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