Writer: Br
SURPRISE WITH
BUDZ'S LOOK
TAPE
WITH SCORCHING TRACKS, BELLOWING BEATS, AND FIERY
VERSES, THIS MAY VERY WELL BE BUDZ’S BEST PROJECT TO DATE.
MakeWay’s frontman BuDz drops another
force all the way through and until the
posed to be about drugs. Either way, take
bomb with his first solo venture Look Tape,
very end of the track.
it as it is. This is one of the sleeper cuts on
the album, complete with an emphatic and
and oh how wonderful this one hits.
I almost lied with what I said earlier be-
triumphant beat laced with horns. It’s not
BuDz and Look sounds undeniably dark
cause the catchiest hook on the album
blatantly obvious compared to “Madonna,”
and filthy. Anger and testosterone are
actually belongs to track five’s “Madon-
but this track demands you like it, enjoy it,
abound in this one, starting on track one
na,” and it’s one you really need to expe-
and sing along with it.
with “Say Something.” This head-bobber
rience yourself. Being the absolute oppo-
“I Can’t Love” is one of the more angsti-
has dirty swagger, dropping emphatically
site of cliché, this massive track is bougie
er tracks on the record, once again fea-
into the equally bombastic and grimy “All
in the classiest way possible, celebrating
turing David Baow. The Kendrickish vibe
Seeing Eye.” Featuring MakeWay favour-
wealth and materialism in the most grace-
spliced throughout this obviously BuDz-
ite High Q, this track transforms both gen-
ful yet hardest manner. Featuring a verse
esque product is just another mark of
tlemen into gods, the production stand-
rapped in French by Fanfan, this track will
BuDz’s outstanding ear for good sounds.
ing toe-to-toe with the fiery performances.
perhaps go down as the signature track
The final track is a triumphant and cele-
The high and mighty hook transcends this
of BuDz, combining the heavy bass that
bratory ending of a fantastic record; “An-
track into immortality, making this one a
BuDz absolutely demands and skillfully
ything” is about wealth and victory, com-
surefire fan favourite.
masters, combined with the French back-
plete with a chorus that preaches about
ground of Montreal, a track that can per-
being on top of the world. This is a fitting
Track three is one of my favourites, and
haps catapult the rapper to the forefront
end to one of the more dirty efforts by the
with arguably the (second) catchiest cho-
of Montreal’s music scene. It’s a marriage
Montreal rapper.
rus on the mix it’s hard not to make this
of two great things that encapsulates the
one your favourite too. “Why Not” has a
spirit of a great city’s music scene; what is
Look Tape is a marker of great things to
snarling hook that is contagious and pug-
not to like? It goes without saying that this
come from BuDz, showing fantastic pro-
nacious,