To pimp a butterfly

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1. agentwigglesMar 2023
   Retracted in light of BoorishBear's comment, which is definitely true. I'm not a big hip hop guy, but I think that the "everyone sounds like T-Pain" comment is something like 10-15 years out of date.

   I have to say that I'm really not a fan of what seems to be "topping the charts" in hip-hop today, but even so, there's undeniably people doing new and interesting things in the genre.

   A few releases since the heyday of T-Pain that I did enjoy:

   * To Pimp a Butterfly

   * DAMN

   * Coloring Book

   * Kids See Ghosts

   * We Got It From Here ... Thank You For Your Service

   I've also really enjoyed some of the hip-hop adjacent stuff that Thundercat has put out, especially Drunk. (Thundercat is amazingly talented, and was a big part of the production on TPAB).

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2. pellMar 2023
   I don't know what OP's business model looked like exactly. However, classical music is often composed and performed as full works, such as symphonies, operas, and concertos, rather than individual songs or tracks. These works are often intended to be listened to in their entirety and are structured in a way that builds upon and develops themes throughout the piece.

   Another problem is that the way classical music is divided into tracks is sometimes not universal. For example, there are some recordings of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 that are divided into five separate tracks (one for each movement) while others divide it into just two tracks (one for the first three movements and another for the final two movements).

   While there are many modern music albums that were intended to be listened to as full albums (e.g. "The Wall", "American Idiot" or "To Pimp a Butterfly"), I guess the track-based listening experience just won over in that part of the music world. That said, people often also just listen to a single sonata, aria, etc. in classical music too, of course, instead of always going for the 2 hour experience.

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3. BoorishBearsFeb 2023
   > my problem is that every other rapper sounds like T-Pain today

   They really don't, but you've made up your mind so you'll only ever really hear it when it sounds like T-Pain, then go "you see! all sounds like T-pain!"

   Since the T-Pain era (known as the ringtone rap era) we've had everything from To Pimp a Butterfly to Flower Boy to Kids See Ghosts to LP!

   It's been a decade+ of innovation on a level that makes the old days look mundane.

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