My apologies for being late on this review. The week that IDLS dropped, my mom died. So, yeah, priorities. The album plays, in some ways, as the polar opposite of Tyler the Creator’s Cherry Bomb, potentially fitting considering several factors that I won’t get into here. This project is short, clocking in at under 30 minutes. But, […]
Read more300 Words or Less Review: Young Thug – Barter 6
Review after the jump… So, last Thursday, we were given the most controversial, most thought-provoking album (screw everything else: it’s an album, just like IYRTITL is an album) this year that isn’t named To Pimp a Butterfly. The sarcasm is strong in this one. If you’re going into this album expecting some sort of savant moments that crown Thugger […]
Read more@Drake – #IYRTITL Review
Ok, so the dust has settled. The drinks got poured up. And the trophies have potentially been collected by a new I’m-just-going-to-drop-shit-on-a-whim mixtalbum (because “commercial mixtape” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. A year and some change after Beyonce and a few months after J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Mr. OVO/TOPSZN himself, Drake, has […]
Read moreAn Unbiased Death of the King Review/Analysis
Next album won’t have my mug, I promise. So, after a couple months (four months exactly today), I’ve finally mustered up the balls and whatnot to give an unbiased review of Death of The King, the last album in my Songs For… Trilogy. I’m sure you’re wondering “Speed, how the hell can you review your […]
Read more@DKakaWayneWatts – Windows Theory (Part I of IV)
Windows Theory I. The Rear-View [EXPLICIT] by DK aka Wayne Watts “For every Melo that makes it, there’s nine more like Keify,” DK states on the intro of his four-part EP series Windows Theory, Part One: The Rear-View, drawing comparisons between Carmelo Anthony’s rise and Keith Jenifer’s fall. It’s that declaration (and the interpolation of “Way […]
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