The album’s strengths are many, from its production to its featured guests’ verses to Smoke’s lyrics and skills. ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon’ showcases a multi-faceted artist only just discovering his potential.
It is so easy to reach in blindly and pull out a well-produced track with a decent guest appearance and Smoke at his lyrical best.
His posthumous album, Shoot For the Stars Aim For the Moon, is ... not only a celebration, but an elegy for what else he could have achieved.
With stakes this high and a legacy to consider, the end result may or may not bear much of a resemblance to what Pop Smoke had in mind. Nonetheless, he sounds alive here, a motivated and vibrant hip-hop talent actively pushing towards that next level.
Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon is a collage of Pop’s versatility.
The rapper’s posthumous debut album shows us why he remains the voice of New York City.
Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon neither blights nor burnishes Pop Smoke’s legacy.
Though the first two volumes of Meet the Woo lacked the bombast of Smoke's iconic singles, they demonstrated candor in their representation of the drill heavyweight; SFTSAFTM, by contrast, tarnishes the rapper's visionary style with predatory glitz as everyone jumps for a piece of the pie.
Another example of someone with lot of potential having their life taken too soon.
I’m not going to sit here and act like I was OG pop smoke fan or anything or that I loved his music or even cared before he died. Nonetheless, he was talented and had a lot of potential to be a breath of fresh air in the currently bloated and overly bland rap scene with a little time.
This record is okay, it’s nothing amazing. It’s definitely above average. His flow is pretty effortless if ... read more
50 did Pop dirty with this one. Pop Smoke's first posthumous record trades in the usually great drill production from his previous albums for more mainstream trap production causing Pop to lose many aspects that made him unique among mainstream rappers. Pop really had something different as opposed to an NBA Youngboy or Quavo. He had unique production as well as charisma. There are plenty of rappers that do have charisma but they often resort to very generic production but Pop always had some ... read more
Yeah I'm not feeling this at all.
The late New York rappers debut album is a mixed bag of monotony, poor song structure and all in all just a lack of anything interesting to write home about. Personally I thought Meet the Woo 2 was a bad mixtape and I wasnt really expecting to get much out of this other than the same shit we've gotten already and just another artists untimely demise being used for profit. Looking down at the tracklist is an eye roll in itself as it's 19 tracks, his biggest ... read more
Really decent debut/Posthumous album. The first half is all bangers. But it does start to fall flat at the middle part. The last tracks are good though.
RIP
I usually have a reputation for hating on posthumous albums, but this one is really an exception; an album that actually has replay ability and doesn't feel like a bunch of leftovers from the artist. I didn't enjoy every track on this track, but when the track is good, the album hits
1 | Bad Bitch From Tokyo (Intro) 0:48 | 63 |
2 | Aim For The Moon 2:55 feat. Quavo | 78 |
3 | For the Night 3:10 | 79 |
4 | 44 BullDog 2:30 | 70 |
5 | Gangstas 2:40 | 74 |
6 | Yea Yea 3:05 | 61 |
7 | Creature 3:22 feat. Swae Lee | 68 |
8 | Snitching 4:19 | 67 |
9 | Make It Rain 3:22 feat. Rowdy Rebel | 72 |
10 | The Woo 3:21 feat. 50 Cent, Roddy Ricch | 77 |
11 | West Coast Shit 3:12 | 64 |
12 | Enjoy Yourself 3:17 feat. KAROL G | 62 |
13 | Mood Swings 3:33 feat. Lil Tjay | 63 |
14 | Something Special 2:38 | 67 |
15 | What You Know Bout Love 2:40 | 75 |
16 | Diana 3:08 feat. King Combs | 48 |
17 | Got It On Me 2:44 | 79 |
18 | Tunnel Vision (Outro) 2:12 | 68 |
19 | Dior 3:36 Bonus Track | 87 |
#7 | / | The New York Times: Jon Caramanica |
#10 | / | Complex |
#10 | / | The Ringer |
#14 | / | Highsnobiety |
#42 | / | Far Out Magazine |
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