This is mediocre for real. I dunno how y'all are hyping this up, but I suppose it is because it's a surprise album of the Carters. But I'm going to be real with you, I am highly disappointed by both the production and with Jay-Z on this. Beyonce did her thing and this feels more like a Beyonce solo album with Jay-z just phoning in bars. I don't feel a true collaboration like I have with the Kids See Ghost where Cudi and Kanye interacted and had chemistry. This feels devoid of chemistry which is unfortunate based upon their previous joints they had history of doing together. It feels forced this time around. I dunno if it's because they rushed in doing this while doing a world tour or they weren't in the studio together collaborating and it's Beyonce doing her album and Jay-Z at the last minute decided to hop in and do some quick bars after the fact. I dunno, but I wasn't feeling it.
In regards of the production. I am beginning to get real TIRED of the same commercialized beats with the same as 808 drum kicks, and blandness in its musicality. I was HOPING when I heard the 1st track, "SUMMER", that the instrumentation and musical arrangements would be live and on point, but I was sorely disappointed. But not to say that the beats were garbage, none of the production was terrible, but they felt bland to me because it is the same shyt you hear EVERY DAY on the radio. It is the same reason why I wasn't feeling that new JAY ROCK album that much. Just redundancy. Their lead single, APE shyt, is a prime example.... I mean it has MIGOS fingerprints literally all over the track with their dumb ad-libs and so forth.
Maybe it is why I appreciate Kanye's production from his releases these past several weeks more. fukk Kanye and his social-political platforms, but he been in his bag when he done the production... it always were different from what's out on the radio, not commercial bullshyt, different arrays of musicality, each album release sounding different from anything else, yet still grounded and consistent. It is also why, and what I feel is HEAVILY SLEPT ON is the Apollo Brown & Locksmith project that was just release the same day as the Nas and Jay Rock albums dropped is IMPECCABLE from a production stand point. Apollo Brown is a brilliant producer/composer and gives me what's been missing in rap music these days. Just truthfully, I grown tired of hearing that every day shyt, and it is disappointing coming off a GREAT NO ID production of 4:44, that we have this with Beyonce. No disrespect to y'all, but I not really into it. It was a chore to listen to be honest.
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, Tell em the Trayvon doc coming next 
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