from that p4k interview... One thing I’ve noticed is that fans always refute when you tell them the truth. They want to fight, because it’s just an idea of what it’s supposed to be, because everyone’s so smart nowadays. With the internet, everyone’s so knowledgeable, everyone knows so much about music, everybody got a top five. But a lot of people don’t really digest the music and just be personal with it. Like, an album must sell a million-some records for two weeks, and then you never hear nobody talk about it again, because everybody move too fast. But you can’t blame music for moving fast. There’s so much going on in the world right now, so many ways to consume things, so many ways to dish them out. So I just don’t really expect the thought-out question to happen, especially when my fans have so much stuff to digest. I don’t really even know what the right question would be. man, i think about this all the time.
Me too. I have started focusing on a few albums at a time instead of jumping on every new release latterly. “It’s up to the individual to figure out how to slow it down because, you know, it’s just going faster and faster, everything moving quicker, information is going quicker. [...] These great things are fleeting, they’re going faster and faster, and it’s up to the individual to slow it down and be like ‘okay, I’m living with this album, this is what I choose to ride to, this is gonna be the soundtrack to my life for the next couple of months’” .- Jay Z
i'm totally down with that. i think about being infatuated with albums now and it's hard to stick on something for more than a week sometimes. its a problem that i want to work on.
Gonna be riding on this ALL FUCKING DAY tomorrow. So pumped. Love his choices of collaborators as well so this will be dope and wild. No reservations.
I don't think I should ever have to choose to make an album a big part of my life. When I listen to an album, if I want to listen again I won't, and if I do then I do, and when I keep wanting to listen again and again I know I've found something special. That being said it is really overwhelming because since I'm effectively holding every album ever made in my hand right now, I feel like I need to listen to every album by every artist in every genre from every decade and it can be exhausting, but then I usually take a step back and pick a few that I really vibed with and spend some good time with them. (I listened to Paul Simon's Graceland for the first time earlier this year, and I went back to it this week and have listened at least 5 times. I'm also still playing the hell out of a lot of releases from the past month). On a Vince Staples note, I can't believe this is only a few hours away now. Has a good chance of being my favorite rap album this year and one of my favorites overall.