Reviewing 2026 projects:
Project: #017
Title: EXPERIMENTAL RAP
Artist: JPEGMAFIA
I have very mixed feelings about this album, I know it's meant to intentionally sound annoying, intense, messy, chaotic, uncomfortable, and a difficult listen for the listener, but it also feels like it tries to gravitate into purposely being a mess and trying to be experimental rather than trying to make good music (not trying to say the album's bad).
Definition of music for people with trained ears.
Also doesn't feel like an album that many would go back to, even though it's probably intended to be like that, God knows what JPEGMAFIA's intentions truly are with this.
The album's journey is completely unique compared to anything else in the music industry, with the tracklisting flowing like each song's structures, loose, uncoordinated and abrupt, and that is my favourite thing about this album, otherwise it's a pretty difficult listen.
Might be better after a couple listens for me though but at the moment it doesn't feel like something I would come back to, but I can say the second half does feel a lot better to listen to.
Also The 1st Amendment gotta be dealt with how you make a song about Charlie Kirk 😭.
FAVOURITES: New Era, Lights, babygirl, No Strippers In Heaven, ¥ (Yen)
LEAST FAVOURITES: $ (Money), head, Meet the Dealers, TSAR BOMBA, The 1st Amendment
Simplified rating: 5/10
11:55 AM · May 23, 2026 · 3 Views