Did Playboi Carti destroy music?: Professor Skye Reviews "Whole Lotta Red"
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2021
- An actual positive review of this allegedly disappointing album that drives most people crazy. In my review I try to understand what makes it so unsettling and propose that it might just be something revolutionary in its formlessness.
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long time Carti fan here. this album is fucking amazing.
Yes Ik it’s a new sound I’ve been needing
Oh i get it... "long time"
i just think is funny how some people that believe they know about music and hate this album... oh the lack of vision in society...
@@yahard42 i come back 6 months later to my comment and find some real gems. absolutely agree!
Long time
wlr is such a great album. i already liked carti, but this one has made me a fan.
Never expected this album to be flawless, but am very happy with what we got. Only 4-5 songs out of 24 that I would fully skip.
I‘m glad to read comics by ppl like you who got a clue about music
@@aaronsmith9823 literally his best album 10/10
@@aaronsmith9823 0 I would skip, but 2 that I would consider
Playboi Carti is one artist that pushes the extremities of what people consider "mumble trap". Feels like Carti took a cue from Yeezus (Kanye exec produced this album) moreso than 100 Gecs from many songs from the first half like Rockstar Made, Stop Breathing, and On That Time!.
listen to black kray or anything produced by F1LTHY in the last 5 years, playboi carti just brought an old idea to the mainstream
This is def cardi’s yeezus
I think its similar to Yeezus in that it fails to achieve what it's after by being too self unaware and showing its ass too much. That see thru cover for Yeezus was perfect bc it represented the album: shocking at first grasp until you realize how transparent a rebellion it is, and then youre just waiting for Bon Iver. The WLR cover is perfect too, in that it's a copied version of an underground style that is disappointingly black and white in its attempt to break boundaries.
@@boejudden9011 reasonable way to think abt it well articulated thats like the opposite side of how i feel that i understand the most if that makes sense, again i dont agree with it but i get it haha
Carti was trying to go in a different direction, trying to progress as an artist. And it completely works.
Carti only had Future, Kid Cudi and Ye as features because he considers them his 3 biggest inspirations. Travis Scott was going to be a 4th feature but Carti took him off because he only wanted to have his absolute biggest idols rapping with him
thats cool.
spaceghostpurrp is playboi cartis biggest inspiration
As a playboi carti fan who loved the album it’s interesting to see the perspective of someone who knows nothing about him or his music. Fair review
I find this so fucking funny because he said it destroyed music and you agree 🤣
Reading comprehension ain't your strong suit, is it?@@lucass4158
“Is this a joke” there are tons of old rock albums where this question applies even in 2020. I don’t dismiss simplistic music like that unless it’s overproduced in the studio. Playboi carti and lil uzi are rockstars man... they don’t go for shock value, they are actually listening to slayer and other rock bands and emulating it in the form of trap music.
@@godsent2000 he really grew up on Marilyn Manson and a bunch of other alternative music and it definitely shows
@@godsent2000 I believe that Uzi used to listen but Carti didn't for sure
@@YunTino nah he got tattoos of a punk / rock bands before whole lotta red, back in self titled days
@@Vilevv he could’ve done that for aesthetics but he’s around a lot of people that are more into that
@@godsent2000 bro have you seen that unreleased die lit teaser
help me. i havent stopped listening this album from the day of the release... in the car, on my bed, with my girlfriend... it doesnt matter . REGGIEE CARTTER REGGGIE!!!
THATS MY BROTHAAA
jordan carter.... CARTI
IM YA BROTHAAAAAAHHHHH
IM GON DIE BOUT MY GUYS YUH
That’s “He got a Mop” post it got me 💀
"A successful attempt to destroy music." Only 8 minutes in and as a standalone sentence thats hilarious. Pretty interesting takes as always Professor.
It’s incredible how well skye predicts how people will feel about an album 6 months later
Spot on
I think WLR has notable flaws but I'm not disappointed at all because of how enjoyable and out-there it is. Die Lit established carti as a visionary to me so it's exciting to know hes not getting comfortable and is continuing to experiment
what is "out there" about this project? like what is the unique thing that it does that other contemporary projects aren't doing? genuinely asking
@@boejudden9011 did you not watch the video or something?
@@reapdiki I watched the video. I've also been making music for 16 years. What part of my comment indicated I did not watch the video? Could it possibly be that Carti's music is not boundary pushing to people who have seen said boundaries pushed farther and better?
@@boejudden9011 he gives a bunch of reasons why it is boundary pushing in the video. I think that’s why they asked if you didn’t watch the video. I think this album is kind of what hip hop/trap has been building up to for some time. Noisy repetitive distorted synth trap production with vocals being pushed past their limits. Everything comes from somewhere, but I think the way the album blends different things is kind of unique for its time.
I initially hated the album, but it really grew on me. As a carti fan, this album was initially a disappointment, but once I stopped expecting Die Lit 2.0, I came to realize how good the album is. I still enjoy Die Lit more, but I’m glad that carti is growing as an artist, expanding his sound, and setting trends which are likely going to be expanded on in the future by other artists.
HE GOT A MOPP!
HE GOT A MOPPP WHAAAA!
IM SERVING THAT BASE, MY BITCH SHE GOT CAKE😩😩😩😩😩
@@myra-yves WE STAY IN DA HASSSSS, CANT LEAVE OUT DA PLACE
@@flapjackmack8778 I JUST CAUGHT A CASE... GOT DIRT ON MY FACE
@@YunTino GOT TATS ON MY FACE
I'M SERVIN THAT BASE
I'M SERVIN THAT BASE
I'M SERVIN THAT BASE
Thanks for the genuine reaction. Thought I was the only one that enjoyed the album (:
Your better than fantano
fantano is a hater.
No need to anchor Fantano just to uplift Prof. Skye.
You're*
I seriously don't understand how people don't know the difference :/
@@Desmondleewx How is he a hater? He rated die lit a 8. But yeah, he sometimes don‘t know anything about music
Your and you’re are interchangeable, grammars a construct
In all the reviews I have seen on YT for Whole Lotta Red, this has to be one of the most profound breakdowns if not the best! Thank you so much for this review.
Dude. You hit everything right on the head! Hilarious seeing someone this removed from the scene interpret all of this. Your insights are great. PLEASE try out After Hours from The Weeknd. Ykno the Blinding Lights guy. Very dope album for deeper analysis
One of my favorite reviews of yours! Keep em coming and I'll keep auditing!
This was a pretty surprising release for me. Die Lit cane out in 2018 and that album is pure trap bliss, it has a carefree attitude and is very pleasant on the ears (listen to tracks “Shoota” or “fell in luv”). This on the other hand is extremely discordant, and messy. You make many great points throughout this, and while i do prefer die lit, i can appreciate the progression that carti went through. This does, like you said, feel like the culmination of many styles of music from the past 60 years.
Another element of wlr that is way different from die lit is the mixing. On die lit the vocals were mixed pretty quiet, and were about the same level as the beat, almost like carti himself was an instrument in the beat. Carti on wlr is so loud he practically drowns out the beat. Weird man.
lol you're describing Kids See Ghosts, not WLR
First time watching your video, highly impressed by the analysis by one of my favorite artist. Good choice of words and articulation. Got a Sub! 👍🏾
watching this after watching your thoughts on the rochester concert def interesting to hear u talk about that kind of embracement of devilish culture
Skye this such a fantastic take, I personally loved the album on release date (Christmas day) I was so excited to hear such an abrasive yet innovative take on something familiar yet so out of this world. His incredible energy and vocal inflections on these booming almost "video gamey" beats were some of the infections ideas I've heard in a long time. It's so much fun, this album feels like it is the freest music can be.
26:35 i do think it is true! tbh, even more so regarding his earlier work (2018 and 2019).
Playboi Carti is dadaist poet. Listen to "Cancun". To day, for me, this the best example of how he can break down language. The words lose their meaning, if they ever had any. But just the way he makes every word SOUND is sooo good and impressive, I think he is incredibly artistic and I think he totally knows what he is doing!
cartis lyrics are actually underrated imo
@@fluhmix6786 totally! I agree. I think he is amazing at making all these lyrically extremely simple chants so catchy. His songs are just hook after hook, its really good
The complexity of his music is the rhythmicality of everything! imo
this video of him just dissecting wlr just mesmerized me. Never thought of it this way but now i like it even more, and yes, it is very different. I love this professor guy, just subscribed
Man, thank you for much for this Review.
I appreciate this Album a lot more.
This perspective is valuable.
I’ve never listened to playboi carti but you’ve made me very excited to listen to this record
@cloutt skii I’m a fan now. Seriously from the first song it feels like an assault of sound. I love how dumb it is. The only point where I feel like the comparison to gecs kinda has some holes in it is that one of the biggest appeals about 100 gecs (at least for me) is how you really never know what to expect on their next song genre wise. Even within a song, they might completely change it up at the end of a measure and do a hard left turn. That wasn’t so much the case with WLR, where you could pretty much predict where a song was going by the beginning. Still a great record though
@@diego_wagner glad you loved it
Dude ur commentary is fire I can’t wait to see you make more videos
Awesome and wholesome review. Nice catch on the sky chords being reversed on over.
The first few listens of the album my only issue was with the track sequencing but when you start paying more attention you notice a lot of thematic and sonical links between the tracks. Definitely a lot of intention behind it, it's not a mixtape like most rap albums usually are today
Glad to see your review, to be honest, most people just hated it for the iggy drama which i don't really know anything, but music wise, i was excited as fuck since i just discovered carti like 2 months ago and loved it and the mario juda drama just hyped this more for me, when this dropped i loved some tracks but even for carti standars it was weird, i just couldn't figure out what was going on and couldn't really decide if i liked it or not, and still can't decide, loved the kanye mention bit in control, but then music starts and i just get lost, can't agree more with you, keep up the good work.
Loved this review!! Props for taking on the challenge
My first Carti album and it's stunning, I LOVED IT IMMEDIATELY
This might be the BEST review i seen , u amazing, this will age very well
I think you hit the nail on the head regarding WLR, admittedly I became a huge Carti fan after Die Lit and expected WLR to be an evolution of that sound with more “Baby Voice” Carti which initially led to me being dissapoinyed.
instead we got a quantum leap forward into the punk ethos/aesthetic he barely flirted with on Die Lit.I fucking love this album now
Its funny, but my family has started to come around on the album as well after being so certain it was garbage.
@@professorskye what’s your son say? Lol
@@professorskye Carti seems to have that effect on A LOT of people I don’t know why..
The new Carti fans hate it.. the ones from tik tok. As an old Carti fan I like it & im sure the old fans like it as well.
Fax, they're not even carti fans
You are absolutely right,Cartis whole energy is ruining norms,mumble rap was that back in 2015 and baby voice and this new sound is that now
No old Carti fans hate it too.
@@DawryMike Everybody loves WLR now you’re nearly a year late
WLR is what made me a fan
hey dude this is awesome that you don’t do negative reviews! also your family must be crazy if they can’t believe this can’t even be not ironic! i love th album so much!!
you should listen to Die Lit now and you can see the progression in cartis sound
you mentioned lil uzi. him and carti go way back
I feel like calling this anti music implies that music has rules. To me art is just about expressing a feeling and u certainly can feel his energy on this. And as a rap fan I just gravitate to the production style. So to me it’s a valid expression of a feeling w dope beats
Just discovered your channel a few days ago, it appears your son must have done a complete 180 on this album! I watched your concert review first so I was surprised to hear he didn't enjoy Whole Lotta Red on the initial release.
I was really surprised at the reception of this. On first listen, I loved it more than his more acclaimed "Die Lit".
professor skye can you please do some retrospectives on frank ocean please, id definitely LOVE and enjoy what you'd have to say about his works
Hey I’ve just begun to watch your channel and I really appreciate how you break down an album and try and come at it as unbiased as possible. Therefore I think you would enjoy doing an MF Doom review, one of underground hip hop’s true legends and to honor him as an artist due to his early passing which happens a couple days ago. If you don’t that’s fine but I just think you would enjoy his work.
As always, a very interesting and articulate review!
Really would love for you to review his last album and debut mixtape, Die Lit and Playboi Carti respectively, it's very different from WLR but its still Carti
enjoyed your perspective on this, definitely subscribing! Personally I love the album lol call me crazy
i think the concept of intellectualising WLR is so fucking funny and the fact that you put so much time and effort into doing exactly that is genuinely amazing i love this vide0
you know when i first clicked on this vid, i was like, he’s probably gonna slander the album given that it was released on Jan 2 of 2021, but as fan who fell in love with WLR on christmas eve, seeing this perspective, is so eye opening, whole lotta red aged so well it truly is musical masterpiece after a year later, its one of the very few trap albums that we’ve got in the past 4 years that has fully immersed itself in the aesthetic and on top of it the music is boundary breaking, WLR always leaves me speechless even after a full year, that first “Wake up Filthy” still gets me.
also i think you would find the new Fax Gang album quite interesting, it was released in january 1st and its called "Aethernet"
I'd really like to see you review …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For by Machine Girl. After seeing this review and your reviews on artists such as 100 Gecs and Arca, a review on Machine Girl would be equally as interesting.
Sir, I think you are correct about the sky and over song having the same synth, there is a video I saw where someone in the studio says he recorded another song first before Scott
Does that bit about thinking of the best albums of the year mean we might get a yearly favorites video!!!?
Still would love to see a review for the new Billy Woods and Moor Mother album.
Please review the new Moor Mother album, I think you’d find it super interesting!
This is almost a year later, and considering how it has aged, and how many people are using this style of minimalistic experimental hip hop, not only is it extremely enjoyable, I believe in the next years it will prove itself to be pretty influential
definitely listen to his first project self-titled and his most popular album Die Lit ! very trippy trap and big energy. and less screaming lol
An amazing review, thank you!
I love the post it note on the back all I can think of when I’m looking at it is “Post-It wit my brotha, he got a mop” get it?? Bc it’s a post it note and he says posted 😂😂 haha I’m so witty
30:30 btw die4guy is about his brother who passed, he " Regy carter....i would die for my brotha "
“He got a mop” 😂😂
I was one of "them" who hated this album so much but I gave it another chance and now it's my favorite album ever 🔥🔥🔥
Carti is a artist that knows he is capitalizing on the clichés and quirks of its genre, but he will NEVER refuses FOLLOW simple-minded standards to bring is something MOREEE
man everytime i come back to ur videos im always so infatuated with what u have to say. i spend most my time on youtube just half listening to stuff in the background while i play games but i love taking in everything u have to say with music. its amazing how well you can break down left field artists like carti and bladee and see why they have such a cult following
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review his other 2 albums
My favorite album to drop in the last 4 years.
I don’t usually enjoy reviews, but this one was amazing
One of the funniest side affects of this album is that people now somewhat unanimously consider Die Lit a classic, now that it's not as divisive or experimental in comparison lmao
Please can you please review Manager On McNicholas by Griselda's Boldly James and Sterlings Toles.
wlr is so polarizing that it’s amazing like as some one who loves punk rock and ambient soundscapes. Carti puts it all together with the qualities of trap auto tune and mystique. Review an album by JPEGMAFIA that would be awesome !!
The vocals and adlibs is especially is what caught everyone’s eye💯
What an impressive review 👏
Please do reviews on is older two albums they will suprise you.
Any update on the album it really grew on me and sounds better in da car !!!?
Does the ratio of good tracks to total tracks factor into your review and enjoyment of the album?
Aged like fine wine 🍷 🧛🏿♀️
What really helps is not listening for lyrics or their meaning just thinking of the voice as an instrument and feeling the album instead of trying to tear it apart
best review by far
i didn't realize you had a review of this, i love it. you should've seen my face when you said f1lthy makes better beats than pierre... damn
The album took long to make because a lot of the tracks leaked in 2019 so he scrapped it a bunch of times and he apparently made 15 versions of the album.
It's an album that grows on you. a really unique style you can't get anywhere else. i really hope his next album will be just as ground-breaking. it's more of an album you just vibe out with not listen for amazing lyrics(although those aren't so bad either for what it is). its experimental, but good. The way he uses adlibs and vocal inflections on the album is insane. He effortlessly rides the beat and gets the vibe across. People switched real hard when he started performing it and they re-listened. You just have to have the modern generation's mindset when listening to music. I say it's a 9/10 but a few songs feel like they were randomly thrown in there. They're not bad, but not amazing. The album is genre-shifting and has great influence on other rappers. I respect Carti for doing what he wants instead of being 'normal'.
This is just a bigger more blown out version of his other work. The verses are even more disjointed, the hooks shouted in place of verses at times. This is an even louder version of the last album, it also did not have any of the songs fans anticipated from the sessions, due to them leaking. It's definitely going to be looked at in a fonder light after the hype dies down.
there's more good songs than bad songs, so i like it!
also i agree- why do people get so up in arms when an artist takes a while between albums? take your time!
You are good at capturing the essence of albums. Good review!
Positive feedback: Edit some fat off these videos to make them a bit shorter and more potent
Nah his length is what makes it dope because he’s thorough
@@baptisedindirtysprite3593 I agree, but the repetition and empty space doesn't need to be there. You can balance thoroughness and good editing.
@@Boogalyhu he literally said that he’s not cutting anything from this video in the spirit of the album itself, makes perfect sense with that context right?
@@baptisedindirtysprite3593 true, missed that
This album grew on me a lotttt and I was a pretty big carti fan before but thought it was kinda trash at first. I definitely liked a few songs but a lot of it just sounded like he was trying too hard and doing too much especially on Stop Breathing which is now one of my favorite songs by him. Basically why a lot of people didn’t like it at first is because they thought he just took the sound of his previous album then went crazy and jacked it up too much to where it wasn’t enjoyable. It seems the general consensus has changed a lot for wlr and many fans like it better then his older work now. Listen to the song R.I.P from Die Lit, it’s a great example of how he took the vibe of that album and just cranked it up till he broke music.
Hey Prof Skye, are you gonna get to the new Patricia Taxxon?
Probably. I have been liking quite a bit.
when i first heard WLR i instantly knew it was my favorite carti album. but i had the exact same reaction others had with it when i first heard die lit, completely hated it but it randomly just clicked. i believe the most important thing in music is being creative/original and carti and the producers were 100% that for WLR. the production on that album was unlike anything ive ever heard before and it genuinely blew my mind
The space in ILoveUIHateU is Pi'erre Bourne's trademark. Didn't like Die Lit much but I did like how spacey his beats were on that album. It's unique.
I think Cancun is def one of his best songs of all time. Based on feel and simplicity.
A lot of y’all have to listen to the In Abundance tape, 2016 carti
Yay, you reviewed it
anyway is a great review !
I was never a Carti fan until this album. Pure embodiment of punk
We turned me into a fan
Weird to see this one. But glad it exists haha
did you realice dat he doesnt make a mention on "stop breathing"?
No girlfriend on this planet gave you as many chances as I gave WLR
so glad someone else loves this album!
Je suis un french fellow vamp, genY, anglophile et j ai été saisi de voir chez vous pour la première fois une réaction semblable à celle que j ai pu avoir, par son intellectualisme pédant ^^ J ai adoré ethereal avant, mais le mariage que Carti a fait du commercial à la thug avec l underground d awful a fini par me séduire davantage par son énergie. La première fois que j ai vu un de ses concerts j ai cru en revanche assister à la fin de la musique, je ne pouvais pas l encaisser a l époque, mais ses boucles transes a sonorité Aphex twin me hantaient, ses Beats tylero j dilliens, ses flows complexes doomiques... Depuis j ai appris à apprécier, comprendre la démarche au point de pouvoir me targuer d être acquis à la première écoute de WLR et si le rolling loud de NYC m a d abord perturbé, j ai compris la révolution que ça représentait en le comparant aux efforts des autres et a leur absence de cohérence artistique, trippie , Yachty, Cole. Je suis authentiquement content de voir votre validation académique, un des jugements que je valide le plus sur une des thématiques qui me tient le plus a coeur.
Si vous aviez par ailleurs le temps de jeter un oeil à mes morceaux sur mon channel, je serai heureux que quelqu'un qui comprenne le français et le cartinese, un langage si élitiste, me dise ce qu ils pense de mes enfantillages. Ça fait plaisir l échange des générations. Hier j étais avec mon fils de 3 ans au parc, des jeunes fumaient en écoutant du Trap, je leur demande s ils connaissent Carti, ils acquiescent et me passent Sky!! Il aura fallu que je croise des teens pour pouvoir partager ma passion ici bas, ceux de mon âge decouvrent juste le rap conscient old school dont je suis repu.
I’ve always liked Carti, but WLR put him in my top 5. AOTY
You should definitely check out Die Lit, definitely a better overall representation of what really makes Pi'erre Bourne a special producer
I love this video
It’s funny how you say “Jackson Pollock could have painted a flower if he wanted to” because Carti’s very early raps were very technical and well though out like on his song Holyfield