The Kid's latest overflows with ambition - every song reaches for more and more. Dude landed Kendrick -- and Chance, the archduke of post-Kanye Chicago coolness himself, too, and he still reaches like he's the bigger star. Not in an arrogant kinda way, it's that effortless confidence thing. He's got Chicago in his name, but he's a Kid; BJ's just got a song in his soul, and production that can't be contained in conventional, and here it all comes. And if song's don't quite reach for Beautiful Dark heights, they reach for more than 3-and-done, more than 3xChorus, more than Chance3 even, maybe.
There's a little too much autotune, a little too much polish - this's far short of territory TBAP/MBDTF/Chance3, its ambitions notwithstanding. But I admire the reach: BJ finds a smooth, strange new land well worth the excursion 4/5
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