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Last Year/ This Year

oh these dreams are forever.

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Don't Look Down.

My close associate and good friend...(he's also my brother)
Ani Sanyal aka A-Live of Green Street Records recently put out there multi-billion dollar project, Don't Look Down on Warner Records. They have toured Japan, SXSW, with Wiz Khalifa and Lupe Fiasco, not to mention Curren$y , Nyle and some random people like Ayan Sanyal.

Let's talk about this album. I guess I might be a little bias, knowing a little about A-live, but I'll try to be as honest as possible. First of all, hip hop albums rarely have any continuity nowadays. This album is a real album, not just a collection of songs. It tells stories, has it hits, and each of its songs move smoothly.
They tell tales of being on the hustle, flying in through airports and trying to appreciate the beauty in life. It's almost like applying Thoreau to Radiohead's OK Computer. Rather than being sick of the modern life and having it drive them crazy, these boys enjoy that Sunday afternoon blunt and then go to work the next day.
There are some factual errors though, personally I don't my brother has ever flown first class on a tour. I think he'd probably feel too guilty using GS money when they could buy a new pair of headphones for the studio or something. Lol.

When I first heard this album, I was a little dismayed by the overall sound. It seemed to be drowned by synths, featured very few soul samples and generally got away from the old Green Street sound I got accustomed to. But music has to change and evolve, and what's wrong with hoppin on this new electro wave? lol Max and Ani are probably face palming as they read this. I mean, they bring it back on the All I See Remix (which in my opinion is the highlight of the album, so check it out), but the general synth and electro sound is pretty dominant throughout the album. In my opinion its a modern extension of Little Brother and Foreign Exchange. While Drake, Wiz and the other hip hop heavy weights bore over the same subject matter and try their hardest to think of catchy hooks that drunk people will sing in clubs, this underground type of hip hop is conscious of its lyrical matter and its hooks revolve around usually one thing: building that mo'effin dream.


This is think is where Don't Look Down really starts #winning and becoming a not your average hip hop album. If you look around at most 20 somethings, they have no idea what they want to do with their live. Some work menial jobs, others hide in grad school and people just wander aimlessly. I think this problem really stems from a fact that while academia and competition is stressed so much in this country, people have never learned how to dream. These boys know what they're doing and how to achieve it.

Another point. Some albums have that unexplainable setting vibe to them. Fleet Foxes debut sounds like it was recorded in the woods. Bon Iver's For Emma sounds like it was recorded in the winter snow. Vampire Weekend's debut sounds like it was recorded in Columbia. I don't know if these abstract associations are from hearing first or learning later, but Don't Look Down just has that distinct Brooklyn sound. Dunno how else to describe that.

ok maybe I'll write more later.
peace