11/1/18
9:06 PM
I’m trying out some new ways to listen to to music and one of the few things that I’ve started to do is listen to new albums by buying vinyl and experiencing the record firsthand via my turntable, it’s really nice.
One of the first albums that I implemented this method with was Saba’s CARE FOR ME.
It’s a really nice album.
Saba, a Chicago based rapper, wrote this album after the death of his cousin, Walter Long Jr., with whom he’d built a surprisingly awkward, yet unshakable relationship. Filled with contrite, yet smooth lyricism and instrumentation, He talks about the simple and hollow things in life he had chased after— girls, fitting in, and social events— and how these things paled in importance when the world around him forcefully struck awareness of life and death into him, Saba realizes the triviality of his past desires. It’s crazy how things change over a single moment in our lives and that’s something that Saba mentions throughout his album. The hopes he once held for life, turned into obligations, Saba creates a eloquent album emphasizing over his newfound values in life.
Overall, the technicality and the lyrical aspects as well as the production, tonality, and Saba’s delivery via his voice is a remarkable note of the rapper’s 2018 album CARE FOR ME. As Saba himself reaches for the next day, saying, “I just hope I make it ‘til tomorrow” he wishes that tomorrow will be a better one than his last. That wishful mentality is solidified by the last lines repeated in the album, in the perspective of those who’ve passed before him—
“There’s heaven all around me.”
Listen to the album below: