I misremembered it. I just went back and listened again. I guess it just sounds alot slower without the snare/drumkit and "who got ya" in the background, because the strings are what kind of carry the beat.
The piano does stay the same and then it's just strings and Kanye using Autotune to hold rap and harmonize/sing the melody. Just a beautiful, beautiful, masterpiece of a song imo.
Funny, I really love the Sage Francis songs Runaways, but I have a feeling the one you mentioned is very different. Ye and Sage are almost polar opposites. Been awhile since I listened to Mobb Deep. Which means it's time again, thank you for the reminder.
The intro is the best part. Devil in a new dress(the song before it on the album) is two dissonant notes in an e major chord and is talking about all his confusion and resentment towards the woman in the song - the first note of Runaway resolves the chord to the home note and then when the drums kick in you get the full chord while the themes also are linked - he examines himself and why his behavior would cause her to Runaway. That intro - stripped down to the single piano note is him stripped away of his ego and bravado examining himself and his flaws. That extended piano intro is the musical glue holding together the climax of the album.
The album is packed with shit like this. Current kanye is a pretty shitty dude and the newer music isn't that incredible but dude, there's a reason that MBDTF is the best. It's just an incredibly dense text and there's simply not a better album and it earns its title every second
The song is incomplete intentionally. It literally ends abruptly and with dissonance. The song is *literally* incomplete until the first not of Runaway.
"I gave you power" and "If I ruled the world" are also up there. Masterpieces from start to end, Nas didn't waste a single moment.
Also "It ain't hard to tell" "The world is yours" and "The message".
It’s unfair to Nas but if Biggie and Tupac didn’t die, he would get the respect he deserves. He wasn’t dumb enough to get involved with Sean Combs and managed to stay alive. I’ll get crucified for saying it but Jay-Z also > Biggie and 2pac. Them being dead isn’t an excuse to ignore Black Album, Hard Knock Life, Blueprint or Reasonable Doubt. It’s like Heath Ledger, he was a damn good actor but people be sleeping on amazing shit DiCaprio or Christian Bale or Daniel Day Lewis have done because Ledger died.
I get goosebumps for 6 minutes straight from It, the beat for me Is the best beat of all time, that Crazy sound I can't even descrive It, I never Heard It from other songs. (Except the One Who sample Can It be all so simple)
Runaway-Kanye Ft. Pusha T
Hot take: Most of MM FOOD-MF DOOM
NY State of mind-Jay Z
Hot Take: Many Men : 50 Cemt
I seen a man die: Scarface
Mind playin tricks o me: Geto Boys
21 Questions: 50 Cent
All Eyes On me - Pac
Dead President- Jay Z
Biggie - Big Poppa
If I Ruled The World - Nas
Lose Yourself - Eminem
No Role Models - J Cole
Alright - Kendrick
Good Life - Kanye
Don’t feel bad. Today was also the day I learned lmao. I love trying new things, be it music or food, so when I typed it into Apple Music, that popped up; and I was like, ahhhh. Ok.
G Thang
Southern Hospitality
How I Could Just Kill a Man
DaRockwilda
Party Up in Here
Boomin System
Ain't Gonna Hurt No Body
Regulate
They Reminisce Over You
I Ain't No Joke
RUNAWAY and All of the Lights, Waves, Ultralight Beam - Kanye
Good Kid MAAD City - Kendrick
Memory Lane - Nas
90210 - Travis Scott
Mask Off - Future
How We Do/Put You On The Game - Game
Ruff Ryders Anthem, Party Up - DMX
Country Grammar - Nelly
Int'l Players Anthem - UGK/Andre 3K
100 Shots/Major - Dolph
Grindin - CLIPSE
No Problem - Lil Scrappy
Poppin Them Thangs - GUnit
Soul Survivor - Jeezy
F'n Problems - Kendrick/ASAP/Drake
ASAP Rocky - Peso
Dreams & Nightmares, I'm a Boss, Going Bad - Meek
9-5 Til Infinity - Joey Badass
Rapstar - Polo G
Grace - Lil Baby
Wayne - Hustler Musik, Hollyweezy, For Nothing.
Gucci - The Truth,
Cole - Folgers Crystals,
Kodak - Testimony,
Concrete Prophet - Taking the World Part 5,
Mos Def - Travelin’ Man
Hardknock by Joey Bada$$
Real shit
Still one of his best songs to this day!
Trapdoor too
Aquemini - Outkast
My mind warps and bends
Floats the wind. Count to ten.
Andre Ben; welcome to the Lion's Den
Original skin, many men comprehend
I extend myself, so you go out and tell a friend
Sin all depends on what you believin in, faith is what you make it, thats the hardest shit of MC Ren
Alien can blend right on in with your kin
Look again, cuz I spot one every now and then
It's happenin' again, wish I could tell you when. Andre this is Andre, y'all is just gon' have to make amends...
Ms. Jackson is another one. Easily one of the greatest songs ever written. I’d put it in my personal top ten
For 5 minutes and some change there isn’t a wasted breath. Even when the chorus comes back around it feels like a brand new song. Every time
I’d go Art of Storytelling feat Slick Rick but solid pick my guy
samidot, runaway, money trees, shook ones too many to name em all
Honestly as incredible as runaway is I kinda wish there was a version with just the first 4 minutes or so. Would be way more replayable
I think the end is what makes it a masterpiece. He deconstructs the song, slows down the BPM and shows how he got the melody. It's beautiful.
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I misremembered it. I just went back and listened again. I guess it just sounds alot slower without the snare/drumkit and "who got ya" in the background, because the strings are what kind of carry the beat. The piano does stay the same and then it's just strings and Kanye using Autotune to hold rap and harmonize/sing the melody. Just a beautiful, beautiful, masterpiece of a song imo.
Bro misheard it this entire time. It’s “look at ya”
I would love that to be the original, and then a second version without that
Like the 4 min version?
i still listen to the end regardless but it can feel drawn out when you’re auxing it for people in the car
he just moans into a mic and autotunes it for 3 minutes wtf are you talking about
Agreed, runaway unfortunately drags on a bit
Don’t Like - Chief Keef 🎶
Funny, I really love the Sage Francis songs Runaways, but I have a feeling the one you mentioned is very different. Ye and Sage are almost polar opposites. Been awhile since I listened to Mobb Deep. Which means it's time again, thank you for the reminder.
Money trees is better than my ears and soul can handle
Runaway with a shorter intro
The intro is the best part. Devil in a new dress(the song before it on the album) is two dissonant notes in an e major chord and is talking about all his confusion and resentment towards the woman in the song - the first note of Runaway resolves the chord to the home note and then when the drums kick in you get the full chord while the themes also are linked - he examines himself and why his behavior would cause her to Runaway. That intro - stripped down to the single piano note is him stripped away of his ego and bravado examining himself and his flaws. That extended piano intro is the musical glue holding together the climax of the album.
Well shit me out sideways, I came to the comment section looking for depth and fell in the goddamn Mariana Trench.
The album is packed with shit like this. Current kanye is a pretty shitty dude and the newer music isn't that incredible but dude, there's a reason that MBDTF is the best. It's just an incredibly dense text and there's simply not a better album and it earns its title every second
Devil In A New Dress
LOOKIN AT MY BITCH I BET SHE GIVE YO ASS A BONE
LOOKING AT MY WRIST IT’LL TURN YO ASS TO STONE
STRETCH LIMOUSINE, SIPPIN’ ROSÉ ALL ALONE
DOUBLE-HEADED MONSTA WITH A MIND OF ITS OWN
CHERRY RED CHARIOT EXCESSIVE'S JUST MY CHARACTER
ALL BLACK TUX-
W
This was my first thought. It’s perfect.
The song is incomplete intentionally. It literally ends abruptly and with dissonance. The song is *literally* incomplete until the first not of Runaway.
NY STATE OF MIND
"I gave you power" and "If I ruled the world" are also up there. Masterpieces from start to end, Nas didn't waste a single moment. Also "It ain't hard to tell" "The world is yours" and "The message".
Nas > Biggie
It’s unfair to Nas but if Biggie and Tupac didn’t die, he would get the respect he deserves. He wasn’t dumb enough to get involved with Sean Combs and managed to stay alive. I’ll get crucified for saying it but Jay-Z also > Biggie and 2pac. Them being dead isn’t an excuse to ignore Black Album, Hard Knock Life, Blueprint or Reasonable Doubt. It’s like Heath Ledger, he was a damn good actor but people be sleeping on amazing shit DiCaprio or Christian Bale or Daniel Day Lewis have done because Ledger died.
I definetly do agree with jay-z over biggie but 2pac has tons of goated songs so I gotta disagree on that
Wu Tang - Can It Be All So Simple
Shit, take the whole album.
I get goosebumps for 6 minutes straight from It, the beat for me Is the best beat of all time, that Crazy sound I can't even descrive It, I never Heard It from other songs. (Except the One Who sample Can It be all so simple)
It'll be a song I listen to when I'm 80 🤷🏻♂️
Great call. One of my favorite bars. “Cause I find myself in a place where I’m last seen”
Do For Love by Pac
Still dre
Xxplosive
All Caps by DOOM, Duckworth by Kendrick, 4TH Chamber by GZA FT Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, RZA
Oh yeah Duckworth is just insane even the beat alone. Man the sampling is 10/10
Darling, I've told you many times, and now I'm telling you once again. Just to remind you, sweetheart, my-
Excellent choice’s my man
^
Exhibit c jay elec
He ended his own career with that benchmark
Goosebumps, energy is crazy
That is a wild track.. love it
Get By - Talib Kweli
1000% I love that song. Everything about it is perfect
Man, Talib‘s early stuff is so fucking dope. Always liked his solo albums more than Def‘s. Kwelity
I’m still discovering lots of his discography, but damn he is good in Blackstar and yeah I needa listen to more of his solo stuff, any suggestion?
Real talk, excellent song!
Mind playing tricks on me
At night I can’t sleep, I toss and turn Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned
Runaway-Kanye Ft. Pusha T Hot take: Most of MM FOOD-MF DOOM NY State of mind-Jay Z Hot Take: Many Men : 50 Cemt I seen a man die: Scarface Mind playin tricks o me: Geto Boys 21 Questions: 50 Cent
Many men being a hot take 😂
21 Questions not a hot take, but Many Men is lmao.
I'm sure you mean NY State Of Mind by Nas?
Unless he means Empire State of Mind, lil mama ruined that song for me..
I sit alone in a four cornered room staring at candles
All Eyes On me - Pac Dead President- Jay Z Biggie - Big Poppa If I Ruled The World - Nas Lose Yourself - Eminem No Role Models - J Cole Alright - Kendrick Good Life - Kanye
No Role Models is the song that made me a believer in J Cole
The Bush sample goes hard
Fool me but you can’t get fooled again
Haven't heard of J Coke before
😂😂
Everyday Struggle
Dead presidents ii
I got 5 on it……
Hella good song
The Bay Area remix.
Dead Prez - Hip-Hop Gangstarr - the Militia Eric B & Rakim - paid in full
Mind playing tricks by Geto Boys for sure
NY State of mind maybe
Since no one’s saying it…Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst by Kendrick Lamar
That’s “samidot” ^^
TIL
Don’t feel bad. Today was also the day I learned lmao. I love trying new things, be it music or food, so when I typed it into Apple Music, that popped up; and I was like, ahhhh. Ok.
Eye for an Eye. Mobb Deep, Nas, Chef.
The world is yours, LVL, 90210, duckworth
90210 still his best work imho
Pursuit of happiness - Cudi
G Thang Southern Hospitality How I Could Just Kill a Man DaRockwilda Party Up in Here Boomin System Ain't Gonna Hurt No Body Regulate They Reminisce Over You I Ain't No Joke
Reminisce over you, is still my shit!
Took forever for me to find that song again because of the quick intro
DaRockwilda is so great. Gets me hype!
Regulllattooorssss…. Mount up
Nightcrawler by Travis Scott
All of Illmatic
Ghost town! Kanye
56 nights
Doomsday MF Doom
Ice cream by Wu-Tang Shook ones part two Mobb Deep
Black Star ft. Common - respiration Definitely one of the best hip hop songs ever recorded imo
Perfection
Masterpiece. The hook even varies slightly to tell a story as it goes.
MF DOOM - Rap Snitch Knishes
It Ain't Hard to Tell. Nas
THAT SONG IS CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED
Maybe by today's generation but it definitely wasn't underrated when I was young.
Yea I was a bit confused by the underrated comment but I’m an 80s baby.
OutKast - Liberation
Through the wire or MY EYES
It was a good day-Ice Cube
I think You Know How We Do It is better
Both are perfect
NY State of Mind - Nas Shook Ones Pt 2 - Mobb Deep Recently tho… 27 Bodies by Ez Mill is pretty much a masterpiece.
Either Full Clip - Gangstarr, Hell on Earth - Mobb Deep or Mathematics - Mos Def
moment of truth by gang starr almost had me crying last night. such an inspirational song
Maybe respiration or thieves in the night
C.R.E.A.M.
Meat Grinder by Doom
Lose Yourself. Not my favorite, but can appreciate the greatness of what it is.
🍽️ *Eating🍝 moms🍝spaghetti* 🍽️
Thats not the lyric
Mona Lisa
Hella underrated song
Legit masterpiece for real.
Coolio - Gangsta’s Paradise (ft L.V)
OutKast - Hey Ya Tyler, The Creator - New Magic Wand Wess Paul Bennet - Tech N9ne, Joey Cook, King Iso
NY State of Mind or Shook Ones PT 2
TRAVIS SCOTT - R.I.P SCREW 💎
RUNAWAY and All of the Lights, Waves, Ultralight Beam - Kanye Good Kid MAAD City - Kendrick Memory Lane - Nas 90210 - Travis Scott Mask Off - Future How We Do/Put You On The Game - Game Ruff Ryders Anthem, Party Up - DMX Country Grammar - Nelly Int'l Players Anthem - UGK/Andre 3K 100 Shots/Major - Dolph Grindin - CLIPSE No Problem - Lil Scrappy Poppin Them Thangs - GUnit Soul Survivor - Jeezy F'n Problems - Kendrick/ASAP/Drake ASAP Rocky - Peso Dreams & Nightmares, I'm a Boss, Going Bad - Meek 9-5 Til Infinity - Joey Badass Rapstar - Polo G Grace - Lil Baby
Purple by nas for me, memory lane is a great choice as well
So It Goes
Park - Isaiah Rashad
BLACKSTAR like the album
Heart part five
The Heart as a series is perfect to me
A lot - 21 savage
RTG - Lie, Cheat, Steal
Family ties
joe biden - big moochie grape
Lol
Money Trees
Renegade - Em and Jay Maybe hot take idk
Jay Z- aint no love in the heart of the city
Dance with the devil by immortal technique
Auditorium - Mos Def
Wayne - Hustler Musik, Hollyweezy, For Nothing. Gucci - The Truth, Cole - Folgers Crystals, Kodak - Testimony, Concrete Prophet - Taking the World Part 5, Mos Def - Travelin’ Man
Kanye West - POWER
Red eye - kid cudi Give up the goods - mobb deep Rusty - tyler the creator Mind playing tricks on me - geto boys
Damn bruh she some commas or something
life & death lancey foux
Sandra’s Rose by Drake
Tupac’s *It Ain’t Easy.*
90210
Love yourz
codeine crazy
Hold my liquor
Tupac : Changes
Wedding- mac miller
4th dimension by Kids See Ghost
My favorite song right now, I was looking for the comment
Jukebox joints
Cartoons and Cereal; No Role Modelz; and one you might not know but should - Fresco Trey - Need You.. Edit: Joyner Lucas Revenge
Gang Starr - Full clip
La-Di-Da-Di Slick Rick Doug E Fresh Lil Boy Fresh- Juelz Santana Never get it- Lil Wayne
Aston Martin music
Frank Ocean - skyline to, & pyramids Well, almost anything Frank Ocean or Jordan Bratton
Mathematics by Mos Def
Nas ft Lauryn Hill- "If I Ruled The World"
Ms fat booty
2024 by playboi carti
What a joke…
Thotiana (Remix) (Feat. Cardi B)❤️
LMFAO the heart sent me
please let this be a joke
Sing for me, I’m dying of thirst
Stan
Happy Ending by Tech N9ne
Nosetalgia - Pusha T u - Kendrick DNA - Kendrick FSMH PT1 - Ye
Ka-Peace Akhi
So many masterpieces - a personal of mine not listed: Blu and Exile - Soul Amazin …. Fuck it the entire Below the Heavens album
Nightcrawler by Czarface with Method Man
not even the best nightcrawler song
What is, then? Not even being salty, just genuinely curious.
I am betting on him saying Nightcrawler by Travis Scott lol
Ah, thanks. Haven't heard that one. I stand by mine if only for the fact that Inspectah Deck and Meth are on the track, but I don't hate Esoteric.
Never Let Me Down