Daytona

by Pusha T

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	09/07/2018
Label:	Virgin
UPC:	0602547821164
Rank:	2277

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Pusha T   Primary Artist,Vocals
Kanye West   Vocals,Featured Artist
Mike Dean   Keyboards,Co-Producer
Rick Ross   Vocals,Featured Artist
Andrew Dawson   Co-Producer
Antony Williams   Vocals
070 Shake   Vocals

Technical Credits

Bill Bruford   Composer
Isaac Hayes   Composer
Chris Squire   Composer
Cynthia Biggs   Composer
Charles Wright   Composer
Jon Anderson   Composer
Mark James   Composer,Composer
Kanye West   Composer,Producer,Executive Producer
Mike Dean   Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Mastering,Additional Production
Noah Goldstein   Engineer,Programming
Dexter Wansel   Composer
Andrew Dawson   Engineer,Additional Production
Nathaniel Alford   Engineer
Shawn Carter   Composer
Robert Manchurian   Composer
Jess Jackson   Mixing
William Roberts   Composer
Terrence Thornton   Composer,Executive Producer
Steven Victor   Executive Producer
Christopher Squire   Composer
James T. Shaw   Composer
Tom Kahre   Engineer
Antony Williams   Composer
Mike Malchicoff   Engineer
David Anthony Willis   Composer
Pi'erre Bourne   Additional Production
Danielle Balbuena   Composer
Jenna Felsenthal   Assistant Engineer
Sean Solymar   Assistant Engineer
Al Gwyllt   Composer
Booker T. Averheart   Composer
Richard Nisbet   Composer
Mike Snell   Vocal Recording