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After years of being exploited by those around her and the industry, Kesha finally breaks through with a serious and decently well put together project.

Teaming up with Rick Rubin, Kesha, finally free to make music that showcases here full artistic abilities, creates a really solid project with many different influences compared to her party pop background featuring production and styles similar to the likes of ambient, indie/alt pop, and electronic music. This easily makes this album her ... read more

For how much "No Heart" bangs, the rest of this album falls flat.

Savage Mode is a collaboration between producer Metro Boomin and rapper 21 Savage and promises a cold trap record with hard bars and dark beats. Metro Boomin easily holds up his end of the bargain with some of the better trap production of the time with these dark and minimalist melodies layered in effects that creates a perfect vibe for an artist such as 21 Savage to do his thing. On songs like "No Heart" ... read more

KAYTRANADA and Amine's long awaited collaboration isn't as consistent or high energy as expected, but it still is a fun and quick project that has some true highlights.

KAYTRAMINE is a very strange project as KAYTRANADA and Amine seem to be leaving their comfort zones on here to create a vibey summer record that is relatively laid back. I think that this project is decently rough but through those rough edges, there are some great highlights and fun summer bops. Amine is surprisingly calm on ... read more

While far from the heights reached with the Chronic, 2001 is a really fun and enjoyable album.

This album has so many classics on it such as "Still D.R.E.", "Forget About Dre", "The Next Episode". These songs still stand as some of the best hip-hop songs ever and on top of that, this album has some solid deep cuts too. Dre while not being amazing at rapping, still has his absolutely fantastic production chops and a lot of the features on this album do their thing ... read more