Kevin Gates - I'm HIM (Discussion Thread)

[lightbearerchef]

@lightbearerchef

Ion like speaker knoccerz bro

 

[eerieBell]

It was.


What alot of yall fail to realize is Gates will never go hella hard wita luca brasi story album because of tha fact he tryna chart on tha billboards, at tha end of tha day he still gotta feed his family, so mixtape Gates is always gone be more gutta/thugged out than album Gates.

This shyt just right for an album.

you're right. I don't fukk with his album sound, but his mixtapes are always piff.

Isaiah and this one sound vanilla as shyt to me, I can't tell apart track from track, but his flows are always on point

 

[paidNfull]

I gave it a few more listens at work, it's growing on me...it gets better I guess

 

[lightbearerchef]

you're right. I don't fukk with his album sound, but his mixtapes are always piff.

Isaiah and this one sound vanilla as shyt to me, I can't tell apart track from track, but his flows are always on point

Naa I feel you, atleast you can admit that. I fuc wit both, but I be sicc to my stomach of Gates for having us wait for so long. But I guess it ain't his fault, he just tha artist.

 

[EBK String]

will listen

 

[Air Nikes N Hats]

Islah is one of my favorite albums the last few years, but he dropped the ball here. Its not terrible, but its not great either. No standout tracks, and the production wasn't very good for the most part.

 

[JodyHiighroller]

Ion like speaker knoccerz bro

He took that from that song breh breh

 

[JodyHiighroller]

By My Lonely is my favorite today

 

[lightbearerchef]

He took that from that song breh breh

I know. I still dont fw him tho. Gates did it better just like he did this better

 

[CrimsonTider]

This is just ok

there’s no highs

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

It's more lighthearted and mainstream. People have layers. He's in a different place. Album fire imo

 

[lightbearerchef]

It's more lighthearted and mainstream. People have layers. He's in a different place. Album fire imo

Exactly, you get it. Gates said that he wasnt making his old style of music when LB3 came out cuz he was ina different place in his life. He leveled up, he ain't doin tha same shyt he was doin when he was making them old tapes

 

[livewire]

His sound is more mature on this...it's dope...

 

[re'up]

The production is much too generic, and lacks that special, mournful, haunting quality, some of his best work has. I always come home from a trip in September to a Kevin Gates project, in 2017, it was By Any Means, songs like "Had To", "Jus Wanna", "What If", "Why I", held me down that fall, and in 2018, it was "Wrong Love", "MATA", "Find You Again". This just didn't grab me, but some is solild, by Gates usually gives me that urgent, painful, triumphant music, this sounded like cutting room floor material. Nothing really really hit me that hard.

As far as comparison to Isiah, to me, 2 Phones, and Ain't Too Hard are better than anything on this project.

 

[Air Nikes N Hats]

It's more lighthearted and mainstream. People have layers. He's in a different place. Album fire imo

I thought Islah was very mainstream sounding, moreso than this album. It’s not executed as well here. Which is a disappointment, only because Islah set a high bar, and he didn’t climb past it here.