Cordavision Music Reviews

The moment I found out that this guy has a song called “I Personally Wouldn’t Revive Queen Elizabeth (Pack Watch)” was when I knew I’d like this guy. Most of this new set of reviews is gonna consist of two things: Whatever I heard in my backlog or a newly-released project that I’m excited about. This one lands as more of a backlog entry, but this dropped this past summer and I only found about it last month. I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but Anthony Fantano’s pretty positive review of this gave me the motivation to finally give this a shot. I pretty much have no idea who Ghais Guevara is, and both the title and cover of this already show something unique with the project. Let’s talk about There Will Be No Super-Slave . Right off the bat, I adore the production on this. It’s grimy and tinged with industrial undertones that really began to stand out as I was hearing the project. Even the wild, frantic samples on the intro track introduce Guevara as a producer in an interesting way. S...

*put on hacker glasses* Looks like he’s off the grid… Fivio Foreign has been on a roll recently. Even if I’ve only heard features and a couple of loose tracks from him, I can’t deny that he’s been running drill music at this point right now. Ever since his absolutely wild breakout feature on “Off The Grid” from Kanye West’s Donda , Fivio has been on a lot of people’s radars and I’ve personally been waiting for an album to capitalize on that talent to become a superstar. I hope that B.I.B.L.E. is that album, so let’s get into it. I think that Fivio’s talent as a rapper is shown off pretty well here and his writing even holds up throughout most of the album. The production is surprisingly well done here too, but after seeing that Mike Dean had a large hand in it, I’m not surprised it’s this good. However, it just continued on and on and on and on and on and on and on. This project was too long for its own good and it got real old really quickly to me. It starts off very strong, but I t...

I honestly don’t know why this cover is so low quality, I can’t find a better version. This is the first time I’ve covered a Lil Durk solo album, mainly because this is the first one I’ve heard in its entirety. Yes, I heard the album he did with Lil Baby from last year, and even if I originally gave it a 6/10, it’s surprisingly grown on me since then. However, I do think that there are a few elements of Durk’s music that don't work for me. It may not be his fault, but I think he needs some better beats to go over at times. Even if the Morgan Wallen collab “Broadway Girls” left a bad taste in my mouth because of Wallen’s presence, it’s not the worst thing I’ve heard. It’s been interesting to see how well Durk’s career has gone, and I feel like 7220 could be a major point in his career. Let’s get into how I feel about it. I’ll say this one positive thing about the album, and it’s that I liked how Durk got more personal in his lyrics. It really gave a good emphasis on what he wanted ...

This is a late Halloween tribute right here. Back when I did those bite-size music reviews on YouTube, one of my more popular videos was my first exposure to rapper Sematary and his critically acclaimed Rainbow Bridge 3 . I said that it was ‘loud as fuck.’ At the time, it ended up not being a positive thing, but after some convincing from some friends and a couple more listens, it actually grew on me quite a bit. In honor of All Hallow’s Eve, Sematary has dropped a new mixtape, Screaming Forest . Let’s get into it. I’m usually into the harsher sounds of his music, even if I’ve only heard Rainbow Bridge 3 . That being said, I’ll say that this is a little more subdued. A little. This is insanely loud music. This is the definition of music that will scare the hoes. The little subgenre of trap metal has been very specific and has a very small space in rap as a whole, but with this album, it’s really making a good yet small statement. Although, it feels like there’s a Sematary clone on here...

When I saw that Kanye stan account tweet about how excited he was that Kanye said the n-word on his feature, I actually died a little bit inside. I’m pretty confident in saying that if he was still in the land of the living, Pop Smoke would be one of the biggest stars in music. He just had this special thing about him that no one could ignore, and with good music to boot, he had the world paved for him. His first posthumous album, Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon , is one of the only modern examples of a posthumous release done right. With the help of executive producer 50 Cent, Pop Smoke’s work and image were given a whole new layer with the help of some of his closest collaborators at the top of their game. It is the perfect sendoff for an artist that was taken away from the world way too soon. At least it was. Quietly announced and released, Faith is the second posthumous album from the New York rapper. Granted, I was nervous going into this, mainly because of the features. Ar...

This guy’s getting to me, trying to name his album after my favorite album of the year so far. Alright, why am I covering this GoldLink? This got me interested. I know he’s said some pretty dumb shit about Mac Miller, but I’m not taking that into account. His 2017 mixtape At What Cost is one of the most underappreciated albums of that year, and I could say the exact same of his debut album Diaspora . Now, we have HARAM! , his second studio album and honestly, I’ve heard nothing about this. I didn’t even hear about this bizarre cover art that I’m not sure if I have to censor on Instagram when I promote this review on that platform. I have nothing to expect or anything to talk about on this, so let’s just skip the formalities and get into HARAM! and what makes this project good or bad. Also, I gotta point out this one thing before I get into the details: What is with this vocal filter he has on most of this project? He is not 2D from Gorillaz, I’ve talked with a couple people about thi...

 

I have to admit, I never really listened to Pop Smoke until after his tragic death in February 2020. The first time I had heard him on a track was as a feature on Travis Scott’s label album JACKBOYS , “GATTI” being the name of the track. After his death, I went into a little bit of research about Pop Smoke and his projects. He’s widely considered to be one of the first artists to bring UK drill to the Brooklyn rap scene, and since his death, this sound has taken the East Coast scene. I ended up listening to his breakout mixtape Meet The Woo 2 , and it didn’t do a lot for me personally, but I can see the potential that he had. Now, after his death, none other than 50 Cent came in to finish up his debut album and is credited as the executive producer. Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon is the name of the record, and we’re gonna see how it is. Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon is a hip-hop/trap album with UK drill influences. This was going to be a weird review to write. The best...