Playlist Additions 6/4/2018

Last week was pretty quiet.  There weren't any other albums besides Kanye's, and that one was a big fat disappointment.  No songs from that one made my playlist.  I still managed to find some songs to add to my rotation such as...

1. Kanye West feat. Kid Cudi - Father Stretch My Hands Part 1
2. Kanye West feat. Rihanna - Famous
3. Kanye West feat. Desiigner - Freestyle 4
4. Kanye West feat. The Weeknd - FML
5. Kanye West feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Friends
6. Kanye West feat. Kendrick Lamar - No More Parties In LA
7. Kanye West - Facts (Charlie Heat Version)
8. Diplo feat. French Montana x Lil Pump x Zhavia Ward - Welcome to the Party
9. YBN Almighty Jay - 2 Tone Drip
10. Future feat. Yung Bans - Bag
11. Mac Miller - Programs
12. MadeinTYO feat. A$AP Ferg - Ned Flanders
13. Big Grams x Skrillex - Drum Machine
14. G-Eazy feat. Yo Gotti x YBN Nahmir - 1942
15. Jay Rock - Win

1-7) My revisit to Kanye West's 2016 release The Life of Pablo helped me find some amazing songs, possibly some of Kanye's best.  I wouldn't have known about there being so many high profile features if Kanye put them in the tracklisting on Spotify.

8) I didn't like this song when I first listened to it, but it has grown on me quite a bit with every listen.  Maybe part of the reason I started liking this song was seeing it in context when I saw Deadpool 2.  Maybe I realized that French Montana was a little more tolerable than I thought.  Maybe I love Lil Pump's verse and Diplo's production so much that it's easy to overlook the shortcomings of this song.

9-12) These were my personal favorites of the new singles that were released this past Friday.

13) This is a bit of an old song.  This comes from Big Grams' only body of work, which was a short self-titled project from 2015.  The song serves as more of a guilty pleasure than anything because it's just so garbage but at the same time, it goes so fucking hard, especially the build-up before the drop.  It makes me wonder what Skrillex is up to these days.

14) This was another song that took me a while to get into.  When I first listened to this song, I thought G-Eazy was trying way too hard to make another "No Limit."  But after listening to both songs, I like this one a lot better.  The hook is easily my favorite feature I've heard from Yo Gotti, G-Eazy is more tolerable than most times, and YBN Nahmir's verse was easily the highlight of this song.

15) This song also took a while for me to get into.  I will admit that seeing the music video made me rethink my initial thoughts on this song, especially since it's shot so damn well.  I love the fanfare in the production so much.  I used to hate the hook but now I just find it so hilariously arrogant that I can't help but shout along.  Kendrick's ad-libs also grew on me quite a bit.  I know that Jay Rock has made way better music before, but I can't help but love this song.

I'll be back tomorrow with another edition of Hot Take Tuesday and I will also be putting together a playlist for my next revisit as I prepare myself for Kanye West and Kid Cudi's highly anticipated collab project Kids See Ghost.