 something to ponder on because Lil Uzi dropped some tips for making great music. Oh, wait, wait, not great music. Great albums. So do you want to know how to make a great album? I do. Ikori, you feel like you know the keys to a great album? I feel like I'm like 60% of the way there. You 60% of the way there? Like 60%. All right. I'm looking forward to hearing the project, bro. All right. So check out this clip right here. Lil Uzi talking to Aiden. I know why Drake albums are great albums. Why? Because they sound like one long song. You know why Kanye albums are great albums? Why? Because they sound like one long song. You know why this eight albums is a good album? Sorry for you. Why? Because it sounds like one. OK, I get it. One long song. Drake albums are great albums because they sound like one long song, Yeezy albums or Yee albums are great albums. One long song. And this Yee album is great because it sounds like one long song. Ikori, we both disagree in many ways. But you know, hey, Uzi, you're the artist. You done done what you done done. So we're going to respect it. But from a fan standpoint, we also have our perception of what's great as well. I'm going to start with. Look, bro, I've turned out a lot of shit that's just boring because it sounded like one long song, right? That's my my starter, right? Literally one long song. You didn't do anything interesting. It's like, oh, yeah, you should have just stopped with the first one. And sometimes I could take a repeat. But the rest of them aren't as good as that first one. Because sometimes that one sound has like a hit. It's like, oh, yeah, that song is a hit. But all your copies of that song just sound like you're copying your own shit. You know how other people copy people's shit? And it's not as good. It sounds like you're copying your own stuff and it's not as good. Yeah, like a watered-down version of yourself. A watered-down version of yourself is like the ones that you had to make to create that one and maybe a couple of ones after that moment, right, before you went to sleep or something. So that's what I feel sometimes as a fan. Then on the other hand, back to that one long song. That can't be the only reason because what of the song isn't good. I've heard that same instance with songs that just ain't that good. So if it's a mid-song. And it's long. And it's long. I'm asleep. I'm asleep. But you characterize great albums in a way that I like. Yeah. So I get the sentiment, ooh, just trying to make. What I disagree is I don't think a great album is, you know, like I said, every song blends together and sounds like one long song. I think it's kind of like seeing different characters from the same universe, rather, right? Like I prefer every song in the album to sound like it's all coming from the same world. So they're unique in their individual attributes, but they make sense and sound like they're being birthed from the same umbrella. I think that's what makes a great song. Because then at that point, to your point, you can start to see where the sound may be inspired the rest of the music, but it doesn't sound like it's blatantly copying yourself, right? That's almost when like, have you ever listened to a song from an artist and you could tell that that song was probably inspired by like a different song they made? It's like you almost could hear them in the same studio session being like, nah, that drum loop saved for this shit, right? But you could see how it came in and like, shit like that, I think is what makes a great album because you kind of get to see the artist's thought process a little bit behind this stuff. And it lets you know that they are aware of cohesiveness, which is something that I do think is a lost art form in music when it comes to putting projects together. 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So your example of being in the same world, different characters, scenes within that same world, 100% makes sense, right? Yeah, bro. You look at Metro Boomin's project that he just dropped a month or so ago, right? It's all the supervillain, it's a movie scene, essentially it feels like that, right? The beginning, the origin story, right? Then you get the build up to the climax and then it goes down and hits the resolution. That's all there. Now, some of these albums, which I think maybe is his bigger point, just feel like playlist. Let's see where you're coming from. Like that's probably where his bigger point is. It's like R.A.D. songs might have been made in different eras and a lot of times, sometimes with the record label, like the way things move. They're like, hey, put something together. So you might take a song that you made two, three years ago and another song that you made yesterday and not, oh, I took it two, three years ago so because I was saving it and it was perfect with this project, it's like, I just put some stuff together and we had to put something out, right? Or we had to keep this song on the project because this helped the numbers look good, right? And that's a whole other thing. But the sense of being in the same world has that value just because it's the idea of a move, right? Unless you're going to take me into a space to change my emotion, typically you do want to stay in similar emotional space when you listen to a full project. And that kind of goes back to one long song, but not exactly, right? So if you listen to... What album was that? I don't know, I thought it was Trace Song. I'll say The Weeknd's most recent album. The Weeknd's most recent album, which he's been in the same universe for a long time. Hey, man, you know his bubble, man. Same universe, but he just does different representations. He went from the low life to the high life within the same universe, right? It's like in those movies when they go to a different part of the world, like the globe just turns and it zooms in on the spot. It's like, yeah, same shit in a different part. Exactly, exactly. So there's that. What I was thinking actually was for some reason I was thinking about the Trace Song's album, the one that, his best album to me, I never know the name of the project, but the one I got, Penny Dropper. Okay, yeah. Yeah, you know, unfortunately, L.O.F. Smiley Face, which is a clear example. Like people listen to like, why the hell was L.O.F. Smiley Face on that project, right? Shouldn't have been there. Broke the whole whole thing. Exactly, right? The rest of the project was basically like a, you know, Love, Sex, R&B track. Like that's what it was. And you could play it all the way through. And then all of a sudden you got this childish song. Like that song was cool for what it is. It's one of the things like, don't make me be mean about this, bro. Like I'm cool with it. Just put it over there, right? Like, so imagine what do people like to do? R&B projects. They might really be in that mood, right? Like you might actually be playing it while you're doing that thing or you might just be in the date or whatever. And then that comes on, right? That doesn't allow for that. Like that's when that one long song or staying in the same universe matters, right? And then of course you got some people that, you know, there's different moves. But I think the most obvious move and clear move to depict that with is, hey bro, I'm up here trying to smash or mid smash and then all of a sudden you hit me with some LOL Smiley Face. You know what I mean? That doesn't make sense for you to have thrown that shit in here after you have petty droppers and this goes out. Whatever. I might even go through the full track list. I kind of remember most of that track list in order. So one long song. I think I see what he's trying to say, but you know, you already heard my disagreements with it. Yeah, bro. Now I just keep talking about to the movie reference, bro. It's like, imagine a Marvel movie with like eight Iron Man. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, it's going to be some hits in there. Shit going to be smashed. I thought, why are you like, damn bro, I'm kind of sick of Iron Man. I want somebody else to say it today. You know what I'm saying? I want some Thor, bro. I want to, you know what I'm saying? Hope, bro. Somebody, man. See different moves. Yeah. Like I want a different origin story, bro. So I look at it like that same way, bro. If it all sounds like the same song, even if it sounds like a great song, I think eventually we are going to get tired of it. You know, our attention span isn't long enough for that. But you know, they all sound like great individual songs from the same universe, the same world. They all cohesively go together. They make a very nice avengers. You know what I'm saying? That's what I'm here for. Bro, perfect example is someone just told me not to watch The Matrix, the last one that came out. And I didn't feel like I was going to watch it anyway because they got rid of Morpheus. Well, they didn't get rid of them. They still had them in there, but it wasn't Lawrence Fishburn. Yeah. Lawrence Fishburn still alive. So I was like, it's some bad decisions already being made. But they were like, bro, it was the exact same movie. And that just disappointed me. I was like, don't don't go watch that shit. It was like, it was still at the end, it was the, I forgot, the Mr. Smith or whatever, whatever. It was still those people controlling stuff. And Neo and Trinity were still the saviors in the exact same way. It was like, why'd y'all wait all these years? And then y'all bring it back and just hope the same story. Right. So nah. Oh, and of course, a lesser version of the original too. Again, so it's everything that we just said. And so I liked that you went into movies, because I think it more clearly depicts everything about why this ain't exactly, ain't exactly right. Yeah, exactly. But like I said, we don't want eight Iron Man, man. Hey, but Uzi, if you ever make a project that sounds like one long song and it's not good, you know, we know where you're coming from. We're like, oh, he was going for that or whatever. But like, Uzi hasn't even done that. I was just about to say that, bro. That's why it felt like, I'm like, bro, you don't even do that, bro. Like his album sound like individual things from the same universe, bro. Like they're all in Uzi land. Let's not, it's not fucking, I want to rock 15 times in a row. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, I think he's just trying to be on his, I think he's trying to rebrand as wise and that was his start. You know what I'm saying? Nah, I think I know where he's coming from though with it. Obviously he's made great music. And maybe it's funny enough, sometimes the wrong thing can get you to the right place though. So maybe he has to think that to create that output. And it's, to us, it doesn't really come from that space, but it still has an output that we appreciate. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Like he not viewing it through the same lens that we're doing it through. He's like, to me, this shit sound the same because of whatever. I was like, no, no, no. It's like when you be on the same page or you think you're on the same page with somebody and then y'all finish each other's sentence and you realize, whoa, hold up. He went, he went left, bro. Not the same thing. That's probably what that is. But hey, you know, it's kind of the opposite. He started with the fork and I think it came together. We looking at his project. So look, one long song. Y'all see it. I would love to know what y'all think about that one. Actually, that would be really interesting. But for the last...