Drew Millard
After a tumultuous year, Colson Baker sends his emotions screaming through the entire mainstream rock canon. It hardly works at all, but the album’s mere existence is genuinely fascinating.
9mo
Is it still kind of a mess? Sure. But how many artists these days are willing to risk derailing their own careers just because they can?
11mo
The rapper’s second greatest hits compilation collects some nice singles, but mostly feels like the portrait of a wayward artist who’s spent the last 13 years going in every direction.
3y
The rapper and professional gourmand’s latest album is a hallucinatory, fuzzed-out journey into the wilderness.
4y
On his fifth solo album, Big Sean gets personal, leans on a slate of high-profile guests to provide most of the entertainment, and struggles to deliver anything that isn’t fundamentally embarrassing.
5y
Whereas My Krazy Life offered a fairly straightforward narrative about a haphazard 24 hours of YG’s Compton exploits, Still Brazy starts by focusing inwards and widens its lens to the outside world, linking the scrutiny around YG’s personal life to the universal horror of being persecuted simply because of what you look like.
9y
Dirty Sprite 2 is a tremendous compendium of everything you want from a Future album in 2015.
10y
Imagine that Young Dro and Skooly from Rich Kidz had a baby, and somehow that baby immediately became a full-grown man with depth, gravitas, and a sort of totally amazing singing voice. Then imagine that baby made a mixtape, and that mixtape was dope as f—k.
11y
2 Chainz is only truly comfortable with being a star, it seems, if there are other names on the marquee.
13y
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