From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12568 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 12568 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Your chance to receive a FREE DEWALT 200 Piece Mechanics Tool Set ["Confi] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 19:32:47 +0100 From: "Confirmation Needed" Subject: Your chance to receive a FREE DEWALT 200 Piece Mechanics Tool Set Your chance to receive a FREE DEWALT 200 Piece Mechanics Tool Set http://septifixx.info/kl_VNosRKm-7BdiDNM21r55nN7FexYjj426hEyqM2W4aClFNQQ http://septifixx.info/3K0LFxNhSiGXj38HLa8JKuJ7v9Gq-svj9iPQuHSpJ1OitU9jig ust 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." Versace chose to sample "Open Up Your Eyes" because of his interest in love ballads from the latter half of the 20th century, citing the "really crazy instrumentation in their music". Particularly, he liked the song's horns and vocals, so he created the sample in Ableton and formed a beat around it. Once he finished, he sent th ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12568 ***********************************************