Trollheart

Album title: Revenge
Artist: XXXTentacion
Genre: Hip-hop
Nationality: American
Release date: May 17
Position in Discography: First mixtape; third overall
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Familiar with this artist? No but I have heard of him
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No
Average RYM Score: N/A
With a title like that, I can assume this is going to be some angry stuff. Seems it is. Apparently there was some feud between him and a duck, sorry, Drake, over the opening song “Look At Me”, which is pretty hard-hitting and vitriolic, both in lyrical content and also in the music. The second track is very short, a little fragmented, then a sort of dancy one followed by what appears to be an acoustic guitar backing/sample with a sung vocal in a very faint and distant voice. Quite nice actually. That's called “King”, and near the end it powers up almost into a death metal or metal anyway roar, giving the song a real punch. “Slipknot” has a lovely jazzy piano line and is quite laid back; it's the longest of the eight tracks here, at just a second below three and a half minutes. That leaves only two tracks, with “Yung Bratz” starting off a little uncertainly, for me, then powering up into a heavy trap idea and the mixtape finishes on “RIP Roach”, another angry track, lot of power and energy in it. I couldn't call this great, but I wouldn't call it terrible. That's about all I can say really.

Check out more from this artist? Not sure
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes

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