Compton, California rapper/producer $amaad concluding the Child of Drama series that made him a breakout name in the underground with his 3rd mixtape. Since 2018, he’s built quite a large discography for himself consisting of his last couple tapes as well as 26 EPs & 4 albums. The Say Hi $amaad! (Care Package) series would go on to receive the same favorable reception as the Child of Drama, making the 5th installment of the latter the final entry of & his 5th body of work in 2025 ultimately.
“Rigo” is this cloudy trap intro asking if you’ll be mad or not if people start sleeping on you & needing adderall whereas “Keep the Dream Alive” talks about the things he does never being enough on top of knowing nobody but everybody. “Interface & Glock” works in some sampling boasting that he doesn’t have any rivals he can think of while “Pimp Juice” expresses the love he has for sippin’ lean keeping the Sprite in his cup dirty.
RTW Biggs’ feature on “Put the Pint Back” is the weakest of the 2 even if they embrace a heavy plugg vibe so both of them can turn the city up together just before the warmongering “Tank Davis” homages the current WBA Lightweight Champion of the same name. “Bootychaaain” brings back the cloud rap vibes talking about working hard for all he has & getting by off his music career, but then the atmospheric “Bands & Strippers” doing it the way he does because he came from nothing.
“Telegram” featuring Rafa & produced by Evilgiane takes it’s name after the cloud-based, cross-platform, social media & IM service with Milt saving the best feature of the 2 for last while “Use Ya Brain” playfully references 2-time WWE Hall of Famer, 4-time WWE world champion, WWE Intercontinental Champion, 6-time WWE tag team champion, the current WWE Senior Vice President of Talent Development & head booker of their developmental NXT brand Shawn Michaels said to be inducting WWE CCO Triple H as a 2-time WWE Hall of Famer next month after recently making former CMLL Mundial Femenil Campeon, inaugural CMLL Mundial Femenil Parejas Campeon & 新日本プロレス STRONG女子王座 Stephanie Vaquer the current NXT Women’s Champion & NXT Women’s North American Champion.
Meanwhile on “Explicit to Do List”, we have $amaad talking about his life going the way he’s planned it & being unable to wait for all his homies behind bars to come home while “All These Hoes Get Wet” hooks up these pianos to tackle themes of lust. “Who Am I?” mixes a reversed sample & 808s together to talk about being in this shit for way too long that is until “Purple Swag” once again serves as an ode to that purple drank.
“Until the Sun” continues to push towards the conclusion of the Child of Drama series dissing everyone who keeps putting him in a box only to get out of it every single time & being in your city throwing cash prior to “Femto” reuniting with Evilgiane for the final time going as hard as they did on with Rafa on “Telegram” earlier radiating a cloudy drill hybrid warning that you’ll have to go through him if they want his bitch.
Archie’s Comic almost a couple months ago has been singled out from many including myself to be the worst project in $amaad’s whole discography & to close the book on Child of Drama for good, it’s far more interesting than the boredom that Archie’s Comic was plagued by. The production shows influences of wave, plugg, cloud rap & drill music putting a bigger emphasis on killer rather than filler.
Score: 3.5/5
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