Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "RAE SREMMURD - SREMM 4 LIFE REVIEW"

Episode Date: April 22, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticSremm 4 Life is here. Rae Sremmurd have dropped off their fourth album via EarDrummers and Interscope. The project boasts production from Mike Will Made-It, Zaytoven, Murda on the Beat, Sonny Digital, and features from Young Thug on “Royal Flush” and Future on “Activate.” In the months leading up to the release, Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi shares the songs “Denial,” “Sucka or Sum,” and “Tanisha (Pump That),” with the latter featuring production by Mike Will Made-It and a writing credit for Pharrell. We haven’t seen a project from the pair since 2018 when they unleashed SR3MM, which included three discs: one from the duo, and two solo projects from each brother. Prior to that, Rae Sremmurd put out SremmLife2 in 2016 and their debut SremmLife in 2015. source: Rae Sremmurd Return With 'Sremm 4 Life' Album (yahoo.com)Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

So, Shrem for Life is here. And by here, I mean, it's actually dropped. Now, for all my Ray Strimmer fans, I need a moment of silence for Ray Shremmer dropping. Because if you don't know, Ray Shremard hasn't dropped an album since 2018. Now, I know technically I killed Kendrick for not putting out an album in five years. but let's just say that technically, and I mean technically, it was six years for Kendrick, but that's besides the point. Because if you want to count the Black Panther album, I guess you could.

But for the most part, I mean, you know what his album was called. It's a PG podcast, so I can't say the album title. But that wasn't released in 2017. And he didn't release an album until 2022. So I guess technically it was five years. I'm tripping. You know I can't count. Anyways, getting back into Ray Shremmer.

It's been since 2018 since they dropped the album And now they're back with Shrem for Life And let me tell you This album is straight Heat Straight Straight Raygo Fire

Pyro Let me see What other stuff you can say That's basically it That's all I got So for the most part Ray Shremmer has dropped the fourth album And let me tell you

It's already a candidate in my eyes and ears for an album of the year. It's produced by Mike Will. If you don't know who Mike Will is, then I'm sorry, you know, I'm sorry for your loss. But anyways, Zay Tovin, y'all definitely know who that is. Or y'all should. Murder on the Beat. And it features highly acclaimed artists from the likes of future all the way to ones that's

locked up currently, which is Young Thug. And let me just say that Ray Strimmered, I don't know what it is, But they don't really get their just due as being one of the greatest hip-hop duos to ever grace a mic. And obviously, Outcast is by far in the way, the best duo we've ever had in hip-hop. But Sway Lee and Slim Jimmy is definitely near that because y'all may think it's blasphemous at first. But then once you remember, hold up, let me make sure this is factual. I want to say the date of this track just to let you know how long they've been around. when they release

let me see where I can find there oh yeah here we go make sure this right track I forget what track it was but anyways um maybe it was black Beatles but when they made everybody in 2017 think about it 2017

when they made everybody freeze for no reason like absolutely no reason just because the song came on like the body just stopped just wasn't able to move anymore like on some on some magician hypnotizing type stuff when they made everybody freeze just to do a challenge for the track i think it was called i think it was black beetles that that everybody was freezing to that let me know that these two dudes together and that's a

key point together are one of the greatest duos in hip-hop now separate they kind of run into the quavo and uh migo's effect where sway lee as talented, and I mean as talented as a chorus maker as he is. Like he's one of the most talented chorus makers I think we've had in the last like five years.

Because if you think about this, the same guy who gave us unforgettable chorus, this is the same guy who gave us a sunflower chorus. Like, respect really needs to be put on Ray Strimmer's name when it comes to making music and being one of the greatest duos to ever live. So anyways. But yeah, after he made,

After they made everybody freeze in the club off of Black Beatles, I was like, yeah, no, this is over. Like, this is one of the greatest groups ever, and they're still going in 2023. So to get into the track listing a little bit, it's 14 tracks, of course. And some of my standouts just to give you, like, kind of like a snapshot,

and if you just wanted to listen to three tracks to kind of get a feel on what the album is like, I would definitely say that, well, if you heard the single, tanisha in parentheses pumped that then if you haven't heard that single then i'll definitely add that as one but since that's a single i'm not going to add that in my top three so i'm gonna say royal flush featuring young thug flaunit slash cheap and let me see hmm i would say not so bad because it's like an M&M flip but um and to get an M&M sample is not easy let me tell you something

Eminem is one of the hardest people to sample from like y'all thought Michael Jackson was hard to get samples from his estate like nah emm and them's a whole other level so I would say that one but they literally just took the snippet he put up on his like phone and used that same audio for the track so I'm not gonna I like that one but I'm gonna say flonnet slash cheap royal flush and probably sexy I ain't a lot sexy is is one of those flaunit slash cheap and sexy is one of those tracks where you really get

a sense of how the duality of Ray Ray Sherman the duality of Slim Jimmy and Sway Lee mixes because their styles are kind of unique from Slim Jimmy being a swag type rapper. He's not like a lyricist

but you know he wraps in a way that keeps you engaged and for Sway Lee to come with the melodies that are just out of this world. Really like a second coming. When it comes to Cuevo or Sway Lee, I'm not going to lie. Swayley is probably up there with like Post Malone the weekend and Drake when it comes to like choruses.

Not as far as vocally, because vocally I will compare him to the likes of like the weekend by Chris Brown as far as chorus making. But Swayley is in a whole different bracket when it comes to choruses. So I don't want to keep comparing him to Cuevo. I think he's better than Quavo as an artist. But anyways, Slim Jimmy, on the other hand, that's where it comes into play where he's,

he's more of a, I don't want to be disrespectful, but I feel like he's more of like an off-brand takeoff slash Quavo. Like he's like the rapper that doesn't really stand out on his own. Like Swayle's has definitely stood out on his own. Like, how can you say two words on a track with. Drake and Travis Scott and everybody remembers who it like everybody remembers who says, uh, what, what did he say off of that track? I think he said like someone said off of a sickle mode and everybody knows that Sway Lee.

Like what in the world? Like what world are we living in when an artist can say two words and everybody knows who their artist is? Like I don't understand. Like two words on a track with Drake and Travis Scott and everybody's like, oh, is that Sway Lee? Like, bro, ain't no way. So yeah. Uh, Swayley and Slim.

Jimmy on two different playing fields. That's not too discredit Slim Jimmy because I definitely think Swayley needs somebody. It's kind of like the Drake and 21 Savage effect. Drake, for her loss, needed 21 Savage in moments where it kind of got monotonous as far as the melodies and the chorus. Hopefully that makes sense. But yeah.

So, yeah, those are the three tracks I would point out. As far as other critiques on the album, I would say probably my only critique. Do I have a critique? Yeah, I'll probably say because it sounds more like a playlist than the actual concept album, but that's even nitpicky because, you know, Ray Schumer, they're not like no lyrical, miracle, spiritual type of duo.

You know, if we want to listen to that, like listen to Slaughterhouse or something. But for Ray Schremer, they give you summer anthems. And I mean anthems. Every single track off of this album, you could play in any setting outdoors, and I'm telling you, it's going to go off. Like, playing Roy,

Flusch featuring young thug playing indie track like Sway Lee is really one of the kings of choruses and I don't say that like off of the moment because like I just said he's been around forever like when did they first put out music right actually I was looking at this Ray Shrembert started a year either before or after Domingo so they've been well as far as like on a major label like basically what I mean about that is the first hit came like a year before. Actually, let me look it up. Where's the Migos at? Because No Flex came out in 2014 and everybody

knows that track. Like, no flex was a hit, right? Migos, they've been rapping since 2013. So they came a year after Ray Shremmer. And look how young they are. Like, I don't know. I just don't think the respect is really put on Ray Shremers' name. So Shrem for Life, obviously, for me, is one of my favorite albums of the year. I think in general

people really need to start considering duos as far as like putting two artists together because I think if artists really mesh they can have a longevity that a single a single artist by himself could not have and I think I'm confident saying that because if you think of outcast I mean people to this day it's trying to get an Andre 3,000 verse and that man is out there living his life on some GTA sign mission so um as far as what else who are the other duos in hip-hop I feel like I'm being disrespectful with this question. Hang on a lie.

Is Outcast number one? Is Ray Schremer number two? And man, I'm not going to lie to you. That's it. I can't think of anybody who's even closed because think about it. Ray Schumer made you freeze in the club. Ray Schumer made you dance in the club, listening to No Flex Zone. Obviously, they released, was it no type?

I mean, they just got anthems for days. Like, Ray Schumer is one of those artists that really needs a, um, what's it called a versus but then who would they versus like they would literally have to verse outcast and all the old heads would be like oh they're now on the same level when technically if you look at statistically it's kind of like the drake and j z effect if you look statistically ray strumber could have bigger tracks than uh outcast i know that's crazy to say y'all gonna kill me i know that's all right i'm gonna take it but but yeah now maybe i'm thinking about sway lee's side because sway lee has sunflower and um

unforgettable so maybe I'm attributing those to Ray Shimmer but Ray Shremitt alone I don't know if they have bigger tracks now because probably not but if we add Unforgettable Sunflower they may be up there

that's all I got to say because I think Unforgettable is literally one of like the most successful songs of all time like as far as like on pace um yeah because I think it's already diamond like

I'm not gonna say two times diamond but it's like diamond it's like but it's a lot of streams bro diamond is like what a billion or something like a billion copies or something like that and like streams don't equal like one copies so it's like you have to stream it a lot to get to a billion copies anyways y'all get the point race drummers goaded the album shrimp for life is is straightfire one of my favorite albums

of the year like i said um royal flush featuring young thug uh flonnet slash cheap and sexy is probably the top three tracks that I would recommend you listening to to to get a feel for the album. So yeah, click my link to my bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about Ray Strimbered dropping just a phenomenal album yet again? It's been nine years in the game going on to going on that's crazy. Going on a decade into the year, until the year. See, I can't talk. Going on a decade. And to the year. See, I can't talk. going on a decade of just straight hits is very insane for two artists for one artist in general is insane

but to stay together for that long i mean we've seen what happened with the migo's even before takeoff pass you know r p to takeoff but we've seen even before he passed demigos were done like off say and quavo don't know what they have but it's i guess it's done apparently slim jimmy suey lee had their beef which is why it took so long for this album to come out but they came back together and hopefully Cuevo and Offset can take a page out of their book. So click my link to my bio. Let me know in one of my social medias. Have you listened to Ray Strimmers Shrem for Life?

And if you have, did you think it was, no, no, no. What was your favorite track off of the album?