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This review was published on November 26, 2024.
He said, You cant bring the Devil in this house.
You could tell Lamar was pining for a change of pace onMr.
It was his stuffiest work; reform was in order.
Beef offered the perfect vehicle for speeding off into a new method of operating.
You wanted the beast; you got the beast.
Lamars coarse, quick-hit releases dominated earlier this year, andGNXrolls with the momentum.
The sound runs as claustrophobic as you could possibly imagine this crew getting.
You could slipGNXs title track into XzibitsRestlesswithout anyone noticing.
Dualities and imperfections rule the day.
Dot plays both the disgraced Luciferian musician in reincarnated and the goat-slaughtering prophet in hey now.
6, a tale of striving to build something you dont feel as attached to anymore.
Change will present as a brushfire; be water.
(The Isaiah 14 mention in reincarnated calls back to the odd biblical fixations ofDAMN.
gloria likens the pen to a mistress;GNXjust as often wields it like a morning star.
This is Kendricks most pointedly millennial work.
airs peppering gloria.)
Drill rap glares unrelentingly into grim fantasies of aggrievement and reprisal; the podcast circuit coddles offended hypermasculine sensibilities.
(Drake has cast his lot with the deeply online.
The album jostles between love and war too intensely, though.
Its a bit of a bumpy listen, if less so than the meanderingMorale.
Heavier songs like reincarnated in its Ken BurnsJazzmeetsTales From the Hoodglory cast a shadow over quicker, punchier work.
The slighter stuff sometimes makes the gooier tunes feel like obligations to a sound the audience loves.
in peekaboo is compelling.
And the slipperiness of these performances is astounding.
