I've heard this album talked up so much on here. I've listened to individual tracks before (and criticized them a lil), but I believe you have to listen to an album front/back, with headphones, to get the full experience and be able to fully judge. So I did. It was some of the pussiest rap music I've heard. Ever. So. Bad.
Rapping/Flow
This was probably the best part of the album, so I'll start with it. Sadistik is very good at rhyming words together. Fantastic for him. His flow is good, he doesn't go off beat and he switches it up an OK amount. I admit, the "666" rhyming part of Playing God was very dope. I liked it. His voice isn't good, he sounds like what he is: a skinny white guy trying to sound passionate/emotional. His voice is VERY non-unique, sounds like tons of other random rappers like him.
And, while he rhymes well, it's so damn robotic it kills the self pitying, PMS infused mood he tries to create. He sounds like a Netcee who thinks multis and big words = good lyricism. However, he should have learned from Pac, who he apparently idolizes, that a 1 syllable rhyme from the soul > a 5 syllable rhyme you obvioulsy made just to rhyme, and somehow made it fit in you verse.
Subject Matter
Literally EVERY song was him bitching about something or other. His songs made me depressed for him. Not that I'm depressed over the shit he whined about, no. I'm depressed he will forever live his life in a cesspool of self-pity. Someone needs to play this emo kid Nas' "Life's A Bitch" and tell him to grow some balls. Seriously, do any of his fans lisen to his lyrics??? Murder Of Crows was so, so pathetically bitchy, his whole album was.
And what the hell was with all the Tupac references??? I didn't really care, OK, he's a Pac Stan, but then he said he had the same mental state or something as Tupac. No Whiny McVaginason, you don't. Tupac grew up in the ghetto in Cali. Tupac's family was full of Black Panthers. Tupac experienced social, racial, and economic hardships you never have. You have as much in common with Tupac as Paris Hilton does. You feel like Pac on his DEATH BED? Yeah, your pathetic life is soooo hard you can identify with being gunned down in the street.
He seriously bitched about EVERYTHING. Boooohoooooo I'm a white rapper. Boooohoooooo girls. Booooohoooooo I hate religion. Booohoooooo my parents divorced. I can go on and on and on. Someone tell this pussy there's kids starving and men being tortured while he cries into his microphone.
"To bathe the silhouette in our tears the skies weep"
Oh. My. God. That is the epitome of a lil emo kid. You'd expect lyrics like that in a satire of Emo writing.
Production
Eh. I've heard worse, but it was nothing to write home about. it was very smooth and pretty, but it was like a really nice music box: Very pretty, beautiful even, but you don't wanna listen to it a lot. The production was just all too similar and low key, it all blends together and just got very boring. Just pianos and whatnot. Pretty amateur TBH. Whoever did it is obviously more talented than your average kid with Fruity Loops (unlike me, MAYBE), but it wasn't addicting or infectious at all.
So yeah, that was my review. I listened to it all the way through, some songs several times to catch lil nuances. And to be clear, this isn't a dig at any member. I don't really care if you like it as long as you're not obnoxious about it, but I felt like I should give it a chance. I did.
Rating: 3/10. There is nothing that makes me wanna relisten to it.
^The face of pure sadness and hardship. No one else in the world has broken up with a girl or had divorced parents. YOU DON'T KNOW THIS MAN'S PAIN!
) on photoshop, that's all the time I'll give you outside debating. Get over yourself...it's a damn review.
