Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you Jermaine Cole, my favourite humble rapper taking a dollar from me🙏🙏🙏
One of the two missteps for Ghostface’s catalogue. It’s carried by the smooth production, which gets tiring to listen to by like the 5th song as it doesn’t change up much track to track, and the features. The features are promising; besides Ron Browz and Raheem Devaughn’s features when they used heavy autotune, all the features were really great, and if they were on anyone else’s song or even Ghostface’s song on almost any other era, I would just hear them. I ... read more
Thanks for telling me about your album, Torrance!
Lyrically, the album is introspective; it brings up things about Torrance’s life. With topics of being anxious to lose, dropping 30 pounds the prior summer, or what a girl means to him. Despite the album being introspective, it can be vague at times. Those vague moments would’ve been better off on the banger it has like WALLPUNCH, BOYCOTT EUROVISION, and LET THEM EAT CAKE, where the beats and flows are able to carry rather ... read more
It starts off with an alright flow, and it just sounded amateur, taking heavy influence from Carti. It does pick up after the half-way mark, but it doesn’t last longer enough for the song to completely change my thoughts on the song as the song isn’t even 2 minutes long.
As I’ve been going through three 6 Mafia’s discography I was looking through Juicy J’s discography. I wondered why whenever Juicy J is talked about why his own discography wasn’t often talked about, so I looked through his catalog to see if there was anything that caught my eye. I noticed this mixtape and that it was hosted by DJ Scream, the same person who hosted Chief Keef’s Almighty So, Rick Ross’ Rich Forever, and so many other great mixtapes, and I ... read more
I found out about Ygtut through his album “I’m Back,” and I thought that was a good album, carrying strong elements from many subgenres of rap while having an introspective side and one that was more light-sided. That album made me check out the rest of his work, and I noticed that although most of the work was good, it usually followed the same formula as “I’m Back." Listening to “Preacher’s Son” makes me realize what Ygtut could be if he ... read more
Yeat completely proved me wrong and had me in shock for the first five songs. Although I think the only Yeat album I've reviewed was the one that was released last year, Afterlyfe, I've gone through all of his previous projects, as my friends really like his music, and it never clicked for me. I still stand by what I believed, which was that all his prior work had followed the same formula, sounding like the same three to four very similar songs on repeat. Yeat is pushing his boundaries on this ... read more
Damn, if the rest of the album is matching up to this and blueslide then the album could very likely be an aoty contender.
After staying up on Thursday, I didn’t expect this to drop. It starts off well with STARS and KEYS TO LIFE before quickly losing its footing afterwards, which it struggles to recover until the last four songs. The last four songs are some of the best songs on here, which I didn’t predict as everything, with three exclusions after the first two songs were uniquely boring.
I had very low expectations before this album dropped; when I mean low, I thought it would’ve scored ... read more
I didn’t like “X” too much; granted, I only listened to it twice, but it didn’t give me a good impression. After seeing the hype that this was getting, which was insane, I checked this album out.
The production on this album is incredible, and I’d probably put most of them in consideration for the best rage beats. The dark, hard hitting 808s and the electronic elements make them have a distinct furious feeling. The beats weren’t too loud either, ... read more
Sampha is an artist that I’ve loved ever since the first time I heard him on Drake’s “Too Much." Maybe it’s a stretch, but he’s within contention for me to be the best feature artist of all time as well. His sophomore album after six years is only a step up from "Process." His voice is what I’d imagine an angel to have; calming, relaxing, which is comforting. It’s soothing, and it makes me feel safe, even when I’m in a place of ... read more
I’m going to attempt to catch up with some 2023 releases before the year ends; most of them will be shorter reviews if so.
I had no intentions of staying up last night for new music, but I saw new releases on my Spotify, and I thought it was a single, a Conway, Westside, and Alchemist album. I heard about it but didn’t think it’d release. I’ve been bingeing on Griselda’s music, and this is nice to end the year on. It seems like this is older music that was in the ... read more