Jaden Smith - SYRE
Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2017 Ratings: #852 / 940
User Score
Based on 976 ratings
2017 Rank: #841
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CRITIC REVIEWS

82
HipHopDX

SYRE requires patience, a thorough listen and acute attention to detail otherwise it’s just going to sound like a strange pontification on existentialism that the casual listener simply doesn’t have the time to decipher.

80
Exclaim!

At first listen, the album is scattered and slightly exhausting; it takes several attempts to make sense of everything you're hearing, and some listeners may run out of the patience required to dissect it all. Those with a longer attention span, though, will find SYRE a very promising debut that offers new delight with every play.

70
AllMusic
As a debut, it has enough standout moments to pique interest in a future when Smith could stand toe to toe with his many inspirations.
60
NME
Whereas West and Ocean successfully hold disparate ideas under the same umbrella, Smith combines folk, metal, ‘70s rock, Christian pop and Detroit techno like someone flicking through Spotify on shuffle, hitting play for 30 seconds, and then moving on to something completely different. It’s exhausting.
60
Spectrum Culture

If you can enjoy it holistically—to use a word Smith would appreciate—it might just satisfy your hankering for really weird rap.

51
Pitchfork
While there are some musical highlights—like the 8-bit ambience of the Ricky Eat Acid-produced title-track—the album is constantly in pursuit of a voice it never finds.
40
The Needle Drop

Jaden Smith's latest film is an auditory one, exploring the lyrical follies of a rich-kid-turned-mediocre-rapper in desperate need of perspective as he produces 70 minutes of egotistical propaganda in the hope it will launch his rap career.

aaron
76

HOW Y'ALL MAD AT THIS, WHEN YOU beeen bumping GUCCI GANG!?

A great debut, it has its flaws(with some serious delusions of grandeur) and a terrible finish, but its originality is refreshing.
Also, I take this over the rest of his contemporaries by a LOT, next to Brockhampton; this is the most exciting new iteration of the hip-hop genre I've heard in 2017.

Favourites: Ninety B, L, U, E, The Passion, Fallen.
Avoid: Watch Me, Batman, Rapper

Update: It's really strange to see someone create a ... read more

AZIZ
53

Great Value Kanye

braztom
55

This started pretty brightly but by the end it's feeling like a real slog. It just goes on and on, and not in a good way.

danihk
76

that deliberate sense of track flow done for the opening songs would have really elevated the later half which i felt was stronger if scattered. bro says a whole lot of nonsense but the beats are good

NoName070
75

I'mma being honest, this guy has potential by drop this album. And so far, this is Jaden best project so far. Unfortunately, it has a lot of hit or miss

NicoIsntFunny
70

Erys but better

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Track List

1B
3:06
78
2L
2:23
73
3U
4:45
75
4E
3:23
72
5Breakfast
3:04
69
6Hope
6:00
66
7Falcon
3:43
feat. Raury
68
8Ninety
7:48
81
9Lost Boy
9:29
67
10Batman
3:04
67
11Icon
3:40
73
12Watch Me
2:34
65
13Fallen
4:22
71
14The Passion
4:29
65
15George Jeff
2:17
68
16Rapper
2:20
62
17SYRE
3:54
64
Total Length: 1 hour, 10 minutes

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Added on: October 25, 2017