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  Clever's sophomore album, 'Crazy', is a near dreary piece. The vocal deliveries are passable yet irritate at times when Clever is almost derivative to Post Malone. The production decisions seemed lazy as the trap beats annoyingly lacked a pulse. Fortunately, a few instances of solid acoustics and guitar riffs made 'Crazy' a tad more bearable instrumentally. From July to Everything Beautiful, it was a near forgettable interval. Whether a song is a love ballad, like 'Everything Beautiful', or braggy, like 'Call Me Nobody', which features Lil-Wayne on autopilot, all of them consisted of trap instrumentals that were shockingly one-dimensional, almost snooze-inducing. At least, Clever's croons in this part of the album were at most satisfactory. Also,  'Use Again' had a nice guitar riff in its conclusion. 'Crazy' reaches a slightly more energetic point in 'Way Out.' The riff that begins the track is somewhat pulsating. Howeve...

  Genesis Owusu's debuting piece 'Smiling with No Teeth'  is a satisfying burst of funk. Owusu is joyful through his range in vocal deliveries as he surrounds himself with mostly rhythmic instrumentals. After an energetic opener in 'Get Your Move On!' and a satisfactory 'The Other Black Dog,' 'Smiling with No Teeth' does reach a somewhat underwhelming point in 'Centrefold', as the choppy vocal melody within the track is slightly obnoxious and hindered Owusu's chorus. However, the album does recover immediately straight after in 'Waitin on Ya.' The love ballad begins with pleasing glimmery chimes, which progressively transitions to a rhythmic bassline and plucks as Owusu croons soothingly.  Whatever relationship showcased in 'Waitin on Ya'  is soon after thrown out of the window in the humourous breakup anthem 'Don't Need You.' Over a pleasingly funky bassline, percussion and synths, Owusu is funnily dismissive ...

   At first, a thunderous blood rush through bombastic beats and Duke Deuce's explosive energy, 'Duke Nukem' cripples into inconsistency where its downfalls stimulate symptoms of a caffeine crash. "INTRO: COMING OUR HARD" is a fitting track name, as an exhilarated Duke Deuce delivers a catchy hook and an earworm of his 'What The Fuck? Ay Ay" catchphrase over a punchy bassline. "SOLDIER STEPPIN" is a solid crunk anthem that follows. Duke Deuce is entertainingly more explosive as the production is fiercely trap-flavoured. Deuce continues his explosiveness in the roof-raising 'FELL UP IN THE CLUB' where he sprinkles a flavourful machine gun ad-lib and a decent guest appearance from A$AP Ferg. Following the satisfactory 'ARMY' and the Offset featured 'GANGSTA PARTY', 'Duke Nukem' does begin to lose its momentum at 'TOOT TOOT', where Duke Deuce's hook is quite obnoxious. In "SPIN", poor choruses c...

  In his sophomore album, TYRON, Slowthai brilliantly brandishes his flow over thumping trap instrumentals while showcasing fervency in anthems of perseverance and his battles against cancel culture. TYRON begins intriguingly with '45 SMOKE', where over murky trap beats, Slowthai delivers a catchy outro reflecting his tough upbringing. The thumping 'CANCELLED' follows, where Slowthai reunites with Skepta to take shots on cancel culture. The trap instrumental is pleasingly cacophonic, corresponding with a Skepta flow that shoots bullets through brags in the chorus and his verses. How can you cancel him? when he has 'cranium shots ready for those zombies.' Meanwhile, Slowthai would kick them like 'Ong Bak.' Madness then ensues in the revving 'MAZZA'. Slowthai's ad-libs are an earworm, like his hook, while a braggadocious A$AP Rocky is a pleasing touch. As a rather energetic first half of Tyron ends,  the tracks name become lowercase, anticipati...