The sound, while dark, is refreshing and danceable it has the potential to get asses shaking in every club from LA to London if Diplo or Drake get their hands on it. While the similarly uptempo New Orleans Bounce takes you into a 5th Ward strip club-a weekend night of gaudy chains and overpriced bottles-Tread takes the listener to Loosie Mane’s North Philly block, drinking Jim Beam out the bottle at 10 in the morning on a block of deteriorating row houses. The Tread sound and aesthetic is reflective of the ennui of the grey Philly landscapes where it was born and of the increasingly atomized nature of music scenes and humans in the digital age. Instead of turnin’ up at Magic City, they took molly and are snowed in at home. “Tread isn’t Lil Uzi Vert croaking falsetto in a choker about jewelry, this is Chxpo, all sinuses and mushmouth, in a dark corner of a boarded-up Cleveland vacant or Kane Groceries and Warhol.ss masked up trying to get rich. In his first article for POW, Lucas introduced the wider world to Philadelphia’s Working on Dying collective and tread music, years before they would become some of the industry’s most sought after producers for their collaborations with Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti Hit the Gym: The Proliferation of Tread Music
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You can find his full collection of POW work here. He’ll be eternally missed, but his legacy lives on through his words on everything from the kings of the modern Soundcloud underground to ’90s Memphis cassette tapes, from Drake to Drakeo. While his tragic death deprives us of countless unwritten gonzo masterpieces, he nonetheless leaves behind an impressive body of work - especially considering everything collected here was written before the age of 26. Album DescriptionShow your support by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon so that we can continue to cultivate great writing from one-of-one’s like Lucas Foster.ĭuring his brief stay on earth, Lucas Foster forged a reputation as one of the best young music journalists of his generation. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. It's the best place to go to understand why 2Pac is so revered it may not be his definitive album, but it just might be his best. He longs for the innocence of childhood ("Young Niggaz," "Old School"), and remembers how quickly it disappeared, yet he still pays loving, clear-eyed tribute to his drug-addicted mother on the touching "Dear Mama." Overall, Me Against the World paints a bleak, nihilistic picture, but there's such an honest, self-revealing quality to it that it can't help conveying a certain hope simply through its humanity. Even romance takes on a new meaning as an escape from the hellish pressure of everyday life ("Temptations," "Can U Get Away"), and when that's not available, getting high or drunk is almost a necessity. These tracks - most notably "So Many Tears," "Lord Knows," and "Death Around the Corner" - are all the more powerful in hindsight with the chilling knowledge that he was right. He battles occasional self-loathing, is haunted by the friends he's already lost to violence, and can't escape the desperate paranoia that his own death isn't far in the future. Even the more combative tracks ("Me Against the World," "Fuck the World") acknowledge the high-risk life he's living, and pause to wonder how things ever went this far. It's his most thematically consistent, least-self-contradicting work, full of genuine reflection about how he's gotten where he is - and dread of the consequences. By and large, this isn't the sort of material that made him a gangsta icon this is 2Pac the soul-baring artist, the foundation of the immense respect he commanded in the hip-hop community. Having stared death in the face and survived, he was a changed man on record, displaying a new confessional bent and a consistent emotional depth. Recorded following his near-fatal shooting in New York, and released while he was in prison, Me Against the World is the point where 2Pac really became a legendary figure.
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