On “Vinyl Days”, Logic extends and fleshes out the sonic aesthetic of his Doc D tape from last year with some fantastic production, features, and plenty of skits, and the result is one of my favorite Logic projects (if not my favorite). Yeah, it’s too long and there are too many unnecessary moments, but the music here is so fun and likable that it ends up being a great and enjoyable listen regardless.

While 070 Shake still clearly wears her influences on her sleeve (most notably Kanye West, The Weeknd, & Travis Scott), she still comes through with a really impressive album that improves on her last and features some of the best production of the year. The songwriting could still be improved, and the album is a little samey, but it’s still a step in the right direction.

While “Get Used To It” doesn’t fully live up to the potential shown on the EP with Gesaffelstein, it’s still an enjoyable trap project that continues to establish Kaycyy as one of the most exciting new artists in trap.

Kaycyy was an artist I had known of because of his involvement with Kanye West and Donda, but I had never heard any of his music. This changed a few months ago when he released the collab EP “TW20 50” with Gesaffelstein. I loved these three ... read more

Edit: revisited this album and I like it more. It's still his worst and very flawed but I still enjoy it.

Original review:

“Twelve Carat Toothache” is still a pretty decent and enjoyable melodic pop-rap project, but it’s probably the weakest body of work Post Malone has released and is pretty underwhelming and kinda forgettable.

Post Malone isn’t super groundbreaking as an artist, but I really like his style of pop-rap and thought he has had some of the best pop ... read more

Edit: this grew on me more. 75 to an 80.

Original review:
“Harry’s House” is a good pop album for sure, but it doesn’t really do anything different from or surpass “Fine Line” for me. This ultimately leaves it a little disappointing and underwhelming, even if I think it’s enjoyable and I like what’s here.

I really enjoyed Harry Styles’s last album, even if there were many flaws and some songs I didn’t love. I saw a lot of potential ... read more

Didn’t love it at first, and it’s still not my favorite Rina song or anything, but yet another great pop song from her.

I can’t believe I’m listening to a new Kendrick Lamar album after 5 years.

I need time to digest this. I’m overwhelmed. It was a great and incredibly interesting listen, but I also have issues and I also don’t know how I feel about it completely.

Edit: a few weeks and many many listens later, here’s the review:

While this album isn’t perfect and doesn’t quite meet the unreasonably high expectations that I had for it based on his insane discography ... read more

Wanted to listen to something horrible before the new Kendrick Lamar album to make me appreciate it even more, so here we are…

Do I even have to write about this album? Of course it’s not very good and I don’t like it. It’s just generic and nothing and I forget I’m even listening to it. I guess it could have been worse, but it still was not a good listen.

REVISITING KENDRICK LAMAR’S DISCOGRAPHY #5

Me and this album have had a strange relationship. This was the first album of Kendrick’s that I fell in love with, and for a while it was my favorite album of all time. As years have gone on and my music taste expanded and changed, and as I fell in love with GKMC and TPAB, this went from potentially my favorite Kendrick project to my second least favorite. I played this album so much that I think I burned myself out of it, and for 3-4 ... read more

REVISITING KENDRICK LAMAR’S DISCOGRAPHY #4

The next project to revisit was untitled unmastered. And impressively, Kendrick Lamar’s demos are pretty great and better than most other rapper’s albums in general. Songs like untitled 02 and untitled 07 are amongst some of my favorite Kendrick songs ever, and there are some other really cool moments such as untitled 08. There are some moments that aren’t fully fleshed out or are kinda unnecessary, but it’s still an ... read more

REVISITING KENDRICK LAMAR’S DISCOGRAPHY #3

The next album to revisit was To Pimp A Butterfly, which is my 4th favorite album of all time. It’s also the highest rated album of all time on AOTY, and for good reason. This has to be the most impressive album I’ve ever heard. Someday I’ll write a full review, but for now I’ll just give it my 100.

Fav Tracks: Wesley’s Theory, King Kunta, Institutionalized, These Walls, u, Alright, For Sale, Momma, Hood Politics, ... read more

REVISITING KENDRICK LAMAR’S DISCOGRAPHY #2

The next album to revisit was good kid, m.A.A.d city, which is one of my favorite albums ever.

There’s not much to say about this album that hasn’t already been said a million times. It’s great, the highlights on here are all time classics, and Kendrick is absolutely fantastic from a writing and performance standpoint. This is one of my favorite albums of all time, and pretty much everything about it is great and impresses ... read more

REVISITING KENDRICK LAMAR’S DISCOGRAPHY #1

Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite artists ever. So with his new album coming on Friday, I decided to go back and revisit his discography this week. So let’s start with Section 80:

While Section 80 is flawed and is my least favorite Kendrick album, it’s still really good and an a impressive debut that shows a lot of potential that would be capitalized on later projects. There are some really great highlights here like ... read more

THIS SONG WAS WORTH A 5 YEAR WAIT

Edit: this grew on me even more. 75 to an 80

Edit 2: grew on me more lol, 80 to 85

While “Heart On My Sleeve” isn’t anything unique or groundbreaking, it’s still just a really well executed R&B album with some great vocal performances and highlights.

I’ve always seen talent and potential in Ella Mai, but her music never really impressed me and was pretty generic. However, I really enjoyed the singles for this album, as I either really liked or loved all ... read more

I like Jack Harlow as a personality and I really want to like his music, but he just continues to not improve as an artist on “Come Home The Kids Miss You”, which results in some decent but ultimately underwhelming music.

As most people were, I was introduced to Jack Harlow through “What’s Poppin”, which was a great and enjoyable pop rap track. From there though, I wasn’t impressed, as I did not enjoy his EP from 2020 at all. But as a personality I really ... read more

I NEVER LIKED YOU is a decent record from Future with some solid highlights and really good production, but it ultimately ends up being disappointing due to Future’s underwhelming writing and performances.

While it’s not quite on the level of Daytona for me, Pusha T still comes through with another impressive release with usually great production and solid features.

Maybe my really low expectations coming into this just have me pleasantly surprised, but I actually think “Familia” is pretty decent, even with all its problems and flaws.

Considering how bland and boring I usually find Camila Cabello and her music, I went into this expecting not to like it at all. But somehow despite its issues, I kinda enjoyed this. It’s absolutely nothing special or groundbreaking, and everything here I’ve heard done much better, but for what it is ... read more

This feels like ”Vince Staples” 2 to me.

I kinda feel the same way about “RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART” as I do his self-titled record: it’s solid and has some highlights but it’s kinda forgettable and not as energetic as I’d like. It’s a little long and the songs kinda get samey, but they’re all good and there are some really well written songs here. The production is also pretty good. I probably prefer “Vince Staples”, as it was ... read more