Digital Nas is a 26 year old producer, rapper & singer/songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia whom many including myself got introduced to in 2016 after producing “Up Next 2” off Lil Yachty’s debut mixtape Lil Boat. Following an eponymous debut EP of his own, he would go on to put out another EP Throwaway Songs Worth Listening To. & a sequel to his self-titled EP as his full-length studio debut. His bitterness & desperation for attention has seemed to get the best of him as of late whether it be him making homophobic remarks about Tyler, The Creator during the Chromakopia rollout or being a yes-man for Ye or the Nazi formerly known as Kanye West in the midst of the latter’s behavior on Twitter worsening in the last 5 months owned by Tesla CEO, SpaceX founder, Neuralink founder & fellow Nazi Elon Musk. Nearly a couple months since DONDA 2 was finally completed, the man’s sophomore effort originally set to close the DN trilogy has been made public on streaming.
“Honest” feels reminiscent of his work on Ye’s final Def Jam Recordings album DONDA with the organs & electric guitar astonished by the amount of people falling for idiocracy whereas the experimentally drumless “Living n a Dream” sings about life not being what it seems. “bLCK hedi SliManE” regurgitates Ye’s obsession with the far-right with the “new black KKK” line over a chaotic trap instrumental while the synth-driven “Loose Screw” acknowledges his eccentricity.
What could possibly be the worst song he’s ever made “New Ice” ruins a trap beat with some decent synthesizers with poor songwriting & a hideous delivery with the soulful “#1 P” not being any better topically wanting to call it even & others wanting to be him when I simply cannot imagine that in any capacity. “Stars Aligning” goes for a drumlessly cloudy direction instrumentally trying to convince you he defines reprimands while “Broke the Rules” ironically talks about him not missing these days when he in fact has on several instances.
“God’s Timing” keeps the drums out of the equation hooking up more synthesizers conveying that everything’s on the most high’s time leading into the ambient plugg heavy “TrustNo1” talking about a vast majority of the population reading off as untrustworthy from his perspective. “False News” continues the decent sampling choices tackling a breakup & hoping for a redo becoming a possibility while “inLove” carries the theme of romance over further for only a couple minutes.
The song “Life Wild” brings a bare electric guitar to the table talking about the way he’s been living lately when that hasn’t been made any more obvious by him dissing Tyler, The Creator & even Ye’s former longtime engineer Mike Dean or wishing death on KiD CuDi for testifying against Puff Daddy a.k.a. P. Diddy or Diddy while “Peacing Out” caps off Tampering with Sound taking the final moments to sing about letting it show where he’ll be.
Up until everything that happened between him & Tyler last fall, I would’ve told you that Digital Nas was a tolerable producer albeit a below average rapper/singer. Does that still ring true? Yeah, sure but he really needs to get his ego under control if he genuinely thinks that he’s a far superior performer than the former Odd Future de facto leader when he never has been & never will be. The only real thing this album has going for it a lot like almost all of his previous solo material is his pop rap, alternative R&B, experimental hip hop & art pop production because he’s a below average songwriter, a mediocre performer & an ugly spirited person outside of it all.
Score: 1/5
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So, a total waste of time?
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His production’s not bad, it’s his rapping/singing that doesn’t do it for me
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