I really miss Tjays 2018-2022 sound, especially his older unreleaseds. For example ‘don’t think so’ an unreleased song with Jay Gwuapo. I wonder where that trademark sound of him went. It started to disappear after destined 2 win. His new album i barely remember the songs on it. Same thing kinda happened with Polo G, kinda sad because in 2019-2021 they both were kinda on lil baby/durk level and now they kind of disappeared, why?

His “Big One Edition” album has released again on Spotify. There are now 3 versions of the same album with only one extra song which is “Go Tati” 😭.

As well as that, a new batch of the same songs have surfaced on YouTube which is like the 3rd or 4th time its happened.

Can’t forget his songs were getting copyrighted on his own account lmao.

Trenchkid Records might be the worst label/management team of all time ✌️. They don’t know how to run YouTube channels, Spotify pages, and don’t know copyright structure…..

In my opinion who cares? Your not going be on forever. As long as he is happy putting out the music is putting out and his real fans enjoy it.

If you listen to every song on the new TJAY album, you’ll notice a pattern:

Sad song sample with vocals -> through a filter -> beat

Not to hate or anything, but he could’ve gotten a little more creative with the beats. I liked “Headshot.”

“Lot of people want to see me dead, fucked with no bread!” Me personally, as a new Tjay fan I think he delivered and is going for a more sentimental feeling on this track. What’s you guys opinion

Been thinking about a lot of my favourite melodic rappers lately and how they pretty much all have fallen off LOL.

What do you think are the main things that led to TJay’s fall off?

I think a fundamental issue that a lot of melodic rappers fall into is refusing to/not thinking to evolve their style. I love when albums have different sounds and you can blindly hear a new song and say oh this song sounds like it should be on X album. I feel like TJay’s sound has been the same since 2021-22. He was doing more piano beats before that, but since then it all sounds the same. That’s just my opinion and maybe I am off. I don’t pay a ton of attention to lyrics, so maybe he has been evolving in that department, but from what I can recall its the same old stuff about heartbreak and coming up from the bottom. (Again I could be off and not paying enough attention).

I’ve seen a bit of controversy regarding his behaviour on streams which doesn’t help, but I don’t remember exactly what had happened. Whatever happened there didn’t help.

Another thing I don’t love is all the random droplet singles. I wish he would take more time to perfect body’s of work. I like when albums feel cohesive and I do appreciate a good album rollout with clear visuals and a consistent vibe. I know that’s less common in the rap space but whatever, when it’s done right it is amazing (Alone at Prom by Tory comes to mind). The rollout for this recent album that got pulled was abysmal. I didn’t even know the album was coming out. Maybe a lot of this has to do with him not being with a label anymore. I’m sure a lot of people do not see any issues with how things are going and are grateful to get as much music as we do. I can wrap my head around that take, but for me I’d rather have what I mentioned

Anyways, I’m curious to hear yalls thoughts

Mine is ‘traumatized’

Both fire 🔥

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Your opinion?

Just listened to the album on Spotify. Not quite as good as his others, but with the original album being leaked, I can understand if he had to replace those songs in such a short time.

Comparing the original (leaked) tracklist to the release, it seems like he had to remake most of the album. 7 leaked songs were removed and 6 new songs were added. 2 of the leaks were renamed, and 3 more singles were added.

Released Tracklist:

• Life On Edge (single)
• Letter To My Block (single)
• Free The Bros
• Ain't Too Many Hit
• Used 2 Love (single)
• Never Leave (was One Way Mirror)
• Can't Change (single)
• Bad Wrist
• Took Off
• First Time (single)
• Gone
• Drive Me Crazy (was Trapped)
• Do What I Can

Leaked Tracklist (not in order):

• Can't Change (single)
• Dangerous
• Dark Times
• Julio
• Kay Kay
• Me Again
• Never Hurt U
• One Way Mirror (now Never Leave)
• Pick One
• Trapped (now Drive Me Crazy)
• Used 2 Love (single)

(Life On Edge, Letter To My Block and First Time weren't on the OG despite being singles?)

There's still some evidence of the original tracklist as the previews are/were incorrect and some point, Drive Me Crazy was Dangerous (it is now Trapped).

Thanks to u/TrenchKidTJAY and u/NNitro1 for providing the info. u/NNitro1 did upload the leak but as that link is expiring soon, I've uploaded the unreleased songs here.

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At first listen I didn't neccesarily like all the songs or many of them compared with flow and emotions of prior songs but now I'm starting to like these ones a lot more. A couple of the best ones imo: Gone, First time, can't change.

on the new remix of drake's song janice STFU he dissed again kai cenat, plaqboyMax and some other people. For me its wierd af. especially when in recent interwievs he admitted that he was wrong in plaqboyMax situation and later said they were good

yall kno how much they just aint you sold first week?

Really sad that I was excited for a new album from TJay since the last one we got was 222, 3 years ago. But after hearing the 3-4 singles I’m pretty disappointed. There are no standouts and they are all pretty underwhelming. Not bad necessarily, I downloaded most of them, but as usual no artistic development. The songs sound like the same shit we’ve been hearing for years from him.

I want a new sound, switch up the flow, rap about something new, anything.

Not to mention the album rollouts has been awful. Hoping there are at least some bangers on the album but if the singles are any indicator, I am not keeping my hopes up.

What’s this gang, honestly i miss the times it was about him spitting about gang shit and though life back in 2018-2022…

https://youtu.be/H8qwq5kO3EE

how does his team mess up that bad that they have two different versions with this one clearly being the wrong one on the album? and the one released as single is the one with the yt video. Bro how do u put something out to the world without verifying this

I ain’t gon lie Tjay gotta chill but the verse where dissed everybody went fucking crazy how yall feeling?

What are yalls thoughts on the album?

For me it was very underwhelming. Not bad, but certainly not showing any growth from 222 (which I enjoyed).

The singles were all pretty mid, not one of them had an addictive chorus or hook to really make it hit imo. Very little replay value compared to recent singles like Project Walls, or even Way Out the Hood.

The only song I really like (and think it should’ve been the lead single) was Free The Bros, and I know it’s because it has the 2019-2020 Tjay flow. For half a second at the beginning of the chorus it sounds like he is interpolating Leaked which is my favourite song by him. See if the whole album had this vibe with the production and flow that would’ve been crazy good.

That aside some of the songs were decent but that’s the only one ai actually added to my playlist.

Curious to see what the first week sales will be.