Still Striving sounds like a direct continuation of 2016’s Always Strive And Prosper with a hint of 2017 sprinkled in.
Sophomore album Always Strive and Prosper had ASAP Ferg striving to expand his lyrical and sonic palette and prospering less than half of the time. Still Striving then, perhaps self-consciously titled, course-corrects by dropping pretense and delivering what we came to Ferg for in the first place: banging beats, fire flows.
Still Striving isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s a solid record. Ferg has the chops to be considered one of his generation’s greats, but in terms of creative vision and originality, he’s still not quite there.
Though he’s still got style on the mic, Ferg’s latest is a regression into the gleeful ignorance that colored his earlier work.
This is honestly the only Ferg project that comes anywhere close to the quality of Trap Lord. Originally, I was hesitant about it because of how many features are on this project, but I think it fits the vibe of the mixtape. This project has plenty of bangers on it and it's easily some of his best work.
Favorite tracks: Rubber Band Man, Olympian, Mad Man, Plain Jane, East Coast REMIX
Least favorite: Nasty
This is definitely a step up from Always Strive and Prosper in a sort of sense, but man does it have problems. Ferg seems to leave the pop rap stuff behind from his previous record(which I personally think is to his advantage, but in exchange, we're given an unholy amount of features to compensate. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great features here but then we have features like... NAV... Lil Yachty... Famous Dex on Coach Cartier, which are simply just horrifyingly bad and serve ... read more
The tracks that really hit give the "Trap Lord" energy where Ferg really strives. There are quite a few tracks that try more a more mainstream sound that genuinely flop. Ferg needs to stick to his strengths.
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Well this thing started out kinda promising. First couple of tracks were bangers with some solid production but eventually this mixtape just became pretty dime a dozen trap. Ferg has energy and that was the one thing keeping me mostly interested, but this thing falls off a cliff around the halfway point. I don't like to harp on the writing too much when talking about trap, but it's pretty terrible in a lot of instances here. Not only is ... read more
1 | Trap And A Dream 3:09 feat. Meek Mill | 75 |
2 | Rubber Band Man 3:25 feat. Cam'ron | 73 |
3 | Olympian 3:31 feat. Dave East | 60 |
4 | Aww Yeah 3:14 feat. Lil Yachty | 56 |
5 | What Do You Do 2:56 feat. NAV | 37 |
6 | Coach Cartier 3:01 feat. Famous Dex | 54 |
7 | Mad Man 2:39 feat. Playboi Carti | 73 |
8 | Plain Jane 2:53 | 91 |
9 | Nasty (Who Dat) 3:29 feat. Migos | 26 |
10 | Mattress REMIX 4:32 | 76 |
11 | One Night Savage 2:32 feat. MadeinTYO | 56 |
12 | East Coast REMIX 5:35 | 77 |
13 | Nandos 2:55 | 62 |
14 | Tango 4:32 | 62 |