Westside Gunn, Benny & Conway - WWCD (Discussion Thread)

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this dope or is it coli :flabbynsick: hype?
It sure as hell ain’t wack.

No matter what it’s worth a listen to find out. But no matter what listen to Plugs I Met and Tana Talk 3.

You don’t get the full effect here on WWCD since they couldn’t do their usual production with lots of samples, but they did a pretty good job of sticking with their sound without sampling records.

So I wouldn’t base your opinion on them based on this album because it sounds slightly different and less colorful than some of their other releases.
 

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I listened to this today while driving around town doing stuff. This goes hard. I like it. Good beats and good album for punchline rappers
 

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Daringer can get a bit monotonous for a whole album, especially when there's sampling constraints, but this is a damn respectable debut album on a 'major' in 2019. Hard to believe this will do numbers, though. Can't imagine there being another Griselda release on Shady.
 

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Can't imagine there being another Griselda release on Shady.
I think we’ll get the Conway album and that’s it.

And honestly I’m cool with that. I much prefer them dripping indie releases where they can drop whatever sounds they want to make.

I dig this album but I’m not sure I want to hear this sound again for an entire project.

Supposedly the Conway solo isn’t in this format and does have production with samples from cats like Alchemist, Daringer, and 9th Wonder. But we’ll see how it shakes out I guess.
 

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I loved Hitler 7 which just came out but I've out grown them:mjlol:

I said before the album came out that I wasn't high on a Daringer produced album and what's my complaint about this album; Daringer. I have no critique about Benny, Conway, or Gun just the production. The beats don't shift in tone enough for me and I don't like albums like that because they end up sounding like one drawn out song.

No one asked for them to change the formula or sound. Their sound is bigger than Daringer.
Yo they gotta stop wit this all Daringer shyt. Its 1000 Boom Bap producers out there with Daringer's talent. His shyt aint that nice.

Griselda carrying the old school flag, and these youngsters here a Daringer beat like "I knew this shyt was boring" :picard:
 

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I like Daringer just not for a whole album:yeshrug:
Same. His best batches where he produced the bulk to me are still Tana Talk 3 and Flygod, and both of those albums had other producers on them to help even things out. Reject 2 is probably his batch batch of work where he did every single beat, and I prefer TT3 and Flygod to it.

I do think he's getting better though. All things considered, he's still very new in the game. He's barely 5 years in the game and he's producing entire albums with a crew that releases a lot of music, and he's being held to a high standard. I'm not saying he's above criticism. I critique him a lot. But I do think it's worth pointing out that when you're producing alongside Pete Rock, Alchemist, Madlib, and DJ Premier that people will compare you to them and those cats are each 2 to 3 decades deep in the game.

IMO Daringer will likely get more diverse while improving at what he's already good at the more time he spends around those dudes.
 
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