April & May Music Reviews
1 Spin = Maybe Next Time - 2 Spins = Mediocre - 3 Spins = Pretty Good - 4 Spins = amazing - 5 Spins = Masterpiece
1 Spin
Fat Nick- Fat Camp: Soooo crowded. I felt like this tape would never end. It is extremely repetitive, and it gets old really fast. Not to discredit the material because I feel like Fat Nick has a lot of promise. In fact he could become an honorary Migo while Offset is handling things behind bars. He has a lot of bars; they’re just not consistent yet. If he were to capitalize off of the energy of Too Much, Fat Camp, and How I Look, he could easily reach the mainstream fans. However, he must never ever ever ever again create a project that long and redundant.
Knxwledge- Hud Dreems: Not extremely impressed with this project at all. There was one song that I really did start to feel, but I didn’t even feel inclined to check the title of it. Although it’s a 36 minute listen, it seems to drag on. Albums like this kind of dictate why instrumental Hip-Hop albums aren’t so popular.
Brizzy Edwards- The Moments You Lost: An ambitious project by the Atlanta MC, Moments You Lost shows Brizzy experimenting more than ever before.60% of the time it doesn’t really work out that well though. Throughout the tape he shows his strengths, but his flaws are a lot more evident. He had excellent features, and he even let one of the featured artists outshine him on his own track. Really, bad vocals, mixing, and dissonance brought dawn the project. Simple rookie mistakes. Maybe next time Brizzy.
2 Spins
Rich Homie Quan- If You Ever Think I will Stop Going In Ask Double R OO- This was a disaster. It started off with promise, but the listener will quickly realize that the project goes nowhere. It only has 4 or 5 good songs, and even he knows it. So save your time by not listening to this and streaming his Summer Sampler EP which contains the 4 or 5 good songs from the mixtape.
OG Maco- OG Zay: An april collaboration between OG Maco and Zaytoven, OG Zay serves as Maco’s first project since February’s 15. Zaytoven handles all of the production, so the mixtape sounds nice from start to finish. OG Maco delivers “eh” bars in an “eh” way. Pretty much, that’s how the tape makes me feel. Except for “OG Mac”, that song slaps hard as hell.
The-Dream – crown EP: The Radiokilla actually might have gotten his touch back. As a past super fan of The-Dream, this has been his closest project to when he was in his prime. And although the opener on the EP stresses that he’s in his prime, it’s clear that he is not. This Dream is hungry and still trying to make his sound mesh with the current radio culture. It’s kind of working, but it still has some kinks in it. Other than really trying too hard, this EP suffers from a quick play without giving anything to the listener.