Lav's Music Corner

Lil Wayne is a name that needs no introduction at this point. One of the most influential rappers of the 2000's who continues to release solid material and is coming off of the long awaited Carter V  one of his most acclaimed projects in years. Review By Lavender: I think I'm about as much of a fan of Lil Wayne as everybody else is. His big radio hits and hugely successful mixtapes soundtracked some of my younger years but he still manages to surprise me every once in a while with a record like The Carter V  which had way more great songs than duds. Given that the record had no true singles I didn't know what to expect going into it, but at a daunting 24 tracks and 80 minutes in length the only thing definitive about Funeral  is that absolutely nothing was left off of it. The album actually gets off to a pretty hot start with its first couple tracks. Funeral is the opener and the title track where Wayne opens up with a short sung passage before the heavy beat dro...

SiR is a California R&B singer who signed to Top Dawg records in 2017 after scoring features on Top Dawg artists Jay Rock and Isaiah Rashad's records. He released his major label debut album last year with November  which didn't make a ton of noise. For the release of Chasing Summer  SiR signed a joint promotional deal with major label RCA records, who turned SZA's CTRL  into a mega hit, and hopes to follow in her footsteps with his third studio record. Review By Lavender: I was excited for SiR last year given that he was signed to a label that had released Damn , CTRL  and Do What Thou Wilt in the two years before it, but the record turned out to be far too generic for its own good and only really feel its attachment to the label on a few tracks. Since then Top Dawg has hit a bit of a rough patch missing on Jay Rock's Redemption  and missing HARD on Schoolboy Q's Crash Talk and I was worried going into this record. Now that the album is out I can see...