Second chapter of the "Bobby Tarantino" mixtape series created by rapper Logic, at his sixth mixtape. The production is made up of 6ix, Logic, AG, a guy who decided that his moniker was a social security number (this sentence is shorter than that name anyway), DJ Khalil, Frank Dukes, Illmind, Kevin Randolph, Marshmello, Nico Chiara, Oz, Tariq Beats, Tee-Watt and Vontae Thomas. The guests are all high profile and respond to the names of Wiz Khalifa, 2 Chainz, Big Sean and Marshmello.
Logic has figured out how to make a mainstream album and with this second chapter manages to repeat the commercial success of "Everyday", released the year before: for a product released in the era of the digital market, the mixtape has an excellent number of sales, immediately placing over 30,000 physical copies and reaching the first place on the Billboard 200, his second work to do so right after the previous album. The tape is strong in the three continents, it charts #1 in Canada and, within a half year, it's certified gold in its homeland.
As for the actual content of the material, I don't know if it's a good idea to go and cover it. It's a bit like the first "Bobby Tarantino", but worse. Made worse. With noticeably more erratic and weak production, a mix of poor boom bap and horrible trap drums and a dude who should spit rap, and instead sing, a lot. Too much. Not as much as he will the next year, but still too much to be a rapper who started from the dungeons of the genre. Most of the beats are credited to 6ix, whose work here is bad: there's a return to the samples, but honestly, I don't care and they're very few, Erykah Badu, Future, Nas (always from "LIfe's a Bitch"), lots of Kanye West, and especially himself.
This 43-minute, 13-song project is very experimental and effortless, ending up being contrived and synthetic, hard to digest and easy to forgotten. Sometimes the rhythms are decent or accessible ("Contra", "Yuck", "Warm It Up", "State of Emergency", "44 More"), nevertheless, Logic chooses to perform without any desire, with a mild flow or decides to sing / talk with autotune instead of spitting worthily in rapping. Lyrically, he struggles as before and more than ever and even the best song of the edition from the musical point of view, is ruined by meaningless lyrics and bad hooks ("Indica Badu", rare melodic beat with slow hard dry drum and light samples, one of the more relaxed productions on one of his recent records).
The guests are there, Marshmello stands out with the worst production of the record on which Logic sings, in a cut that serves as an appetizer to his subsequent indie pop work. "44 More" is the sequel to "44 Bars", the only noteworthy thing in the first chapter, it should carve its spot in the highlights of this mixtape, it should be the only acceptable thing for boom bap stans / for who it's still linked to the Logic of the "Young Sinatra" series, instead the guy decides to deliver with a bland Eminem-fast rap style over a weak and really badly done trap production, almost as if the piece was a parody of the prequel.
Except the Rick & Morty skit intro, there's nothing really good here, not recommended. At this point, you may be wondering: «How do you get worse than this?» This should be the lowest point in a musical artist's career, it can't logically be done worse. But logic is deceptive, sometimes. 3.3/10.
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