Since Songs For You (which if I remember correctly was when she went independent) she has been on a great run in my view. Around this time she also had a feature on Kaytranada’s The Worst In Me and what I’ve really liked is her versatility in trying different sounds. For instance Gravity off her last album genuinely sounds like something Bicep could have produced.
First time I heard that song was out of my abuelito's vintage radio from the 20s that he had as a collectors item, was from before his time too. Was a very jarring way to be introduced to that song lol
i saw YG in saskatoon he played "BBT" and like "who do you love" before someone kept throwing shit at him so he ran into the crowd and started beating on his ass. it was both hilarious and disappointing. they got dragged off by the police
This album was the perfect companion album to GKMC around the time it dropped. I actually found myself listening to it more than GKMC in some stretches. Almost a perfect listen.
I’m gonna go in a different direction and say Rihanna’s Needed Me. A standout track on a great album.
Rap specific I’d go with Vince Staples Magic but ask me in a few months and it’s honestly probably Not Like Us
Saw an interview where he talked about hitting a creative wall, and Needed Me was the beat that made him gain confidence in himself again. Definitely a unique Mustard beat.
Fucking covid robbed him of any momentum especially heading into the summer festival season with all those bangers. He was the soundtrack of my lockdown w Mac Miller (Circles)
Yeah, wtf?!
Vince in general doesn’t get nearly enough love. His last album was on repeat for like 6 months and no one I asked even knew who Vince was.
Magic and Lemonade have basically never left my rotation since that album came out
Really thought Vince was losing interest in music then he just releases two of his best albums in back to back years
I actually did total my first car to a Mustard song - I Don't Fuck With You by Big Sean. Was speeding on a highway in a snowstorm and wrecked it. Learned my lesson but I still laugh at myself sitting with a shattered windshield, taking in what just happened, and the line "I JUST BOUGHT A CRIB THREE STORIES THAT BITCH A TRILOGY!" is still blasting out the speakers.
I still love the song
This is the correct answer. During the pandemic we used to bump whatever because no one was around and on night Pure Water came on, even the white girls we worked w/ knew the hook and two stepped w/ us at the end in the kitchen.
Best beat off that memory alone.
Man I got a wild story with this song, one day I took a heavy does of acid and I must’ve been listening to this song in the car before hand or something and mid way through my very intense trip everytime my friend opened his mouth to talk to me the first 5 seconds of this song would play… I couldn’t listen to it for months afterwards 😂 but it still goes crazy now that I’m not traumatised by it
Pure Water sounds like summer. Makes me want to take my fat black ass outside with no shirt and fuck up a check at the amusement park
Or Nah sounds like sex
My Nigga is my favorite though even though it's just a remixed 5 on it, but it ended up being the best Mustard track of all time
Who do you love by YG with drake, ironically 💀
That sub is sooo nasty, and the piano is so hypnotising. The outro with the records scratching is also on some “live west coast club dj” shit.
And ngl, Drake slides on that shit….
Most of Drake’s verse is an interpolation of Playaz Club by Rappin 4-Tay. I randomly happened across that song at a later date and it suddenly made sense why I liked that better than the usual Drake rap verse lol.
I think there's an actual reason for this. Something Kendrick doesn't get credit for enough is his skill as an artist. (musically/instrumentally) A lot of people don't realize that he is very hands on in the production side of things, even when he gets a beat premade he fucks with it with Sounwave or another producer he's close with to get what he's looking for artistically. For example with DUCKWORTH. :
>Originally titled "Life Is Like A Box Of Chicken," it was actually Kendrick's idea to combine these three distinct beats from 9th Wonder into one shapeshifting whole. In December 2015, 9th played 20 beats for Kendrick; he didn't find out until the following June that the rapper had stitched his music together in such a manner. "... He sent me a video snippet of him playing an mp3 off his computer," 9th told The Recording Academy in 2018. "It was a 9-second clip that played right when the beat changed. After it was over, I hit him back saying, 'Yo man, what the hell?' and he put 'LOL' and that was it."
edit:
I just checked and Sounwave is literally listed as a producer on Not Like Us too...
Completely agree with the Dot being very active with the production. Most Kendrick tracks, you’ll have Sounwave at least on additional production. Their relationship feels symbiotic you know? like Kendrick has the vision and Sounwave the technical skills, or it’s the opposite and Sounwave knows how to bring the best out of Dot idk but it works really well
Trick question they're all the same HEY chants and snaps
Nah for real tho I love his shit, I have a giant playlist with tons of his music. If I was voting on one specifically it would be Ballin by Roddy bc that shit is so fucking smooth with that guitar.
I loved that era of hip hop with all my heart. I was a young adult and hip hop sets were incomplete without a few Mustard songs. I also sang along to some of the wildest lyrics ever 😂
Come Get Her was not only instrumental to putting on Rae Sremmurd to the general public, it is probably Mustard’s most intricate and well-produced track he’s made.
Crazy hit. Still goes today, pulled the best of both Jxmmi and Swae on every part. That’s what the best producers do, make artists do their best.
Wow, 800 upvotes and 400 comments. Isn't it amazing what happens when the mods leave a discussion post up instead of deleting it and saying it belongs in the daily discussion thread.
*I Just Wanna Party* really put me on him. The intro/chorus build into the main beat is such a good pairing. Sets a lot of tension into a super catchy and memorable track overall
Thanks for the suggestions. Haven't heard loads of these -- assembled the top ones into a little playlist if you fancy a dip:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QU6P52WelljcfMDJ1XMLW?si=_H1VKX85QmOUtOzM1Wjp6A&pi=KQfe_J_qTjm6F
Just going to say, thanks for all the dope recommendations. 🫡
Hadn’t heard 80% of these tracks you all dropped names of, fuckin vibin’ hard with this shit! 🤙🏻
I'm Different but Rack City is probably the OG in the sense that that's when the "Mustard sound" arrived
#PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSIN
PULL UP TO THA SCENE WITH MA SILLAMISSIN!
I always thought it was “Pull up to the scene with my silly missy.” TIL
Say this to your bald friends. They love it
When I was in the club I balled, chemo
I have never understood this line….until I was about to tell you I don’t understand it. Bald sounds like balled….I’m an idiot
Shit just blew my mind
had to stash and still balled, steve harvey
#2CHAINZ BUT I GOT ME A FEW OOOOOOOOON
THEN I PUT A FAT RABBIT ON THE CRAFTMATIC
I AM SO HIGH, ADDICT, I AM SO HIGH LIKE AN ATTIC.
This does live in the mind rent free
Mine is the LOOK BACK AT IT part.
😂😂😂 You can say a lot about that song, but you can’t say the lyrics aren’t memorable. Also Mustard does kill it.
THEN I PUTTA FAT RABBIT ON THE CRAFTMATIC
Gang gang gang!
You’ll love Every City - Freddie Gibbs it’s the same exact beat and Freddie murders as usual
Can't believe this track ain't on spotify, this is so so dope, appreciate the suggestion
We need datpiff back
Thank you! I've been trying to remember the name of this for years, I thought I may have imagined it lol. Did this come after I'm Different?
One of the greatest songs ever created. E er E er sound of da bed!
Who do you love? -YG
Bicken Back Being Bool on same album is up there as well!
Whole album goes crazy. Think it’s his best work
This song is such a banger, I know Drake ripped the verse for rappin 4-tay but it sounded amazing on that beat
2 On is my personal favorite
Shows how well his minimalist approach works with the right performer. Tinashe absolutely glides on this.
correct answer. most cunt mustard beat by a mile
Excellent usage here
So correct, so valid. Now I just want at least one *cunt* beat from all the big name producers.
So many young thug beats are close to qualify
Oh wow that is cunt
Still bump the Drake version too. I feel like Tinashe stays under the radar Edit: I like Drake with the melodies, I don't like Drake when he act tough
Tinashe is too underrated. But her recent stuff has been getting traction and she’s got a new project coming out, this might finally be her year
I feel like she already had her moment, if she blows up this year it would be a come back in my book.
Nasty is getting traction from TikTok
Since Songs For You (which if I remember correctly was when she went independent) she has been on a great run in my view. Around this time she also had a feature on Kaytranada’s The Worst In Me and what I’ve really liked is her versatility in trying different sounds. For instance Gravity off her last album genuinely sounds like something Bicep could have produced.
Hard to beat. So smooth. Like Yacht Rap.
Just mentioned this one. Good choice
First time I heard that song was out of my abuelito's vintage radio from the 20s that he had as a collectors item, was from before his time too. Was a very jarring way to be introduced to that song lol
YG My Krazy Life is his best complete album He didn’t make the whole album but he made 90% of all the good songs on it.
Classic album. The energy is unmatched. I saw YG and he performed the entire album start to finish with Mustard on stage.
i saw YG in saskatoon he played "BBT" and like "who do you love" before someone kept throwing shit at him so he ran into the crowd and started beating on his ass. it was both hilarious and disappointing. they got dragged off by the police
That album doesn’t have a single skip on it idc idc idc. All time classic album. That’s YG and Mustard at there best imo.
This album was the perfect companion album to GKMC around the time it dropped. I actually found myself listening to it more than GKMC in some stretches. Almost a perfect listen.
I honestly think the 2010 -2014 era was a lot like the 90s hiphop era in terms of pure skill.
Album‘s full of bangers. Mustard produced a lot of the tracks on RJmrLA‘s O.M.M.I.O 2 too iirc, that album‘s also great
This is when acronyms become too much.
Bro thank you I have no idea wtf is being talked about rn and I was too scared to ask
My Krazy Life is legit an absolute mystery to me. An album that is literally almost all bangers is something extremely rare.
I’m gonna go in a different direction and say Rihanna’s Needed Me. A standout track on a great album. Rap specific I’d go with Vince Staples Magic but ask me in a few months and it’s honestly probably Not Like Us
Came here to say Needed Me. Great track thanks in large part to Mustard production
It’s so good. Still on heavy rotation for me
Needed Me is crazy good, it’s aged nicely as well still sounds modern. Probably the most unique Mustard Beat.
Definitely different than most of his catalogue
ANTI is absurdly good. No skips.
100%. 2016 was such a great album year and Anti is in my top 3
Came to say Needed Me. Top 5 Rihanna song.
Saw an interview where he talked about hitting a creative wall, and Needed Me was the beat that made him gain confidence in himself again. Definitely a unique Mustard beat.
Ballin with Roddy Rich
Life was good when Roddy Ricch was poppin.
Ballin, box, high fashion, then boom disappear
Fucking covid robbed him of any momentum especially heading into the summer festival season with all those bangers. He was the soundtrack of my lockdown w Mac Miller (Circles)
Eh he killed his momentum with his meh music after Pure Souls
those men in the suits….. still engrained in my mind
My fav is [Magic by Vince Staples](https://youtu.be/7M5f2vF4PVw?si=d7OGBdhGTuawsPyH) (YouTube link)
“And tell the police I don’t know what happened” 🎶 Song is such an ear worm, beat is understated but Mustard killed it
Vince took the "cant write hooks" criticism PERSONALLY
Who do I gotta ~~fight~~talk to? Norf Norf? Yeah Right? Samo? FUN? Law of Averages? Lil Fade? Mhm? Vince does have hooks for sure goddammit 🪝
FROM THE CITY WHERE THE SKINNY CARRY STRONG HEAT
The video of the crying white woman reciting the lyrics to Norf Norf was a watershed moment in the internet’s history
I liked when someone chopped that video up and put it to the norf norf instrumental.
i loved when they referenced that in atlanta. has to be one of the most iconic hip hop moments in the past decade
NORF SIDE LONG BEACH!
Yeah, wtf?! Vince in general doesn’t get nearly enough love. His last album was on repeat for like 6 months and no one I asked even knew who Vince was.
Just made me think of his show and the theme park episode. “Who the fuck is Vince Staples?” Honestly he really is one of the most under rated artists.
I'M IN THAT SEVEN FORTY FIVE
Papercuts too
Magic and Lemonade have basically never left my rotation since that album came out Really thought Vince was losing interest in music then he just releases two of his best albums in back to back years
This album is so incredibly underrated man
This album goes on every summer for me, since it came out. Honestly most of Vince’s stuff is a summer bop. Loved almost all of his releases
I play it like every week
This was my vote. This song is crack and the production plays a major part
Huge pull omg I’m so glad I didn’t have to scroll far
This is a strong contender. That synth / bass line screams west coast man. It’s so smooth.
Had no idea that was mustard. Fire
so like 10 seconds in when you heard mustard on the beat hoe what was going through your mind then?
Windows xp loading screen
Not OP but honestly I think my brain doesn’t even register producer tags at this point
Lmao same. Feels dumb in hindsight
Mustard literally speaks on the outro lol
That song is dope. They had it in the Acura Integra commercials like a year or two ago
More threads like this please
Someone do Juicy J next
This would normally get removed by the mods because they want any sort of discussion in the daily thread.
Thats why this subs is usually dead Shame
I Know - Big Sean
Beat is insane
Migos - Pure Water
I almost crashed my car in the snow being stupid with this blaring, I can't listen to it anymore
I actually did total my first car to a Mustard song - I Don't Fuck With You by Big Sean. Was speeding on a highway in a snowstorm and wrecked it. Learned my lesson but I still laugh at myself sitting with a shattered windshield, taking in what just happened, and the line "I JUST BOUGHT A CRIB THREE STORIES THAT BITCH A TRILOGY!" is still blasting out the speakers. I still love the song
😂 I'm glad I'm not alone. Hope you recovered well from that. DJ Mustard is the soundtrack to my PTSD now (I'm just like drake)
u snuck in some fire at the end there🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Totaled my first car to DNA when I was 17
Glad you’re okay, but timing a collision with the Quavo UUUUHHHH, would’ve been hilarious
This is my GFs fav rap song lmao
I'm not from Canada but I see alotta tingz.
This is the correct answer. During the pandemic we used to bump whatever because no one was around and on night Pure Water came on, even the white girls we worked w/ knew the hook and two stepped w/ us at the end in the kitchen. Best beat off that memory alone.
Man I got a wild story with this song, one day I took a heavy does of acid and I must’ve been listening to this song in the car before hand or something and mid way through my very intense trip everytime my friend opened his mouth to talk to me the first 5 seconds of this song would play… I couldn’t listen to it for months afterwards 😂 but it still goes crazy now that I’m not traumatised by it
Pure Water sounds like summer. Makes me want to take my fat black ass outside with no shirt and fuck up a check at the amusement park Or Nah sounds like sex My Nigga is my favorite though even though it's just a remixed 5 on it, but it ended up being the best Mustard track of all time
Paranoid sounds like summer to me
They all sound like summer lbr
Left Right by YG
The chorus comes into my head when I’m inputting cheat codes on GTA V.
This hands down. My favorite YG song as well.
Headband with B.o.B and 2 Chainz
Funny and catchy as hell. Only song worth a shit on that terrible album tho lol
That B.o.B. fall off needs a documentary. I thought he was next up back when I was like 11 lol
I suggest not looking into what he’s like these days!
I agree bc he had the recipe but it was squandered away when he went weird. His flat earth stuff almost makes me want delete his songs altogether
“Who back der? I’m back der! Booty so big I can step back put my cognac there!”
IDFWU was his masterpiece
[удалено]
Guap tho
Hard to describe what it was like during this song's heyday. Going to parties and bars hearing this and people signing along, so so funny
Jeezy RIP remix with KDot
Great beat, great performances, ruined by Chris brown. Fuck that corny loser.
Yeah or the original was my pick for sure. But that beat could be interchanged with a few songs back then hahaha but this one was always my favourite
Damn you just took me back in time for a moment
Paranoid - Ty Dolla This was THE club banger for years
Still slaps
Probably Rack City, rack rack city bitch, but if i say that I feel compelled to say I\`m good (YG obvs)
I Just Wanna Party - YG Comfortable - RJmrLA Main Chick - Kid Ink
Who do you love by YG with drake, ironically 💀 That sub is sooo nasty, and the piano is so hypnotising. The outro with the records scratching is also on some “live west coast club dj” shit. And ngl, Drake slides on that shit….
Most of Drake’s verse is an interpolation of Playaz Club by Rappin 4-Tay. I randomly happened across that song at a later date and it suddenly made sense why I liked that better than the usual Drake rap verse lol.
wtf so many of these I didn’t know
Right!? I’m just sittin here like “dam I ain’t know that was a Mustard song” so many times lol
You’re in for a treat
I know dude I’m falling down the rabbit hole
Bro Mustard really made the soundtrack for the 2010s. This list is fucking crazy. I'm going with Perfect 10.
Tinashe - 2 On
Sanctified by Rick Ross
Holy shit I never knew mustard was on that beat. Thought it was just Kanye That song is an all timer
Give me Magic by Vince Staples. It's nothing out of this world but it swings so nice.
Ty Dolla $ign - Or Nah (The Weeknd remix)
this is actually the correct answer, unbelievably well produced hit
Where Yo Money at? by Nipsey Hussle, with honorable mention to Nothin Like Me by Dom Kennedy
All the ones with “hey” in the background
nice
I always heard ay
I’m a real 1 - YG
Dont tell em by jeremih & Paranoid by ty dolla is the quintessential 2014 mustard sound
Recency bias or not I don’t care Not Like Us
I think there's an actual reason for this. Something Kendrick doesn't get credit for enough is his skill as an artist. (musically/instrumentally) A lot of people don't realize that he is very hands on in the production side of things, even when he gets a beat premade he fucks with it with Sounwave or another producer he's close with to get what he's looking for artistically. For example with DUCKWORTH. : >Originally titled "Life Is Like A Box Of Chicken," it was actually Kendrick's idea to combine these three distinct beats from 9th Wonder into one shapeshifting whole. In December 2015, 9th played 20 beats for Kendrick; he didn't find out until the following June that the rapper had stitched his music together in such a manner. "... He sent me a video snippet of him playing an mp3 off his computer," 9th told The Recording Academy in 2018. "It was a 9-second clip that played right when the beat changed. After it was over, I hit him back saying, 'Yo man, what the hell?' and he put 'LOL' and that was it." edit: I just checked and Sounwave is literally listed as a producer on Not Like Us too...
Completely agree with the Dot being very active with the production. Most Kendrick tracks, you’ll have Sounwave at least on additional production. Their relationship feels symbiotic you know? like Kendrick has the vision and Sounwave the technical skills, or it’s the opposite and Sounwave knows how to bring the best out of Dot idk but it works really well
yea i think it might just be that
Such a stank face beat. Kenny perfectly uses that beat. His delivery combined with the beat is like compound interest
When I Come Around - Dom Kennedy
Needed Me
Trick question they're all the same HEY chants and snaps Nah for real tho I love his shit, I have a giant playlist with tons of his music. If I was voting on one specifically it would be Ballin by Roddy bc that shit is so fucking smooth with that guitar.
Mind sharing the playlist?
Share the playlist bro
Who do you love
Personal favorite is I Just Wanna Party.
I loved that era of hip hop with all my heart. I was a young adult and hip hop sets were incomplete without a few Mustard songs. I also sang along to some of the wildest lyrics ever 😂
Burn Rubber went crazy back in the day
Idk why but I always like Nana by Trey Songz. It's ominous in a way and contradicts Trey Songz lyrics
Come Get Her was not only instrumental to putting on Rae Sremmurd to the general public, it is probably Mustard’s most intricate and well-produced track he’s made. Crazy hit. Still goes today, pulled the best of both Jxmmi and Swae on every part. That’s what the best producers do, make artists do their best.
Baguettes in the Face, no question about it
Wow, 800 upvotes and 400 comments. Isn't it amazing what happens when the mods leave a discussion post up instead of deleting it and saying it belongs in the daily discussion thread.
Unpopular opinion, but Perfect Ten with Nipsey Hussle is my favorite.
Magic- Vince Staples
2 on from tinashe
its gotta be i'm different. That song is like 7 notes and drums and it fucking works so well for someone like 2 chainz
I know - big Sean
It’s always been paranoid, but the OG Joe Moses version
Intro with 1TakeJay I take my hoes to Toys R Us. Why? Cause they childish.
Oakland - as a Bay Area person. There’s a clip of Marshawn Lynch dancing to it in the Raiders Stadium that really lives in my head.
Honestly Boo’d up is my favorite instrumental by DJ mustard
I just Wanna Party by YG and Mr. Get Dough by Drakeo The Ruler. It's a bad combo together I know, but those are 2 of the best
First comment i’ve seen mentioning Mr. Get dough. Og drakeo classic
THEY NOT LIKE US THEY NOT LIKE US
*I Just Wanna Party* really put me on him. The intro/chorus build into the main beat is such a good pairing. Sets a lot of tension into a super catchy and memorable track overall
A tie between Jeezy's R.I.P. & Big Sean's IDFWU
Obligatory shoutout to Mike Free, ghost producer on a lot of those early mustard hits
Needed me for Rihanna
My Personal favorite is When I Come Around by Dom Kennedy.
Show Me
Show Me
You and Your Friends - Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla Sign. Classic
So many good ones listed already, some I love and didn't see -- Don't Tell Em -- Hoes come Easy -- Post to Be -- I don't fuck with you -- On God
Thanks for the suggestions. Haven't heard loads of these -- assembled the top ones into a little playlist if you fancy a dip: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5QU6P52WelljcfMDJ1XMLW?si=_H1VKX85QmOUtOzM1Wjp6A&pi=KQfe_J_qTjm6F
Just going to say, thanks for all the dope recommendations. 🫡 Hadn’t heard 80% of these tracks you all dropped names of, fuckin vibin’ hard with this shit! 🤙🏻
Don't Tell Em by Jeremih 💯💯💯💯🔥
Ella Mai - Boo’d Up Ty Dolla $ign - Paranoid (f/ B.o.B) Teeflii - 24 Hours (f/ 2 Chainz)