April 14th, 2015 1:02pm
Life’s Ironic And It’s Simple
Action Bronson “Terry”
The Alchemist’s production on this track is straight-up gorgeous, and in a way that is very specific to sample-based rap. The sounds are cobbled from a variety of sources, but the main thing is that lovely, melancholy guitar sample pulled from Asha Puthli’s “Let Me In Your Life.” It’s chopped up a bit, but Alchemist makes it all feel organic, like it could actually be a live band playing in a room. But like the best sample-based music, it’s not entirely seamless, and you can sense the artifacts and the fabrication. It’s part of why a lot of this music has a sad, nostalgic feeling to it – you can’t help but hear the quotation marks around the music, and the way it all seems like a fading memory. Action Bronson does a good job on this track, but of course he would – his voice and style is so similar to Ghostface, and Ghostface figured out a long time ago that this aesthetic suited him better than anything else. It’s something about the plaintive timbre of their voices, maybe.
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