Albums D Smoke - Black Habits (ALBUM)

Khalil's_Black_Excellence

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I'm on my 3rd or 4th listen now. Album is really well done. Only mild knock I can see against it is that some of the tracks in the latter middle half sound a lil samey. He could've used either reducing a couple of those tracks or keep the same concepts and lyrics, but have added something a lil more contrasting here and there to make them stand-out on their own more. Perhaps a couple other rap guest verses and some production that was totally left field of the rest of the album. I think all guest verses are reduced to just singing or rapping the hook in Snoop's guest instance.

All in all tho, a very solid album and very cohesive. I'm leaning towards a 9/10, as even with some similar sounding tracks, song-writing, beats, lyrics and flows are all on-point. I dare anyone to list a wack bar or pointless line, cuz while some rappers these days can easily be described as not doing enough actual bars and spitting or on the opposite end of being too "rappity-rap raps", D Smoke's lyrics are succinct, practical and purposeful with much depth all throughout every verse. He gives you just enough, but not too much.
 

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Album is nice. He reminds me of overly dedicated/section 80 era Kendrick. Be honest that Wilder entrance introduced to me to this car. So you can say that was a great look for him.
 

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He’s cool. I feel like he takes all of the good aspects of j Cole and Kendrick and blends them well. Music is to preachy for me, some pawg IM tryna bag is into this music so I gotta act like I like I fukk with this more than I do :lolbron:
 

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He’s cool. I feel like he takes all of the good aspects of j Cole and Kendrick and blends them well. Music is to preachy for me, some pawg IM tryna bag is into this music so I gotta act like I like I fukk with this more than I do :lolbron:

Why you got to fake the funk to smash bro? You think it will lessen your chances if you dont like his music?
 

Chip Skylark

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Wait? This is the dude that won the Netflix show competition right? Sir is his brother? What have I been missing?

this is album is good
 

Jasonmask

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Why you got to fake the funk to smash bro? You think it will lessen your chances if you dont like his music?
I kept it 100. Like my daddy is a powerful song. Lil red(which isn’t on here) was coo too. Told her my style preference and don’t seem like the interest waned. We’ll see how it goes
 

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Great album with refreshing content.

People sleeping on this and hyping a lot of trash that has recently been released.
 

Stir Fry

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I wouldn't say all the spanish outright ruined it for me, but it's gonna keep me from revisiting it years down the line from now.
 
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