(This manufactured fog is so thick that, save for The Weeknd and 2 Chainz, the guest spots here swirl about without ever breaking through.)Įmotional depth was never Wiz’s thing, and that’s fine - he’s the happy stoner. You can only throw together so many stress-free rhymes over mid-tempo beats and slow-rolling synth washes before everything coagulates into a tepid ooze. But there’s nothing at stake, it’s mainly an empty vessel that fails to elicit any real emotion. These moments, and even the more derivative ones, combine to make a very pretty-sounding record, in a sterile, Kubrickian sense. “Fall Asleep” is simultaneously jittery and languid, combining emptiness with focused flickers of sound, like a hip-hop version of The xx.
“Paperbond” opens the album with a goopy foundation interrupted by echoing squawks. is hypnotic, foreboding…and also familiar. The sort of trance-y, woozy beats heard on “The Bluff” or “Time” would’ve been game-changers two years ago, but now you can hear similar (and often superior) fare everywhere from “Swimming Pools (Drank)” to Das Racist (pour one out) to Kitty Pryde.īut there are some standout moments that move the trend forward.
Labs cohorts started moving in this hazy direction on his last album Rolling Papers, but even that record had outliers like the monolithic thump of “Black And Yellow” or the acoustic breeze of “Fly Solo.” This album is uniform, embracing hip-hop’s move into the domain of Illangelo, Zodiac and Jamie xx, doubling down on Drake‘s sparseness while adding spaciness for the sesh set.ħ Photos ✺s a result, O.N.I.F.C. So while the lyrics underwhelm, in terms of creating a mood, O.N.I.F.C. When “Remember You” with The Weeknd first dropped it was assumed to be anomalous, but that track’s warped sheen is representative of the entire album.
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is full of gauzy, lethargic beats, with slowed-down G-funk riffs and bloops that seem to be coming from melted video game cartridges. Though he’s still spouting easygoing rhymes about both kinds of green, musically Wiz is virtually unrecognizable from the Pittsburgh kid on the soulful Show And Prove.
However, it has provided us with “Up In It,” a sex jam laying out - in vivid detail - the process by which Wiz may have become a father-to-be. Impending fatherhood has not seemed to, ahem, spark Wiz’s lyrical growth. (out December 4) is about weed? And also, being filthy rich? It’s true, guys. Would you believe the first song on Wiz Khalifa‘s O.N.I.F.C.
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