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Is this a bad album? No, not really. Emergency Tsunami isn’t an album where I’m begging for every song to end and for me to be done with it. However, it’s just the epitome of mid. It feels bland, uninspired, and made with no sense of direction. Wheezy, despite his impressive portfolio, has his production be very uninteresting on this record. I walk into it the same way I walk out of it, it’s just a collection of average NAV songs that make me feel no type of way ... read more

I really want to give Yeat an A for effort, but the music’s just not what I wished from him. I’m never going to sit here and complain about an artist changing up their style, but in order for me to do that, the artist has to execute it well. I’ll always hold Yeat to a 2093 standard - to this day, that was his most complete album. And when comparing it to ADL, ADL just seems all over the place. If the tracklist was halved and Yeat perfected each song, the idea would’ve ... read more

Imagine you’re at a restaurant and you receive 4 plates of a decent-tasting alfredo. There’s a difference in the displayed protein (e.g. shrimp, chicken, steak), but overall it’s the same alfredo. It’ll taste good, sure…but at some point you’re going to get tired of just eating slightly different alfredo. That’s what Don Toliver’s music is starting to feel like. It’s not bad at all - in fact, the quality increases with each album. But his ... read more

This wasn’t worth 5 years. This album is decent, but the production and features honestly do all the work and it feels like the worst part of this album is Carti himself, oddly enough. I do expect this album to age well, but for now it just feels like a let down considering how anticipated it was.