Good Albums at a Price
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What's Really Good – DS2 is the culmination of Future's opiated nihilist fueled run, and despite a few lackluster bonus tracks it proves to be arguably his most potent and concentrated effort solidifying all of the attributes which set him apart from all the other Atlanta trap rappers while concealing most of his weaknesses.
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What's Really Good – While she's undeniably technically proficient as a rapper I think Little Simz' strength is her ability to elicit empathy and melancholy in her songwriting, which in less deft hands could easily come across as overbearing and pedantic.
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What's Really Good – Milo retains his incredibly daft and intricate wordplay, while utilizing a greater variety of flows and shying away from the monotonous, nonchalant near spoken-word tone of his past.
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What's Really Good – Duckwrth has such a knack for song making that he's able to seamlessly employ various styles and characteristics from other genres to make for an incredibly varied and infectious pop-rap album that never settles in one spot or place, but never sounds messy.
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What's Really Good - Chris' subtle humor and subdued yet often poignant social commentaries are on full display with this album, which is deceptively deep and thought provoking under its veil of sarcasm and irony.
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What's Really Good – Lil Ugly Mane pretty much doesn't make bad beats and when combined with the unadulterated in your face aggressiveness of Nickelus F the end result is something that is dynamically grimey and hard.
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What's Really Good - While there's not much in the way in terms of true collaboration or transformation the artists definitely glimmer like two big bright stars enough to make it hard to look away. If What a Time to be Alive were a meal it'd be something predictable yet extravagant like butter poached lobster and Ahi Tuna where the two elements don't really come together to form a single dish yet each single entree is undeniably delicious on its own.
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What's Really Good – Rock displays just enough versatility to keep the album from completely stagnating while capitalizing on the rubric in album structures set by his fellow label-mates and utilizing his their skill-sets in features to help round out and flavor his somewhat static, traditional sound. The result is an album that is a bit more down-tempo than expected, akin to the tone of Cilvia Demo, though Rock is a bit less fluid on the mic.
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What's Really Good – Continuing on the chilled out ambivalence of Watching Movies with the Sound Off Mac drops an album that is one of his modest and heartfelt yet, though just ever slightly more positive than his major debut.
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What's Really Good - If Scott is a blatant ripoff artist who bears his influences on his sleeve, Rodeo has to be one of his most accomplished hacks yet. Furthermore, what's most interesting about it is that unlike other copycats he at least has the decency to invite his victims back to his house and let them contribute to the works he's stolen. All jokes aside some of the songs manage to conjure up enough of the magic from the source material in which they're taken to be successful, and it must admittedly take some school to be able to nab the melodies of Future and Swae Lee and in the next instance imitate the cadence of Kanye.
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What's Really Good - T.I. gets back to the uptempo hard-edged style that made him so alluring in the first place, and the EP proves to be one of the most consistently hard-hitting efforts he's put forth in years, shame it's only an EP.
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