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The first in a promised cluster of mid-2018 releases from GOOD Music came from label president Pusha T, who followed up the compact King Push with this briefer EP-length set. Designated an album possibly for the strategic sake of preventing the release from being buried on the artist's streaming service profile pages, Daytona nonetheless warrants top billing. Kanye West grants taut, grimace-inducing beats, assisted infrequently by Mike Dean and Andrew Dawson, enabling Pusha to pack each one of the seven tracks with characteristically trenchant and terse rhymes. The lyrical focus is similarly laser-sharp -- primarily assertion of equally high regard in the drug trade and rap game with coded and transparent references to disposable income. Lines aimed at ghostwriter-employing competition appear as nonchalant swats but land like precise knockout blows. Respect paid to a newly freed peer is as vivid: "Angel on my shoulder, 'What should we do?'/Devil on the other, 'What would Meek do?'/Pop a wheelie, tell the judge to Akinyele/Middle fingers out the Ghost, screamin' 'Makaveli'." Throughout, Pusha's in typically percussive and phonetically advanced form with melodicism evidently eschewed as a potential distraction. It's a testament to the rapper's excellence that he can release a 20-minute album that withstands West's ostentatious art direction and shoddy guest verse.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Mike Dean, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, Programmer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Al Gwylit, ComposerLyricist - Richard Nisbet, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Shawn Carter, ComposerLyricist - Mike Dean, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dexter Wansel, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Dawson, Producer, Engineer, Additional Producer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - David Anthony Willis, ComposerLyricist - Booker T. Averheart, ComposerLyricist - Cynthia Biggs El, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mike Dean, Producer, Mixer, Keyboards, Additional Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - William Roberts, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - CHARLES WRIGHT, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Dawson, Producer, Engineer, Co-Producer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Rick Ross, FeaturedArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Antony Williams, ComposerLyricist - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mike Dean, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Dawson, Producer, Engineer, Additional Producer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - JAMES T. SHAW, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mike Dean, Producer, Mixer, Keyboards, Co-Producer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Isaac Hayes, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Danielle Balbuena, ComposerLyricist - Jordan Jenks, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mike Dean, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jon Anderson, ComposerLyricist - Chris Squire, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - William Bruford, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Shawn Carter, ComposerLyricist - Mike Dean, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Terrence Thornton, ComposerLyricist - Kanye West, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Mark James, ComposerLyricist - Noah Goldstein, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Pusha T, MainArtist - Nathaniel Alford, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jess Jackson, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Tom Kahre, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Robert Manchurian, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The first in a promised cluster of mid-2018 releases from GOOD Music came from label president Pusha T, who followed up the compact King Push with this briefer EP-length set. Designated an album possibly for the strategic sake of preventing the release from being buried on the artist's streaming service profile pages, Daytona nonetheless warrants top billing. Kanye West grants taut, grimace-inducing beats, assisted infrequently by Mike Dean and Andrew Dawson, enabling Pusha to pack each one of the seven tracks with characteristically trenchant and terse rhymes. The lyrical focus is similarly laser-sharp -- primarily assertion of equally high regard in the drug trade and rap game with coded and transparent references to disposable income. Lines aimed at ghostwriter-employing competition appear as nonchalant swats but land like precise knockout blows. Respect paid to a newly freed peer is as vivid: "Angel on my shoulder, 'What should we do?'/Devil on the other, 'What would Meek do?'/Pop a wheelie, tell the judge to Akinyele/Middle fingers out the Ghost, screamin' 'Makaveli'." Throughout, Pusha's in typically percussive and phonetically advanced form with melodicism evidently eschewed as a potential distraction. It's a testament to the rapper's excellence that he can release a 20-minute album that withstands West's ostentatious art direction and shoddy guest verse.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 00:21:08
- Main artists: Pusha T
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc. - Def Jam Recordings
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2018 Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc./Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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