Veteran
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CRITIC REVIEWS
89
If Kanye creates a new sound, if Clipping bring the noise, if those no longer with us drop the first ever collaborative mixtape from Heaven, ‘Veteran’ will still be one of, if not the most, substantial hip hop albums of 2018, that’s how damn good it is.
80
Veteran is sure to be one of the most in-your-face, off-the-wall and creative rap projects of 2018.
77
It makes for a breathless album, one that takes white-hot riffs and the most distasteful parts of our national politics, chops them up, and somehow scatters them perfectly into place.
"i need a bitch with long ass like mike c town" - knewnie, 2019
YEP, Veteran's great! Peggy absolutely killed it! BANGER. Morrissey bad, Peggy GOOD blahblahblah GOOD NIGHT LIBTARDS...
...Yeah, no. I'm not ending my review like that.
So why is this album so great, you might ask? Well, considering that a year has passed and everyone has already given this its praise and deciphered every component in detail, I'll try my best to uniquely explain the appeal of Veteran: a fascinating, ... read more
YEP, Veteran's great! Peggy absolutely killed it! BANGER. Morrissey bad, Peggy GOOD blahblahblah GOOD NIGHT LIBTARDS...
...Yeah, no. I'm not ending my review like that.
So why is this album so great, you might ask? Well, considering that a year has passed and everyone has already given this its praise and deciphered every component in detail, I'll try my best to uniquely explain the appeal of Veteran: a fascinating, ... read more
Deeply facetious and metaphorical in both lyricism and production, Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks delivers his sophmore release in a drug-infused, contextless presentation. Typically a stoic contrarian, Veteran displays a disturbed and emotionally shattered Hendricks, and we learn that at his deepest and most personal, he's just as enigmatic as all of us. Veteran is a poetic and masterful LP akin to some of the greatest and most reveered hip-hop albums of all time.
Veteran is an album I've had to listen to for a while to get. The record carries a tumultuous energy that tosses the listen to and fro violent oscillations and riffs layered by calming synths. Hendricks' inflection and change of times reminds me of the tortured thinking we go through when we're alone. In a way, it's an album that knows its true nature and spins around in frustrating circles of rhythms and lyricism.
The one downside that kept me from putting this as a classic is the fact that ... read more
The one downside that kept me from putting this as a classic is the fact that ... read more
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #3 | / | The Needle Drop |
| #4 | / | Passion of the Weiss |
| #5 | / | The Wire |
| #7 | / | The 405 |
| #9 | / | Bandcamp Daily |
| #13 | / | Vinyl Me, Please |
| #24 | / | SPIN |
| #36 | / | DJBooth (Hip Hop / R&B) |
| #37 | / | Pitchfork |
| #40 | / | BLARE |
| #41 | / | Noisey |
| #41 | / | Treble |
| #47 | / | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| #50 | / | The Skinny |
| #68 | / | NME |
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MISC LISTS
| #10 | / | Treble (Hip Hop) |
| #20 | / | Rolling Stone (Hip Hop) |
| #21 | / | The Genius Community |
| #24 | / | Exclaim! (First Half) |
| #33 | / | Stereogum (First Half) |
| #171 | / | Pitchfork (2010s) |
| / | Pitchfork (Rap) | |
| / | The Needle Drop (First Half) |
Track List
- 1539 N. Calvert
- Real Nega
- Thug Tears
- Dayum
- Baby I'm Bleeding
- My Thoughts on Neogaf Dying
- Rock N Roll Is Dead
- DD Form 214 (feat. Bobbi Rush)
- Germs
- Libtard Anthem (feat. Freaky)
- Panic Emoji
- DJ Snitch Bitch Interlude
- Whole Foods
- Macaulay Culkin
- Williamsburg
- I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies
- Rainbow Six (feat. Yung Midpack)
- 1488
- Curb Stomp
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Added on: January 22, 2018
