G.O.O.D. Music “Cruel Summer” Album Snippets

    G.O.O.D. Music has released snippets of the dozen tracks on its upcoming album Cruel Summer, dropping on September 18th.

    The album opens with the R. Kelly-assisted “To the World,” and touts the singles “Clique” featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z and Big Sean; “Mercy” featuring 2 Chainz, Kanye West, Big Sean and Pusha T; “New God Flow” featuring Pusha T and Kanye West; and “Cold” featuring Kanye West and DJ Khaled.

    Preview the album below (via Rap-Up).

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    154 thoughts on “G.O.O.D. Music “Cruel Summer” Album Snippets

    1. While I am listening to this I promise you I am waiting for Ashton Kutcher to walk in my room and tell me I am on MTV’s Punk’d lol. You have got to be kidding me this must be a practical joke

      1. hate ignorant niggas like you who call everything that’s not 80’s boom bap techno. shut the fuck up ignorant ass old head

    2. Y’all niggas crazy, half the album is already fire just need to see what else is working for it. Hopefully they take out theraflu.

    3. I wasn’t impressed with the singing snippets either, but I’m gonna wait until I hear the rapping that goes with them to say anything. I’m still hyped for this album. Some of you guys need to chill.

    4. Looks like I’m not getting a good album until October. This shit sounds corny. More Watch The Throne sounding garbage.

    5. seems like kanye may have figured out the most genius business/marketing scheme to date, which involves INTENTIONALLY FALLING OFF so as to set himself up for a TRIUMPHANT RETURN…unfortunately, it’s listeners like us who have to suffer through the shit…

    6. this album is so going to be a disaster… When I saw people going cra’z’y on niggas in paris, i thought it was the beginning of the end of YE. He lost it. This music is for wayne and drake fans, I thought there was hope after Dark Twisted Fantasy…Watch the Throne was meh, after hearing the snippets of cruel summer…JEEZ, what a nightmare.

      NO-ID is making his comeback since 2 years, who’s actually the real kanYE if you’re asking me. That’s the producer to listen to nowadays.

      1. this album is gonna be the same bullshit that has been coming out lately. However it will sell because its gonna have beats by kanye and features from jay, frank ocean and good music family, followed by mainstream beats with NO LYRICAL content whatsoever in between. So for all you HOS that only listen to beats and catch phrases go out and cop this album. This album is for all you Slaughterhouse haters.

        “do you fools even listen to music, or do you just skim through it?” jay z

      2. he is a business man he is releasing

        product.

        niggas is so dumbed down now a day they wont know the difference.

        records with a lot thought put into them are hard to make.

        kayne has learn its more profitable to

        put out this shit which can be done quickly and easily( i got this or i got that; the end).

        then it is to go into a studio session and try to rack your brain .

    7. these are lifestyle tracks easy to make i got this i got that.

      niggas will support rhymes like these

      because they think the rappers life is more exciting than their own.

    8. this is the new kayne west lady and gentlemen.

      maybe he will gain new fan but a lot of his old one can’t fuck with him any more.

      fuck ass nigga following all these years for this.

      even bought his albums haha

      man what a world

      1. Awww shame you won’t ever hear a Black Hippy album.

        And YOU calling somebody a “dickrider”… Definition of irony.

    9. I always find that it takes a few listens with new Kanye to really get it, not 100% convinced yet but he hasn’t failed me yet.

    10. KANYE WEST SOULD THE F OUT…..WACKKKKKKKK…LIKE ICE CUBE SAID YOU WAS STONE COLD HIP HOP….GAVE YOUR OTHER STYLE A TEST…..STAY TRUE TO THE GAME…CORNY NO SOUL NO MEANINFUL CONTENT …HIS MOM WAS AND DAD OUR INTELLIGNET BLACK KINGS AND QUEENS AND THIS WHAT THIS STUPID NIGGA IS ON ….FIRST THE BUST DOWN WHITE GIRL NOW THE SELL OUT MUSIC WITH NO SOUL…NAS DAMN NEAR ALL THATS LEFT IN THE MAINSTREAM…ILL WAIT AND SEE ABOUT KENDRICK LAMAR….SELLOUT WEST FROM COLLEGE DROPOUT TO THIS YOU WOULD THINK HE MADE THIS SHHH WHEN HE WAS 17 AND COLLEGE DROPOUT NOW..HOW DO YOU REGRESS THIS FAR MUSICALLY????????NIGGA HIRE 9TH WONDER PETE ROCK TDE IN HOUSE PRODUCERS AND FIRE YOURSELF AND YOUR WHOLE CREW OR JUST SAY IM NOT ON NO HIP HOP IVE DECIDED TO BE A HOUSE NIGGA

    11. NO ID IS SHITTTTTTTING ON KANYE WEST RIGHT NOW…NO ID HIP HOP KANYE WEST TRYNA BE LIKE CORNY KEYBOARD NON PLAYING ASS NICKAS NO SOUL NO FUNKY BASSLINES SUPER DUMBDOWNED NO ELEVATION ….KANYE HAVE A SPECIAL GIFT BUT INSTEAD OF TAKE CHANCES …HIS HOE ASS DID THE MODERN DAY SAMMY DAVIS JR….GO TAP DANCE MINSTREL SHOW ASS NIGGA

    12. to all those who can’t find an original name besides “anonymous” >>> Im breathing and living hiphop to the fullest since 92. So F OFF if ur calling me a hoe. Albums I got recently, Killer Mike’s RAP music, ALC’s Russian Roulette, Nas’s Life is Good and others are the few good albums there is for the moment. I’m not even hating on Slaughterhouse. Didn’t hear the whole album yet, but for the tracks i’ve heard, I was like, this is what it is supposed to be. But come on, those snippets of Cruel Summer is just awful. Once again an album with ONLY 12 tracks with a duration time of what? 40 minutes? Nowadays it’s all about getting rich in the fastest way. I was against KRS 1 when he warned us about YE. Now? Im about to think the old bigassnosed fool was right.
      -College Dropout? 21 tracks
      -Late Registration? 21 tracks
      -graduation? 13 tracks
      -808s and heartbreak? 12 tracks
      -DTF? 13 tracks
      -Watch the Throne? 12 tracks if u add 5 bucks ud had 3 more tracks
      -Cruel Summer? 12 tracks

      u see, from 21 to 12
      After “Late Registration”, YE was like, wanna bet these fools gonna pay the same price over half the album? Guess what happened.

      1. Yes but how many of them “tracks” are actually songs.

        The College Dropout – 14
        Late Registration – 15/19
        Graduation – 13/16
        808s & Heartbreak – 12
        My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – 13/14
        Watch the Throne – 12/16
        Cruel Summer – 12

      2. I guess Kanye has figured out the secret. When you become a brand like him, anything you put out, people will buy a 12 SONG COMPILATION album from an entire crew. FOH. Snippets don’t give you the tire songs, so l hope they are atleast decent when the album comes out, but l’m not buy a 12 cut album.

      3. you got shity taste in music. the song by d.i.t.c called internationally known is better than all that bullshit you bought.

    13. Yeah…that album cover really screams out ‘Cruel Summer.’ Looks more like the welcome sign to the Island of the Sirens

      1. hhaha nice one there…

        But still a very artistic cover for the album. When I heard the snippets, my 1st impression was that the coverart has more value than the songs on itself

    14. ya’ll on hear talking sh*t about some snippts, I bet this album does more than FLOP-house…OOPS …I mean Slaughterhouse

    15. GOOD Music Roster:

      Artists:
      Kanye West
      John Legend
      Common
      KiD CuDi
      Frank Ocean
      Mos Def
      Pusha T
      Q-Tip
      Talib Kweli
      Lupe Fiasco
      Child Rebel Soldier (Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell)
      Blu
      Oddisee

      Producers:
      Kanye West
      No I.D.
      Q-Tip
      Hi-Tek
      Chuck Inglish
      Oddisee

      1. You’re missing Mike Dean, the ONLY producer/engineer/musician that really matters on that list…Do you research homie, cause you just look ignorant while trying to look “thorough”…

      2. I my opinion Ye’s beats were better when he did them by himself at the co-producer that I really likes him with was Jon Brion. I didn’t really care about looking “thorough” when I put the list together.

    16. Jin is the best rapper of all-time. An All-Time great he would destroy Kanye in any form of rap. The realest rapper alive an he’s asian. Jin, Traphik, and D-Pryde will take over Rap like nothing. Kanye sucks.

    17. still getting it, not going to listen to the snippets but still, Malik Yusef needs to fuck off of twitter, for months, that dude has been feeding fans all kinds of bullshit with this album. Like how the album got pushed back to add features that we “MOSt DEFinitely” wanted, and the fact that the tracklist contains 18 songs; he just said that shit last week. Now he’s saying that he really doesn’t know what happened to the Yasiin features and hasn’t commented on the tracklist missing 6 songs. Shit’s stupid, he is one of the main reasons why this album became so overhyped.

    18. It just a continuation of Watch The Throne, so people who loved that album are going to like this one too. It’s that Hip Pop except from New God Flow, Too Cold and 2 other songs.

      1. Yeah was thinking the same. I also believe the reviews will be the same as WTT. They will call it ground breaking but realistically it will just be a bad album with some good songs on it. (I think my expectations were to high for this since GOOD Music roster has a couple of great musicians (Q-Tip and Mos Def/Yasiin Bey especially)

    19. kanye really fucked the rao game up in his own way : indeed he brought the fag style with his louis vuitton gears, the pop music with his ties with coldplay and some others etc.

      since we talk bout so called legendary rappers who actually did fuck the game up : eminem is one of them. yes i said it. eminem ! i know many people dickride the dude with so much passion, but he’s like ja rule, and all the other rappers who change this rap shit into a little circus. just because dr. dre cosigned him does not mean he is the shit.

      whateva, this good music shit is wack as fuck

      and im really tired of these kanye, eminem, ja rule, weezy, breezy, jeezy, dreezy, gay-z, fifty, slaughterhouse etc.

      real hip-hop listeners now where the real form of art is : the roots, nas, pharoahe, outkast, dr. dre, wu-tang, mos def, gang starr etc.

      as for the younger generation the only dude who worths to be listened to is currency

      1. lol fucking loser. haha i can agree some of hip hop now is weak but times change get over it fucking fruit cup. its people like you who turn james holme into james holmes. look james holmes up if you don’t him.

    20. Mercy and ColdAND Dont like already generated more money in itunes and digital sales than 90% of the albums that dropped this year. Thats just the materialistic money side of it. The album itself will be dope. ATLEAST 4+ on this site. Anybody disagree, your gonna look stupid next week so don’t bother argueing. Kanye has one of the best ear’s for production in the industry, and just cuz he didnt hit the drums doesnt mean it wont be fire. The album will be bumpin till he drops his own solo one.

      1. you sounding like a Yooung money fan now … the music is wack so now you have to use sales to prove its quality. This is amusing to me.

    21. Ok let’s face it, kanye back in the day had a few good songs, but come on dude just admit that your shit ain’t saying shit. I still believe lil wayne is a better rapper, performer and business man than kanye

      #YMCMB!!!!!!!

    22. Y’all talk all that shit but as soon as it drops y’all gonna cop it. So save the hate until after you hear the final product. Matter fact y’all ain’t gonna hate, cause artistically that shit will be the best album this year. Lirically the only niggas that could touch GOOD MUSIC is Slaughterhouse. Musically can’t nobody in hip-hop touch these cats. So all this ymcmb bullshit comparison needs to stop cause there is none. #truth

    23. You KNOW this shit is weak when the album is 12 tracks and the last track is a CHIEF KEEF REMIX that was released months ago in advance.

      am I lying ???

    24. this shit makes me proud to be a slaughterhouse fan.. and you fags were getting wet cause of that wack ass “clique” song where Shawn refers to himself as B.I.G.. this is K.I.D music, materialistic bullshit aimed at dumb youth with money to spend

      1. why u tell em to fuck up
        he hurt ya feelings cuz he telling the truth about some niggas that dont give a sh*t bout u hahaha
        ashame man go off ya self lol

    25. if u a real nigga then u would pull your dick out and jack off while u watch wayne speak, thats real , like any real nigga i got turned on but not in no gay homo way, on some real shit and started to stroke my dick when i felt a buldge in my pants get hard, and just stroked my dick until i felt all the cum spray out, thats real shit right there from seeing a real nigga speak made my dick hard and i had to take care of that for real

    26. These pop rappers a.k.a. celebs are so funny. Their music sounds like shit.

      The evolution of pop rappers:

      1. Vanilla Ice / MC Hammer / Will Smith
      2. Nelly / Ludacris / Lil Kim
      3. 50 Cent / Chingy / Lil Jon
      4. Soulja Boy / Lil Wayne / Flo Rida / Timbaland / T-Pain
      5. Gucci Mane / Waka Flocka / Rick Ross / Wiz Khalifa
      6. Drake / Nicki Minaj / 2Chainz / Lil B / Odd Future / Kreayshawn

      It’s getting worse and worse………..

      7? Justin Bieber? Rebecca Black? Lil Chuckiee?

    27. not feelin it..shit sounds pretty soft..especially that snippet of that emo lame kid cuddi.. think ill wait for that wu block

    28. Maybe im just a Kanye fanatic but this album sounds necessary. I mean everything in hip hop/rap sounds so similar and limited and here comes yeezy twisting it and strecthing musical limits. Did yall hear the song with kid cudi? shit sounds EPIC! and is that KEYSHIA COLE, OMG.

    29. gospel and country have the most loyal fans in the music industry. Too bad too now us white and latin folks gotta keep listening to the garbage these rappers and you black folks keep listening to. Its a damn shame, hip hop really is dead. Eminem needs to just retire and let the game be dominated by boy bands and annoying female singers. Oh yeah you all forgot about those days huh? When pop music ruled the airwaves.Then “my name is” came out and hip hop was the shit to listen too.

      1. u might as well throw pop in there as well. Lady Gaga, Kate Perry, Justin Beiber, Nicki Minaj & Rihanna are making more $/dominating billboards than alot of rappers in the game. Hell, there’s maybe a handful of country stars that are making more than these popstars.

      2. you’re definitely white, you experience music through the pov of a white person. Just leave our culture alone, we don’t care about Eminem.

      3. hahaha what are you some kind of spokesperson for all hiphop fans? “leave OUR culture alone we don’t care about Eminem” thats fuckin hilarious. Dudes one of the GOATs maybe you should step outta your basement sometime you racist.

    30. I caution all you fake-ass, fickle rap fans not to judge this too much off of SNIPPETS. Yall was the same ones on here dick riding when they 1st announced the album. I made that mistake when I heard snippets of Mos Def’s “Ecstatic” album and said it was wack. When the album dropped I heard it and thought it was fucking amazing. BE EASY

    31. I really don’t get where all you hatin ass clowns are coming from. Except for that silly Kid Cudi “Creeper” song there is no song, from there 30 second snippets, that sounded whack. If you’re hatin on this album after a five minute preview of all the songs…then youre pretty fucking stupid. And it’s you clowns that sit here and hate on hip, rap, whatever you wanna call it, and think it needs to change or go back to the way it was…if you don’t like it then fucking listen to something else. Whether you like it or not it’s gonna sell a mill plus..but you somehow seem to think that your opinion on rap means anything. Adapt and take it to the next plateau or stay the same and end up like half of the (with the upmost respect) rappers from the 90’s, where only a handful are still relevant. Whether you want to admit or not, rappers from the so called lyrical days, the 90’s, are just as just as good as the rappers of today are. For some reason all you fucks seem to think that rapping about thugging, gang banging, trapping, selling, etc.(which the bulk of 90’s rap was), that it’s better and more lyrical than todays rap, but todays rap is whack because they can and are just as lyrical but it’s about being past the struggle and all about money? Evolution…get with it or get the fuck over it. Hip-Hop aint dead, but you fucking clowns are definentley killing..so thanks.

      1. You wanna tell me nas isn’t lyrical? wanna tell me raekwon isn’t lyrical? wanna back up your claim that subject matter didn’t exist in the 90’s? you’re ignorant as hell if you really stand by those claims. hip hop today is doing just fine, but you can’t convince me that this shit touches some of the shit biggie was doing right before he was assassinated. by the way get in touch with your grammar before you climb up on a pedestal next time. I can do this all day btw.

    32. You guys have absolutely no taste, this album is some of the best shit ive heard all year, it has a little bit of everything, bangers, shit you can ride too, that chill shit, and even those RnB bangers, this is a classic, hate it all you want but my broke ass is buying 5 copies cuz I support REAL music which this is

      1. WORD, i think this is a classic sounding album, not a typical hip hop classic, but just musically overrall its bangin’. dont argue with these nerds

    33. this shit is some of the worst shit I’ve ever heard. The production is wack! west needs to go back to the blueprint and the fix.

    34. It’s all business and staying relevant.I think my thoughts on Kanye are really going to depend on his next album because right now l’m really on the fence with his new direction in Hip Hop. I understand having growth in your music, but it does mean you have to forget what makes you the artist you are. It seems he done with soul beats, breaking the boundaries of hip hop and adding some Pop feel to it which stretches his demographic and gains more fans. Lets be honest, not alot of white fans like soul beats and they the ones that buys records. He could stay relevant by just making soul beats. That was not going to happen. He will lose the fans he gained when he made 808s and Heartbreaks. Example: Rihanna started out Raggae and now she all the way Pop. Kelly Rowland started RnB and now Pop. Beyonce is trying to stay RnB, but look at her sales, they went down compared to Rihanna. Alicia Keys new music is all over the place. It’s the same with Kanye, he’s breaking the rules alittle bit, but in the confines of hiphop like Watch The Throne.

    35. it wouldnt give a fuck if every single artist in the rap game was dead they dont entertainment me haha

      maybe you use to but no way not any more.

    36. So kanye on Clique,Clique, Clique you said white peolpe make money dont spend it. So my crew an I will download and bootlet the hell out of this album and you can suck my d!ck,D!ck,D!ck

    37. FUK ALL U HATERS OUT THERE IT IS ADOPE FUKING ALBUM ONCE IT DROPS AND U HEAR THE FULL VERSION ALL U HATERS WILL START RIDING KANYES DIK. THESE BEATS ARE FUKING MAGNIF
      CRUEL SUMMER OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYEEEEEEEE

    38. I wish he more raw beats like New Glod Flow, Too Cold, but instead we have more of that Hip Pop Sound. It’s more like Drake sound to it.

    39. Slaughterhouse listen up…this is how a clique is supposed to make SONGS. Not that bullshit ya’ll put out. Good beats with bass, concepts, along with lyrics…not just lyrics over some circus music. If you were to play some slaughterhouse music at a club everyone is going to look at each other like what the fuck is this bullshit…simply because of the corny ass music. But you play some wack ass Ross or Waka and they at least nod their heads even though the lyrics are wack because the music, concept, and hooks simply draw you in. Music 101 slaughterhouse dummies.

      1. @How a clique is supposed to roll, AGREED. i hope the trolls that comment on this website read your comment. Piss them off. BTW tell them to go listen to Pinks new single with their boy Eminem, yeah now thats garbage

    40. This shit is wack, even Self Made 2 sounds better than this. Almost every snippet had singing and the beats were wack.

    41. look this goes to all you fuckin haters and mmg and ymcmb dick suckers, yall are fuckin mad retarded. straight up, g.o.o.d. music is about talented ARTISTS coming together and making REAL songs. they work theyre ass off to perfect every beat, every song.. they make sure they got the best people for every song so they all record and pick verses. MMG and YMCMB dont care about any of this! ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS YOUR MONEY. people real rap music isnt all about money, its about a love for the game and sending a message, rebelling against everyone in society being the same , refusing to have labels.. everyone of you haters are a fucking sell out, remember that next time you listen to OFFICER RICKY or LIL GAYNE , cause theyre straight up actors, who are told exactly what to say, and how to say it. Rick Ross has never sold dope, and lil gayne is straight up HOMOSEXUAL.. ever wonder why he ALWAYS raps about pussy? why he always needs to remind everyone hes straight? Support REAL music.

      1. You sound like a moron lol … did you hear the snippets ? ITS ALL POP MUSIC EXCEPT FOR 2 SONGS. They even kept I don’t Like on the album. Everything you just criticized, GOOD Music did it !

      2. I honestly agree with every you said about YMCMB and MMG but to say this album is real music, I cannot agree with you. This actually sounds just as Pop as the YMCMB collabo. Many of the songs feature bad singing and most of beats are knock-off R&B beats that dont even really sound good. I had really high hopes for this album and was greatly disappointed.

    42. Sounds like Mercy and New God Flow are the best songs on the album. Really disappointed with what I heard. Oh well *Presses play on Slaughterhouse album. Nods head*

    43. Snippets To me is a tow adgeed weapon and risky.
      Some may die for it @ once, but some may live another day for another next classic album. So it’s gonna be fly or down album. Let’s inticipate this 18th!

    44. Why can’t I see the first page of the new Blu & Exile review DX??? Me and my cohorts were goin in on that shitty review n exposing all the other shitty reviews this site does, now the whole first page of comments gets blocked out for like the past 3 days on any computer I go on. If your gonna post bias, bullshit, and shady reviews at least let the thruth be seen on the comments section! this is some North Korea shit DX! ILLUMINATI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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