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ICEMAN review Pt.1

After an incredibly messy, unorganized, and yet still captivating rollout, Drake has come out with a whopping three albums in the span of one night. Yes, THREE WHOLE DRAKE ALBUMS, not a single multiple-disc project or anything like that. Which, like Drake or not is certainly a shellshocking and attention-grabbing play. Personally I find the concept of Drake releasing 3 albums each with separate themes as opposed to one bloated catastrophe to be genuinely interesting, even ... read more

“If he doesn't go on another hiatus I'm fine with this.”

It has been almost five years since we’ve seen a full-length project from Baby Keem. While that timeframe may pale in comparison to the likes of A$AP ROCKY’s 8 years between projects, or J-Cole's The Fall-Off being teased since the very start of his career, it’s assuredly no summer for an artist whose reverence pales in comparison. Not to discredit the hits that The Melodic Blue or even DIE ... read more

“Ken Carson isn’t trying”

4/10
Ken Carson is an artist I have had major qualms with for about 4 years now, ever since I had listened to his breakout album X. He and Destroy Lonely have singlehandly kept me from enjoying rage for years, and to put it bluntly it is because their music was shit. I will restrain my hatred for Destroy Lonely today…but I did not see much more in Ken Carson up until A Great Chaos’s Deluxe released. This, his debut album Project X, and ... read more

“I Can Die Peacefully Knowing that I Lived Through A Good Gorillaz Album”

February 24th, 2023 marked the release day of two projects of–lets say–unexpected quality from artists I had very strong feelings for. One of them was Yeats AftërLyfe, which exceeded my extraordinarily low expectations to such a stunning degree that I ceased all of my Yeat hate from then onward. The other was Gorillaz’s Cracker Island; the first album from the band I was an active ... read more