I NEVER LIKED YOU is a listen that’s pretty worth it. Future stays in his element and traps out where he does best. However, at times it feels like it’s at the cusp of being something greater. Future has all the parts, but sometimes it just feels like he stays where he’s at too much and doesn’t look for a way to put them all together. The songs are good, the features work out, the production fits really well, and there are many instances throughout the album where ... read more

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.

When Tecca takes the time to write a fully cohesive song (especially "Love Me"), it turns out to be great. However, he doesn’t do that. He seems to be rushing through most of the songs, so the album just feels hollow and put together in a hurry. Impressive for a 16-year-old, though.

There are many good things about this album, but it feels like Metro was left out to dry and had to do 99% of the work for his own album. Ignoring that NAHWC sometimes sounded a bit like a compilation, I must credit Metro for figuring out how to elevate subpar components to make great music.

Lyfe is a very enjoyable and cohesive album, but once you look into its structural elements the cracks show. Very few songs hit, and the production and lyrics feel too repetitive and inconsistent for Lyfe to warrant as a good album. But overall, this album was better than expected.

Drip Harder has a lot of kinks that it needs to work out. There are a few bangers on the record, but it overall feels empty. There’s no depth in any of its components, and although it may be a good trap mixtape, as an album overall it’s uninteresting and feels like something is missing from it.

This album is plain boring. Although it's only 11 tracks, the songs' similar flow, production, and lyrics make it feel like 18 instead. With NAV trying to find his footing, the album suffers and becomes a long slog that devalues its highlights and only makes you tap out by its end.

Mixtape Pluto has high highs but very low lows. There’s a lot of great content, but 17 tracks is simply too long for a project such as this (12 would have been much better), and there’s a lot of useless clutter that ends up becoming dead weight.

Hardstone Psycho is good, but its nothing special and feels very similar to Don’s past 3 projects. It would’ve been nice to see Don explore more of the beginning’s trap/rock side, but it was never fully developed. It could’ve been much better at the end of the day.

Although the album is filled with many fun verses and performances from Future and Uzi, unfortnuately it is equally stuffed with boring hooks, flows, and production. It feels like a very run of the mill trap album, and lacks the chemistry we would expect from the artists.