Hip-Hop Albums of the Year

13 March, 2020

Rich the Kid — Boss Man


Easily among the worst projects of the year, don't look at the genre. Rich brings lyricism bragga-trash and bad delivery, with a generic and boring style, without desire, without effort, without personality, on generic and bad trap rhythms.

This album is bland trap pop for the mainstream, you've already listened to this before, elsewhere and done better. There are some decent guests (Lil Baby, DaBaby; both have short songs with a decent dark trap bearable productions, Future is fine uncredited in "Stuck Together"), but most aren't good: Post Malone does nothing for improve his track and I listened to Nicki Minaj's song several times without understanding what she did. YoungBoy Never Broke Again goes to drop a few bars in the songs towards the end with a lively delivery that tries to relieve Rich's dull delivery, Quavo punches the clock, Lil Tjay meh, brings liveliness to this f****** album, good.

No, I don't care what he says, what's Rich the Kid doing here? He's asphalted by every guest, he's sleeping. Some rhythms are decent, "Far From You" is a good dark and sad jazzy trap beat, but it's a real shame, because the kid sounds badly on it, it's a waste, the rest ranges between the generic and the annoying; some tracks suck less than usual but still suck and at some point I don't know what he wants to do here. That is, I know, he wants the hit à la Migos, but homie, he never succeeds and almost every cut is skippable, the trapper is never inspired, he absolutely goes on autopilot, on a self-driver Tesla without destination.

Not recommended. 2.5/10.

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