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Tyga – “$tarface” review

This is the 8th studio LP from Compton, California rapper, singer/songwriter, actor & television personality Tyga. Dropping 4 mixtapes & a full-length debut prior to Young Money Entertainment alongside Cash Money Records & Republic Records signing him, he release 11 more tapes & a couple albums through the major labels except Careless World: Rise of the Last King was the only one of the bunch that stood out. The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty & Kyoto under his own imprint Last Kings Records would both become the worst in his discography regardless of the latter marking his EMPIRE Distribution debut excluding Bitch I’m the Shit 2, introducing us to his $tarface alter-ego.

“Spinnin’ in Circles” unceremoniously opens with an 80s synthpop throwback where Tyga’s lifelessly singing about everything moving fast & cold whereas “White Grains” comes through with an distractingly obvious Tory Lanez bite that makes me wanna listen to the latter, which says a lot because I’m not a big Tory fan. “Powdered Dreams” continues the 80s vibes singing about everything being his at the Miami Beach shoreline until the synthwave-inspired “Just Us Tonight” gets romantic when he dated an underage Kylie Jenner.

Reaching the halfway point, “Freezing” direly uses the change of temperature for a breakup metaphor despite the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City atmosphere until the lead single “Gave U Racks” lets the Tory Lanez influences bleed heavier annoyingly singing about a woman winding up stranded as a result of her buying the love Tyga gave her. “Time is Currency” fully embraces the synthwave aesthetics one more explaining to his partner that the reason they haven’t spent much time together is due to money.

“Affection” gets ready to conclude $tarface in the form of this sloppy 2nd & final single capitalizing on 80s nostalgia singing about a woman who desires love & cash while “Died 4U” sounds like an impromptu karaoke session he was having in the studio whining over an ex he’s missing. The outro “Last Forever” spends the disaster’s final minutes trying to evoke the sensation of being in a high school prom hoping for a feeling that won’t ever end.

Young Money now has been defined by Lil Wayne crying for not playing the Super Bowl half-time show along with Drake having his ego shattered in a rap beef & Nicki Minaj protecting predators, but Tyga could most likely be the most irrelevant artist to come out of the whole YMCMB camp & I don’t know what will make people realize that if $tarface’s creative bankruptcy doesn’t. The synthpop, contemporary R&B, synth-funk & synthwave production was confirmed to be AI-generated & Tyga’s singing hasn’t improved at all since Kyoto.

Score: 0/5

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Tyga – “Kyoto” review

Tyga is a 29 year old rapper, singer/songwriter, actor & television personality from Compton, California who dropped 4 mixtapes & a full-length debut prior to Young Money Entertainment alongside Cash Money Records & Republic Records signing him. He would go on top drop 11 more tapes & couple LPs through the major labels except Careless World: Rise of the Last King was the only one of the bunch that stood out. The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty through his own imprint Last Kings Records quickly became the worst thing he’s ever made & his 5th album was promising to be as bad.

The opener “Temperature” sings presumably about his ex-girlfriend Kylie Jenner when she was underage at the time over a tropical beat & the auto-tune on Tyga’s voice makes it even worse. The next song “Leather in the Rain” with Kyndall is a shitty sex duet with a generic club beat & the track “Come & Ball Wit Me” is basically Tyga whining about Kylie over a spacey trap beat. The song “Boss Up” sings about how he loves that his current chick is calling the shots over a moody beat & the track “U Cry” is another Kylie breakup pity party over a somber beat. 

“King of the Jungle” sees T-Raw admitting that he was unfaithful to Kylie over an atmospheric instrumental while “Hard2Look” is an honest to God diss track towards her new boyfriend Travis Scott that comes off REALLY corny. The song “I Need a Girl 3” produced by CashMoneyAP is an unnecessary follow-up to the 2 Puff Daddy songs that came out in 2002 while the track “Train 4 This” has some corny references to WWE Hall of Famer Mike Tyson over a trap beat with a decent “Dilemma” sample buried in the mix. 

The song “Hot Soup” sings about how his chick will make him feel better over a bland beat while the track “Sip a Lil” featuring Gucci Mane is of course about drinking & rambling about missing Kylie over a mediocre trap beat. “Faithful” featuring Tory Lanez sees the 2 telling their ladies to have faith in them over another tropical beat & the penultimate track “Ja Rule & Ashanti” is filled with corny references to both artists over a nondescript beat. The torture finally ends with “Holdin’ On’”, where he gets sexual with his current woman over a decent Hitmaka instrumental. 

Now I know a lot of people including myself went at the artwork when Tyga originally posted it on Instagram last month but musically, this is truly the worst thing he’s ever done. I can commended him for trying to step out of his comfort zone, but there is not a single song worth sitting through from beginning to end. His singing is absolutely God awful, the auto-tune he throws on top of it doesn’t mask it either, the lyrics are trite & the contemporary/alternative R&B production containing lesser influences of trap & pop n is dime a dozen.

Score: 0/5