FOCUS... PRESENTS THE NEW NORMAL (Official Discussion)

[Jay_J]

Dr. Dre's right hand man, Aftermath producer, the legendary Focus aka Focus 3 dots released a compilation album called "The New Normal".

Here is the tracklist

1- The New Normal (ft. Mike Phillips)
2- Times R Hard (ft. J. Sol)
3- Darker Daze (ft. Dem Jointz)
4- Everything (ft. Dria)
5- The Way (Little Brother, BeMyFiasco)
6- Somethin' Ain't Right (ft. Cocoa Sarai)
7- What R We Now (ft. Suzanah Jones, J. Sol, Jola)
8- Look Where We Are ()ft. Stalone)
9- Let's Make Time (ft. Stalone)
10- Pvt Party (ft. Vxllxy, Marsha Ambrosius)
11- Use Each Other (ft. Aine Carroll)
12- Runnin (ft. K.A.A.N.)
13- Rockin' Out (ft. MC Tae, Jessame)
14- It's All Timin (ft. Nmbrnd)
15- Family First (ft. Busta Rhymes, Xzibit)

[dj coma]

Good looks. Definitely some dope songs on here after a quick skip through. The EQ on the vocals sounds really dull on a lot of the songs. I think it was intentional sound he was going for but I’m not feeling it.

[Sccit]

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ZtmZOUiREdJTnJmimj5VT?si=gFarscnNREGroaJHGTymxg

[Funkstradamus]

is it stream only?
  ive been looking for somewhere to buy it but i can't find a link.

[Orbyte]

is it stream only?
  ive been looking for somewhere to buy it but i can't find a link.

Focus shared this link to apple music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/focus-presents-the-new-norml/1537513892
You can atleast get redirected to iTunes if you click the link below the tracklist.

I'm halfway through now btw, the album sounds good.

[romson19]

2- Times R Hard (ft. J. Sol)
 idk who is J Sol but that song is pure fire!!!

BTW
dope compilation no doubt... i think i saw a few months ago on his ig a little bit different tracklist and another cover of that project. He changed it after his son died

[Jay_J]

2- Times R Hard (ft. J. Sol)
 idk who is J Sol but that song is pure fire!!!

BTW
dope compilation no doubt... i think i saw a few months ago on his ig a little bit different tracklist and another cover of that project. He changed it after his son died

;

https://www.datpiff.com/Sway-Focus-It-had-2-happen-mixtape.1576.html

that song is from 2006. his name was Jay Life that day and the song was featuring gage money and bishop lamont.

14 years later he mixed the song properly, produced a second part and let J.Sol do his own thing about black lives matter issue.

really great song. definately an Aftermath Era.

[romson19]

thank U homie...

[Young Old Head]

I know it's kinda off-topic but I'm looking for all of Focus...'s instrumental projects after 2010. He released 3 volumes of his "aNALOG iN a dIGITAL wORLD" beat tapes and there's also another one called "For No Reason..." + I wouldn't mind a instrumental version of his new album either

[doggfather]

gonna check right now!

[romson19]

Xzibit killed this ishhhhhhhh right here

[doggfather]

not bad at all. reminds me terrace martin not dr dre. the album is rnb, not rap, but good.

[Orbyte]

Been bumping Focus' old mixtapes for some months now and I gotta say I prefer the old version of "Times R Hard".
It sounds way more organic and the sample doesn't sound that disconnected from the beat. The singer on the new version is nice though.

[Jay_J]

not bad at all. reminds me terrace martin not dr dre. the album is rnb, not rap, but good.

he said he is dissapointed that people are not open minded to new sounds.

but, what was he expecting really with that comptenish rnb album?

too experimental sound for rap fans.

[Marco]

I know it's kinda off-topic but I'm looking for all of Focus...'s instrumental projects after 2010. He released 3 volumes of his "aNALOG iN a dIGITAL wORLD" beat tapes and there's also another one called "For No Reason..." + I wouldn't mind a instrumental version of his new album either

There are 5 projects of his "aNALOG iN a dIGITAL wORLD" series. I got all of them.

https://focus3dots.bandcamp.com