Gotta listen to the "Pt. 2" tracks, and have a bit of time to mull over everything here, but from the first 23 tracks, this is something special. Not perfect, but extremely special. Some of Kanye's greatest material yet is on here, point blank period... oh yeah and also Tell the Vision. Full review coming soon, score is temporary. This is a great moment to be a Kanye fan.

Considering the continued relevance of Crank That I'm surprised he doesn't have a project just called YUUUUU tbh

(also something something beating women is cringe)

If Ghost Town was listed as a single, I'd easily give it a 99.

For my 25th review (not all of them are available anymore, at least 2 of them were for WLR songs that Rob delisted), I didn't want to just give it to some recent-ish single that I didn't care *that* much about. No, I wanted to talk about a project that, while not a masterpiece in my eyes, is still an album I hold a deep, DEEP respect for.

Ye by Kanye West. Quite possibly the greatest album to ever embody the sentence, "I have ... read more

I feel like an actual review couldn't convey my proper feelings on this track, so instead, here are some bars that stand out as ESPECIALLY bad, even by "Lil Wayne at his worst" standards:

"Like Shakur, call me two-pack"
"Jordan meme face, huh?"
"Green boogers, yellow as canaries"
"Cheesehead, Alicia Keys, I'm goin' Swiss cheese"
"In green, boy I'm fresher than some mint green/Listerine, 'bout to mess around, make history"
"Yeah, ... read more

People be out here saying that KSI is the best YouTuber that makes music? Step aside, Bill Wurtz needs to sit in his throne.

With a bustling, supremely jazzy instrumental, Bill delivers a fully fleshed-out 4-minute jam with great singing on his part. Delivering lyrics about the positive effect it has on people's lives, and how the world just isn't the same without it, its just bursting with charm and charisma. With a bizarre, abstract, but also inspired music video to match the upbeat nature ... read more

JAYRSCOTTYY DROPPING SONG OF THE YEAR IN JANUARY? UNPRECEDENTED!

A true visionary in the sub-genre of meme rap.

A great, popular album from an artist in your city? You love to see it.

(Almost) front to back, Amine is coming at you with a great-sounding mix of both laid-back, soul-sampling jams and trap-flavored bops which help add a lot of passion and personality to his verses. Particular highlights include include the Darondo vocals on the opening cut, "Burden," which pair fantastically with the guitar and live-sounding drums, and the ascending piano motif on "Mama," which is a ... read more

...alright?

Like, I see the pieces here. Uzi has a unique voice, he's got really solid beats, a mix of auto-tuned singing and tight flows, and a fairly consistent space aesthetic.

But much like the narrative presented in outros to some tracks, its half-baked, and leaves me asking "What if?" I don't have them listed, but when 2 of the best tracks are the bonus cuts, there's something that needs to be taken back to the drawing board. For an album that was hyped up for over a year and ... read more

...you know you could have just uploaded Niagara Falls as a throwaway single, right? You didn't need to compensate with this confusing, intolerable remix. Why would you think adding a dubstep-esque drop to Goosebumps was a good idea? This sounds like some shitty music I'd hear in my nightclub in GTA Online. +5 for being """music,""" and +5 for having the balls to make this and share it with the world. Even just analyzed as a club track, this is still offensively ... read more

Will give this a proper review once I re-listen with the visualizer, but to make it short, this is firing on all cylinders even with a runtime of less than 20 minutes. Kenny's beats mix bizarre sample choices with 90s-esque boom-bap rhythms, while Denzel is spitting a mix of hilarious and hard-hitting bars with flows and delivery like so few others. Cuts like "so.incredible.pkg" and "'Cosmic'.m4a" are such well-structured bangers that it's shocking this was only made in 3 ... read more

WHY IS THIS SUCH A FUCKING NICE BEAT IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL

Riding on top of a super soulful sample, Redveil goes off about continuing to climb into better conditions, even through pain and struggle. The bustling instrumentation provides a bombastic feeling which makes it feel triumphant and like a burst of color. I had no idea who this dude was before I had this recommended to me, but now I really want to hear his backlog of material. If you aren't already, keep an eye on this dude; at least to ... read more

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I don't quite know what compels you, but I'm glad you at least ... read more

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Fuck it, 3:00 AM review time
Going with a 67 because it's 2/3 of 100; a 33 in my book indicates its terrible, and a 100 indicates its either perfect or as close to perfect as humanly possible. It's somewhere in between, so fuck it, stupid stinky centrism time. I tried to not read TOO many of your reviews in order ... read more

To be clear: I'm covering what is considered "Disc 1" on Spotify, which means the original ORIGINAL track list. So no "I Hear Voices," "? Extended Raw Rhymes Version", 12" versions of other tracks, or instrumentals. Just the original 19 tracks; nothing more, nothing less. If you want me to cover other material from the reissues/remaster, let me know.

Now for the review.

Look, I won't lie and act like I was a mega-fan of the guy before this or anything; I ... read more

Don't ever trust someone who rates this below a 90

Nah but fr this is a gorgeous ballad that evokes the kind of nursery rhymes I'd hear as a kid. Makes the track feel much more lowkey and personal, which provides a nice sense of cohesion. Cudi delivers his best vocal performance on the whole album, and Kanye spits a heart-wrenching personal verse about his fears and anxiety holding him down, which ties very well into the album's themes of mental struggle and transcending pain and ... read more

[ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW] Down to 8 days now, but based on what's happened in the ~2 weeks since I wrote this, my points are reinforced. FUCK DONALD TRUMP

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20 more days. 20 more days until this worm, this annoying, debilitating, unstable, SCUM of a worm can once and for all, not be referred to as the ... read more

Ok so tbh I only know who you are based off of your profile, a few reviews I read before I joined the site, and the fact you liked one of my reviews lol. I know one of these tracks was already put out as a single, but this is the first time I'm listening to any material from you, and... I'll break this down track by track.

TL;DR: It's a pretty nice ~7 minutes of vaguely hip-hop-like instrumentals with a pretty nice, dreamy aesthetic. While it doesn't leave a terribly strong impression on me, I ... read more

The textbook definition of "give it time bro," both in terms of mulling over it but also in terms of the tracks just genuinely getting better as it goes along. If it really took 6 months like he claims in the description, then goddamn, man. Goddamn.

P.S, I *almost* prefer this version of What's Good over the original. Crucify me.

FAV TRACKS: What's Good, Gone Gone

WORST TRACKS: Earfquake*, Puppet

* = Mostly for the Carti voice. Sorry, but no baby voice, no whip-bumping ... read more

TL;DR: Seems like Goblin era Tyler / Camp era Childish Gambino worship on top of (mostly) underwhelming beats. I wasn't bored, and I think with some work on the mixing and lyrical fronts there's potential in something like this, but this EP is just kind of... alright.

WATCH YOURSELF: ...that's a way to start off the project. Swami raps over a slowed down version of the Lift Yourself beat, delivering a bunch of... lyrics... yeah. Its this awkward mix of clearly absurdist bars mixed with stuff ... read more