Feels pretty lacking in personality, both in the lyrics and glossed up production. This new phase in his career isn’t really looking too good so far. The Weeknd is a great vocalist but here it feels like his talent is being used insincerely, like he’s making music just to make it.
Baby voice Vince Staples? Plus, Disco S**t was oddly refreshing. Otherwise, very rinse and repeat.
Kanye continues to sort of push the boundary of the structure of music, more so his own than anything, on Jesus is King. This record is clearly intended for his Sunday Service program, in that outside of the brash live settings tracks are very abrupt and just placed with not much of an important sequence, with the exception of the intro and outro tracks, though still abrupt. Despite this, Jesus is King is also his most thematic album to date. Historically, Kanye takes broad strokes of ... read more
First off, this artwork is really awesome. Its so grim and muddy yet strangely home-like. “Feet of Clay” by Earl Sweatshirt is somehow an even stranger and dirtier continuation of the concepts he pursued on “Some Rap Song:”, an album, though brief, was incredibly detailed and one of the most compelling hip-hop releases of all time (seriously, its that ground-breaking). With that being said, just some rap songs seem to have been the death of this persona he’s ... read more