This may just be my favorite Boldy project. It's one of his most introspective and personal projects to date, and the dark production matches the album perfectly. You rarely see a project as divisive as this one; it seems everyone either loves or hates this project, with very little room for middle ground. Well, I place myself firmly in the 'loves' category. The production is simple but appealing, the lyrics are some of the best from Boldy in a while, and the features do a lot for the album. My ... read more
A super trippy abstract album with a ton of introspectiveness and dark lyrics.
A short but sweet project with some super high highs. My favorite tracks were Process of Progress and A's.
A super dope project throughout. I enjoyed the features, but Sideshow's style clearly isn't fully developed. Glad to see his development!
Copy-paste Alc beats and the usual obligatory features. Boldy as an artist totally subsumed to the hustle.
A super solid send-off for the Hitler Wears Hermes series, but one of the weaker projects in that line.
Gunn really got the whole industry on this album and it's absolute fire. Without a single miss, this album is the epitome of luxury rap.
Amazing album and one of the best of 2022. The lyricism is some of the most complex I've ever heard. The production is trippy and interesting, creating a super appealing listen.
This album is exceedingly 'okay.' The instrumentals were intially something I liked quite a bit, however, they're reflective of this album's greatest flaw; repetition. Every instrumental on this album sounds very boring, to the point where the only thing keeping me awake by the end are the symbol crashes. The lyrics are fine, I guess, pretty typical for an album in this genre, but the weird vocal effect can be pretty jarring at times. Overall, a decent album, but there are better options.
Just a really great mixtape that I really enjoy. The production on here is unique and far from anything you'd here on any other OF project, and Domo's lyricism simply continues to improve.
The album which solidified Griselda's killer 2022 run. His most personal and consistently great album to date.
An amazing EP on the brink of greatness. Hoping Demahjiae uses this project as a point of leverage to propel himself into the broader abstract hip-hop conversation.
It's alright. It's a very highschool project in that it's juvenile, pretty edgy, and not well-developed. The production is exceedingly mediocre and the lyrics occasionally fall into the 'lyrical spiritual miracle' territory, but other than that, it's pretty good.
Love how far Nack went with the Latin American sound on this album— we've heard plenty of this from him before, but never with this frequency & consistency. Griselda made one of the best choices they've ever made in signing Nack; though they certainly could've got him right with some harder beats.
By far my favorite Diz project. The beats are trippy yet aggressive, the lyricism is uniquely his while still maintaining the tradition of abstract hip-hop and the whole project just reeks of talent. Hard to top for Diz, but I have hope.
A super decent project, but probably my least favorite from Mickey Diamond thus far. The DOOM influence is clear and is dope, but it isn't enough to carry the project.
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On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@TheNevermeant Every reason a person goes to therapy today is related to the system. Obviously. Nothing exists outside it. There isn't anything else to go to therapy for."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@TheNevermeant I am not. Psychology's origins are in asylums, straitjackets, the carceral state. To this day it exists to criminalize and pathologize difference. This is not a matter of simplification, but of history, and my point has already been made by the bulk of the post-modernists."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@TheNevermeant They don't, though. Psychology has always been a weapon against the fight for radical change. People are not capable of fighting when they're not drowning in misery. They get complacent. Therapy can help people cope — that's bad. I am against the industry built around coping. The same bastards who did this to you are the ones telling you to cope with it.
There is no healing here. We are still in the machine. There is only getting used to it — and that, I find abhorrent."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@TheNevermeant No, I have an issue against every system of therapy. For precisely the reasons I described; it is the process by which individuals are made to assume responsibility for systemic failures. Training the Koala who's tree has been chopped down to carry on, despite."
On Serengeti - KENNYV
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On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@Mmmvbnn2 When did I attack the listeners?"
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@Mmmvbnn2 You'll notice I used the term therapy-rap in my review, rather than therapeutic. Because, again, my issue isn't that it's peaceful or whatever, but that it's a regurgitation of the stupid uselessness of therapy as an industry. Its grand arc is one of *surrender.* Of *acclimating to the world* instead of *changing it*"
On Vince Staples - Cry Baby
"@dj_digo I may have had a phase"
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@handsomenapkin There are exactly two sentences pertaining to audience perception and both are tied back to the content of the album."
On Vince Staples - Cry Baby
"@DallasDaMusical I dont think it sounds very good"
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@ALLcaps000 He hated the socialists of his day, and he was right to. They were resentful crypto-christians and he saw everything wrong with them. As did Marx."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@ALLcaps000 A communist."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@JohnCena1337 By therapeutic I don't mean soothing, calming per se; I mean reminiscent of therapy."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@JohnCena1337 Then I think the question answers itself. Obviously I would like an album that makes me feel good. But at that point you've abstracted the term therapeutic far beyond anything resembling my critique, which regards the mindsets and language pushed by the actual therapy industry and their application here, in this album."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@JohnCena1337 What does the quality of being therapeutic mean to you? To me that is a description of the lyrical content of the album — to which my answer is a resounding NO."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@ALLcaps000 I am not a nihilist. There's a war going on outside and the lines have already been drawn — through you. Recognition of "the self" — whatever that means — as the battleground. The only way you can attain inner peace in these conditions is through submission."
On Navy Blue - Sir Render
"@Mmmvbnn2 My point is not that it's *wrong* to say that the album is therapeutic, quite the opposite. It *is* therapeutic and that is *bad.* His music now is bland and pacifying, the album's message is a disgusting response to the status quo and being "at peace with yourself" is acrid to me."
On JAY-Z - The Black Album
"@Bot10Exists I did."
On Serengeti & Polyphonic - Dont Give Up
"@hazyvizions Always funny what people cling to. This was one of my least favorites."
On RicofromJupiter's review of R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages
"@RicofromJupiter T.A.Z. by Hakim Bey 👁"
On JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP
"@usur_disc350 When did I say Future's misogyny can't be criticized? What I said was that his art is worthwhile and it isn't pointless. Peggy's is pointless. He has no substance, he only whines and reduces women to punchlines. He makes them platitudes out of earnest."
On JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP
"@CutieZenUwU I'm not going to argue with a Polish teenager about what is and isn't racist. Your total lack of respect for trap is self-evident and you're willfully disengaging with the point to screed about the genre. You're a vulture."
On JPEGMAFIA - EXPERIMENTAL RAP
"@CutieZenUwU "Any trap artist for that matter" is a racist caricature. Any circle in which I am notorious is comprised entirely of losers.
Art can and does handle misogyny in ways that are interesting and revealing. Future is a misogynist as an expression and an extension of his own pain. All of these rap personas are characters, inseparable from their bodies of work. Future's art is worthwhile. This is drivel. There is no point to the misogyny, no statement, no expression. The whole thing was recorded — seemingly — so he could hear his own voice."
On J. Cole - The Fall-Off
"@DivineAura Hip-Hop was built out of the exact opposite, a sibling to funk evolving out of jazz and vocalese. It started with scatting. The gritty realism was a byproduct of labels and their making the genre more marketable. You can talk about real issues, personal experience, expression, etc, without being a realist. Most rappers do. J. Cole does not."
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