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II can be clumsy, but the low stakes also yield some great surprises in the album's second half.
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On the grandiose, cinematic "U Da Realest", for instance, he delivers a heartfelt series of RIPs before undercutting them with the line "I died in her cervix." There are two pretty terrible songs that are both about uploading sex tapes to the Internet, the better of which, “Netflix”, is partly redeemed by Fergie, of all people, stopping by to rap. Elsewhere, the loose approach yields duds like 90-second cocaine measurement tutorial "36", which is exactly the half-baked fragment its runtime promises it will be, and a misplaced spoken word intro on "Black Unicorn".ī.O.A.T.S. At the same time, his approach can veer toward the latter-day Lil Wayne tendency to rattle off punchlines like Mad Libs.Īlso like Wayne, who drops by for a lively verse within Drake's verse on fun, douchey highlight "I Do It", 2 Chainz's bars can skirt the border between WTF and tasteless.
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At its best, as on "Where You Been", this approach yields disjointed brilliance like "If you wrote an autobiography you'd have to sue yourself/ Your lyin' ass/ Codeine in my wine glass." 2 Chainz going at full tilt- purposefully butchering the pronunciation of clothing brand Comme Des Garcons, for instance- finds himself a riot and forces us to agree. Much of the album's first half is what has become formulaic 2 Chainz at this point: Massive, booming beat, shouted short phrase for a hook, and non sequitur punchlines that sound like he's reading a list of one-liners out of a notebook. There's even a verse from Ma$e, and it's fantastic. It's as if 2 Chainz decided that his approach to 90s nostalgia would be not to make an album that sounded like that decade but rather one that applied the high-budget, slapped-together vibe of a minor Bad Boy-era release to the sounds of modern Atlanta. There's something refreshingly traditional about what a non-event the album is. II in many ways gets closer to the essential 2 Chainz appeal, perhaps unsurprisingly for an album focused on “me time.” It trades in the attempts at being a blockbuster project for a laundry list of "whoa, cool" moments, which begin in earnest as soon as 2 Chainz shouts out his stove by yelling "what up stove!" on opener "Forks".
II: Me Time, arrived with almost no buzz, each of its promotional singles seeming to generate less excitement than the one before. Accordingly, that album was an event, the product of the rapper formerly known as Tity Boi’s unlikely decade-plus career finally coming together in one release. Story, these qualities seemed like telling indicators of a new rap superstar on the rise. Leading up to the release of the first 2 Chainz album, Based on a T.R.U.