New Music Friday: 21 Savage's 'American Dream'
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Noteworthy albums out January 19:
- Sleater-Kinney, Little Rope
- Green Day, Saviors
- Eladio Carrión, Sol María
- Ana Tijoux, Vida
- Brittney Spencer, My Stupid Life
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward
- Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable
- glass beach, plastic death
- ericdoa, DOA
- Neck Deep, Neck Deep
- Fredo Bang, Yes, I'm Sad
- Keyon Harrold, Foreverland
- Jozef Van Wissem, The Night Dwells In The Day
- Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino, With pats on the head, just one too few evil one too many is good that's all it is
- Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego, Greatest Hits
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| 0:17.0 | A quick note before the show, this podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:22.0 | What is 21 Savage's American Dream? |
| 0:27.0 | It's New Music Friday, and that's the question we're going to try to crack on this episode. |
| 0:31.0 | We normally talk about brand new albums, but last week, after five years, |
| 0:36.3 | when of hip-hop's most consistent stars returned, and there's a lot to unpack. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Sheldon Pierce, editor at MPR Music. I'm joined by MPR Music, |
| 0:46.7 | Sydney Madden and Rodney Carmichael. Hey guys. |
| 0:49.7 | What up? Sheldon, what's up? What's up? Tell my iPhone down a little bit. |
| 0:58.0 | December of 2018, the Atlanta rapper released his last solo album, |
| 1:02.0 | I am greater than I was. |
| 1:04.1 | But only two months later he was taken into custody by US immigration and |
| 1:08.2 | customs enforcement or ICE, an arrest that revealed to the public that he was a British national with an expired non-immigrant visa. |
| 1:17.0 | How much money you got a lot? |
| 1:20.0 | Now he's back with American Dream. His first album since his arrest. |
| 1:26.0 | Bulletproof my car. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, he a home body. |
| 1:30.0 | And his yard. Go to clubs and let down their guard. |
| 1:34.0 | We got choppers out until we find somewhere to part. |
| 1:37.0 | We didn't know this record was coming, |
| 1:40.0 | but it arrives suddenly with a ton of info a trailer a new video |
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