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"DS4EVER" by Gunna

Listen to Gunna's New Album 'DS4EVER' f/ Young Thug & More | Complex 

Welcome back to Thrak Attack, what's your adventure? I have never heard of Gunna before today, I don't usually follow hip-hop artists or keep up with this music. But his album was released yesterday and I thought I would give it a shot and review it! Now I must remind you that I don't know much about modern hip-hop. I know about the history of the genre, the major artists, and that's about it. So this review may be very biased and uninformed but I am a musician with a degree in music so I will review it to the best of my ability. So here is my review of "DS4EVER" by Gunna.

This is Gunna's third album since 2019 but it doesn't show it. It still feels like he's trying to make a name for himself as a rapper which is probably true. Considering I haven't heard of him until today I feel like he does need to push his music more to make it to the mainstream. Regardless of his past music, we're talking about "DS4EVER" which is a decent album. I usually am not a fan of listening to an entire hip-hop album all the way through but I was actually interested in this one all the way through. It helped that I listened on my AirPods Pro while playing a round of Disc Golf, but it surprisingly kept my interest.

Now should we start with the good or the bad? Let's start with the bad... I think this album was incredibly offensive to women with very sexually aggressive language towards them. I know that is a majority of rap music but I was not appreciative of it. Especially the song with Chloe of her repeating his words was a bit of coverup to make it seem less offensive because she was saying it back to him. So a lot of the songs, although with great tracks and beats, I was completely taken out of due to the content of those songs.

The good however was the album is long! Almost an hour long at 55 minutes! That is a killer time for an album! RuPaul's latest album was just over 30. So regardless of the lyrics or content of the album it did impress me the sheer amount of music going into this album! He also has a single with Drake that was not featured on the album which was impressive! So even though I said that I usually don't enjoy hip-hop music as a full album it's especially impressive to keep my interest for almost an hour!

All in all, it was not a great album. Just because an album keeps my interest throughout does not make it a good album and because there was no through line or connecting concept it was rather disjointed. On my reviews of albums I use an average of 5 stars for the track listing and then a star for production, concept, musicianship, aesthetic, and overall feeling. Unfortunately this just not my style so it gets a 1 star average with a point in production

"DS4EVER" by Gunna gets 2 stars.

                        All the Best, Ross 

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