Here is the 23rd EP from Lafayette, Louisiana rapper, singer/songwriter & producer Autumn!. Gaining traction off all 22 of his previous EPs & a full-length debut on SoundCloud since 2018 prior to signing to Victor Victor Worldwide & Republic Records following the Not Much Left EP, he made his major label debut nearly 4 years ago with his sophomore effort Antagonist! as well as following it up with the last 2 installments of the Golden Child trilogy & Midnight Club. Wick delivered a sequel to Solitary in addition to You Never Was Mine & ##B4B2MR in 2024, looking to Kickoff a new era after recently going Back 2 My Roots & embracing the Rolling Stone lifestyle.

“Massaging Seats!” talks about his girl trying to find a spark in him when love doesn’t live inside him in the 1st place over a colorfully self-produced instrumental whereas “Grok!” combines pop rap, trap, rage & cloud rap comparing himself to the AI chatbot created by Tesla CEO, SpaceX founder, Neuralink founder & Nazi Elon Musk. “Houstatlantavegas!” however reaches the halfway point sampling the Drake track off So Far Gone & turning up the 808s to talk about a hoe familiar with all 3 cities.

“That’s a Fendi!” gets the other leg of the EP going by shifting towards a pluggnb vibe making it clear that he can be found in the backseat of a Maybach with all of his homies that were beside him on Day 1 still being here while “Uknowigotit!” explains that he doesn’t need anyone around him because he has money. The closing track & lead single “party4u!” samples “party 4 u” by Charli XCX to finish Kickoff, talking about going from rocking Gosha to all black Wraiths unless he’s inside of a Ghost.

It’s already been confirmed that Autumn! next move involves dropping 2 singles back-to-back ahead of his next full-length & Kickoff gives me the impression of this next LP will be a melting pot of all the sounds Wick has explored over the course of his career. That said: I being a fan of his music since earlier this decade hopes he pulls off the styles of pluggnb, pop rap, trap, rage, cloud rap & alternative R&B a lot better than he does here because I didn’t enjoy it as much as the improvements Wick had made to Rolling Stone last fall.

Score: 3/5

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