Sada Baby - 2K24

Scarlxrd - NXW XR NEVER : 2

Camila Cabello - Dade County Dreaming (feat. JT & Yung Miami)

Childish Gambino - Brando Stone & The New World (R.I. Review)

Childish Gambino is a lot of things. He's an actor, a rapper, a singer, a band? Brando Stone & The New World is a very good album. The problem is it's a lot of things at the same time. Variety can be a good thing. Billie Eilish mixes genres and cultures too, but she has more artistic integrity and a cohesive end result. This album sounds perfect to be performed at a 2024 festival and he's blazing a trail culturally with the sound of this album. It just feels more opportunistic than artistic.

Eminem - The Death Of Slim Shady (R.I. Review)

Eminem is an amazing rapper. Eminem is an amazing rapper. Eminem if you're reading this, YOU ARE AN AMAZING RAPPER! This album is good. The production fits Slim Shady's famous sound brand. Eminem is always trying to secure his legacy, which is understandable but it isn't necessary. However, as great as the music is, he's selling a lot of volatile ideas with art. Wharf talking makes sense when you need buzz, but at his fame level, it's not necessary. His presentation is comparable to recent Kanye music. What I mean is when pushing ideas few people agree with, even with fantastic music it's important to effectively make your controversial point to some extent. Eminem rhymes every syllable and uses complicated word play. That's hard to do for the trained ear but it isn't interesting or impressive after the 100th song. These songs are very good, but I wonder if Eminem listens to Eminem on a regular basis.

Eminem - Tobey (feat. Big Sean & BabyTron)

Trophies

Glory is extremely important. It teaches, it entices, and when used properly, can be very helpful. Measuring success through achievements is fun. 

However, in certain contexts, glory can be very problematic. If you make a trophy, you have to take ownership of the outcome it has... and question the outcome intended.

42 Dugg - No Love (Audio) ft. Lil Baby

Lupe Fiasco - Samurai

Survival Engineering

Evolution is a very competitive and sociopathic ideology. That's why lowering the bar instead of removing the premise is a serious blunder. Bring back religion.

If people don't value people, the safest remedy is integration not concealment. Equity and dependence matter universally even when lives don't.

Ethics is an afterthought to most, which is strange because it's the only thing that people care about when tragedy strikes. Jokes are thought to be safer, mean behavior is thought to be safer. However, innocence is all anyone stands on to defend you.

Appearance is great, intelligence is great, winning is great, talent is great, but the balance is asking for special treatment while rationalizing it in some way. An important note is that special treatment can rationalize special treatment: People value rare people as much as they sometimes resent them. 

Attitude is everything, and complaining offsets the jealousy by reminding people that no one's life is perfect.