

Highlighting just a …Įarl Sweatshirt is as much of a phenom as he is elusive, and this has been a fact over the past half-decade or so. Aside from this, there are only two features included, but considering they’re verses from Wiz Khalifa and Young Nudy, they’re inclusions that are powerful and obviously impressive. The title of the project is Yo!88, and with 11 songs that span over 32 minutes long, there isn’t a single second that goes to waste, making it an album that legitimately has zero skips. To my pleasant surprise, I had absolutely no idea that they were planning on teaming up for a full collaborative project, but when I found out about this incredible news today, I didn’t waste a second and went directly to Spotify to check it out. All I knew was, these two remarkable talents worked better together than so many other collaborators in this day and age of music because, with Pi’erre’s production background, he knew all the strategies Tm88 was using and knew how to capitalize on them effortlessly. Not long ago at all, I saw that Tm88 and Pi’erre Bourne teamed up to release a single entitled “Block Boy” as well as an amazing music video, and even though this song was an all-out hit, I didn’t know what to expect in the future. A two-minute masterpiece, “Midnight’s Interlude” gives layered vocals with an electronic filter that I couldn’t stop bobbing … These tracks are the ones that start to build your confidence as you muster up the courage to go ask for her hand in dance. “Pink Dolphin Sunset,” “Lavender Sunflower,” and “The Color Violet” are perfectly named for the auras they give off, with a light, bubbly feel that could easily fool any unrhythmic white guy such as myself into thinking they can dance. “Won’t you let me know, ’cause I’m still stuck on you.” Tory cries pleading messages of love/lust as the track seems to shout across the gym hoping for her to notice and take his hand in dance. Tory opens up with one of my favorites of the album in “Enchanted Waterfall.” His distinctive falsetto on a bouncy chorus had me tapping my feet erratically in this all-too-quiet coffee shop.

The piece is masterful, with beautiful retro synths and electronically filtered vocals that make anybody listening want to put on their dancing shoes and bell-bottoms. Toronto hip-hop mogul Tory Lanez is back with another project, this time with a unique and flavorful tracklist that’ll bring Millennials back to prom night.
