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       Okay, so I’ve talked about my beginning impressions of the album and my analysis of the songs up to “Is There Someone Else?”, so let’s just continue this.      After facing this mixing pot of emotions and thoughts, the Weeknd tries to find solace by helping someone he loves. In the song “Starry Eyes”, we hear a lot of isolated and echoey vocals that represent the Weeknd’s solo mission to heal this woman’s heart at the cost of his own. The song starts off with glee as he talks about how he finally met the girl of his dreams but realizes that she also carries her own trauma. Trying to help her be the best she can be, he sacrifices himself because he thinks he’s unfixable. Towards the end of the song, he says, “Back then, I was starry-eyed and now I’m so cynical baby, break me kick me to the curb.” The song “Sacrifices” showed a different perception of what the Weeknd thought of himself, but now we can see that he’s slowly losing grasp of that se...

       What’s up guys, it's been a while! I apologize for the lack of posts for these last couple of months, life’s been crazy with the recent MBA program I became a part of and everything else that’s been happening, but WE ARE BACK. And we’re back with analyzing the new Weeknd album, Dawn FM. I remember looking at After Hours both on my Twitch stream and on the blog previously, and I remember it being an unexpected but enjoyable project that fuses both the sounds of 80s music and modern pop. In that album, the Weeknd talks about his life choices regarding drug use, his relationships, and his overall mental state as he tries to find solutions to the toxic commitments he puts himself through. Now, two years later, we’re given something that I consider a sequel through Dawn FM. So, let's just get into this.      We start off with the song “Dawn FM” which sets the stage for the odyssey the Weeknd plans on putting us through. We hear a lot of echoey voca...

                 What’s up guys hope you are all doing well. Today I’m going to go over the debut studio album by someone who’s been on my daily rotation for a couple of days now, Baby Keem. I’m sure you guys  know this, but for those who don’t, Baby Keem is Kendrick Lamar’s younger cousin. The only reason I know this is because of the cover art for the amazing single that came out these past couple days, “family ties”. When it came to Baby Keem before, I won’t lie, I was not the biggest fan. His flow was different, and his version of the modern ‘baby voice’ sound in hip hop just didn’t reach me. The only song that I listened to from him was “Orange Soda”, which I think was the most popular song he had out at the time. However, after listening to “family ties”, things changed. I heard a more versatile and energetic Keem paired with a different yet aggressive flow from Kendrick. The song to me was one of those tracks that just kept gettin...

     What’s up guys! Welcome to a new review where this week I’ll go over the anticipated Kanye West album, “Donda”. Let’s just get into it.        So this is Kanye West’s tenth studio album and boy was it one to see coming. This album release came after like two-three listening parties scattered over a period of time where each one got weirder and weirder. I think the last one before the release of Donda had both DaBaby and Marilyn Manson just chilling as Kanye bumped his tunes. I don’t know if he’s trying to make a statement of some sort, but after the recent events following both artists, I can only assume so. The album itself is a list of 27 tracks that spanned for a total of an hour and forty-nine minutes. Jesus Christ. Now, I’ve talked about this before but for those that don’t know, I have a personal preference when it comes to how long an album should be. When it comes to making an album, the biggest thing for me personally is that an artist ...

                  Hey guys what’s up! It’s been a while since I’ve done another album chat but here we are with a brand new Trippie Redd album. I reviewed the last album Trippie released which was the gigantic, double-stacked album “Pegasus: Neon Shark vs Pegasus Presented by Travis Barker (Deluxe)”. While in theory this sounded like a cool concept, I don’t think it had the effect it could’ve had due to the huge track list of 40 songs that didn’t seem to take Trippie anywhere past his album before that. If anything, this album seemed to be a platform where Trippie was able to experiment with a lot of different sounds and give his take on the rap/rock hybrid genre we see now through artists like City Morgue, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course Travis Barker. At the end of it, I just didn’t think it was a memorable album. At that point, I was worried that maybe Trippie Redd was going to lose his place in the evol...

                  What is up everyone, I hope you all are doing great and doing good things. Happy August, and what a better way to start this month off than with Logic’s new addition to the Bobby Tarantino mixtapes, Bobby Tarantino III. I don’t know if you all know this by now, but I am/was/idek fan of Logic the rapper. I think he has created a lot of projects that have grown upon the essential parts of what made projects like Kid Cudi’s “Man on the Moon” series stand out. He is, however, coming off as a little lost right now as he’s jumping in and out of retirement to make music or do other things, but when he’s in the zone, the man can do wonders. That being said, let’s look at this project and see what there is to say about it.                 Having this be the third installment to the Bobby Tarantino series, I will definitely ...

                  Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well. This week is definitely a late post and I apologize for that. But this might be good timing because this past weekend was crazy, and while I didn’t see much of it, I did have some thoughts to share.                 I’m sure you all know, but this Rolling Loud this past weekend was the first rap festival post COVID to restart the whole live sector of rap music. With the attendance at max, I assumed that there was going to be something different or special for this festival given a whole year of inactivity. Unfortunately, I didn’t see much of that, and it kind of bothers me. I’m currently a graduate of the Sociology program at UCSB and I’m trying my hardest to enter the music industry. I particularly want to enter the live sector portion of it because I find concerts and f...