describes his friend’s fear of an apocalyptic storm in such specific detail that you remember your own fear when encountering something so elemental.Īt this point in K.R.I.T.'s career, we have a clear idea of his limitations-and with a runtime nearly reaching an hour, the 17 tracks here can’t help but magnify some of the rapper’s flaws.
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Take "Third Eye", where his skeezy, new-age come-on somehow morphs into a seductive (and wholly club-inappropriate) vision of creating a family: "Picket fences, and chilling playing instruments…I saw your face, you were full of Grace, at least that’s what we named her/ My angel had an angel and I was so thankful." Another song that deals with "Angels" (and features the unfortunate hook, "I think angels get high") has an amazing moment where K.R.I.T. is such a gifted storyteller that he’s often able to transcend the hackneyed concepts from which his songs are built. "Soul Food", featuring the immortal Raphael Saadiq and "Saturdays=Celebration" are resurrections of a neglected art form the way that they’re executed makes you wonder why more people aren’t making music like this. The efficacy of "My Sub: Part 3" will depend on how capable the bass in your earphones or stereo is, but it’s a fitting peak for a rapper who has "thought about the thump from the jump." (After all, "hos can’t twerk to the hi-hat, never.") The album is filled with the kind of soul-infused hip/hop that's been missing from the genre. On tracks like "Kreation" and "Mind Control", there’s deep maximalist Southern funk reminiscent of Big Boi’s musical backdrop on Speakerboxxxand Sir Lucious Leftfoot.
But the fact that his ire is directed at "swagger-jackers" who popularized Southern sounds and slang is disconcerting, evidence of an artistic conservatism that may be what’s kept the rapper on a plateau for his last few projects.Įven if Cadillactica may look to some like an artist struggling to stretch, it certainly feels like the quintessence of the sound that K.R.I.T.
K.R.I.T.’s anger on the track is stirring and his flow about eight times more impressive than you probably remember. The song is almost worth quoting in its entirety, because no track more perfectly sets up the problem for an old-fashioned "lyrical" Southern rapper at a time when Southern rap is best known for catchphrases, singles, and forward-thinking production. Olympus", the best response to Kendrick’s "Control" verse that you may not have heard yet, perhaps because it wasn’t recorded over the same beat.
The title track includes a less-than subtle Migos reference, and on "King of the South", the rapper specifies that he works for the OG’s rather than the "blogspot comment box." The most noteworthy testament to K.R.I.T.’s attitude about developments in hip-hop comes in the furious "Mt. acknowledges that the music he makes is no longer quite as relevant as it was just a couple of years ago. Wuz Here and he remains an album rapper at a time when albums are less important than ever.
Instead, blogs vaunted his debut mixtape K.R.I.T. is calling himself old school, but he’s also the kind of self-producing Southern rapper who was put on by his catalogue, as opposed to a single infectious single-no "Versace" or "No Flex Zone" for him. "I apologize if I’m oh-so-old fashioned" he raps during "Third Eye" from his new album, Cadillactica, and at this point, the remark can be taken in multiple ways.
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