From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12558 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, November 8 2023 Volume 14 : Number 12558 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Affordable Foreclosures! ["Home Foreclosure Listings" Subject: Affordable Foreclosures! Affordable Foreclosures! http://proplatinum.shop/ZX8MBIGIEa-fjb_Ca6pFAtO_7YqkMnrHtkhWVL4c-XBQTGhx0A http://proplatinum.shop/Aa485zUkBpM5Gu-YUsC6MH6bxNsaGgjqGY8xHMD0WrhqMxKK-Q SZA wanted to include rap as a major element of her second studio album, SOS (2022). The media tended to categorize her as an R&B artist, and she staunchly disagreed with the description. In her view, she was forced into the label because she was a Black woman, to which she asserted: "I love making Black music, period. Something that is just full of energy. Black music doesn't have to just be R&B Why can't we just be expansive and not reductive?" According to Punch, president of SZA's record label Top Dawg Entertainment, SZA recorded an "[extended play]'s worth" of strictly rap records during the making of SOS.[note 2] The final product contains three rap tracksbone in the beginning, one in the end, and one in the middle. The rap track in the middle is titled "Smoking on My Ex Pack".[note 3] The song's composition incorporates chipmunk soul, a production style that uses looped, sped-up samples of soul music; in the case of "Smoking on My Ex Pack", the song sampled is Webster Lewis's "Open Up Your Eyes" (1981). "Smoking on My Ex Pack" is a boom bap song, built around hard-hitting drum beats. Jay Versace, a record producer and former comedian, produced "Smoking on My Ex Pack". Versace, whom SZA credited with getting her interested in creating "aggressive" rap music, created the beat sometime in 2022, three years after the two first met up for the album's recording sessions. He was inspired by the boom bap music he had heard growing up, much of which played on his car radio when he was driving with his father. For "Smoking on My Ex Pack", he wanted SZA's take on these childhood songs: "I literally made that for her That was specifically for her ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12558 ***********************************************