i can't believe people in chat didnt like the beat for Garbage Pale Kids, it's genuinely my favorite beat of all time at this point

i dont get the hate for it either! not my favorite song by any means, but the beat is great and the best part of the song for me

It's seriously so good

Wait, seriously? That’s like the best beat on the whole thing. Couldn’t stop replaying that song after finishing the album.

Fr

they call every beat "goofy ahh beat" 😒

i was in the bus on the way to the campus while hearing this, jpegmafia and danny are on whole another game, i was so blown away. Peggy must be one of the most talented producers of these 2 decades.

I listened to it during a Physics class, greatest Physics class of my life

i was going fucking CRAZY in chemistry today

@ethannhuntt  breaking bad reference

The production is wild as hell. I loved it. I’m excited to give it a second listen

i skipped school today to listen to it and play the re4 remake lmao

I've never heard so many complaints for an album you ended up giving a 9/10 lol

bro was in a bad mood 💀💀💀

@Kalabi Yau classic brad review based on how depressed he is atm

Nah it’s because being a Peggy enjoyer gives you music reviewer cred 😂 I am also guilty of liking music reviewer music just because they liked it

Yeah 8/10 his original take was perfict imo, im not saying this album doesn't go HARD nah its not a 7 that is too low

6:00 danny is saying this not as a “bring back the good ol’ days where autotune was everywhere!”, but more as a meta-referential quip on the idea that most mainstream listeners are not going to be used to this abrasive and abstract style/aesthetic. i understand and share the sentiment that this line was a little corny, but not because it sounds like an “oldhead boomer” take, it sounds more like a “we’re unique and edgy” take

Good take

Good take indeed

I didnt think it was corny but yea i thought it was pretty obvious that general consumers need “autotune” and the conformity of artists

I also think that whole is song is irony or satire and is clowning on all the people who unironicly think they are not "like all the other boys" because they have a "unique music taste".

​@Adam Lagerqvist ok but that kind of person is peggys entire fanbase (me included 😞)

her loss for people who have never had a her to lose

Deja Vu

Hair loss for people who never had hair to lose. I am BALD!

stolen comment from aoty 🤓

lol you stole this from me on AOTY but i don’t care its too good

From what I understand Danny was having a hard time with alcoholism at the beginning of the project and it was difficult for them to get through songs. Part way through the project Danny was sober and was able to deliver much better (this is at least what I heard from one of Dannys podcasts). The songs definitely reflect that imo, and its cool they left the songs as they were rather than re-did them after Danny stopped drinking.

Or maybe I am wrong and its the opposite way around and all the best songs were the ones where he was drunk xD

Either way, I hope Danny is doing much better than the way he described himself to be

​@savestate13 from my understanding he's in rehab getting clean rn

yeah this sounds like an album someone made while they were BLACKOUT DRUNK. anything goes i suppose

Rooting for Danny on his road to recovery big time. Sucked to hear he was going through that.

brads imitation of danny brown is spot on

Timestamp?

5:50

Like scarily accurate lmao

Braddy Brown? Danny Brad...own? Can't come up with anything good.

I disagree about the mixing take, it occasionally makes danny sound like an instrument and i think its what makes it so good. Such a good album

I actually find myself really enjoying the muddy mixes on this project. It feels like a revival of DIY in that they are less focused on the studio level mix, and more into focusing on the creativity and heart of the music. I also will never pass up an excuse to focus on Jpegmafias revolutionary production. I also want to throw in that while some songs are absolutely imbalanced in terms of danny and peggys verse lengths, but i genuinely appreciate when artists have the maturity to step back and let their collaborator take the forefront on a song that they feel that person rocks more than they would.

Exactly i don't think you can really blame the mixing, its not for everyone but Jpeg was clearly going for this sound

Me too

Yeah I agree, the mixing is a good stylistic choice imo

Pinning the shoddy mixes on a "DIY aesthetic" doesn't really erase them for me. Both of these artists are extremely detail-oriented, which, for me, pushes it from "potentiality intentional" to just plain weird. Edit: I did really enjoy this album tho, definitely an AOTY contender for me right now.

​@savestate13 weird or not, listening to Peggy's other work I'd say it's def intentional

This album is ridiculously good. It’s like ADHD-core but so well put together. The fact that a song will switch beats like six times but they all work together is just really enjoyable and keeps you interested waiting for what’ll happen next

ADHD-core? Never heard of it You got any recommendations?

@Krona not an actual sub-genre as far as I know it’s just the best way I could think to describe this album

I think Danny's inclusion was good but I really wanna see a Denzel Curry + JPEG project. I feel like Denzel's rapping would be so fun over JPEG's mixing. I mean they could even do some triple threat and throw JID in there that would be too good tho.

4 WAY JPEG DANNY DENZEL JID COLLAB ALBUM NAMED NO BITCHES

@km606x no please thats bloated.

There's a BALD! Remix with Denzel

Poet nerd conspiracy theory: this album’s mixing and production are completely intentional. And they’re done that way to actually highlight and elevate Danny, who Peggy is pretty open about deeply admiring as an artist. The mixing makes you keep seeking out Danny’s vocals. I remember being super off-put by them the first time I heard this album, especially for the first few songs. By the middle of the album Danny’s voice is what I was always listening for! I feel like on almost every beat, Peggy figures out a way to draw you in to everything Danny is saying, and creating moments of frustration with the mix so you wanna hear him again and again. Which I was doing completely by “Steppa Pig.” And then Kingdom Heart Key is just this beautiful sonic ritual where two older gens of rappers hold up this young artist to shine light on his taken. I kept replaying this song to hear redveil. Anyway, that’s my goofy, artsy theory ✌🏼

JPEG is officially GOAT status He's a Kanye/Kendrick level talent

peggys lyrics fit his style I think, but you would never hear Kendrick rapping about white boys being mean to him on twitter lmao

Relax there bud. Kendrick makes art on another level and tells stories. Like the rock greats. Peggy is just a brilliant producer.

kanye for socially awkward 17 year olds

@kingamer1234 artists dont have to deliver dense lyricism and social issues to get to another "level". peggy is on ye/kenny level without doubt

the absolute rawness and passion that jpegmafia has for his music definitely shined thru this album. two titans of fringe hip hop on the same project is insane

Just heard this album. I'm with Brad, this is awesome. I don't have a ton of expereince with Brown or JPEG, but Scaring The Hoes is such a unique, versatile, crazy project that does so many things and succeeds at all of them, supported by stellar production, great vocals, and unique lyrics. My personal favorite tracks are Lean Beef Patty, Fentanyl Tester, Garbage Pale Kids, and Jack Harlow Combo Meal. Also, Hotel Ugly just released their new album, Ugly Duck. Check it out, it's really cool!

Deep dive into both Peggy and Danny, they are well worth it, and if you want to get into the deeper cuts with Peggy check out the Devon Hendryx alias stuff from before JPEGMAFIA, my guy kinda literally invented Vaporwave a little bit on the Ghost Pop Tape, it was a few years before any of the big “first example” names and before the genre was named too. Acid-drenched plunderphonics. So good.

​@ＩｍｐｅｎｄｉｎｇＲｉｏｔ８３ Cool. I'll definitely do that

@ＩｍｐｅｎｄｉｎｇＲｉｏｔ８３ you're confusing ghost pop tape with dreamcast summer songs. dreamcast summer songs is the album that's credited with "inventing vaporwave" and was released the same year as floral shoppe (2011)

Is it me or the version dropped on music platforms was way better on the mixing than the YouTube one and it made me enjoy a lot more

Probably the youtube compression or compression from when they ripped it

Not only was this on Youtube, but it was a ripped version from another platform. lol

@SCBi love listening to only the mids of a song

For me both were identical. The mixing is crap on both

Yeah I don't really get why one would watch a rip on YouTube and then complain about the mixing. I was also disappointed by lean beef patty when it was released, but the album version on Spotify fixed any issues I had with it.

This album was fucking nuts... Now all we need is a Death Grips collab.

Jpeg wouldn't want to do that though, sadly😢.

@BETTY why so

@BETTY he’s cool with them now iirc

he has some grudge against DG fans

that wouldn’t even work they’re totally different

its somehow even better than i expected it to be. its amazing. worth the wait. peggy’s production is UNREAL

My expectations were too high for them to be exceeded but I knew that going into it. I love this thing regardless but I should’ve had more realistic expectations

God Loves You is the best beat on the record. Maybe even the best song. It blew my mind and has soooo much soul. I haven’t felt that way about a track in a minute.

I love how this album is getting near universal critical acclaim. Peggy and Danny never dissapoint

Lateralus.

For me Lean Beef Patty was perfect as a lead single, my expectations were sky high and it basically tempered them, especially with Danny kinda taking a back seat in the project overall which is what we heard on LBP. Not saying I'm disappointed or this is the best they could've done, but it's more of a vibe than some huge groundbreaking collab.

This should replace WTT for the standard for collab projects in hip hop. Great chemistry, great production, everyone at their peak

So cool to see an album actually live up to the hype. Burfict! is gonna be a huge hit among peggy fans

“The jack harlow chicken” and the “bitch like the army” line among others just gave me real laugh out loud moments at my first listen! Just that alone is hard to do and deserves some credit. Balls to the walls album, not too familiar with either Jpeg or Danny but enjoyed this a lot!

I like how Peggy takes production styles from all of his past 3 albums, you can hear the instrumentation from LP! On many songs and other songs have the melodies from all my heroes are cornballs, and a lot of the songs are just as experimental in their sound as veteran. I think this was intentional as he also brought back the producer tag from veteran and the “I like jpegs” thing from cornballs. You can totally listen to every beat and locate exactly which Peggy album or even song it has the same style and instrumentation as.

This is my first time making a long ass YouTube comment how did I do

Like some of the gospel elements of LP!

That one part in Peggy’s verse in the Jack Harlow song is straight out of all my heroes are cornballs

important to mention is that jpegmafia produced this with an SP404 rather than a DAW. obviously with the magic of modern sampling there's a lot he can do, but the fact that he was using production tools from 2005 shows how insane this album is

Was so happy to see this project drop, JPEGMAFIA is always a joy to hear and Danny Brown is so versatile and skilled. Really loved this album, Peggy's production keeps getting more insane and impressive. Crazy, fun, absurd, already on repeat

I feel like the way Danny raps in general his voice is just hard to mix period

I love how happy this album made everyone.

Danny's part on God Loves You is honestly the funniest verse I've ever heard

one of the best albums I've ever heard. Just jaw-dropping production

The mix on this record isn't to be pushed aside. This album is undeniably amazing, but a mix this spotty coming from two extremely detail-oriented artists such as Peggy and Danny is just plain weird.

My favourite song on this album is Garbage Pale Kids, it just has the most Danny Brown 1-liners and I'm all here for it 😭 also the production goes hard & Peggy's flows are insane

I completely agree with your take about how this sounds like a fucked up 80s movie. Some of the tracks here (RTJ, WYGYCF?, etc.) sound like something straight out of pulp fiction. Makes me picture Peggy and Danny in the roles of John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson.

This the kind of album where you don’t need to understand what they saying cuz it sounds so good and is such a good vibe

The mix on streaming is SOOO much better than it was on that yt upload!!

Everything about this album is insane usually albums get sluggish for me after 4-5 tracks in once you hit the mid point but this album kept me hooked the entire way through and it just felt like the quality kept improving as the album went on.

Albums get sluggish after 4 songs? How old are you lol

"Where Ya Get Ya Coke From?" is one of the best experimental hip hop tracks I've ever heard. Like JESUS CHRIST THAT BUMPS

Haha. Bumps

the main issue i have with this album is how little it feels like a collab. danny never returns for a second verse and there's never a back and forth. It almost feels like a jpegmafia album with posthumous danny brown features

posthumous💀

dawg said posthumous💀💀💀💀

Wrong

@candlerredden  yea actually i think i agree with you now, it's one of my favorite albums this year lol. the dlc is fucking amazing too

At first I was gonna say something about Brad not listening to the album on spotify and that the youtube version was gonna ruin it, but nah just some minor mixing differences. Fantastic album Once you embrace the madness of the music its just a flawless tracklist of bangers

I have no doubts in my mind that they enjoyed making this. That video of Danny yelling seals the deal

Even though some awful pop songs have come out this month, today alone we got Peggy x Danny, Quinn, and Navy Blue off the top of my head so that makes up for it imo

also I'm sure Brad has realized already but I wouldn't review leaks since the streaming version has at least minor differences and better mixing 90% of the time

And we also got a new album from Hotel Ugly.

Also slow Thai and 100 gecs

based for the quinn mention, even if i didn’t rly like the tape that much tbh. shoutout to feardorian for the prod credits tho cool to see bro getting more recognition

@tree yeah ngl wasn’t a massive fan of the new tape but I think that was more of a novagang thing

it must be miserable to be a music reviewer trying to find problems on things that you actually enjoy

for real, must be so depressing making a living listen to music full time and getting paid to do what you love lol

@Nick Simons I reckon i would stop loving it so much if everytime i was done listening to a song i had to find something to complain about, honestly. Like when I listened to the album i just enjoyed the experience, as oppose to complain about the mixing on every interval possible, but to each their own.

I was thinking about the Escaflowne op, especially the piano opening. That's the first Yoko Kanno that I heard. Then I heard this album and I was weirded out when I hear it being incorporated.

I did not understand Danny's "Eat that ass like Canibus" line before, but after looking it up, i have to inform you guys that this might be the funniest line ever written, and i urge you to look into that too :)

Money Buy Drugs by Cal Scruby: Are you sure about that?

I just got it, dear god

Peggy's sample game is crazy on this. Remember how Danny talked about how much money he had to spend to make Atrocity Exhibition? I think we need to hold Peggy accountable as an enabler

Garbage Pale Kids is one of the hardest songs ive ever heard. Its only sin is being right before the 2 best tracks on the album

Off first listen I definitely liked it, loved tracks such as garbage pale kids, burfict!, and kingdom hearts. But after second listen everything just snapped into place for me. Even tho I do wish Danny was mixed better on some tracks, it didn’t take away from the overall amazing experience. Production is out of this world. 9.5/10

brad's massive expectations of the album clearly having some negative impact on the listening experience, or maybe he feels obliged to have nitpicks idk. this album is dope and i just enjoyed the ride

He's a natural contrarian, sometimes he can't fight it. lol.

Danny is my favorite rapper, so maybe I'm biased, but must say that I love how the songs give both these guys time to shine.

Cosmic brain moment for me right now: This album almost acts as Peggy and Danny’s answer (in spirit, not in any direct way, just follow with my logic here) to Open Mike Eagle’s ‘Component System With the Auto Reverse’; *_pure, raw, unfiltered “mixtape made with your best friend(s) and colleague(s)” energy._* It’s that same concept but coming from different perspectives, eras and, for lack of better phrasing, regions. The OME record was very much a laid back, just-put-on-that-beat-and-spit celebration and send-up of his history with local rap scenes like Project Blowed, his involvement in Hellfyre Club (which I urge everyone to look at if you like OME, Milo or Busdriver) and the particular era and the experience of it, while ‘Scaring the Hoes’ is that for “weird, crazy” internet rappers like Peggy and Danny that came up doing purely their own thing and forging their own niche in the game by catching so much attention and lasting audience retention for how creative and out there they are during what kinda feels like the absolute _height_ of the internet’s Wild West days of music. It’s why I kinda “forgive” some of the flaws that I do agree are there and connect more with the tempo of the flows, the beats, the speedy and hectic jumps from idea to idea that build a kind of fun momentum, especially in the car.

This album grows on me everytime I relisten through.

crazy how brad travelled all the way to Australia just to hear the album a day early. love the dedication to the content king!

I wasn't expecting a full collab album and then it dropped and BLEW MY GODDAMN MIND.

my fav track was either burfict garbage pale kids or fentanyl tester. That guitar riff in garbage pale kids is so awesome imo.

I think it just shows how good jpeg is that I was lukewarm on Danny at first. moreso than reflecting poorly on Danny

i personally loved danny browns verses

I'm at a solid 9, maybe 9.5. It's an amazing project. I don't think there is a single skip on the album for me, just nitpicks

Honestly the mixing makes me feel it's more like a 7.5 8 to me but still a great album

Much of this was done on a 404, which apparently compresses vocals into the rest of the mix aggressively. That said, this is gonna be hard to top for aoty for me.

I seriously disagree with your take on Danny Brown. His flows are on point as always and matches these beats PERFECTLY. Especially the most chaotic songs like Where’s Ya Get Ya Coke From? and Run The Jewels. I found Jpeg also blends into the beats a lot, for example on Burfict! he is DROWNED by the beat and both sound more like instruments than a centre focus

Gee Thanks Peggy and Danny…how am i going to find my gardening tools when you done scared all of them??😔

Its okay if you don’t like this album, Peggy is dropping 2 more this year 😁

I was trying not to get my hopes up super high, because expectations were through the roof. However it ended up really cool.

Loved it, best album ive heard so far this year.

Slowthai better

Agreed, took the title from yachty which surprised me

@Derek Conway [GD] had it on repeat all day at work. Honestly never been super into them only a few tracks here and there but this was just insanely addicting.

@gudelis always tried to get into Slowthai. From nothing great about Britain and to the newest album. Hasn’t been my thing but can’t deny the artistry that he has.

@Elvar if u havnt listened to Atrocity Exhibition yet please please please do it’s honestly one of the best albums of last decade it’s fucking crazy the whole that danny drags the listener into. you won’t regret it

Danny Brown carries hard on the rapping front upon further listens

I know you say they could've played it safe...but it's Danny and Peggy when have they ever played it safe?

March has been a good month for music for me because I love JPEG and one of my fav songs atm comes from the album UGLY by slowthai

i don't care about the mix, this is essentially a fun little meme album it doesn't need to sound super polished and overproduced, the roughness adds to it

I love Peggy but Danny Brown is probably one of my all time favorite rappers.

i think this ended up way better than her loss on a colab level its much more balanced peggy has slightly more but its not like drake with a couple great and mid 21 features

Nah her loss was way better Peggy is just a wannabe drake

@Keoni8 bait

Yeah Her Loss was literally a Drake album with 21 features throughout the whole thing. This at least feels like they made an actual collab album

@Keoni8 nice bait mr cool guy

That Escaflowne sample on Kingdom Hearts Key got me levitating to another dimension

If i could describe this album as one thing it would be the anime trigun but corrupted 😂 sounds outstanding tho i am really getting into experimental music nowdays.

Its gone from an 8 to a 10 for me after a lot of listens

I might just be gaslighting myself but I think Danny is mixed better on lean beef patty on the Spotify version. I felt like I could hear him a little better

Agreed, awesome album, I was able to grab a vinyl

!!

Peggy and Danny made this for us ADHD kids with the production 😭

Gotta say, I was not expecting to hear the Escaflowne theme sampled in a rap song.

had I not heard this project already I would have thought 24:19 was actually part of the song

My man's made this all on a boss sp404 that he learned to use in a year.....JPEG is something else

I swear they updated the mixing on streaming at some point cuz I was listening to it for an entire 12 hour work shift and like halfway through the shift the mix sounded a lot cleaner, especially on Danny’s vocals

Happy i stayed up to listen to this last night. Got it off bandcamp, Listened to it uncompressed and its amazing.

Definitely my favorite record to release this year

There are only 2 skips on this album for me (Orange juice, and Run The Jewels), the rest is amazing. Especially the 7 track run from beginning to track 7 is bonkers. Such a creative ass album damn, really love it, even despite the mixing sometimes

How the hell is orange juice a skip

@Mr. Morale My question aswell

Those are literally the 2 best songs

i'm so upset no one has pointed this out yet i think during the second half of danny's verse on scaring the hoes theres a sample of mc ride

I mean Peggy said that Danny was pretty drunk for most recordings then one day came into the studio sober and recorded like 7 songs. I think the songs he’s being outshined are the times he was coked up and drunk

Best album so far this year

common Tyler Hackner W

100% although there isn't really any competition

@bigloo Some competition from yachty but yeah, this album is more consisten than his

@sarthak jain w

Music opinions are subjective

Personally, I strongly believe this project could not have been done without Danny. I feel like his energy is just different to Peggy’s, and that’s not a bad thing at all. I think they bounce off each other very well (Besides Lean Beef Patty and Steppa Pig. The mixes aren’t doing Danny justice either.)

Amazing album. Eagerly awaiting the disappointment of Fantano's 6/10 rating EDIT: Hot DAMN, am I happy to be wrong!

Fantano will give it a 7 or a 3

I swear to god if Fantano gives this a lower score than that godawful Yeat album...

I’m surprised people aren’t very critical of this album cuz the clipping on some of these songs is kinda crazy

uhhhhh its intentional brooooooooooooo SNOOOZE next question

Plus, it literally just came out. TODAY.

Hey Brad! Would love to see you review the new Fall Out Boy album!

had this on repeat all day at work. about half of that time was just replaying Kingdom Hearts Key

"Where the auto tune at" is meant to be sarcastic. The whole concept of the song is how they keep making songs that are "Scaring the Hoes". So in line with that concept, Danny Brown is calling out main stream cliche tropes, such as auto-tune. He's saying it as if he's a main stream rapper, "yo, where the auto-tune at?"

danny brown isnt like other girls

yeah that's a cringe bar

@y5tg3 you posting a cringe bar rn way you can't appreciate artists in their own way

@Bela Olson My bad

This kind of reminds me of IGN reviewing the latest Call of Duty or Mario game where they just endlessly point out its flaws then give it a 9.0 and say “it has a little bit of something for everyone”

This was the first stream I tuned into, fun stream for a great album!

24:55 "They need to buff Danny's mix in the next patch." 😂🤣

Both the streaming version (on Qobuz at least) and the bandcamp version have a much improved mix for Lean Beef Patty versus this Youtube vid

Calling your viewers "hoes" and sending threats to them just so you can scare them for 27 minutes straight doesn't count as a review, Brad

this album isn't anything i'd loop but i was so into it just for the wrestling references

Will you ever show/give your reaction on The Forever Story? You said in your best album of the year video that you hadn’t released your reaction and now I need it…

Jpegmafia NEVER MISSES! he is a god

alr bro

glazing