that these future swag lot had the goal in mind, but I’d argue they hadn’t yet found to means to get there.
Its more like the goalposts continuously go further and further once one has been reached. I briefly explained this to Luka when he grabbed me on twitter but a lot of these sounds come out of things that immediately preceded. So for example a lot of the snap rap and steel-pan sound, as well as the vibrancy and flighty energy of your Zaytoven type producers leading into this.
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Again it connects to this
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on a beat and structural level, but there's a differing mentality of presentation. The big damnation for a lot of this is ultimately Flocka. But the irony is Flocka was at first an abnormality and also in the more Future Swag grouping by default, but more obviously agressive and fight-music (the pendulum had shifted you see; by this point when Lil' Wayne & Young Money were doing Futuristic influenced songs such as "Bedrock" and "Steady Mobbin" and the 'happy rap' phenomenon had become mainstreamed so significantly that Grown Adult Rap needed to return; lo and behold, Flocka becomes dominant in Atlanta and the surrounding south off the strength of now that same youth network growing older and then looking for aggressive music that doesn't sound so shiny and polished, is more succeptible to the return of 'crunk'-type energies, only this time through the trapper lens.
But the big irony is before Flocka properly blows up, he does a joint tape with the other biggest act of his age group... Travis Porter!
So the guys who assist with songs like this:
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are still doing this.
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And ironically, despite you know, Ross blowing up Flocka's sound with Lex Luger which in turn helped Flocka supercede the fame of Gucci temporarily, his biggest song off of Flockavelli was the *drummroll* Roscoe Dash featured "No Hands"!
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(ironically Roscoe Dash (formerly called ATL or Yung ATL) I've left off here a bit but he had a loooot of airplay and was my no means a marginal figure)
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And last ironic note, just as evidence of the links more formally for barty from one of his points of interest:
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