“On his debut album, the standard-bearer of the sad-rap movement refuses to reveal much in the way of emotion at all, aside from a kind of sullen, conflicted defiance.”
“When not racking up millions upon millions of YouTube or Soundcloud plays before most in the mainstream has even heard of them, one thing you can always count on new rap to do is anger hip-hop’s old guard. Whether it’s Pete Rock posting Lil Yachty memes or Migos escalating their Joe Budden beef from lyrical to very nearly physical, there seems something intrinsic about rap’s latest youth-led scene”
