How he can be the tastemaker pulling everything together, the man with his name on the album, and also not really the center of it all.
It’s how he can be a person who critics say isn’t all that creative, who just tries to reproduce his pre-existing favorite hip-hop moments, while still making the only album that can, realistically dethrone Drake’s seat at the top of the charts. The way his voice feels indistinguishable, the way it sounds like everyone else but himself, is also what allows his work to be bigger than himself. Like Khaled, Scott is an orchestrator, a bringer-together of parts, a fairly cool and astute tastemaker, which is for the most part why people like his music.īut Scott, instead of calling attention to himself by shouting his own name and “Another One!”, alters himself to better blend into and encapsulate the worlds of his production. But what the voice really shows is how much more alike Scott is to DJ Khaled, and everything that’s made Khaled such a massive success. Like most of his songs, he is reflecting about a past heartbreak, but if he continues to pump out songs like this, we should thank the girl that put him through. Wait girl, you got your ways, girl you are my getaway N.C. The way he sounds is most obviously influenced by Kanye West, and I imagine Scott’s trying to mimic Kanye because he loves him and also because hip-hop fans have pretty much been conditioned, until very recently, to love whatever Kanye does. Bb F Do you hear me calling Eb Gm Me no want no drama F Bb F I just want you, my darling Verse 2 Eb You drive me insane, no girl make me feel this way N.C. There’s a Reddit thread about re-creating the voice at home, where just a few months ago someone called Slugsmcgruff admitted, “Man, I have legit spent at least a year figuring this out.” This non-voice shows Scott’s technical prowess, too. How it’s not just reverb, but reverb mixed with Auto-Tune mixed with a compressor and so on. How one might accomplished it through different production softwares and instruments. Online, there are countless YouTube tutorials on the technicalities of the voice. It’s too soft, slow, distorted to be that wild. Most often, Scott’s voice is incompatible with that picture of him that became a meme because he was holding a microphone stand and looking like a cartoon character. Scott is everywhere and nowhere, everyone and no one. Sometimes higher, sometimes lower, sometimes softer, sometimes harder, he alters himself to fit the song. And inside, Scott the conductor arranges guest verses from Drake and others, while retrofitting his own sound to each new beat. Death Race is another colourful step forward for Juices emo-rap sad-boy sound, with more pop-tendencies creeping in tracks such as Hear Me Calling.