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Originally Posted by louder
Really? I liked it a lot.. on my second listen, actually. Thought it was a snoozer on my first listen too.
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I like a few tracks, but there’s nothing exciting going on here.
“Skeletons” is good, but it sounds like Kanye ghost wrote the verse around the 0:52 mark. That shit is Kanye all over, from flow to word choice to delivery. Just in Travis’ voice.
I just really think trap as a style is one of the most boring goddamn trends in rap history. Maybe if Travis wasn’t constantly repeating the same cadence (ducking everywhere) and peppering every song on every album wth adlibs, maybe it wouldn’t be so goddamn redundant and such a waste of time.
I get that he’s trying to be a curator here. This is supposed to be a big opus. But he shoots hinself in the foot when he limits his rapping to the same goddamn sounds and grunts at the same times with the same cadence and variations on the same beat constantly. It ends up sounding NOT like an opus, NOT like something “big,” but like every other mixtape and crappy forgettable album out there. It’s honestly only slightly more interesting than the album he did with Quavo.
And that cartoon version of his face he loves so much, with the dreads coming out at every angle, just totally undermines his assertion that this is somehow big or different. “Hey look at my dumb little kid face.. take me seriously!”
I loved songs like “Pornography” because they didn’t fall into the mold. They sounded weird and off-kilter. This just sounds like a bigger budget EVERYTHING.
Literally the most interesting part for me two listens in is when he apes Kanye’s flow shamelessly, because at least it’s not “mumble-triplet” *blah!* “mumble-in-triplet” *Yeah!* “mumble-in-triplet” *SQWEE!* or whatever the fuck.
Snore.