Teenage Emotions is a bold and distinctive artistic statement, but the excessive 21-song tracklist is overwhelming.
On his major label debut, Teenage Emotions, Lil Yachty expands upon the sounds and styles that made his previous mixtapes such divisive earworms. If the listener is on board with the Yachty persona, it’s an extremely fun listen.
Much of Teenage Emotions feels unnaturally serious, as if he has something to prove. Which he does.
Yachty’s loose rudder on Teenage Emotions causes him to lose his bearings as he only half-commits to “capturing all aspects of teenagers” while the other half boasts of a life unrelatable to most.
Lil Yachty’s biggest goof on Teenage Emotions is forgetting to have fun, as he rides the rollercoaster of making it into the mainstream.
In the album's best moments, Teenage Emotions feels like a bit of a misnomer, but it's a little too apt at others, given Yachty's juvenilia throughout.
Much of Teenage Emotions contains the gleefully slapdash spirit that characterized the preceding EPs and commercial mixtapes, but there are -- for better and worse -- signs that the rapper might evade binary characterization as a delightful reveler or one-dimensional prankster.
Lil Yachty's debut album is a horrific disappointment.
Holy shit this is a bad album.
BEST TRACKS: Dirty Mouth, Peek a Boo (it was so bad that this horrible song ended up sounding good on it), All Around me
WORST TRACKS: Like a Star, DN Freestyle, Harley, Lady In Yellow, Otha Shit, Bring It Back, No More, literally the rest of the album
Also here is a list of every horrible lyric from this monstrosity of a debut album:
“She blow that dick like a cello”
“She suck dick like a baby bottle”
“Suck my dick ... read more
1 | Like A Star 3:43 | 47 |
2 | DN Freestyle 2:10 | 50 |
3 | Peek A Boo 4:06 feat. Migos | 64 |
4 | Dirty Mouth 2:47 | 63 |
5 | Harley 2:48 | 49 |
6 | All Around Me 3:31 | 51 |
7 | Say My Name 3:06 | 50 |
8 | All You Had To Say 3:39 | 55 |
9 | Better 4:02 feat. Stefflon Don | 47 |
10 | Forever Young 2:57 feat. Diplo | 50 |
11 | Lady In Yellow 3:38 | 53 |
12 | Moments in Time 2:57 | 44 |
13 | Otha Shit 0:50 | 55 |
14 | X Men 2:44 feat. Evander Griiim | 64 |
15 | Bring It Back 4:52 | 42 |
16 | Running With A Ghost 3:51 feat. Grace | 48 |
17 | FYI (Know Now) 2:45 | 44 |
18 | Priorities 3:30 | 42 |
19 | No More 3:12 | 33 |
20 | Made Of Glass 3:58 | 50 |
21 | Momma 4:06 feat. Sonyae Elise | 50 |
#79 | / | Les Inrocks |