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I don’t think a little more polishing would hurt the narrative that Zay is going for. Seems like it was just cut and dropped in there. There should have been a cleaner, softer transition into the Amindi verse. This song would pull out more anger out of me but, at this point, thematically, I’m already so drunk and high. Vince Staples, his contemporary, who dropped an album earlier in the month, has tracks like ‘Lemme Know’ from Summertime ‘06 that includes separate vocals laid over each other.) I’m being chased by an argument. Two voices layered on top of each other - like an argument. The pitch and the vocals on ‘All Herb’ makes me feel claustrophobic as fuck.

There’s too much going to really put into words. I’m getting images of street lamps whizzing by in a fog. ‘Headshots’ sounds like an ambulance siren and souls crying out at the same time. How do you turn that off? Drugs and sex are a good distraction. You are in constant state of threat and deprivation. “Claymore.” And if the bomb has no warning sign it’s even worse. ‘Lay Wit Ya’ is dark and intense.Ī warning sign and the bomb going off at the same time. This whole album makes me ignore the fact that I’m in danger.

This is what it means to be young and poor.

And don’t trust yourself enough to think you wont. When you want to get out it seems like every thing and every one around you wants you stay there, because not enough people make it out. I’m impressed with ‘RIP Young’ because it tells me of how hard it is to get out of the situation you were born into. The second track of the album and I’m really thrown right into it. I’ve honestly never heard Lil Uzi Vert sound so in pocket. Isaiah Rashad starts us off with some advice: “Whatever gon’ keep your mind blown / …maintain the wheel.” Pay attention to what is in front of you.