It is incredibally confusing, as Khaled’s biggest advocate, to rationalize this being Dj Khaled’s album when he has producer tags other than his own... and vocals other than his own... and everything other than his own besides his occasional, albeit enjoyable, holaring. Watching a video in which he explains his music making process, his claim to this music becomes even more confusing. I’ll bite, sure, he compiled all of these radio-friendly tracks into sort of a playlist - it ... read more
Sometimes I go into the best albums list, see the albums that get such raving scores, but then check their page to see who reviewed them and kind of let my guard back up.
EDIT 5/29/2019: Doorman is one of the best songs this year.
With Igor, Tyler did something so far from what he's done before yet has come back around from Flowerboy to a lot of old odd-future-era aesthetics. I, personally, am not the biggest fan of this lense he put on his first three albums, and matched with a lot of unnecessary provokativeness, it just wasn't for me. Flowerboy was a great turn around for him, shifting from his worst album "CHERRY BOMB" into a much more meaningful and actually sensitive rap image. The production felt ... read more
GTFU was the exact energy I needed
Love the beats on this thing, abstract yet welcome-ly abrassive. The verses are sharp, featuring mostly bragadocio with some conciousness here and there that doesn't feel too forced.
edit 5/29/2019: score went from 88 to 83
edit 6/12/2019: score changed from 84 to a 74
EDIT 9/6/2019: The less I come back to this album makes me start to reconsider what I really like about music more. It was a pretty fresh first few listens, dropping 808 heavy, gritty ... read more
Kota is like a healthy blend of Chance the Rapper, Isaiah Rasahd, and Amine. His music is kind of niche and he sometimes has a somewhat lackluster prose, but his appeal is pretty strong and its nice to see someone more artistic growing in popularity.
An Instagram page I follow claimed this was the greatest album of all time. He had compiled a list of his 100 favorite albums of all time, ranked, and I would say I recognized about 40% of them. I figured that this could be because of two things - One, his music taste is in an entire different lane than mine, or two, I just hadn't discovered it yet. After listening to this record, I can finally tell you that I've found my favorite album of all time... It's still MBDTF... But, this record ... read more
What the fuck is wrong with her.
EDIT 5/13/2019: Yeah, what I really appreciate about this record is how its almost like something I conceptualized in my head. It reminds me of that bizarre video on the internet with that mannequin-like robot singing "I feel fantastic."
EDIT 6/18/2019: Yeah its a cool concept but its more style and conceptualization over substance and experimentation
There is a strong argument in favor of the Saxophone being the greatest instrument ever created.
Favorite Tracks: Because the End is Really the Beginning, Blood of the Past, Super Zodiac, Astral Flying, Timewave Zero, Unity, The Universe Wakes Up
I like this more than a lot of TA13OO. Its got a lot of bite to it and somewhat abstract trap style.
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