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Welcome to Album Mode where journalist, Demar Grant and The Cool Table host, Adriel Smiley breakdown and review the latest albums. Each episode features a new album where both hosts...
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Welcome to Album Mode where journalist, Demar Grant and The Cool Table host, Adriel Smiley breakdown and review the latest albums. Each episode features a new album where both hosts dive in-depth about the project and the artist’s path to its release.
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19 SEP 2024 · The feds have Diddy up of sex trafficking a racketeering charges and it ain't looking good. Diddy has already been denied bail twice and is officially awaiting trial. Also we reach back and talk about the Kendrick Lamar - Drake - Jay Z - Lil Wayne Super Bowl debacle and wonder if Kanye West can ever do the Super Bowl.
TIMECODES:
00:55-Â Diddy arrested
4:15 - 1000 bottles of baby oil
8:10 - What reason do you have to have that much baby oil?
8:30 - A lot of people aligned with Diddy
9:37 - Seems what he was doing was known
12:25 - Giving his masters back
13:13 - 100 mill lawsuit
14:10 - What the public thinks of who should be next
15:43 - The group of men who openly date teenagers
16:33 - The Superbowl
18:03 - Lil Wayne is not a Superbowl-level artist
19:03 - The beef: will Kendrick be able to perform Not Like Us
20:48 - Think Drakes gone down another level
22:44 - Normally, a hit song with that subject matter would be a big deal 30:32 Kanye getting the Superbowl in the futureÂ
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19 SEP 2024 · This week Démar and Adriel discuss Fousheé's second album 'Pointy Heights', her melding reggae with other genres and her trying to escape the shadow of her influences
Démar’s rating: 6.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 5.5 / 10
The Love List: 100 bux, birds, bees, feel like home, closer, war
TIMECODES:
1:29 Test case – black female artist not making R&B
2:36 Female Teezo Touchdown?
3:45 One of those names Demar sees everywhere
5:30 Reason for the name of the album
5:50 Birds, bees
10:25 Not for the traditional hip-hop/r&b listener
10:19 Interpolation of pass the dutch
11:55 Easter egg for the black listener
12:30 closer / giving late career kid cudi
22:17 Loversland  Â
24:00 Reach a point where everything you like doesn’t have to influence you
28:36 2 more albums before people start to notice
29:17 versus are catchier then the chorus – birds bees
30:17 Feels like home
31:15 Identify crisis to her artistry
32:28 The cover
34:00 Vinyl cop
35:31 The scoreÂ
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Fousheé - Pointy Heights / 2024 / alternative, indie rock, reggae, dream pop
14 SEP 2024 · This week DĂ©mar is on a solo mission discussing Fat Dog's debut album 'Woof.' its Ă¼ber dramatic production and Fat Dog's repetitive lyrics actually give you something to grab onto while the production swirls.
Démar’s rating: 9 / 10
The Love List: Vigilante, Wither, Clowns, All the Same, Running, I am the King
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Fat Dog- Woof. / 2024 / New rave, rock, punk, dance
7 SEP 2024 · This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Doechii's third mixtape ' Alligator Bites Never Heal', her clear as day Fugees influences and how an album can feel like a drag even though it's amazing.
Démar’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: BULLFROG, BOILED PEANUTS, DENIAL IS A RIVER, SKIPP, HIDE N SEEK, DEATH ROLL, NISSAN ALTIMA, HUH!, FIREFLIES, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL
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Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal / 2024 / rap, hip hop, alternative rap, alternative
2 SEP 2024 · This week Démar is on a solo mission discussing Sabrina Carpenter's sixth studio album Short n' Sweet, her underrated cheeky songwriting and her constant tug of war between pop country and pop R&B.
Démar’s rating: 6 / 10
The Love List: Good Graces, Bed Chem, Espresso, Lie To Girls, Don't SmileThe Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help
P.S. Sorry for the wait, Doechii review later this week!
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Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet / 2024 / pop, pop country, pop R&B
22 AUG 2024 · A quick one for Tinashe and her seventh studio album "Quantum Baby" where wonder if she's the most anonymous popstar of her generation.
TImecodes
1:50 If you are a pop head
2:34 2 on
2:56 Her tone is not distinct enough
4:12 Victoria Monet comparison
5:38Â What do you think this album is missing?
5:59 People she should collab with
6:37 Zelda or Super Mario water levelÂ
9:12 Nasty is the worst song / made to be an internet song
11:13 Is this the part of the song that the artist would want you to click on
12:18 Secretly a sexy drill song
14:32 The score
14:55 She great for demo’sÂ
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Démar’s rating: 7 / 10 Adriel’s rating: 6.5 / 10
The Love List: Thirsty, Red Flags, No Broke Boys, Cross That Line
Tinashe - Quantum Baby / 2024 / pop, drill, R&B, UK garage
21 AUG 2024 · This week Démar and Adriel discuss Post Malone's sixth studio album 'F-1 Trillion', his abandonment of artistic risk and Post Malone's journey across genres.
If you want a ticket to the Polaris Prize Gala in Toronto, drop your favourite Canadian album from this year in our Insta DMs!
Démar’s rating: 3.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 6 / 10
The Love List: Losers, What Don't Belong to Me, I Had Some Help
TIMECODES:
1:59 - The lead up to F1-Trillion
3:35 - He’s been sliding from his last few projects
5:38 - Getting to a point where the production is like water Â
7:47 - Who is getting platformed in regard to the features
9:04 - Shaboozey feature missing
10:45 - Zach Bryan
13:09 - Pop CountryÂ
14:11 - I heard these in Canadian tire for yearsÂ
14:42 - You play this in a place to acquire things
18:27 - Hip-hop didn’t accept him when he came in
21:10 - First time real life is impacting the genre an artist makes
22:04 - Hide my gun Â
25:33 - Losers, self-loathing is really good in country music
30:35 - What Don’t Belong to me, upbeat but not upbeat to move to Â
32:17 - Song structure is all the same
33:23 - For his career, this is a big win Â
36:28 - Drake feature comparison
40:29 - A plus for the demo doesn’t look like us
40:55 - You can’t start somewhere else and go into hip-hop
41:36 - Is he a culture vulture?
44:00 - Interview where he said you can’t be deep in hip-hop
45:54 - We kicked him out
46:52 - The cover
50:20 - The scoreÂ
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Post Malone - F-1 Trillion / 2024 / pop, country, pop country
17 AUG 2024 · Can't lie to y'all when we saw Drake and 100 gigs in the same sentence we thought it was over for The Boy. Instead it's a BTS data dump with songs attached. Also Rachel Gun drops one of the worst breakdancing performances in Hip-Hop history. Strap in for a weird one!Â
Timecodes:
1:15 Drake is someone we don’t always get the BTS
2:04 in-between what Drake should do and what we think he should do
2:38 Tin foil hat theory
4:10 Drake is the artist that would drop a documentary and everyone goes to see it
5:08 Didn’t realize he is the type of artist that records this much of his process
7:34 If he could start again, he would be a dancehall/Afrobeats artist
10:36 This guy has a knife, and I bumped his pocket
11:29 Suffering from putting out too much music
12:53 Talk up
18: 11 To see him viewing himself as MJ from the early days Â
20:08 The video of him in the studio talking about Too Good
22:30 Olympics
23:13 Looks bad for PHD’s
24:08 Had the audacity to dance as poorly as she did/made a joke of the culture
25:21 So bad people thought it was a bit
26:56 The internet / real or fake outrage
29:25 For you as a white person on the opposite end of the planet and make a mockery of hip-hop
33:15 Underestimation of the importance
35:27 How important/impactful Canada is to hip-hop
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15 AUG 2024 · This week Démar and Adriel discuss Latto's third album 'Sugar Honey Iced Tea', her surprising versatility and adopting Drake and Doja Cat as influences in her music.
Démar’s rating: 7.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 8 / 10
The Love List: Big Mama, Blick Sum, H&M, Liquor, S/O to Me, Look What You Did
TIMECODES:
4:00 - Didn’t know she had this in herÂ
5:57 - Golden Age of Women in Hip-hop
7:13 - Timestamp Drake record?
9:56 - Drake doing ‘Song Cry’ on every albumÂ
15:04 - Meg is in the Logic zone but Latto is not
15:31 - Blick sum Â
16:35 - Latto might influence me to carry a gun
17:06 - Missy Elliot comparison
18:05 - Big Mama - Drakeism
19:08 - PS1 drill
20:30 - There she go / mike jones flip
21:46 - Ear Candy
23:40 - She does stand alone on these influences
28:00 - Their favorite songs were all the samples
30:00 - Lyrics
33:24 - Fuck you with a sexual connotation
35:14 - Some of these lyrics we can’t sing along to
39:38 - Take a shot every time you hear drakes name
42:00 - She doesn’t need anyone on the hooks/features
47:00 - The cover
51:12 - The score / no skipsÂ
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Latto - Sugar Honey Iced Tea! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, trap
8 AUG 2024 · This week Démar and Adriel discuss Ice Spice's debut album 'Y2K!', her being more of a rage/opium artist than drill, lyrical reductionism and whether she's more celebrity than musician.
Démar’s rating: 5.5 / 10
Adriel’s rating: 4.5 / 10
The Love List: Phat Butt, Popa, Plenty Sun, Bitch I'm Packin'
TIMECODES:
5:35-Â First project of hers that people will rememberÂ
6:46 - Stand-out features Â
9:30 - Yeat would sound like Mob Deep on this
9:54 - Making Central Cee that type of rapper on this project
10:16 - Ice Spice is staying away from anything lyrical
15:08 - Popa and bitch I’m packing
17:15 - To see that she is capable is a plus; why does only one song connect
19:30 - Maybe drill is not the best place to be in
19:48 - BB belt
28:25 - You’re better off just rapping over the song Lil Wayne-styleÂ
30:50 - Miss Poopy Pants
31:08 - We have to talk about who Ice Spice is
36:47 - Why is she yelling
39:25 - A lot of self-awareness on this project
40:14 - How this affects her career
43:13 - That half of the album I didn’t expect that to come out of her
44:27 - Crushed by her celebrity
47:18 - Being a singles artist is more work
48:21 - She’s almost becoming what Lil Yachty was
48:49 - The cover Â
54:28 - The scoreÂ
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Ice Spice - Y2K! / 2024 / hip hop, rap, drill, opium, rage
Welcome to Album Mode where journalist, Demar Grant and The Cool Table host, Adriel Smiley breakdown and review the latest albums. Each episode features a new album where both hosts...
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Welcome to Album Mode where journalist, Demar Grant and The Cool Table host, Adriel Smiley breakdown and review the latest albums. Each episode features a new album where both hosts dive in-depth about the project and the artist’s path to its release.
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