of lyrical ability.
It isn't that complex a concept to grasp, but he's an indie artist and he's his own boss, so nobody could hear that album before it dropped and tell him it wasn't a good idea like an A&R or a label team would.
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Some of these bum ass "rappers" would catch an aneurism trying to rap over those beats.
Unbothered
ELEVATING to HIGHER LEVELS with POSITIVE VIBES ✨
I've listened to this again recently and IDK it's not hitting like it was on the first listen 
might've rated a few tracks higher than they should be.
might've rated a few tracks higher than they should be.
I think Westside dumbs his sh!t down in terms of the rhyming, I heard some old ish from him, he was nice for real. He still shows glimpses here and there...his "thing" now is swag/image moreso than the rhyming tho. Rick Ross is another one who's nice nice but dumbs his sh!t down to let the swag/image shine more but that's another topic..
Playaz Eyez
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Gunn sounded similar to AZ back in 08-09. He intentionally totally changed his style.
