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Mac making this tracklist just 10 songs made this album such a great experience. The jazz/pop rap was very groovy and fun to listen to. The features on here were very strong, I really enjoyed Anderson's, Ariana's, Bilal's, and Kendrick's features. The only weakness to the album was the lyrics got a bit repetitive, not that love isn't a concept you can't carry for whole tracklist, but he stayed in a similar aspect of love for most of it.

K.I.D.S. is just simply great vibes, as the whole album fits this free, smoking, and summer aesthetic. The rapping ability from Mac really impressed me on this album, I thought his flows were amazing all over this mixtape.

At times SAME DIFFERENCE is a cool + catchy pop-rap record, but it consists of a lot of mediocre material. Swae sounds great when he catches a nice melody/flow, but often times on this album he misses the mark, the production gets basic + repetitive, and even the mixing isn't super clean at times. Overall, I think he went 6/15.

Bully is very much a return to form for Ye. I will say, my rating is a bit ahead of itself just because I am kind of viewing it as what Bully will be with mixing and vocal updates coming soon, but even now the album is great. Sonically, this felt like a mix of many eras: Yeezus, Jesus is King, 808s, and Late Registration. Ye has the greatest catalog is music history for me, and this was the first time since Donda for me that it felt like a true Kanye West album. There was a clear theme here of ... read more