The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story

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The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story
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Mixtape by
ReleasedNovember 17, 2018 (2018-11-17)
Recorded2018
Length36:40
Label
Producer
Jaden chronology
Syre: The Electric Album
(2018)
The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story
(2018)
Erys is Coming
(2019)

The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story is the third mixtape by American rapper Jaden, released on November 17, 2018, through MSFTSMusic and Roc Nation under the partnership between Interscope and Republic Records. [1] It premiered on Beats 1 and was released in part to mark the one-year anniversary of Syre . [2] [3] The mixtape is a part of Smith's Cool Tape series which was preceded by The Cool Cafe: Cool Tape Vol. 1 and CTV2 .

Contents

Background

While Jaden's debut album Syre contained several features, Sunset Tapes contains none. Two of the track titles reference Syre, such as "Syre in Abbey Road" and "Fallen Part 2", the latter of which refers to the track "Fallen" from Syre. [4]

Promotion

Jaden announced the mixtape on Twitter in October, [4] when he also released the track "Goku", which was not included on the mixtape. [2] Smith also held the event The Sunset Tapes: A Cool Tape Story Live for Free or On Demand on Beats 1 to debut the mixtape. [5]

The music videos for "A Calabasas Freestyle" and "Soho" was released on January 17, 2019, and April 12, respectively and was self directed by Jaden. [6] [7]

Track listing

Credits were adapted from Tidal. [8]

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Soho"Mel & Mus3:28
2."A Calabasas Freestyle"
  • Ayo
  • Keyz
  • Keanu Beats
2:59
3."Play This on a Mountain at Sunset"
  • Jaden
  • Maestro
5:41
4."Plastic"
  • Melvin "Chaos" Lewis
  • OmArr
2:16
5."Distant"Wonderlust6:06
6."Better Things" Fuse 1:49
7."Yeah Yeah"Rev-Eng2:53
8."Syre in Abbey Road"Jaden1:44
9."Ten Ten"Fuse1:58
10."Fallen Part 2"
4:58
11."Rollin Around" Boi-1da 2:48
Total length:36:40

Notes

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [9] 117

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