Melt My Eyez See Your Future

Melt My Eyez See Your Future is one of my favorite albums of 2022. "Melt Session #1" and "Walkin" are highlights, but the rest of the album is great too. A lot of variation in styles and tempo, but everything sounds like it is created with one live band in a studio (what is not the case). His raps are more controlled compared to his earlier album and right on the spot.

Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Walkin, Worst comes to worst, John Wayne, The last, X-wing, Sanjuro

I’m only familiar with him because of his cover of rage against the machine, which he absolutely killed! I loved this album from the opening song and I will listen again and check out more of his discography. Fantastic rapper!

Really liked this one. Who would have thought that rapping over video game loading screen music could work so well. ..Alright just listened to this two more times in the span of a day. This is some ethereal shit. I love it, probably my favorite hip hop album I've heard on the user list. 5/5.

uuuu this is damnd good 5

Very good very modern hip-hop

Solid stuff worth exploring more

One of my favourites of his

This was a vibe and I dig it. 4.5 stars.

Hey ChatGPT write me a nice inoffensive 2020s hiphop album

Uhm yeah, hip hop / rap

Decent modern hip/hop rap album.

Going from the Eric B. and Rakim selection to this is interesting - 35 years of hip hop in one step. And generally I'd conclude that hip hop is doing all right. This has a certain musical monotony that I found myself a little less willing to absolve than the classic scratch and beats of the prior selection. Lyrically very smart though again without all the features I think the delivery of the main artist might get a little stale. Overall I liked it.

Hip hop. Ni fu ni fa.

Yeah, that one was quite a surprising leftfield turn for Denzel Curry, who seems to aim for a more laid-back form of lounge jazz hip hop with *Melt My Eyez See Your Future*, one that certainly recalls the golden age of "conscious rap" while keeping some of the current features of the genre intact. It's a quite pleasant listen, and I don't doubt the man and his team's sincerity for one second. But if I should be fully sold on paper, I also have to admit I prefer the rapper's earlier LPs, oddly enough. Probably because their energy was more contagious than in here. There's indeed something a little generic in both the production and rap flows displayed throughout this album. Good for Denzel that he wants to grow as an artist, but I'm still considering this record as a transitory effort. Maybe one yielding to better things in the future? Hope I can see it with my eyes, at least if they don't melt before. ---- 3/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums... 8/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 55 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 72 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 131 (including this one) --- Émile. Ça y est, j'ai *enfin* répondu (en deux temps). Tu trouveras ça sous les reviews des disques de Blackalicious et Alexisonfire au dessus.

I know who this guy is but never heard him before. Not really in a rap mood but here we go. Nah, this sucked. It has that lazy tranquilizer flow thing going on and the beats were nothing. Bin. 2/5.

Doesn’t do much to distinguish itself from similar projects and feels pretty bland as a whole due to minimalist, boring beats. There are 1-2 tracks that piqued my interest, but the LP is let down by uninspired instrumentals and repetitive bars that don’t say much of anything new.

Not my thing. It had a lot of elements I don’t enjoy in rap / hip hop in it.

I started listening, went to take a shower, came back and wasn’t sure if the teach had moved on or not. Doesn’t speak to me in the same way as some other rap albums.

No.