Jonagold

need more time to process this, but this is one of the most beautiful albums ever. playful and lush instrumentation. goofy yet introspective. experienced every human emotion in 39 minutes. great memories.

After years of anticipation, Carti feeds the street with a batch of undercooked tracks to the point where it is nearly unlistenable. Many features felt out of place (Kendrick, for example), and I am not excited about the strange and mysterious aura, deep voice, or mumble rap vibe anymore. Beats and flows sounded incredibly similar and uninspiring. RATHER LIE was my only good takeaway from this album.

Fighting Demons is an incredibly bloated posthumous album that ended up leaving a negative stain on his legacy. Fans of Juice WRLD can find a couple of meritable and serviceable tracks, but as a cohesive album, it is difficult to sit through the lazy mixing and low effort collaborations. This is definitely not Juice's best work, and most of these freestyles never made it onto an album for a reason.

Andre 3000 is on a different plane of existence. He has enough on his resume that it doesn't even matter what he drops. New Blue Sun is a fun, flute-based ambient album, but nothing groundbreaking or experimental. I do believe that an artist as talented as Andre probably could've pushed the boundaries of this genre a bit further, but he is in his chill unc era, stepping back from the scene and watching the hip-hop world he built.