IDK - USEE4YOURSELF ALBUM REVIEW
I love that the visuals for this album on YouTube are just him building a Game Boy successfully for about 45 minutes.
IDK is an artist that came onto my radar earlier this year not because of a song, but a song announcement. He said that a song off his upcoming album will feature Westside Gunn, the late MF DOOM, and the elusive Jay Electronica all on one track. That’s a stacked feature list, but on one song? I hadn’t heard of IDK before this, so I went and listened to his debut album Is He Real? and his two IDK & Friends collaborative EPs. All of these projects were pretty cool, but Is He Real? really stuck with me the most. While it wasn’t too mind-blowing, I had a lot of fun with it. One thing I noticed on that album though is that the features on it came and went, and maybe this new album, USEE4YOURSELF, would be the same. So, let’s just get right into the new album.
There’s a bit of a light concept here, but it’s not entirely explored here. Or at least it isn’t explored as much as he intended. The idea of toxic masculinity being in his mind when he was younger could make for a great project as a whole, but it really just isn’t explored as I said. The features here are pretty stacked, with contributions from Young Thug, Offset, Lucky Daye, SiR, T-Pain, Swae Lee, Rico Nasty, Sevyn Streeter, and Slick Rick. As I said earlier, though, they come and go pretty quickly. Surprisingly, the track with Westside, DOOM, and Jay is here in the form of “Red,” who are all oddly uncredited on streaming services. Sadly, though, the same thing goes for these features too. Jay Electronica’s verse has a lot of anti-vaccine stuff in it, but that’s really nothing new for him. Overall, IDK does give some good performances throughout this album, and “Peloton” is definitely one of the best songs he’s put out that I’ve heard from him so far.
USEE4YOURSELF is a pretty tight album from one of the most underrated rappers in the game right now. It’s pretty seamless and varied, something that every artist should strive for their album to be. After getting over the relative disappointment from the features, this is IDK’s album, after all, so he should be the main focus. That he is, and hopefully this is the time where we stop sleeping on him.
8/10
Listen here
YouTube Music
USEE4YOURSELF is a Warner release.
IDK is an artist that came onto my radar earlier this year not because of a song, but a song announcement. He said that a song off his upcoming album will feature Westside Gunn, the late MF DOOM, and the elusive Jay Electronica all on one track. That’s a stacked feature list, but on one song? I hadn’t heard of IDK before this, so I went and listened to his debut album Is He Real? and his two IDK & Friends collaborative EPs. All of these projects were pretty cool, but Is He Real? really stuck with me the most. While it wasn’t too mind-blowing, I had a lot of fun with it. One thing I noticed on that album though is that the features on it came and went, and maybe this new album, USEE4YOURSELF, would be the same. So, let’s just get right into the new album.
There’s a bit of a light concept here, but it’s not entirely explored here. Or at least it isn’t explored as much as he intended. The idea of toxic masculinity being in his mind when he was younger could make for a great project as a whole, but it really just isn’t explored as I said. The features here are pretty stacked, with contributions from Young Thug, Offset, Lucky Daye, SiR, T-Pain, Swae Lee, Rico Nasty, Sevyn Streeter, and Slick Rick. As I said earlier, though, they come and go pretty quickly. Surprisingly, the track with Westside, DOOM, and Jay is here in the form of “Red,” who are all oddly uncredited on streaming services. Sadly, though, the same thing goes for these features too. Jay Electronica’s verse has a lot of anti-vaccine stuff in it, but that’s really nothing new for him. Overall, IDK does give some good performances throughout this album, and “Peloton” is definitely one of the best songs he’s put out that I’ve heard from him so far.
USEE4YOURSELF is a pretty tight album from one of the most underrated rappers in the game right now. It’s pretty seamless and varied, something that every artist should strive for their album to be. After getting over the relative disappointment from the features, this is IDK’s album, after all, so he should be the main focus. That he is, and hopefully this is the time where we stop sleeping on him.
8/10
Listen here
YouTube Music
USEE4YOURSELF is a Warner release.
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