Rapid Fire Reviews: Catching Up On Hip Hop
With the thousands of swarming fans both new and old that are devoted to every note of hip hop online I've given up ever being strikingly ahead of the curve. While I can maintain a pretty cutting edge demeanor in most genres I've just committed to playing from behind when it comes to rap. So here are a few popular releases from the last few weeks that I wanted to at least get some thoughts out on. I Never Liked You - Future While I've never been the biggest Future fan in the world and I'm nowhere near as positive towards his music as his most diehard followers there is something innovative about his style of rapping and singing as well as his production choices. Even though he's still operating under the same trap bubble that he helped inflate in the first place he is also capable of making subtle stylistic changes that take the sound in new directions. The unfortunate thing is that I much more often enjoy what artists who are inspired by Future do than Future him...