Hmmm, so I listened to
DAMN last night for the first time, slept a night on it, and will listen again later today to let it sink in more. It was... nice, nothing too outstanding or mind-blowing like, for example,
TPAB was the first time. Though, first impressions are almost always worthless I've learned over the years, with most of my favorite albums having needed several listens before they clicked.
I have to say I was positively surprised by Kenny's rapping, though. It wasn't as stiff and technical as I feared. Less weird voices, less screaming. He actually rode the beats, pretty smoothly even at parts, which I haven't felt too often with him recently. There's definitely a strange mood bubbling under the surface the whole time, which is not as in-your-face depressing, but still somehow unpleasant, or at least that's how it felt to me. Can't put my finger on it, but I liked it.
LUST made me wish he would make his own
The Love Below, real talk. The U2 song somehow worked too, which I didn't expect. Only song I disliked was
God. Don't remember it well enough to explain why, but I think it somehow felt like a parody song because of his voice and flow, or have I misinterpreted that completely, lol? It was super late last night, so maybe I perceived the whole album differently. Didn't even get the narrative arc until I checked Genius for the last track's lyrics. Is that story true? oO Is it the first time it was addressed in his music?
Curious how my feelings will change throughout the next few listens, but I suspect it won't stay in rotation
too long. Let's see, though.
Carti sounds even more like UnoTheActivist and Thouxanbandfauni
This is post of the month.
No way Des is not fucking with us and didn't make up that second name.
