Pluto x Baby Pluto is an uneven affair, less a successful collaboration than a platform for one ascending rapper to overshadow one feeling the fade. At first glance, the collaboration between Future and Lil Uzi Vert that birthed the Pluto x Baby Pluto mixtape makes…
by InRO Staff Music
Album Roundup: Oct. – Dec. 2020 | Part 4: Juicy J, Future & Lil Uzi Vert, Magic Markers
Juicy J There are few constants in this precarious universe that we inhabit: the sky is blue, the grass is green, and as long as Jordan Michael Houston is still breathing, he’s going to be doing the thing he’s been doing since the early…
2020 wasn’t exactly overflowing with significant (pop) rap releases, some of the genre’s biggest stars putting out absolute duds (Donald Glover, Drake), while others hyped up projects that, in all likelihood, quietly got postponed for a more “tour friendly” rollout window. Dependable figures like…
From our Honorable Mentions post: While many of us lingered and struggled inside of our homes — and are still patiently following quarantine protocols until this global pandemic ends (with the major exceptions here being NBA YoungBoy and The Chainsmokers) — the best albums released in 2020…
The Deluxe edition of Eternal Atake adds a wrinkle of inequity to the album’s two halves, but it remains an fascinating document of Uzi’s evolution as an artist and individual. Eternal Atake (Deluxe), aka Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2 and Eternal Atake, is…
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What Would Meek Do? | Q2 2020 Issue – Part 1: Run the Jewels, Jay Electronica, Future
Lil Uzi Vert Eternal Atake (Deluxe), aka Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2 and Eternal Atake, is a project that lives up to its loopy approach to titling, an act of anti-branding worthy of Lil Uzi Vert’s obstinate emo persona. This project began…
The albums that defined the past year were projects that subverted typical genre norms and traditionalist views, making themselves hard to rigidly categorize in the process. With foreign influencers making waves across across a smattering of Billboard hit singles (more on one of the biggest…
The best songs and albums released over the last 12 months found a way to subvert a hopeless political reality, to move and inspire us by striving for change. A Chinese rap group broke through to an international audience; a singer-songwriter sincerely mounted a…