enjoyable enough, but quite the letdown after how much i loved keem's debut. in an effort toward a more serious record, keem loses much of the off-the-wall creativity that made "the melodic blue" so addicting. the instrumentals are safer, the song structures are safer, and keem displays only a hair of the eccentric flows, melodies, and vocal performances in which he once thrived.
the fun tracks are less interesting, and keem doesn't quite seem to have the juice as a writer ... read more
surprisingly varied and interesting, drags a touch but not nearly as much as you'd expect given the runtime + artist combo. never really can tell what level of effort you're going to get with conway, but he came correct on this one - easily his best work since GDMM
sabrina carpenter continues to stretch out a song’s worth of subject matter onto an entire album, failing to do much particularly interesting with it over the 38 minute runtime. sonically more interesting and varied than short n sweet, but just as much of a lyrical & emotional goose egg.
i wish i had a more analytical verdict than this, but it kinda just feels like sabrina don’t got the juice.
when did you get hot is a hit, tho
5.5/10
Alchemist is in top form on this one, delivering layered samples and instrumental earworms as has become expected of him at this point.
2 Chainz himself is also on his A game, coming with his usual barrage of quotables and hilarious lines but this time with a pretty nice array of inventive and entertaining flows.
Unfortunately, Larry June is here too.
Every single time Larry June’s voice comes on I genuinely get the same feeling as when I get a mid-roll ad on a youtube video.
This is ... read more