

These songs don’t, and much of the album just sounds exhausted. But those sensual, vulnerable tones should, ideally, boil at some point into something with a burning immediacy. As is de rigueur in contemporary R&B, Kyoto tries to pass off silken textures and washed-out vocal samples as sensual and vulnerable. More obvious than its spiritual emptiness is the album’s somnambulance. On “Temperature,” a dancehall-style dud that recalls “ 1 of 1” from-sigh, deep breath- Bitch I’m The Shit 2, he intones in a half-assed patois, “I lost my watch and I still found time.” Or, on “Hard2Look” (more like “Hard2ListenTo,” amiright?), he sings, “I know this bustdown Patek won’t switch sides/I know this Lambo won’t switch sides/I know my true fans won’t switch sides.” Or, worse, on the hazy “King of the Jungle,” he admits, “I’ve been unfaithful/I’ve been lyin’ like the king of the jungle.” Instead of addressing the alienating nature of celebrity, or the motivations for his romantic choices, or the past (and maybe necessary) falsity of his public persona, Tyga mostly opts for bad puns and shallow platitudes. I really wanted to step in front of the narrative and create my own story.”Īfter 52 minutes of Kyoto, it remains unclear what that story is. “I can’t even go to the movies with a girl anymore. Why the sudden change in tack? “The last five years of my life has been a lot of me in the media because of my relationships,” he recently told Billboard, presumably referring to his time with Blac Chyna and a youthful Kylie Jenner. Kyoto is a pleading, quasi-introspective R&B album by a rapper previously best known for unsubtle lyrics about his unyielding acquisitiveness-he gets laid, gets money, and gets high. At the right club, with the right mood, Legendary should certainly serve its purpose of filling up the dancefloor.It’s appropriate, then, that his latest career move is a preposterous one. While these fourteen tracks certainly leave something to be desired in terms of lyrical variety, Tyga does what he does well and laces the album with some nice collaborations, including Lil Wayne ("On Me"), Blueface ("Stash"), Chris Brown ("Haute" and "February Love") and Offset ("Taste"). Opener “Too Many” sets the tone as Tyga proclaims " money, cash, h**s, I got too many". The album was certified gold on the day of its release mainly thanks to the hugely successful single "Taste." With heavy basslines from start to finish, the main lyrical focuses of the album are everything you might expect from Tyga: sex, money, women, status. This boldly titled, club banger-in-waiting filled album is Tyga's 7th studio album, following 2018's Kyoto. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. At the right club, with the right mood, Legendary should certainly serve its purpose of filling up the dancefloor.

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