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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Connection => Topic started by: Sccit on December 16, 2018, 03:37:59 PM

Title: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Sccit on December 16, 2018, 03:37:59 PM
HIS FIRST ALBUM “VENICE” WAS STRAIGHT SINGIN

THEN A RARE VERSE HERE N THERE ON HIS LAST 2 PROJECTS “MALIBU” N “YES LAWD”

NOW ON HIS LATEST ALBUM “OXNARD”, SHIT THREW ME OFF WHEN HE WAS RAPPING 90% OF THE ALBUM

HE’S A COOL RAPPER, BUT A MUCH BETTER SINGER.... I THINK THATS WHY “MALIBU” AND “YES LAWD” WERE SO MUCH BETTER THAN HIS NEW SHIT.

I HAVENT HEARD ANYONE BRING THIS UP.. WHY THE SUDDEN TRANSITION?
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Soopafly DPGC on December 16, 2018, 07:11:17 PM
Sales?  Appeal to a wider audience?
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Sccit on December 16, 2018, 07:30:55 PM
Sales?  Appeal to a wider audience?


DID U NOTICE THAT ON HIS NEW ALBUM THO?

I DONT KNOW IF THATS THE REASON...THERES PLENTY OF SINGERS WHO DOIN IT BIG RIGHT NOW. FEELS LIKE HE WAS ALREADY ON THE RIGHT TRAJECTORY IF HE JUST STUCK TO THE FORMULAR.
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Soopafly DPGC on December 18, 2018, 02:42:24 PM
Sales?  Appeal to a wider audience?


DID U NOTICE THAT ON HIS NEW ALBUM THO?

I DONT KNOW IF THATS THE REASON...THERES PLENTY OF SINGERS WHO DOIN IT BIG RIGHT NOW. FEELS LIKE HE WAS ALREADY ON THE RIGHT TRAJECTORY IF HE JUST STUCK TO THE FORMULAR.

I notice nearly every artist changes their style/delivery as the years go by.  Anyone that tells you it has anything to do with anything other than sales and mainstream appeal is fooling themselves. 
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Sccit on December 18, 2018, 03:24:16 PM
Sales?  Appeal to a wider audience?


DID U NOTICE THAT ON HIS NEW ALBUM THO?

I DONT KNOW IF THATS THE REASON...THERES PLENTY OF SINGERS WHO DOIN IT BIG RIGHT NOW. FEELS LIKE HE WAS ALREADY ON THE RIGHT TRAJECTORY IF HE JUST STUCK TO THE FORMULAR.

I notice nearly every artist changes their style/delivery as the years go by.  Anyone that tells you it has anything to do with anything other than sales and mainstream appeal is fooling themselves.

changing styles is one thing

but going from a singer to a rapper is changing genres

it almost sounds like he wanted his own “tpab”
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Detox Is A Myth!!! on December 18, 2018, 06:09:05 PM
WHY THE SUDDEN TRANSITION?

Because he was releasing a major label album and they need to streamline your image and style to an extent to make it more palatable to the mainstream.  And let's face it -- the previous albums weren't blockbusters sales-wise, so the powers that be knew they had to slim him down and package him differently.
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Sccit on December 18, 2018, 10:32:05 PM
WHY THE SUDDEN TRANSITION?

Because he was releasing a major label album and they need to streamline your image and style to an extent to make it more palatable to the mainstream.  And let's face it -- the previous albums weren't blockbusters sales-wise, so the powers that be knew they had to slim him down and package him differently.

i thought his last 2 albums def had more pop appeal

they were even playin them in commercials and nba game segways

this is a step backwards commercially imo
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Okka on December 19, 2018, 02:05:59 AM
Who knows, maybe Dre wanted him to rap more?
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: fucku on December 19, 2018, 09:00:12 AM
whether it was dre or andersons decision to rap more, it was a mistake
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: dexter on December 19, 2018, 01:44:40 PM
whether it was dre or andersons decision to rap more, it was a mistake
u sign him then
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: 2Relevant on December 20, 2018, 02:28:39 PM
Just look at all the trap clones they all sing
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: B.A. on December 20, 2018, 06:46:11 PM
Maybe I'm tripping, but this dude sounds more and more like Kendrick to me. Not trying to say that he's as good of a rapper but just saying his tone and just his style in general is similar. Maybe that's why he's rapping more now?
Title: Re: IS IT ME OR DID ANDERSON PAAK TRANSITION FROM A SINGER TO A RAPPER?
Post by: Sccit on December 20, 2018, 08:59:06 PM
Maybe I'm tripping, but this dude sounds more and more like Kendrick to me. Not trying to say that he's as good of a rapper but just saying his tone and just his style in general is similar. Maybe that's why he's rapping more now?

they definitely share a similar cadence

i used to say paak was the rich man’s singing version of kendrick .. now he’s just a poor man’s rapping version. hopefully he learned his lesson, as i’m not sure “oxnard” did the numbers they expected.