rodeo is the greatest trap album

Rodeo is the greatest trap album of all time. Yes, I'm doubling down. Travi$ has something in all of his projects that's just unique to him. Just the way Rodeo starts with P*rnography is so melancholic. The production and the storytelling style that starts here and ends with Apple Pie just teleports you beyond your room. Even though Travis's production is very heavily inspired by Kanye, and Kanye produces a lot of Travis's songs, he's got his own touch to it, like I said before. Just watch videos of him working on his albums and you'll get it. There's one more thing too. I think the autotune just matches his voice so well, and so does the energy he brings to the studio.

Anyways, back to Rodeo. After the majestic intro, Oh My Dis Side just slides in and takes off. The second half of this song is beautiful. 10/10. 3500, Future goes off. A trap song with Travis and Future with a beat like this? You already know. Wasted, beautiful chorus and Travis's verse is very nice. Not a huge fan of Juicy J on this song. 90210, one of Travis's best songs. The production, the flow switches, the melancholic tune, the hunger, everything just shows. At this point imagine you're in 2015, listening to Travis for the first time, halfway through his album, and you don't know who the fuck this guy is but you just know he'll make it. Oh My Dis Side had you riled up and 90210 convinced you completely. Pray 4 Love is a very popular song. I like it. Not a huge huge fan but it's nice. Then comes Nightcrawler, one of my favourite songs to get me hyped up. Swae Lee might have some of the best vocals of all time, and they go so well with Travis's songs in general. I wasn't a huge fan of Piss on Your Grave at first because I felt like the lyrics weren't fun to listen to (I usually don't even care), but later on I realized how good the fusion of rap and guitars was on this song. I'm yet to find another one with production like this. It feels like a pure Kanye and Mike Dean masterpiece. I love Maria I'm Drunk. What Justin Bieber did on this song just paved the way for future pop artists to hop on rap songs and just do what they do best. And Young Thug just does his thing. I love Antidote. This is the intro to the trap style Travis flaunts later on in his career. It's the type of song that goes triple platinum. Sicko Mode wouldn't exist if Antidote didn't. Flying High is kind of an interlude-ish song I think, and it's great. Not sdp interlude tier but great nonetheless. On I Can Tell he just locks in so hard. The verse is so hard. And Apple Pie might be one of my favourite songs in general and I think it's Travis's best storytelling. I just love the meaning behind it and the way it wraps up the album with the final bit of storytelling. The other two songs on the deluxe are pretty decent but I don't really like them, and I think that's because Apple Pie puts a full stop to this album.

Do I do drugs? No. But I love psychedelic music. It's just beautiful. Feels like everyone puts more effort into psychedelic production to bring the atmosphere to you. Since I love going off track so much, my general recs for psychedelic Travis songs are Coffee Bean, Sweet Sweet, Astrothunder and the second half of Til Further Notice. If you want to go deeper into the iceberg, try The Curse, Grey and First Take. I'd say the whole of Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight has a beautiful sound to it. I'm so conflicted writing this because I say that Rodeo is the greatest trap album, but then there are days when I listen to Birds from front to back and I can't help but think, do I like it more than Rodeo? I absolutely love Astroworld and Utopia, and I'm not trying to sound superior by acting like older albums are always better, but Birds and Rodeo have a sound to them that I don't think can be replicated. Rodeo is still my pick, but Birds makes me question it every time.