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Why BROCKHAMPTON Broke Up
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With the group heading on an indefinite hiatus, now is a great time to look at the moments that exemplified the “boy band” in Brockhampton, the moments they went against that descriptor completely and why Brockhampton broke up.
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Why BROCKHAMPTON Broke Up
What Happened to BROCKHAMPTON?
We got the entire Brockhampton discography before Frank Ocean released his next album
lol i just thought about that and its crazy
Woahhh
and that album was better than there whole discography combined
@@antiarezzo7630 bro you can’t be serious
and we got the whole of Frank Ocean's discography before the supposed 4th Portishead Album... which I honestly do not think is ever coming at this point tbh
the way they dominated that summer with everything they dropped was unheard of
That 2017 era of Brockhampton was awesome and refreshing but nothing compares to when Odd Future came out and specifically when Tyler dropped Goblin. And it wasn't just the music I was in high school in 2010-2014 and within 1 year everyone went from wearing polos and Sperrys to vans and skate tees they literally shifted an entire generation
@@dbboykid10 But what does that have to do with Brockhampton though........
They didn’t though. Maybe you listened to them a lot but they weren’t that big
Brockhampton’s actual music was so much better then odd future… Think people forget this because of how good a lot of the solo work from members odd future has been
@@Kaylan01 baby you got OFWGKTA fucked up
To me, the saturation trilogy was the greatest musical accomplishment of 2017. And most of what they made after it was still quality. It just sucks that it's already over 😕
LMAOOOOOO lil uzi dropped his best album in 2017 with no skips with luv is rage 2
what about king gizz releasing 5 albums in 2017?
@@maje2610 i love the idea of that, but heres the thing, The only good albums to come of that were polygondwanaland and microtonal banana. Murder of the universe was convoluted and bloated, that jazz rock one was bad, and gumboot soup had a couple good songs, but a lot of it was just meh. Not as good as releasing 3 albums and all of them being really good.
@@wokkdied Bro, lil uzi vert has some good songs, but he never reached the creative or sonic highs as brockhampton.
@@maje2610real one for that. The Gizz is one of the most talented band period.
It sucks that Roadrunner didn't get the proper rollout that it deserves because I think that the album arguably is one of their best since the Saturation Trilogy.
💯 it's great and hardly got any attention
Most definitely my favorite BROCKHAMPTON record. I went through the exact same thing as joba years ago and it really spoke to my anger confusion and sadness
Their BEST album imo and I have no bias to the SATURATION trilogy because I only started listening recently which is probably why so many people ignore it!
@@BlumeBen so, funny enough I didn't discover Brockhampton until 2019 with GINGER. But I went back to listen to the entire Saturation Trilogy and it's really good! But yeah dude out of every album I've played Roadrunner the most haha
@@di7idehd totally agree dude, RR is my most streamed BH album too
I grew up in Austin in the music industry. I had friends that knew them when they were just forming/coming up and would even chill at their house in San Marcos before they moved to Cali. I’ve known about Bearface since like 2012 from Taste My Sad and his early remix of The 1975 and I’d known about Joba because I was on Soundcloud a lot around 2012-2017 and Sad Saturdays came up on my feed one day. I told him this at an Austin show when they opened for Mac Miller and he was genuinely shocked I knew of him and his music.
It was so crazy seeing them go from unknown and performing at basically a dive bar to what they became. All good things must come to an end. Thanks BH for all the memories and best of luck to all the member’s future endeavors.
Exactly the same here besides the san marcos but i was chilling on kevins lives for years. My dude would talk about riding his bike to the house. and his old house merch. I was there from the start. Bearface too. Taste my sad was my shit when i started producing
oh shittt i never even realized it was the same bearface on that remix ty bro
The Saturation Trilogy to me, will forever be one of the greatest trilogies ever, the way that they entered the music game will forever impact me, and their raw honesty and them admitting their flaws (many verses from JOBA, Ameer, Dom can be heard doing this), their way of sharing their pain into the music is honestly helping me become better as a person. It helps me accepting myself more and trying to grow as a person. Also, All-American Trash is really underrated, BREAKFAST, INFATUATION, MICHIGAN are really good tracks. But yeah, i can honestly write a whole paragraph about how BROCKHAMPTON is one of the main group of artists that are helping me to become a better person.
extrovert has spoken
it’s an iconic groundbreaking series , roadrunner was a great album too.
Hey.
@@anthonmecham5390 Hey!
@@jennyneon How ya doin'?
I really wish Tech Diff was able to get an official release
facts. brent fayaiz also mad a mixtape during covid and he just put in on streaming. some of bh’s best songs are on technical defficulties
I'd kill to get "Things Can't Stay The Same" on Spotify
*Tech Deck
Do yourself a favour and search up “Brockhampton tracker”. The amount of great songs from the TD era (really, any era) that they’ve kept tucked away in the vault is astonishing. They were particularly inspired during that period.
One of my favorite albums by then it’s a-shame
One thing's for sure, either Kevin, Matt, Dom, Joba, Merlyn or Bearface boutta be on my 2023 Spotify wrapped, I can feel it
The guys just pulling a Wu Tang and doing solo stuff would be such a fun idea.
Don't forget Jabari!
@@TheCamSaysI'd be surprised if the vocalists of the group end up quitting the industry. I can even see some of the guys forming a collective once more but with just a couple members this time.
I feel like a lot of Matt & Dom are about to be in my playlists, and a bit of Joba too. Joba's solo stuff is gonna be so mature i cant wait. he gives me the energy of a old school calm type of rockstar. like a david bowie, billy joel
Merlyns solo stuff is terrible from what I've heard, the family makes me think Kevin is going to have a great solo career though
I hope bearface makes a solo album. we didn’t get enough of him in bh but the moments we did get were amazing.
Bro the song he teased recently is insane. Glad we both got what we want😭
@@talenmiller2167 where did he tease it bro
@@ethanzogg6well maybe I spoke too confidently 😭 but he certainly has been teasing new solo songs on his socials. Seems like an album coming yogether
The Saturation Trilogy felt so refreshing for Hip-Hop/Rap and the music industry, in general. Add on to the fact that Flower Boy also came out in 2017, that short era of music was glorious.
I felt a disconnect with every BH album after Saturation III, to a point where I've really started to wonder how much I still like their sound. It's not that they were bad albums, but it didn't stand out the say the Trilogy did. After listening to The Family (and watching this video to an extent) I get why. And The Family really is a masterful artistic statement, imo. It's some of the best production and keeping it to just Kevin keeps it a cohesive vision.
I personally always loved Ginger alongside the Saturation Trilogy
The trilogy sounded really fresh sonically. I really clicked with Iridescence after a few listens which is what kept me around. They lost me at Ginger but Roadrunner had some great tracks I came back to. The first half of TM is pretty great too imo.
@@Middle8 oh yeah, don’t get me wrong there’s still great tracks in every release. Man on the Moon has shot up really quickly for me. For me personally though, when I go back to BH I’m mostly going back to Trilogy, The Family, and select tracks from the rest
@@Middle8 it’s so strange that everyone started falling off the bandwagon with GINGER when that was the record that hooked me on BROCKHAMPTON, hell I’ve got a poster of the cover on my bedroom wall - that’s the great thing about art, it’ll always ultimately be subjective. I appreciate the video, always looking forward to these deep discog dives - peace.
@@DaVID-jr4fd That happens with any shift in sound for groups -- some are alienated while the change brings in a new audience. It's definitely their most pop-focused record.
I fell in love with them around 2018 and they changed my views on music. So sad to see them disband after such a good run. I was hoping they’d blow up and get the recognition they truly deserved, but they have a special place in my heart regardless.
i think a lot of yall were too harsh on them, expected way too much from these boys when they had their own lives to live and art to make to basically survive. like Joba losing his father, he had to let those things out, and i'm so glad he had the boys to support him through it. each album made sense in its own way and they put effort in all of them. it's okay to not enjoy an album, but i hated seeing yall saying "brockhampton fell off" "brockhampton ain't nothing without Ameer", like yo... they're humans, treat them like so
I'm extremely late, but that's a really great response and I think it can apply to just about any other collective as well, there's always struggles going on behind and blessed we are to get music from these people in the first place
You got a point. That's what I wish people would just realize. Even if they are making music and have a big fanbase, they're still people. I'm genuinely so tired of people treating big artists/groups as if they're not human
They made very good music, then they started making mediocre music. It happens 🤷♂
It seems tough. The height of their creativity was the saturation trilogy, and they created that under conditions that they couldn't/wouldn't replicate again. That is even before getting into the details of the interpersonal conflicts, what dropping ameer meant to their sound and the relationship with KA, as well as KA's general vision for the group and how it conflicted with others. Brockhampton would be a force if everyone on board had a shared goal in mind and worked together to get there, but that is fundamentally impossible. These folks formed together when they were so young, and during those times in their lives they all changed. You can't go back and re-kindle that, and everyone is going to have their own direction they want to go in. So it goes. Don't be sad its gone, be happy it happened.
so much this
I became a fan of Brockhampton just right after the Saturation trilogy released. They’ve been the gateway for me to discover more music and incredible artists. It’s sad I will never get the chance to see them live.
Samee grew out of BH's music but id be lying if i said they werent the gateway to me finding more artists not in the mainstream
lol in a few years when they run out of money they’ll make a comeback tour
keep a good chain round my neck, fly as a jet 😎
Same im late, i discovered them from Sugar and followed since
I regret sometimes that I didn't go to the concert they had in Berlin&&*** I was sure they'd be doing more later :(((((
I discovered BH in 2018 from a friend I made in my physics class, up to this point i was hanging out with very edgy kids and I was very insecure. He told me, I think you would like this guys, i went home and started listening to Sat 1, then Sat 2, then Sat 3. I didnt sleep that night i just played them over and over falling in love, i went on and listened to them primarily for over 4 months, they completely changed my style, my thought process, and even who I hung out with, because everything I knew was different. I am sad to see them go, but it was beautiful and they meant a lot to me for the last 5 years.
Brockhampton’s music changed me. Even now, I find myself listening to them when I’m going through low moments in my life. So thankful for them, their music has saved me time & time again. SAN MARCOS will always make me cry.
I'll miss the boys. Hopefully if they release solo projects in the future I hope they will be bangers.
LATERALUS
At the time, even though I loved the saturation trilogy, iridescence was my favorite, I just loved how raw, angry and melodic it was, and i felt that the group would only go up from there, giving that in such a hard moment they could release such a powerful thing, idk, I thought they were evolving to something impactful. We all new it would all end at some point, but it's still sad to see it happening, I was going to see them in Brazil in April 2020, but that concert never happened, and now they don't exist anymore
I think they went on hiatus at the perfect time. When you hear TM it’s obvious that something happened to the group chemistry on the newly recorded tracks. Technical Difficulties and ROADRUNNER inspired them for a year and those were amazing periods but they lost their hunger afterwards. TM aside, which is basically just a bonus track compilation anyway, their discography is very solid.
This is your best video yet. Thank you for a proper goodbye. Texas legends forever!
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Saturation is rooted in such a specific and special place in my own personal life on top of everything objectively good about it too. It's such a wild connection that no other album/band has in my life. Long live BROCKHAMPTON.
the whole boyband thing is not a marketing gimmick, it actually perfectly suits them. brockhampton isn’t “pop-rap” in a traditional sense, it’s pop music with rapping. while pop-rap is fundamentally rap music with pop elements thrown into it, brockhampton’s style is fundamentally pop, just with rapped lyrics. they even stated that they make pop music. thinking about brockhampton from this perspective not only furthered my understanding and appreciation for the group, but for pop music as a whole.
And R&B elements
I see what you're saying but I definitely don't listen to Iridescence, Roadrunner, or the Family and think "yeah that's pop"
imo they didn't make a single bad album. I'm not saying every track is amazing but there's none that I don't listen to. It is just a real shame that things for them started to dwindle right when they took off. I'm still keen for all the individual futures of the group for those that decide to have solo careers, they all brought such a unique element to every track they were on. Amazing video, BH forever.
This rips the wound open again, rip the best boy band in the world.
Amazing video as always man
The connection between Kevin and Ameer really ran deep, and you can see how Kevin viewed BH as his family, hence the title of the album. In a family, the mindset is you never really give up on your family members, no matter what. I think Kevin really held onto that idea after Ameer's departure, and even now after BH's break up. Other members probably just saw the group as a means to live out dreams and make money, but BH as a group meant the world to Kevin. You can see why he tried coping through relationships, drinking, and drugs once Ameer got kicked out.
their career started and ended before frank could drop an album lol
Let me take a moment and appreciate how well the editing on this video is. Top notch!
Unfortunately I came into the fandom late, around the Ginger era. But I’ll never forget listening to Sat 1 for the first time. Summer 2019 taking a train into center city Philadelphia and walking through center city to bus tables at a Mexican restaurant. All I played that summer was Brockhampton
Summer 2017 was super special
@@colinedelman6392 i really wish i coulda seen the saturation trilogy when it first dropped but my first experience of it was unforgettable so I can’t be too mad.
I got into them the same time you did. January 2020 I went to Paris to study abroad; it was my first time ever taking a plane by myself, and living by myself.
That January was really cold and the subway workers were on strike at the time, so I just remember having to walk my 1.5 hour commute from my apartment in the 15th arrondissement to my school in the 3rd arrondissement while freezing my ass off. During these walks, I’d put the entire BH discography on shuffle and I especially remember having the 14-minute long version of "LAMB" on repeat because the beat sounded so warm against the Parisian cold.
That 2017 summer and autumn with Sat 1, 2 and 3 all dropping was nothing short of spectacular. The vibes were perfect
Joba has always been my favorite. He has such range. I would love to see what he does next
Six album deal is still fucking insaneee
in which way?
@@mexiem.mp4it’s usually 5
For me, the best years of our lives trilogy (iridescence, Ginger and Roadrunner) has some of their strongest material and personally, Roadrunner is my favorite BH album and I'd consider it their best. The sound of Roadrunner is more laser-focused and clearer than any of their previous work imo. All three of the BYOOL albums have aged gorgeously and makes me appreciate them a lot more. I was definitely more attracted to them since I'd always heard people say "the magic was gone" with them, but to me, the only good thing coming from Ameer leaving was that Joba and bearface kind of had to start doing more to fill that space that he left and I believe it gave us some of the group's best material.
Such a good produced video. I just loved how you unraveled their discography and talk about each member. Love videos like these.
this video dropping now is wild cause they were my #1 artist this year on spotify, top 0.05% of listeners and 4,255 minutes listened and i only started listening heavy in February. in 2019 i listened to a few of their songs and was mostly into Kevin's solo shit. also i had always been told about them over the years too and i wish i had fully hopped on the train before it came to a stop.
Bro dropped stats
i will always always cherish brockhampton, their music was crucial in the years i was trying to figure myself out. And now when i go back to them, it is always nostalgic and extremely emotional. They were a platinum group of amazing artists who brought a spice to music that has yet to be out-spiced
Damn, incredibly thoughtful timeline of the boys career. Good work.
i love the production on this video so much, you're the goat
I’m so happy you made this.
I will never ever in my damn life feel like I felt when the saturation trilogy was out
An excellent video and breakthrough of the best boy band there ever was. While the album roll out gave a glimpse of joy to me, this really made me want to go back and relisten the entire discography. Great work
this is my first time listening to their whole story and i’m sobbing. i loved their music so much and to hear about all of the shit they went through just makes me so sad. their music will always hit a soft spot in my heart.
now the album cover of them hugging and what the album is about stands for so much more than what i imagined. i feel so bad for kevin abstract and the brockhampton family that was injured and grew apart. but they didn’t just grow apart. they grew into something so much more. their story will be told and their music will be discovered and it will find the hearts of many after.
i’m just so shocked that all this happened. i had to go get work on my car and in the two hours that they worked on it i was listening to their music and this video. heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. i called my mom after in tears because i was supposed to be productive today and it just put me in a mood i’ve never felt before 😭
I think the trilogy of albums after SATURATION- those being iridescence, GINGER and ROADRUNNER- are generally really underrated. I get that people wanted PUPPY and Ameer especially sounded really hungry on the leaks but it really just sounded like an expensive Saturation 4. These albums all went in wildly different directions and while GINGER isn’t to my taste since it’s so minimalistic and loud (too much Rick Rubin influence imo) it’s a cohesive listen that’s got some incredible highlights. then iri and RR just blow me away with their experimentation, creativity and subject matter, probably more than was the case with SAT 2 and 3. I think RCA really botched the rollout for RR. it was planned to be a pop album before changing direction with Joba’s situation and the fact that so much promo and videos were promised without being delivered suggested that without getting another massive pop single like SUGAR the label really didn’t know what to do or what budget to provide. it’s a shame too because that album was the highlight in their discog for me alongside SAT 1.
Great video ! Also very slight error at 1:38 Kevin grew up in Corpus Christi on Brockhampton street not Houston
well never have a group like brockhampton ever again
BH my fave hiphop band, and the reason why I listen to hiphop and rap, is so sad to see them go
I think one of Kevin’s biggest weaknesses is he has all these experimental ideas that just don’t work in the setting he’s in. Even what the group set out to do just wasn’t reality. They needed to stick with more straight forward plans.
That's not a weakness, that's something special not everyone has.
@@Met-one yeah it’s special but it doesn’t work in reality. His band mates and the industry aren’t with it that way. He needed to adapt to that and keep things simpler.
i miss the band already
Their 2017 run was UNMATCHED. 3 quality albums/mixtapes back-to-back-to-back.
This video was really really well made :)
Great video!
loved this video btw tysm
Dude I love the video's edit, it's so brockhampton themed and it's so well made!
found his music by accident on apple music. i love the music so much. wish they were everywhere
I found Brock in 2020 and I wished I found them sooner
Did you ever find Hampton
@@YungSleepyHollow 💀
I love this channel 10/10
Great video! So when's the new king gizzard video?
I feel blessed that I got a chance to see them live in the summer of 2019 in my homecountry 🙏
wow, I love that they were this collective, feels something that will became legendary in the future
just this creative hub for good art
BROCKHAMPTON had one of the biggest parts in me getting through the hardest parts of my life. This was an awesome video with a lot of information for someone who saw themselves as a huge fan but wasn't present online enough to catch all of the niche events and music drops that weren't "official releases"
I've been sad and even depressed about the ending of my favorite boy band and not following everything they made sooner but for some reason this video gave me some closure and i feel a lot better about the end. On the bright side I'll be able to listen to a lot more solo records separately by all of them but it still hurts.
These were the guys that got me introduced to rap, and to just now hear that they broke up seriously makes me sad. I wish the best for them in the future.
nice video man
Great video
the funny and sad thing is 2017 was already 5 years ago, i remember bumping to sat 1 while doing my thesis in college
This is an incredible summary of an incredible band. Thank you very much. =)
I didn’t even know they broke up
Great video. Just wish you hadn't put this weird comic book filter over all of the clips. For example, at 22:30 because I couldn't really see their lips, I wasn't able to make out which member said "Nah" to the question
It’s a Sway interview - everyone looks at Kevin when the question is asked, probably because he’s the only one who was talking to Ameer at the time. But even Kevin says no at that moment. Pretty sure it’s just Joba, Dom and Merlyn who chime in with a “no”
This was such a beautiful video
Amazing video.
i feel like there is something symbolic of a group that found each other on a kanye west forum, ended when kanye just had his downfall
but kanye is definitely suffering of a bipolar episode so the downfall....is it is really 100% his?
@@kastablank I'm bipolar and I've never said i liked Hitler
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@@johnwerner69 you're not Kanye though
this brocks my hampton
this is the best video I’ve seen made on brockhampton yet. Well done.
the saturation trilogy is a perfect timecapsule of when it came out, i've not seen anything like it before or since.
Matt Champion is such a cool name "Champion" f*cking epic.
My fave song of theirs is 1999, though Sugar is a CLOSE second
I just listened to a full therapy session album about this, but I’ll continue 😌
It's sad to see this happening to the band, but I'm very excited to see them all go their seperate ways. I'd love to see more stuff from Dom or Merlyn, and I need to check out Kevin's stuff.
incredible video. always wanted to start listening to brockhampton (a little late now lol) and this is motivating me
How is Arizona Baby one of the six albums of the RCA deal? I thought as it is Kevin Abstract's solo projet it was independent from BH. In the video it is counted as one of the six albums though?
Ginger is my favorite album and how i discovered them, i was shocked that Ryan Beatty wasnt apart of the band and that they were originally a hip hop collective, love the versatility in their music
i really wish i discovered brockhampton sooner. i found them at the end of last year and theyve become my #1 artist on spotify of all time (not on my wrapped though, that #1 was tyler, the creator). such good music, i miss them already 😭
If I ever get a chance to timelime travel, I'd like to visit a Timeline where Ameer didn't do the things he did and the group was still in tact and PUPPY was released.
Listening to those PUPPY leaks...man they were building off that Saturation sound and were somehow making it better and better.
Would they still be a group today? We'll never know. This is our timeline. Fortunately I don't think it's worse one.
Best group of the past decade made it onto my number 1 musicians of Spotify Wrapped nearly every year, will be missed
I love your conclusion to this video. Ameer getting kicked out was ultimately the downfall of BH. IMO they weren’t able to ever find their sound again. I fell in love with BH after the release of A-AT. It’s unfortunate how things ended.
You gotta do a deep dive on video on
one of their albums
I was definitely inspired by brockhampton. Only member I really identified with the most was ameer vann why he got kicked out was quite understandable. The group just wasn’t the same without him tho I felt the motive for that was more for they’er image and reputation. I been following him since he left the group and hasn’t put music out in over a year other than that. I didn’t really care for they’er saturation trilogy. I gave it a listen and thought it was fun. Now GINGER was my personal favourite.
what an awesome video
The VFX and graphic design for this video is great, and I thought it would be just for the intro section and maybe short clip title cards, but I can't keep watching because it turns out it's the entire video and it's hard to watch. For example I can't really get a good grasp of who I'm looking at other than their names laid over during their voice/video clips that are obscured by halftone effects
I think this is your best video to date, and that’s saying something!
Bless you middle8, I've only vaguely heard the name brockhampton through the years and this whole time I thought it was a single dude
Top content right here
This editing suits their band's aesthetic so much fr 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Roberto was also the guy in the beginning of the BOOGIE music video who says, "My name is Roberto, and I like to dance."
That transition to the VPN add was smooth as fuck ahahah
One clarification, Brockhampton's name comes from Kevin Abstract's childhood home in Corpus Christi, TX
Oh wow, a reference to The Social Network
I tuned out at the 3 minute mark 🥱🥱
South Texan here, Brockhampton is a street in Corpus Christi not Houston. He even did promo for his solo work In corpus. He was running on a treadmill
Kevin lived in CC before Houston
I was not a BH fan until Roadrunner… personally my favorite of they work.
It's sad it didn't get a proper rollout and appreciation from fans. I think it's their best work since the saturation trilogy...
i'd love someone to talk about ryan beaty's contributions to their success