but this isn't very nice, man

2.5 years after his last solo album For All The Dogs, a lot was riding on this album for Drake. after his historic crashing-and-burning in the beef against kendrick, he's taken his sweet time to work on a meaty 18 track album... and then 23 other songs on MAID OF HONOUR and HABIBTI, but (thankfully) this review isn't about those. over the course of 2024 and 2025, Drake's had a bunch of here-and-there drops while he worked on ICEMAN, such as the ... read more

WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH PEGGY'S SINGLE GAME???
We may never know why babygirl and war over land were dropped as singles if tracks like THIS are on the album.
my hopes for this album just went from a 5/10 to an 8/10 with a couple 5/10 tracks.
honestly, the real victim of this is war over land. if all the tracks on the album are as abrasive as yen, then war over land would have been such a beautiful moment. but now, I'm always just going to think of it as the weird single.
THINGS ARE ... read more

ive not listened to this album but why does it feature NBA youngboy, elton john, Kylie Jenner and grimes

Denzel's 8th project on DSPs featuring 8 tracks and 8 past collaborators.... I feel like he's telling us something....

1. I Love Her Again 10/10 [amazing groove, writing and legendary sample. instant classic.]

2. The Fall-Off is Inevitable 10/10 [2nd best beat on the album and obviously very engaging writing.]

3. SAFETY 10/10 [possibly the perfect 2nd song. intriguing, fun and very memorable.]

4. Poor Thang (the top 4 are interchangeable) 10/10 [total banger, most played song so far, can't get enough of it.]

5. WHO TF IZ U 10/10 [very catchy flow, first piano part of beat is better on Old Dog but that ... read more

"Wait, you must've got a platinum record in the coochie"
and then... he clicked POST...

1,624 days since the Melodic Blue dropped and Baby Keem is BACK. I've been longingly anticipating this album since I heard the godly Keem and Kendrick snippet of the first Booman documentary, and the intriguing little tastes he gave us throughout the roll-out made the wait all the more gruelling. Well, it's here! 11 brief tracks, mostly minimal features, and a crisp 36 minutes. ... read more

there are 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, but there's really only one to describe this album: 'eh'

jumping back into the game after the smashing success that was his best album 'HARDSTONE PSYCHO', Don Toliver appears to strip back the aesthetics that defined his earlier works. that could look like the last album's hardcore rock accompanied by biker aesthetics, 'Love Sick''s drugged, lover-boy soundscape, or even the night-time drones ... read more

so... it's here.
before i get into it, let me just quickly say the important thing: was it worth the 8 year wait?
no. no it was not.

let's explain why track by track.
TRACK 1: ORDER OF PROTECTION
The chorus gets a little mumbly but its very very catchy. The production is definitely interesting. Not super innovative and groundbreaking like Live.Love or anything, but it's different and i appreciate that. I also really like the new drunken voice he tries out on this one, wish ... read more

ironic that this is called 'what happened to the streets' because god what happened to mainstream rap???

I feel the whole problem with this album lies in its name. This is a version of the album released on day 1 with one complete bonus track for vinyl buyers. I believe this reissue was meant to be a cool completion for the DSP listeners, finally giving them the track as well and cementing Chromakopia’s full presence on all platforms, but people’s perception of it as a whole other deluxe and add-on is simply not correct, and is largely fuelled by its name of CHROMAKOPIA ... read more

Danny Brown could play with my child 🙏

It's a decent deluxe. I love the instrumental on Manic, it's very different for Peggy and also very catchy. No complaints. He did say very little to nothing lyrically on the track, though. His valentines day freestyle did everything this track did writing-wise but better. Child's Play was the best song on the deluxe. It had an absolutely masterful halloween beat which created an amazing immersive atmosphere, and the normal Danny Brown ... read more

Drake's ghost writer (listening to Chains and Whips): Sir! Sir! Pusha T and Kendrick dropped a collab sir!
Drake: No... it can't be....
Ghost writer: Sir! It's one of the best songs of the year!
Drake: I need to prove I'm better than them. I am better than them.
Ghost writer: But sir, you really showed them what's what on What Did I Miss, sir!
Drake: I need something big. Something that will show why I'm the most streamed rapper ever. I need something ... read more

IF YOU SEE THE MONEY THATS YEAT 🔥🗣️💦🫣🎶

What is this album? It's not just rage bangers; not just because they have more substance than that, but also because Yeat definitely experimented with some different sounds here. It's not crazy experimental or weird, there's nothing here where you grit your teeth and think 'can Yeat pull this off?' If there was a perfect way to describe this album, I'd say that it's Yeat settling into the sound ... read more

WHAT DID THEY DO

Alright, Victory Lap 1, HARD. Perfect verses from Skepta, perfect beat, pristine mixing, everything about it is peak.
OR SO YOU THINK. Then comes Victory Lap 2. Denzel verse fits so well with Skepta, the flow switch is sick, overall not a revolutionary remix but an improvement to existing PEAK.
VICTORY LAP 3. Extremely charming and loveable performance from Hanumankind which genuinely made me love the guy, super quirky and good ad libs in the background, and Fred again... very ... read more

that sugar on my tongue music video huh

this album is a weird one. Tyler the creator is possibly my single favourite artist of all time, a large part of which is for his writing and opinions which have resonated with me so well on albums like Igor or Chromakopia. I've never been a massive fan of Tyler's older brash sounds, being an avid Cherry Bomb hater and a Goblin denier (it did not exist I'm sorry). so naturally, when I saw the brash promotion and lack of concept for this ... read more

critics rated this the same as justice by justin bieber btw

WHAT HAPPENED????
ok the forever story is one of my favourite albums ever. full stop. it does not have a bad song, every song on there feels so consistent yet diverse at the same time, and it has 2-3 of my favourite rap songs ever. it's amazing how he managed to be conscious and personal while making an album so street-focused. it was like the one sane and nice guy in this horrible violent world. i respected JID a lot, loved his flow and played his music to actual shit.
then the GDLU ... read more

im giving it 1 point for the kanye verse.

OK SO
Lil Wayne's Tha Carter VI is finally out! After a long 7 year wait in a series which is considered one of the most legendary in hip-hop history, this one was obviously very very highly awaited. Personally, though, I do not like this series. I've only bothered listening to one all the way through, being Tha Carter III, a widely accepted a rap classic. I gave it a 39. The entire album just radiated bad vibes to me, I hated a majority of the performances from the weird autotune to ... read more

Words can't describe how much I loved this album.
I had at least a 100 AOTY reviews earlier, before I deleted them all. They just didn't match my actual personality and I wasn't really happy with a single one of them. I always felt like I was trying so hard to descriptively speak about an album or be objective etc. etc. and eventually, I got sick of reviewing. I stopped reviewing albums at all around January, and since then I've barely even considered reviewing an album, but ... read more