[REVIEW] Yung Senju - Blackman Wunderlan
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/297651
This dude is REALLY trying to be like Kendrick. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but he's falling short.
You can't help but feel like this is a poor impersonation of K-Dot. The song The Huud Shtrayt is a rip-off, and not a good one at all.
Every song has those soul, melodic, hymn passages. I mean, they're nice, but why does every song have something like that? It's a Kendrick parody, that's why!
The message has some weight, I suppose. Empowerment and racial unity? I'm all for it, and I think it got through. There are some fun tracks too, and I like the self-awareness in taking part in this rap culture so full of boisterous consumerism, extravagance, while he's just some random broke dude. Talking about black gangs and street-life, and then getting called out for going to a PWI.
There's some high-points, such as Urgent-C, but the low points are painfully low.
The production too, it's nothing special most of the time, occasionally it's bad, occasionally it's good. Nothing to write home about either way.
Even the features! This is OK in every way, some good vocals, some bad ones, some good verses, some bad ones...
Still, I'm hopeful. If he can find his identity, if he can build something that's truly his own... I think he has promise. This wasn't bad. He's technically proficient in everything he does in the album, he just needs to put HIS OWN SOUL in his music, not Kendrick's.
Best song: Urgent-C
Worst song: The Huud Shtrayt
Rating: 3/5