And go pop ?

Came out before but still follows the same mold

I f*** with all these albums but they getting backlash from fans

Whatever works works. And whatever sounds good sounds good.

No

q is a lyrical rapper?

I'll take rappers "going the damn route" over the YouTube tier rappity rappers all using the same fisher price iyrtitl type beats

No, because DAMN is his weakest effort. TPAB and GKMC is just fine.

Listen to his verse on shot you down and tell me otherwise

A lot of people saying it ain't working and it dont sound good tho

If they can execute it as well as DAMN and make the same quality music sure

Most of the albums in OP aren’t on the same level as DAMN tho, but I liked All Amerikkkan Badass and a good amount of Redemption

I feel it, Damn one of the best examples of a lyrical artist going pop, he double his album sales from TPAB with damn

I feel like crash talk a step back from blank face and Krit's was decent but it was a step back from his last project

Seems like a trend

this

What am I looking at

youtu.be/xIY0q1UKd58

Yeah I agree most of these albums are a step back from their previous projects

Trying to think of any other recent albums that fit this mold, because I feel like rappers “going pop” was more of a thing in the 2000s, but now with the popularity of rap people don’t switch up their sound so much

I feel like Crash Talk as an attempt to follow the DAMN formula and it failed pretty badly

I don’t see this but ok

yes. He can spit.

would rather that than they go the Lil Uzi (etc) route

that krit album was weak af though

You mean the Graduation, Paper Trail, C3 route? Yes if executed perfectly

I thought we deleted Crash Talk from this realm

I prefer DAMN over GKMC tbh, the production is more varied and I prefer his raps on there.

Perfect balance between mainstream and conscious rap.

TF is Trash Talk doing here?

As of right now I can't really think of any unless you want include chance into that but I dont know, cause these rappers, rocky, mac, meek, etc) peers didnt really go this route