{"id":481473,"date":"2019-01-29T06:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784591"},"modified":"2019-01-29T06:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:09:24","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-ynw-melly-no-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-ynw-melly-no-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: YNW Melly, \u2018No Heart\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ynw-melly-no-heart.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span>When YNW Melly released<\/span> <em><span>We All Shine<\/span><\/em> <span>earlier this month, listener attention was focused primarily on \u201cMixed Personalities\u201d \u2014 the track featuring a high-profile guest turn from Kanye West. But the album\u2019s standout is \u201cNo Heart,\u201d a harsh, unfriendly, yet hyper-melodic track that furthers rap\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/hip-hop-had-a-surprising-secret-weapon-in-2018-acoustic-guitar-769221\/\"><span>current obsession with liquid guitar loops<\/span><\/a><span>. YNW Melly vows to break others\u2019 hearts while protecting his own at all costs, but a cascade of soothing guitar softens his bite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo Heart\u201d was produced by Z3N and Skip on the Beat. \u201cI used to play guitar \u2014 I still do, but I\u2019m not a great guitarist,\u201d Z3N explains. \u201cBut I\u2019ve always loved that sound, and you\u2019re seeing it blend with hip-hop more and more: Juice Wrld, Lil Baby are really on that vibe. I\u2019ve been making a lot of things in that style. I made that guitar line with a plug-in, just clicked all the notes in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Z3N presented the finished product to YNW Melly during a session last year. The guitar in the \u201cNo Heart\u201d instrumental perked the rapper\u2019s ears; it was the first track he recorded. \u201cHe walks in the booth and he cuts three or four different song to [the same beat], records the whole thing all the way through,\u201d Z3N explains. \u201cThen we go in and piece it together: Chop this part out, put this there, that part sounds like it could be a cool hook. It probably took two or three hours total.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That was time well spent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ynw-melly-no-heart-song-you-need-to-know-784591\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When YNW Melly released We All Shine earlier this month, listener attention was focused primarily on \u201cMixed Personalities\u201d \u2014 the track featuring a high-profile guest turn from Kanye West. But the album\u2019s standout is \u201cNo Heart,\u201d a harsh, unfriendly, yet hyper-melodic track that furthers rap\u2019s current obsession with liquid guitar loops. YNW Melly vows to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 06:33:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}