The unhinged brother of ‘ITAOTS’. ‘On Avery Island’ is a chaotically dizzying and wildly abrasive, yet completely alluring theme park ride into love and loss, and life and death. Obviously, this album is not on the same level as ‘ITAOTS’, but it still slaps.

A beautifully poetic and simplistically raw piece of abstract art drenched in surreal absurdity and nostalgic memories. It’s all about the feeling that just transports you into this albums world, which is why I always seem to revisit this every couple months.

J Cole doing his best Drake Impersonation: The Mixtape. ‘Crocodile Tearz’ and ‘Huntin’ Wabbits’ is literally a carbon copy ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ Drake song. The awful ‘Fever’ is the most ‘One Dance’ sounding fake pop shit. ‘Trae The Truth In Ibiza’, ‘Ready ‘24’, and ‘Stickz N Stonez’ are so eerily similar or somewhat close to Drake’s conventional rap ... read more

While still inconsistent, this is Cole’s most focused work to date, and his best album to date. J Cole ditches the concept album formula he has struggled with for so many years to succeed in, and replaces it with a project of him just rapping his arse off on old school sample flips and loops, and new school trap drums and melodies. ‘100 Mil’ is terrible, there’s a couple songs that needed more fleshing out, and there’s a few corny bars that Cole definitely ... read more

Why does J Cole deliver the most consistently inconsistent rap records ever? And why does J Cole make it so easy, yet so hard to vibe with his songs?

This album is very difficult to pin point. KOD is not Cole’s worst album, and not his least replayable album, but it’s such a heavily flawed project, it’s hard to get much enjoyability from what Cole is doing. Throughout the album, there’s glimpses of an idea Cole wants to tackle, but they’re never built upon in a ... read more

The narrative needed more cohesiveness and substance to make this project hit; emotionally, and thematically. There’s glimpses of something fantastic amidst this tracklist, but then you get tracks like the unfocused throwaway trash that is ‘Deja Vu’, the laughably stupid and incredibly corny ‘Foldin’ Clothes’ (the beats kind of fire though?), as well as the rough execution and boring presence from Cole on ‘Ville Mentality’ ruining such a pretty ... read more

I haven’t listened to this album since 2014 when it first came out during my last days of high school. It was such an instant popular release amongst many circles I hung out with, and everyone was bumping ‘Wet Dreamz’, and ‘No Role Modelz’. I loved this record when it first came on the scene, because like many others, there is a relatability applied in the introspectiveness that finds the listener hooked to the deeper parts of the material. However, revisiting the ... read more

‘Born Sinner’ is an extremely boring, overlong, unremarkable, forgettable listen. The production shines here and there, but Cole’s lyrical presence, and artistic execution ruins the potential of what the production has to offer. He is so consistently inconsistent and so frustratingly unfocused, it hurts so much, especially when you are vibing with a song and he says something or executes the song in a way that completely takes you out of what you’re listening to. ... read more

A mixture of forgettable, weak, unfocused, dated, and decent rap songs looking for some sort of meaning or cohesion amidst its runtime, and just failing. The production can go pretty hard though (except Mr. Nice Watch, and Cole World), but Cole’s flow can lack charm and freshness, his lyrics can be throwaway trash (“you can’t outfart me” or “I’m heating up like left over lasagne”), and the execution of his lyrical content can be questionable ... read more

A pretty weak mixtape. Tracks are either passable enjoyment, or unfulfilled potential of a fun song idea, while the skits/interludes on this are pointless. I much prefer their other projects.

This EP is just a collection of individual tracks from each of the band members stitched together into a project. ‘Bounce’, ‘Ice Chips’, ‘Update’, ‘Glow’, and ‘Yikes’ go pretty hard though, but the other three tracks are shockingly forgettable and really bland.

This EP feels like an entree to their main course album, giving you a taste of their sound, and easing you into their fully fleshed out material. It’s pretty solid.

There is so much personality and so much energy surging throughout this project, and with the combination of old school 90’s/2000’s rnb hip hop vibes, the new school trap flavour of this era, the club dance scene influence, and the eccentric style of hyper-pop, it makes this infectiously fun to listen to. DYSBF! has such a cringey chorus though.. I can’t.

While definitely an improvement over ‘Goblin’, in terms of dialling down the forced edgy shock value, and also having better production overall, this 2013 project from Tyler still follows the same issue as ‘Goblin’-the half baked concept of ‘Wolf’ is buried deep down in this boring slog of repetitive filler. Also, songs are either ruined by poor or stupid lyrics/performances (“eye-can-tact”, “streenth”, anything on ... read more

Cherry Bomb is a frustrating directionless mess of jarringly abrasive noisy tracks and boringly bland melodic jazz cuts awfully mixed, terribly written, and incoherently sequenced together. It’s a sabotage of sound, and such an insubstantial round of songs. As insanely messy as the explosively turbulent ‘Pilot’ is, and as underdeveloped as the soothing ‘Find Your Wings’ is, these are the only songs where I can find some form of enjoyability from this project.

‘Let’s Start Here’ is a great title, because I agree, this is where Lil Yachty should’ve started. While I do have issues with Yacthy’s vocal mixing on a couple tracks, like on ‘I’ve officially lost vision’, and the interlude ‘failure’ feels like throwaway filler amidst this tracklist, this is Lil Boat’s best album by a strong margin. There’s no competition. What a major improvement. ‘Let’s Start Here’ is a ... read more

There some decent instrumentation moments scattered on this album, but the stiff vocal delivery and the bland song execution makes this a struggle to listen to.

‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ is Tylers travel vacation log mixtape style braggadocio flex on his recent success, and a self-reflection on his entire career. Tyler is at his most hungriest and most focused when it comes to his rap performance over his own top tier hip hop production.

A boring repetitive slog of edgy horrorcore shock value with terribly mixed production and vapid song progression. Yonkers goes hard though, ironically Tyler’s least favourite song of his own.

It sure is suicide season listening to this album.