the concept of this record quite clearly has a bit to do with his drug use still and is somewhat similar to that of faces but this one a little more complex and imo well focused. even the title of the album has a deeper meaning that was well executed the way i interpret it “Watching movies with the sound off” refers to when high off acid/mushrooms/molly it is common to watch a movie but play music instead of the movie volume and your high mind connects the dots. Mac miller was a ... read more
doesn’t hold a candle to the first one but that was to be expected when the features list of pusha T, 38 spesh, Black Thought, conway, and jadakiss are replaced by 2 Chainz, Chinx, Fat Joe, Rick Hyde, jim jones, and umm french montana for some reason. but bennys rapping is on par with his previous works the beats are very nostalgic sounding in typical griselda fashion harry fraud killed it on the production side and it overall is a very good listen
holy shit who is this. best hip hop debut since at least saturation and with time i think i might end up preferring smiling with no teeth out of the two. genesis owusu shows he can do anything and everything, the first song reminds me of a death grips track, and there’s also songs on this things that are extremely pleasing r&b/neo-soul. easily my aoty so far.
just writing this to let people know danny brown has a verse on here, that’s all
so mediocre it became bad, feels far longer than 37 minutes the denzel curry erick the architekt and joey badass feature was the top 3 verses, most tracks weren’t necessarily bad just absolutely nothing production or rapping wise standing out , the worst part is he’s got a good voice, and flow but he thinks he’s a lyricist.i enjoyed Nyck @ Knight a few years ago it was more about flowing and making good tracks than trying to fit in with pro era. Bad Day off this albums another ... read more