The guest list is notably action-packed Roddy Rich, Dababy, Khalid, Summer Walker, Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert (twice) all make appearances. He’s fine with stepping outside of his comfort zone of piano-heavy cerebrations (“Leaked” and “Hold On” are great examples of different styles), whereas Boogie lives in his own little bubble of heartless medley. The big difference here is Tjay is more versatile.
They’re both from the Bronx, they’re both auto-crooners, and they both love to talk about the streets. The rest is filler to boost streaming numbers.Ī lot of rap fans love to compare Lil Tjay to Boogie. Like any other mainstream street project, he follows the bland formula of feature-heavy cash grabs, five or so songs about materialism (but not interesting), and one or two tracks riddled with actual emotion (“Streets Don’t Love You”, “DTB 4 Life”). Unlike Uzi, who can turn the most banal subject matter into riveting acrobatics, Boogie sings and raps about money, guns, loyalty, and girls in the most cliched way imaginable. It’s probably best to not bother with the lyrics anyway, as most of them don’t even register. “Me and My Guitar’s” rock-inspired inflections could’ve easily fit snug within Trippie Redd’s Love Letter For You mix-tapes, while “Thug Love’s” vulnerability is completely contradicted by generic masculine tropes (But you say you want thug love/But this ain’t no fucking love song, yeah, yeah/Ah, ah, pretty when you cry, ah/Pullin’ on your panty strings, put ’em to the side.”). There’s been very little development in his lyrical and vocal ability just a lot of copying. Most of all, he’s executing the same shit he was from two years ago.
His voice still carries the aura of Speaker Knockerz, while the guitar-laden production features Juice WRLD’s imprint. Sure, one could make the pointless argument that Boogie separated himself from a state stuck in tradition back in 2017 but its not like it matters in the wider scope of things. Immediately following the release of his newest album Artist 2.0, A Boogie went on a newsworthy rampage, threatening to sue hip hop artists who “sound like him,” and stating that too many rappers are “ making this shit boring.” It’s a ridiculous sentiment considering how contemporary his newest project sounds. In this modified state of mind, the Bronx native is by far the most original artist of the past ten years.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie festers in a monotonous alternate universe where his “uniqueness” is apparently saving the rap genre.
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