The cherry on top is in the beauty of the song’s visually-striking one-liners –“If a flower bloomed in a dark room would you trust it?”— Thania Garcia Rich Spirit Photo : Courtesy of Interscope Anchored by a chorus featuring the lyric “Stop playin’ with me ‘fore I turn you ...
“I consider myself a right-now rapper,” Lil Baby recently toldThe Breakfast Club. “Most of the time, my music is going to be about what’s going on right now.” True to his word, four months after releasingMy Turn, he dropped Complex’spickfor the best song of 2020, “The Bigge...
On the socially conscious song “It’s All Bad,” 40 addresses his then-five-year-old son, who asks “Daddy sprinkle me with some more game,” and even raps bars of his own. The track is not the strongest off In a Major Way, that honor belongs to the silky “Sprinkle Me” or ...
Dream Theater's magnum opus and one of the greatest stories ever told on an album. Every song has a hand in telling part of the story, partly set in the present, other parts set in 1928. Fantastic songs, melodies, and of course playing from the powerhouses of Myung, Petrucci, LaBrie,...
ofTPAB. Thundercat's bass floats on the track, his lines firm, funky and grounded, asfrequent collaborator Anna Wise and first-time feature Bilal engage in a cool call and response vocal delivery in the song's chorus. "These Walls" went on to win Best Rap/Sung Performanceat the 2016 ...
The pivotal moment onYG’s set-throwing sophomore album,Still Brazy, is “Who Shot Me?” a song that attempts to uncover who exactly tried to kill the rapper last June. It’s like opening a film with a flash-forward to the violent, climactic ending, narrated by the victim, who’s ref...
“Watch me blueprint rec centers,” Brownsville’sKamutters on a song just called “$,” fromHonor Killed the Samurai. This is the soul of the prematurely wise rapper’s work. LetRick Rossbuild “a dream with elevators in it,” letKanyefly a jet over personal debt; Ka’s dreams are ...
Not a weak song on Summer Classics, but “The Collector” with Killah Priest, “Hook Drop”, a M.O.P. anthem with Lil’ Fame, “The Return”, which has Bobby and unsung icon Kwame trading well-crafted bars (“Its the return of the boom-bap black hoodie sh** / Back with the back...
“Thought she was dancin’ on the dick, that’s the clip” might be one of the best lines of the year. This song about murder and gang ties couldn’t sound any more like a candy store; it is kinda amazing to witness. Sahbabii’s cutesy “throwaway” record undersells itself for ...
First and foremost, however, it's a musical journey. You can feel JMSN's music down in your gut, and his track names double down on the importance of genre and composition to this album—"A Good Ol' Case of the Blues" and "Funk Outta Here" are the most obvious. Every song is a...