New English

Desiigner - New English
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
2016 Ratings: #973 / 1004
User Score
Based on 284 ratings
2016 Rank: #817
Liked by 5 people
June 26, 2016 / Release Date
Mixtape / Format
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CRITIC REVIEWS

70
AllMusic

This weird and often wonderful ride broadens the scope, painting Desiigner as a much darker rapper with his hallucinatory music just skirting on the surface of a bad trip.

64
HipHopDX
Desiigner isn’t quite a one-hit wonder, but a notch above: he remakes the same hit over and over, with solid-yet-predictable results each time.
60
XXL
His ad-libs and energy are huge assets, and with more time, he could live up to all the hype he’s received in his short career. For now, he’s just a young artist with talent trying to find himself.
50
SPIN

Desiigner’s debut mixtape, New English, feels like a formulaic Vox instructional on how to make trap songs.

47
Pitchfork

New English is so woefully derivative it almost builds itself a new vocabulary from the Lego blocks of other rappers it stands on.

snarekickblues
10

SKRRRRRR

I ge braws in alana twissin doe lee ehna fana

GYEAH GYEAH GYEAH

BartDaGoat
35

https://youtu.be/g0OdmRtuQew?si=3qPv9AUIdOJf9FW0&t=11
24 days of Fantano Dickriding 15/24
Sidney Royel Selby III was born exactly 9 years before i was born, 3 may 1997. Since young age he was interested in music. He is grandson of blues musician Sidney "Guitar Crasher" Selby. He joined the school and church choir to practise his voice. In 2015, he started to work on his music. In late 2015, he released his first song on Soundcloud - "Zombie Walk". Also late that year, he ... read more

ST4T1C
25

Future if you remove everything fun about Futures music and made his vocals nearly illegible.

Oh yeah, also add a shit ton of GRAAAAAHHHHH ad libs randomly across songs.

Alaksa
15

Future, but he has no talent.

Seriously, though, I literally cannot figure out what the hell he is talking about half of the time. The way raps is so unintelligible, I can't even use this as background music. There are also lots of horrible mixing throughout the entire thing, and the way some of these songs end makes so sense whatsoever. This just shows that everyone can become a rapper, but not everyone SHOULD.

Goose70
37

“New English” is claustrophobic, overly dramatic, and harsh on the ears. Desiigners voice is truly awful, with his mindless mumbling or shouting that peaks the mix and makes me wince. The few features that I hoped would provide relief from Desiigners voice ended up just being uninteresting wallpaper (yes, even Pusha T doesn’t care for this album). The production is just standard dark, heavy trap that is shoddily put together, and the interludes are laughable attempts to make ... read more

TheNBoy76
36

Let's be honset, you're only here for Panda
Best: Panda
Worst: Make it out, Zombie walk

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Track List

1Intro
0:37
55
2Caliber
2:03
36
3Make It Out
2:49
43
4Shooters
1:28
27
5Monstas & Villains
0:37
22
6Interlude 1
0:24
34
7Talk Regardless
3:08
34
8Roll Wit Me
2:48
25
9Interlude 2
0:59
33
10Da Day
6:45
feat. Mekado
40
11Jet
3:32
feat. Pusha T
55
12Overnight
3:11
37
13Zombie Walk
3:28
38
14Panda
4:06
76
Total Length: 35 minutes
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Added on: June 26, 2016