There’s a pervasive sense of comfort and serenity in the man’s music. He’s always curled up in a couch, or jetting off to some faraway place, or staring out the window and remarking on just how beautiful the view is. Even those who don’t smoke can understand his fixation with creature comforts, often the kind you’d expect to be enjoyed by a middle-aged man rather than an MC in his mid-‘30s. He’s the type to brag about his argyle socks or recommend the hand-squeezed lemonade at his favorite diner. The most lovable facets of the man’s music are on full display on his Pilot Talk trilogy, now freshly packaged together and finally available to stream. Some songs have hooks some have guests some are just Curren$y rapping for two or three or four minutes with no chorus or guests or interruptions.Įach tape is about 45 minutes, and together they sprawl to about the length of one of Curren$y’s favorite classic films. #CURRENSY PILOT TALK ZIPPYSHARE FULL#Īnd though his discography’s full of surprises, like the live-band Muscle Car Chronicles, he doesn’t stray far from his comfort zone on the Pilot Talk series, working mostly with soul-enamored beatmaker Ski and sticking to weed, cars, jets and women as subject matter-with plenty of digressions that make his rhymes all the more delightful. That this sameness can sustain itself for so long is a tribute to just how complete and enjoyable Curren$y’s aesthetic is. His music is weightless, decked out with lounge guitar and gossamer string samples. He’s not far off on “Montreux” when he compares his music to Marvin Gaye’s 1980 performance at that famous jazz festival. And though his rhymes are dense and drunk with language, they’re never hard to follow. If you miss a detail, there’s bound to be something else you can sink into a couple bars down. It’s the kind of luxury rap you can listen to in just about any situation and feel like you’re sipping mimosas by the beach. So the compilation passes by like a cloud, and the individual tapes blend into each other. It’s a listening experience not unlike Todd Rundgren’s Something/Anything?, the gold standard for double albums that deepen and get weirder as they go on. The first Pilot Talk is the most song-oriented and, accordingly, has the best individual songs-“Skybourne,” a posse cut with Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA and the psychedelic shimmer of a Shuggie Otis song and “Breakfast,” which is the best song about getting high I’ve ever heard.
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