I’m sad that A$AP Mob replaced Cozy Tapes, Vol. 1: Friends‘ refreshingly-throwback Wu-Tang-esque sound with overly-prevalent trap for Vol. 2: Too Cozy.
Category: The Food of Love
BY ANY MEANS 1 vs. 2 (Kevin Gates)
Rapper Kevin Gates’s two By Any Means albums oscillate between being reminiscent of old school T-Pain and DMX.
A LOVE LETTER TO YOU 2 (Trippie Redd)
Trippie Redd’s album A Love Letter to You 2 is basic, but this banger is BANGING:
LIL PUMP
Lil Pump’s recently-released self-titled mixtape would’ve made a better EP at half the length, cutting out the repetitive tracks to shine even more light on his Run the Jewel-lite productions (albeit with worse vocals than that duo’s delicious stylings).
All The World’s a Stage, and All the Men and Women Merely Selfish Audiences
My main problem with criticism today, both formal and informal, can be summarized in the phrase: “the selfish audience.”
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PURE COMEDY (Father John Misty)
Father John Misty sung his way onto my radar in late 2015 thanks to the first season of Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s Netflix series Master of None, in which the crooner was positioned as a New York underground sensation.
J vs. B
I generally prefer JAY-Z’s music to Beyoncé’s, BUT:
“Passionate from Mayer’s Way”
Behold John Mayer’s cover of Drake’s “Passionfruit” (yes, you read that correctly):
MY MOMENT (Tee Grizzley)
Tee Grizzley proves he’s a REAL rapper on My Moment, but his thoughtful lyrics are not only insufficiently emphasized by, but legitimately get lost in the monotonous haze of derivative beats.
Have You Heard of This Work of Art Named LEMONADE by Beyoncé? It’s Pretty Good!
Don’t worry – this isn’t yet another deep dive think piece exploring the many layers of Beyoncé’s Lemonade; the last thing the world needs is another white dude analyzing this nearly unprecedented, indefinable, and inexhaustible work of art. But a few factors have compelled this whitie to put pen to paper fingers to keyboard – BRIEFLY – to try to make sense of the endless meaning the Queen packed into these 120 minutes.[1] Those reasons are:
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Write All Nite 