Jan 2, 2020 Honest has some of Future's absolute best songs (T-Shirt, Move That Dope, Benz Friendz) but is kinda weirdly sequenced and has some weaker tracks that slow things down a little (I Won, Blood Sweat Tears), but the hits outweigh the misses, of course. I was one of the people who wrote this off when it dropped but over the years I've grown to appreciate it a lot more, and if nothing else it laid the groundwork for the style that he perfected the following year. 8/10
Jan 2, 2020 Honest: 8/10 It's this album that marked the crossroads of what Future was and what Future transformed into a few months later. He still sounded like a happy man (I Won lol) while still hammering out bangers with Mike Will (Move That Dope is beyond filthy), AND then creating the closest thing we'll get to an Outkast song with 3Stacks. It's a great album in its own respect, a bit unorganized, but those highlights are worth the trouble to get to.
Jan 2, 2020 7.5/10. Not an album I've visited a lot over the journey but Move that Dope and Benz Friends is just
Jan 3, 2020 7.5/10. The start of something more, some absolute bangers. A great album that set the pace for fewtch’s legendary run a year later
Jan 3, 2020 Tbh move that dope and karate chop are 2 of my least favorites here, so many fresh and unique songs on this album. The 2 I mentioned are bangers 4 sure but we got so many songs like it before and after.
Jan 4, 2020 I was on vacation & missed out on TPAB. I don’t know if my score will count but it’s a 9/10 for me. I think a lot of people get warped up about replay value & setting. TPAB obviously isn’t an album you’re going to play frequently & that’s okay. It wasn’t really made for social settings. It’s an album you come back to once in a while to appreciate the creativity & story—similar to classic movies like The Godfather or Schindler’s List. With that being said: I think songs like “alright” or even “King Kunta” fill that empty space at least a bit—they’re fun & uptempo. I’ll try to do “honest” once I get out of dreadful LAX.
Jan 5, 2020 Exactly how I view TPAB. I'll update the scores if anyone wants to review albums we've already done, no problem.
Jan 5, 2020 Future's HONEST gets an 8/10 from 7 ratings (shamelessly plagiarised from a previous review I did of this album) 10 years after Kanye and Hov joined forces on one of the greatest rap albums of all time (The Blueprint), their worlds collided once more in this grandiose epic; opulent, brash, powerful and perhaps the most deserved claim to the Throne ever made. It may not be the absolute shining jewel in either artists extensive and consistently brilliant discography but g.d., if it doesn’t do what it set out to do — a testament to the most powerful and talented hip hop figures of the decade prior, a well-deserved celebratory victory lap. I give it an 8.5/10 @RateThisAlbum Also if anyone wants to review previous albums we've done go ahead and I'll update the scores
Jan 5, 2020 Amazing album. Literally everything I want from a rap album: every song being a complete different sound, and Hov and Ye bringing their a-game. The only 2 things I don't really like that much are the MIA hook and the fact that they accidently (I mean, I hope so?) put a demo version of Lift Off on the album instead of the finished version. But the rest is do d--- good I'm only getting 0.1 off the score for each: 9.8/10
Jan 5, 2020 This but just need to change that it's not what I really want from a rap album. It could have been good that every song having different sound if they were all good but I find myself getting bored of some of the songs, never playin'... On the other hand, there were great songs on the album. n----s In Paris was way overrated. I'd prefer Welcome To The Jungle over that. No Church In The Wild and Otis are two of my fav songs. Lift Off is wack. Anyway, I like slightly more than half of the songs in the album therefore, the most I can give this album 6.5/10...
Jan 5, 2020 With Kanye just coming off the legendary GOOD Friday/MBDTF run and Jay being Jay, expectations for WTT were impossibly high, but man they absolutely delivered. The album sounds monumental, every moment is an event, Jay forgot what year it was channeled his American Gangster self, and Kanye must’ve spent like a month straight tirelessly writing verses without sleep because he more than keeps up with him. Guests are used perfectly and never outstay their welcome, and Ye and his collaborators crafted beats that are suitably huge and extravagant. This is incidental to the album itself but I gotta acknowledge the rollout too, one of the most exciting drops I’ve seen in my lifetime. The H.A.M drop, Flex premiering Otis, everyone tirelessly dodging leaks. It was a wild time, shoutout to Ty and his NIP recording. It’s a 10/10
Jan 5, 2020 Watch the Throne - 9/10. I'd happily and easily rate this a classic 10/10 if Lift Off had been omitted. Real over sight that was to leave that on there. Everything else is amazing, no other words can describe this album.
Jan 5, 2020 9/10 Great album front to back, both delivered as expected. I wish we had more of that Kanye throughout this decade.
Jan 5, 2020 This, WTT is like a 3/10. Jay and Ye are not lyrical at all, barely any multis, metaphors or double meaning. Kanye doesnt produce real hiphop beats and both their voices have sounded the same their entire careers.
Jan 5, 2020 Watch The Throne: 9/10 The most exciting rap event of this decade without a doubt. I've reiterated this before, but the fact that the two biggest forces of the genre (not named Em or Wayne of course), combined for a full-length LP, is something we should be holding sacred to our hearts, we mere mortals were lucky to see this happen in our lifetimes. It more than met those atmospheric expectations, there was a healthy competitive streak that runs through WTT with Jay's bulletproof confidence carefully tempering Kanye's indomitable brashness. As a result, we got classics like Otis, NIP, Murder To Excellence, full proof examples of the heights hip-hop can reach when every creative cylinder is firing with these two monuments of hip-hop. The tour, the album rollout, #thatshitcray--we'll never get another hip-hop album like this.
