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Didn’t have Jack Harlow singing R&B on my bingo card, but I’ll take it.

**Next time, let’s avoid saying that you “got blacker” when making this album…not a good look.

I’d argue that this man hasn’t made a bad solo album (we don’t need to talk about ‘Bad Cameo’). As always, Blake’s gorgeous vocals and production coupled with beautiful swelling strings and stripped piano on some tracks make this an album that I’ll come back to time and time again.

When you have 15+ songs on an album, you have to make sure you’re keeping the listener engaged. On ‘Octane’, Toliver starts strong. “E85” is a solid opener with energy that carries into the next few tracks, but by the eighth song I was beginning to wonder where he was going with the record. Tracks start to blend together and it’s not until “Gemstone” (which got me hype as hell and brought back the energy of “E85”) that my ears started ... read more

Keem continues to push the mark while staying true to what got him popular in the first place. You can hear Kendrick’s influence, but Keem finds a way to use that influence to create something new and unique.

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