Rocky releases his most experimental tape to date with Don’t Be Dumb. Tracks such as ORDER OF PROTECTION, HELICOPTER, and STOLE YA FLOW lay the album out with their easy to follow beats with a more direct focus of sound. STAY HERE 4 LIFE and PLAYA come next and fall back the assertiveness and embrace us in a smooth sound. The album then takes an experimental turn with songs such as STFU and AIR FORCE, showing Rocky’s appreciation for different sounds. The album then finally turns it ... read more
a great tape with the potential to be amazing. the harshness of the tape is really nice, but throughout the record it gets repetitive. there’s a handful of songs which bring this to life with other elements but a few also fail to do so. a cut tracklist or just a more fleshed out version is what could make this become an amazing album
a lot of what feels like beating around the bush. a lot of the earlier tracks feel unique (but still not fully fleshed out), but leave you desiring more. this is when you expect the second half of the tracklist to change that, but instead it tones the energy down with a lot of filler content and randomness. i get that the whole point is to be experimental, but in this case it feels like it didn’t think entirely and just threw something out in the air