Hip-Hop Albums of the Year

23 October, 2024

Esham — She Loves Me Not


Simple, tight dark rhythms and mediocre, weak jazzy, Esham provides a wack, gray, tasteless, never inspired dark rapping. Samples are never needed and sonic variations like looped guitar riffs, never required. Halfway through the LP, a trap foray with an out of time and generic rapping on a generic rhythm, Esham doesn't even use the bridge. Forget it. In the end, he turns completely to the trap music by choosing generic beats and dropping a poor rapping: in "Bag of Demons" he tries a delivery that looks like a parody of Future. 4/10.

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