Conway The Machine – Won’t He Make It :: OndaRock Reviews

It’s like Picasso, Dali type fluidity
With the coke rap ethos, you know what I’m saying?

a year later “god don’t make mistakesConway the Machine returns with the first part of a double album, It’s “Won’t He Do It”, which clarifies color sheet Makes the style sound and live by injecting light parentheses drumless and funk to the dark hardcore-hip-hop we’ve grown accustomed to.

Smell Slap “Quarters” is an opening that makes clear how much more sparkling and stylish the album is, much closer to the bombastic style of hip-hop that reaches the general American public from Jay-Z to Kanye West via Rick Ross. . The gloriously soulful horns of “Bruisefix,” entirely without drums, serve owner and host Westside Gunn to show off the rap agility we already know so well, and “Monogram” (“I want propelled toward the coca-rap self-celebration of “Sell cocaine forever / And always, and always”, stuff to make you blush pusha t

, “Kanye” also attempts a soul-rap-gospel, which is partially replicated in “Water to Wine”, and title track Select an emotional rap with a stuffy piano: these are examples of a change of style that sounds rushed, an escape. sound Which made him one of the most admired rap artists of 2022 for his foray into less creative and more improvised styles.

when you go back Beat dark and passionate rap, such as “Stab Out” and “Brick Fair”, or al

drumless From thriller With “Flesh of My Flesh”, Conway seemed to return to expressing the best of his creativity, albeit in the context of a less cohesive and denser album. Satisfied,

If the first part of “Won’t He Do It” changes Conway’s style in a curious way, at around 50 total minutes the rapper loses his compass and the project becomes confused in its search for a compromise between hardcore and pop-rap. Is. Which is not easy to obtain, and which is probably (yet?) not in his talents. The final “Super Bowl,” with Juicy J, slides toward a Migos trap that illustrates well how this trajectory can lead to consequences both professional and general. The fact that Conway is a top mic on the mic only helps it to a point and makes ‘Won’t He Do It’ a lesser album, not only in comparison to its direct predecessor but also ‘From King to a God’ Even compared to (2020).

06/16/2023