Ty Dolla Sign......

[Thompsonuxb]

From my daughter's collection - now it's a little fierce this one....parental guidance fierce.....

Again it's a young man lamenting - sorta kinda bigg'in up a thugs love life BUT the music is fantastic and the production spot on.

This guy also as a great voice and could mature into a big thing......

Standout track

'Solid' - sounds superb - really suits the Rotel -

'Credit'

'Horses in the stable'

Check it out on your big system - bear with the language - it's raw. Tell me what you think.

And allow yourself to listen..... ;-)

 

[MajorFubar]

From your own description is sounds like something I'd rather miss, bit like the other day when I accepted a lift to a pub lunch from a colleague whose car CD player then subjected me to 5 minutes each direction of aural torture from someone called Lil Wayne. I find it utterly unbelievable that people actually buy this shite.

 

[Frank Harvey]

Again it's a young man lamenting - sorta kinda bigg'in up a thugs love life BUT the music is fantastic and the production spot on.

And there's some on this forum leading us to think that modern music is being badly produced, removing dynamics and headroom, and therefore not worth buying any half decent hi-fi for...

 

[ID.]

From your own description is sounds like something I'd rather miss, bit like the other day when I accepted a lift to a pub lunch from a colleague whose car CD player then subjected me to 5 minutes each direction of aural torture from someone called Lil Wayne. I find it utterly unbelievable that people actually buy this shite.

Dont hold back. Tell us what you really think

ill probably skip this one too, on the mere basis of his name

 

[Thompsonuxb]

From your own description is sounds like something I'd rather miss, bit like the other day when I accepted a lift to a pub lunch from a colleague whose car CD player then subjected me to 5 minutes each direction of aural torture from someone called Lil Wayne. I find it utterly unbelievable that people actually buy this shite.

I hear you Major - I agree about Lil Wayne too.

Sit this one out Major, maybe take a sneak listen to 'Solid' when you're alone - bust out the wife's fattest chain and wear a baseball cap backwards.... And let yourself go.

Just sneak listen mind..... ;-)

 

[MajorFubar]

From your own description is sounds like something I'd rather miss, bit like the other day when I accepted a lift to a pub lunch from a colleague whose car CD player then subjected me to 5 minutes each direction of aural torture from someone called Lil Wayne. I find it utterly unbelievable that people actually buy this shite.

Dont hold back. Tell us what you really think

Lol! What's wrong with the music industry can be summed up by the fact that apparently he's sold over 20m albums according to the lad who gave me the lift (who incidentally is the same bloke who sold me his granddad's old Cyrus kit, which is now my main system). Don't get my wrong, my generation invented rap, or popularised it at least, so it's not like I'm alien to it, but I struggle to even classify this noise as music.

 

[Thompsonuxb]

Again it's a young man lamenting - sorta kinda bigg'in up a thugs love life BUT the music is fantastic and the production spot on.

And there's some on this forum leading us to think that modern music is being badly produced, removing dynamics and headroom, and therefore not worth buying any half decent hi-fi for...

The Rotel ra-1520 does a solid job with this album.......

Good one for testing bass..... I'm serious this time.

 

[Frank Harvey]

He certainly is all about the $ - only 1 album, but 41 singles?!

 

[ID.]

Ok, Checked it out. Not my style. Production I quite like. not a lot of dynamic range and like everything these days it's on the loud side. May be influenced by listening on Apple Music so at a lower bit rate. If this is good production then so is Justin Beiber's latest. I couldn't listen to a whole album, but maybe one song in a mix could work for me.

Not sure that it's bringing anything new to the table and I wasn't really interested in that R&B rap hybrid when it first appeared while I was still at school.

 

[Thompsonuxb]

Ok,   Checked it out. Not my style. Production I quite like. not a lot of dynamic range and like everything these days it's on the loud side. May be influenced by listening on Apple Music so at a lower bit rate. If this is good production then so is Justin Beiber's latest. I couldn't listen to a whole album, but maybe one song in a mix could work for me.

Not sure that it's bringing anything new to the table and I wasn't really interested in that R&B rap hybrid when it first appeared while I was still at school. 

Turn your amp down a bit.....lol.

It's well defined - what's there is well separated even the 'dance' tracks (not a compressed mess). Very solid stop start bass and the voice is well projected beyond the speakers the acoustic guitar is well outside the speakers on 'Solid'.

The Rotel is doing a good job with the tracks mentioned making the Missions work well.

I have the CD - not sure how the soft services compare.

Sounds good in the car..... Well maybe not so great if you're giving the Major a lift.

It's actually not an album to be played quietly.

Works better turned up. What the hey, turn it up and let it wash over you..... :-D

 

[Alantiggger]

From my daughter's collection - now it's a little fierce this one....parental guidance fierce.....

Again it's a young man lamenting - sorta kinda bigg'in up a thugs love life BUT the music is fantastic and the production spot on.

This guy also as a great voice and could mature into a big thing......

Standout track

'Solid' - sounds superb - really suits the Rotel -

'Credit'

'Horses in the stable'

Check it out on your big system - bear with the language - it's raw. Tell me what you think.

And allow yourself to listen..... ;-)

Nothing much wrong here with this song bro, cept the wording about 'skunk'

All in all sounds fine to me tbh.

http://genius.com/Ty-dolla-sign-solid-lyrics

 

[Vladimir]

I prefer this

 

[Alantiggger]

This sounds a lot more dark, Vlad.

 

[steve_1979]

Ty Dolla $ign

Not to my taste at all but I can see why the kids might like it.

 

[steve_1979]

I prefer this

I'm not much into hip-hop but I do like THIS SONG.

It has a phat bass line that sounds particularly good with the subwoofer turned up by 20dB.

 

[MrReaper182]

I prefer this

I'm not much into hip-hop but I do like THIS SONG.

It has a phat bass line that sounds particularly good with the subwoofer turned up by 20dB.

That's just bad mainstream hip-hop. For me hip-hop has to have a possitive message.

 

[steve_1979]

I prefer this

I'm not much into hip-hop but I do like THIS SONG.

It has a phat bass line that sounds particularly good with the subwoofer turned up by 20dB.

That's just bad mainstream hip-hop. For me hip-hop has to have a possitive message.

I normally don't like modern mainstream hip-hop. Too many pimps 'n' niggaz 'n' hoes for my taste.

These though, are the two best hip-hop somgs ever made IMO: Clicky 1 and Clicky 2

 

[MrReaper182]

As someone who really likes their hip-hop I think Ty Dolla sign is everything that's wrong with mainstrean hip-hop today. Awful just awful. Much rather listen to some De La Soul, A Tribe called Quest, Roots Manuva, The Roots, Arrested Development or The Brotherhood.

 

[Thompsonuxb]

Everybody's a critic.....

Guys, guys just listen to the tracks suggested before digging deeper..... :-D

I'm not a hip hop fan (in fact Vlad your choices..... No!) but to my ears this album goes beyond hip hop, this guy can sing!

And it is way beyond what the likes of Beiber and alot of mainstream is doing which is karaoking the bejesus out of hip hip.

This is the Blues!

In isolation this Ty Dolla is singing from what HE knows and understands from HIS perspective but the music is 'intelligent' and very well structured.....good talent amongst the producers.

Pay attention to 'Credit'.....at some point in time I'm sure most men can relate to this track.

Play it on your big system and turn it up!

Don't overdose trying to take in the whole album or playlist, focus on the tracks individually - ignore the thugness and allow yourself to connect.

And turn it up......

 

[Thompsonuxb]

Ps - the CD sounds notably better than the YouTube versions via headphones - were its been 'rounded up' it seems.

 

[Vladimir]

GZA - Liquid Swords

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

 

[Vladimir]

If you want your IQ to drop to room temperature, just read the lyrics.

 

[ID.]

Ok, Checked it out. Not my style. Production I quite like. not a lot of dynamic range and like everything these days it's on the loud side. May be influenced by listening on Apple Music so at a lower bit rate. If this is good production then so is Justin Beiber's latest. I couldn't listen to a whole album, but maybe one song in a mix could work for me.

Not sure that it's bringing anything new to the table and I wasn't really interested in that R&B rap hybrid when it first appeared while I was still at school.

Turn your amp down a bit.....lol.

It's well defined - what's there is well separated even the 'dance' tracks (not a compressed mess). Very solid stop start bass and the voice is well projected beyond the speakers the acoustic guitar is well outside the speakers on 'Solid'.

The Rotel is doing a good job with the tracks mentioned making the Missions work well.

I have the CD - not sure how the soft services compare.

Sounds good in the car..... Well maybe not so great if you're giving the Major a lift.

It's actually not an album to be played quietly.

Works better turned up. What the hey, turn it up and let it wash over you..... :-D

Currently away from home so it's iPhone and P7 headphones. Loudness comment was based on the volume being turned down compared to other music i listen to. Good clarity and separation, but i don't really have much recent pop music production to compare it to. I heard some a owner the other day. Not enough to make me a Belieber but the production struck me as being similar. I own "louder" CDs that are worse victims of the loudness wars.

 

[keeper of the quays]

Allow myself to listen? Patronising twit...

 

[Deleted member 108165]

I prefer this

Best part of that clip is the advert at the beginning *biggrin*