Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "21 SAVAGE - WHERE YOU FROM"

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

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Atlanta is really got down. What is it, Savage? What's the word? Atlanta really a pedophile. Oh! I ain't never think of it like that. You guys. That's crazy.

You know, I will let him expound on this point. But safe to say, when it comes to his entire interview, the things that he was saying at the beginning of the interview, I kid you not, he was pulling a whole 180 at the end of the interview. You know, a lot of people like to say, Abraham is a very intelligent human being as far as in the rap game, right? So I think as far as in the rap game, he definitely is very intelligent. When it comes to the interview, not only is he saying a lot of things that counteracts

his original point at the beginning of the interview, but it comes to a point where he even has to call himself out on the stuff that he said not matching up with what he's saying now. And basically, giving an excuse to it being because Big Facts framed it in a certain way. so now he understands. But if you don't understand what I'm saying, basically, the snitching argument is as blasphemous as it gets, and let me let you listen to that right now.

Okay, so, okay, so let me say something. Go ahead. Me and you. And I love the crowd. I'm not going to lie to you, that's one of the best things as far as having a crowd that's into it because it's not, I mean, it's not a crowd.

It's the people that are working for it. I think they did a great job on adding to the conversation because you can see that theatrical play from 21 Savage and Big Bang as the crowd, not the crowd, but the people who's working starting to get into it and really it started to resemble like there was in front of a live audience. I like that touch. I think the people who's working did a phenomenal job or adding to it, you know, unintentionally.

On the move. Me and you on the move, niggas. Yeah. All right. Big Bang looking, y'all can, I'm not going to play the interview like as far as the video. But make sure to go watch you as far as Big Bang 21 Savage is three hours in length. But when it comes to Big Bang, he over here looking at the people who work and like, hold up now, you're laughing at him? Is that funny? You're telling, got down, man, bank, bank, bank establishment rob me, woo, woo, who folks snatched me up. They bring me in the room.

Yeah, we want to know that bank rob him. Nah, hell no, man, bank was in the bed of sleep. I talked to bank. I feel you. And then watch, right here, ladies and gentlemen, Big Bank pulled the Yu-Gi-o trap card. You can't tell on you, man. No, no.

You kind of did. How? What if I ain't said that? What you mean? What if I said I would got there at my mama house? You told that I was in another house. Oh, ladies and gentlemen. Not logic.

Not logic entering the chat. Hold up now. Hey, bank, boy, I told them folks you was at home. I already have told them to them to them. You'll fuck the whole case up. No, you ain't. Don't say shit. He's talking very aggressive to Savage right now.

But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? All jokes aside, these people have known each other for a while. So as far as I'm going back and forth on what snitching is and things of that nature, I think it was more of a display for Atlanta more than them actually beefing with each other. They were just trying to play both, you know, devil. I mean, I think Savage actually, I'm not going to say he believes it because he definitely

counteracted his point halfway into this interview. But, you know, as far as Big Bank, I think what he did as far as being a devil's advocate, it was very effective. So I think the interview was great. Similar to the interview with Young Thug. I mean, there's a reason. I mean, come on now. That interview was iconic.

So anyways, getting back into Abraham, pause. The main thing is that his album, what happened to the streets? It's 14 tracks, 47 minutes in length, and is out now on all DSPs. And safe to say, I did say I was going to get into my personal favorite tracks off of the album. So without further ado, the main thing I was going to talk about, especially when it comes to Abraham, is that his tonality makes it to where I believe that is why he's one of the best featured artists in the game. When it comes to his own album, I remember listening, because you know, I watch a lot of film, you know, all myself. You know, it's just my basketball history coming back up, right?

So as far as listening back to what I used to talk about with 21 Savage, the main thing was me calling him savagely mid. And I don't think it to myself. Why in the world what I call 21 Savage Savish Savishly Mid when him and Drake had one of the greatest hip-hop collab albums of all time, of all time, right? And now, when I look at it, I think it's because when he's by himself, his tonality, starts to be more of a hindrance than an addition to this specific track when you listen to a 21 savage album his tonality does not change in the slightest the things he's talked about is fire right he definitely has fought into his lyrics especially on the i wish track which is the last track right but the main thing with 21 savage is he works so well as a feature because his tonality is always the

same it's like you're not going to get anything different and as i compare it to gunna and the way that gunna flows and how gonna as a feature which you know he's blackball but we're not blackball but you know he's he's out of the what the academics say the cool club right now you know they're not really messing with gunna but it's okay because gunna has a whole army by himself as of right now so basically what i'm saying is with gunna his flow is so distinct that when he's a feature he's a he's a huge addition to the track but by himself people start pointing out how it's so similar time and time and time and time again right and with 21 Savage and Gunna being multi-millionaires because of releasing music and their flows or their voice why would they

change it so I'm not mad at 21 Savage's album I just wanted to point that out that as far as the top cream of the crop quality hip-hop artist I can't put him in that box and neither do I I don't put Gunna in that box you know either because if you don't have enough versatility and you don't have to do what Drake does as far as pop-con, R&B, electronic, house, hip-hop, you know, you don't have to do it all like him, right? Because he's the goat, you know what I'm saying? All right, my fault. Enough glazer.

But when it comes to tonality, I think it's very distinct with 21 Savage. And if you want to be one of the top hip-hop artists in the game, I think you do have to, you know, have some fluctuation. Is that the word? You have to fluctuate your voice. Pause. Goodness gracious. That sounded.

Flagrant. But anyways, you have to do that a lot over different beats. and I think the ghosts are great at doing it which is why people like Kanye people like Drake are held in such high regard because not only are they great at giving you different types of flavors

as far as music but with their voice they're always changing it and trying to mix certain vocals to hit this pitch to hit that pitch for specific tracks and with 21 Savage is like I don't need any effects I'm just going to rap and then that's what's going to be the album

there's nothing wrong with that but just no i think for the for the for the ghosts of hip hop that is where you start to nitpick and be like okay he's not on this tier but it's still a solid album right so hopefully that makes sense so my favorite tracks off of this album is mr recoup of course i mean you know hey surprise you know my favorite track one of my favorite tracks is you know has drake on it um i like the vibe of it i do believe drake and 21 savage has some of the best chemistry in hip hop because you know everybody beefing. It's not too many duos and hip hop that I look forward to.

It's probably Drake and 21 Savage. Kanye and somebody. I don't even know who it. It just, it could be anybody, right? Who else? I really like Kendrick and Baby King. Why in the world is Baby

King just gone from the universe? Does he not put out music no more? He was actually, Kendrick and Baby King was actually one of my favorite duos in hip-hop. I don't know what happened in him. like Kendrick was on top of the world and gave no type of alley you to baby king I don't know maybe we have to wait the 2026 because that was crazy anyways um yeah so that's probably my top three duos in hip-hop so that was my favorite track one of my

favorite tracks to offer the album the other tracks I like is when 21 Savage is getting into his his bag as far as rapping um safe to say this album is 14 tracks right and um specifically there's a specific track uh i think it comes at number 11 and you know the total as far as the album tracks it's 14 at number 11 the track is titled halftime interlude now i was thinking to myself what type of hold oh that wasn't even loud enough i was thinking to myself what type of sport is 21 savage playing y'all tell me what type of sport is abraham playing where halftime happens right before the game's over you guys See, that's the problem.

Anyways, with that being said, that was actually one of my favorite tracks off of the album, you know, all jokes aside. But that did, that did throw me off. It's like, bro, I just, it's either you obviously took a lot of tracks off to make a DOC album. Or, I said D.O.C. like it's a video game to make a deluxe album. Or you just have played, like maybe in you, that's what it is, the UK. You know, maybe they have different rules in the UK. You know what I'm saying?

Shepherd. same you know in the uk they may have different rules or whatever as far as half time happening right before the game ends anyways um with that being said uh so halftime interlude the track with drake um it's probably the second half of this album i like more is it's between probably big steper or i wish both of those is pretty pretty solid but there's a lot of tracks off of here that's really solid i'm just talking about the ones that stand out to me half time interlude the one Drake. I wish definitely stands out because he pulled the game literally the rapper like the game and started like just name drop. I was like goodness gracious pick those up you guys so anyways yeah he was

name dropping all over I wish so I probably say big stepper so big steper half time and the lude and then Mr. Recoup which you know has to go on it so with that being said that's the main thing I wanted to cover I just wanted to talk about this a little longer because of course I do highly respect Abraham in the hip hop game but the main thing is noticing his tonality We'll hold him back as far as if he keeps giving musical offerings where he's only rapping at a certain pitch. That's just me. And, you know, maybe other people don't care. Similar to Gunna fans, they can hear him use the same flow over and over and over and over and nobody cares because he does it so effectively.

I think that's the same thing with 21 Savage as far as his tonality. So with that being said, click my link tree in my bio. Let me know in one of my social media is. What is your favorite track off of the 21 Savage's album? to the streets and at the end of the day do you think that 21 Savage is despite what I just said do you believe 21 Savage is one of the best or one of the better rappers in hip hop currently