Comfy listen

Almost boring you already know it's gonna be classic raps when Navy Blue is on the label

never fall off is the one

yep!

THATS MY F***ING GOAT

Nah this is fr heat front to back, beats are stupid

Rly liked his album this year but his verse was on another level tbh anything else by him this good??

Still a bit confused tbh, you name two Alc projects as counter examples but recent Alc production is extremely repetitive as well, yes there's a bit of mixing here and there but it's 90-95% just a loop usually. Loops are lowkey the essence of hip-hop, Navy just strips it down to that.

I think it's because his beats are less smooth/ more off-kilter that you notice it more. I wasn't sure from listening to the singles but the formula works brilliantly on here imo

honest question

yall like the beats more or this guy rapping?

i cant get into it other than the beats

Haram is the most varied collection of Alc beats on an album in a hot minute. Bo Jackson felt really redundant to me tbh, but still—Alc always adds idiosyncrasies in his beats that keep them interesting start to finish, or, if producing an album fully, has a healthy mix of trappy beats, some minimal/drumless ones, some really weird vocal loops, etc. Until Bo Jackson, I’ve never heard an underwhelming/repetitive Alc-produced record.

Re: Half God, the beats I love on this—The Business, Never Fall Off—I could probably listen to for an hour straight. But I agree w @DwindlingSun in that a good few of these beats were nice to listen to for the first like 30 seconds, but get stale quick—Remarkably, Home, Gas Face, Promised, New Truths. This might as well be a criticism of Wiki (and Akai, in his case) as much as of Navy. I’m just not tryna hear Wiki rap over these types of loops for 3.5/4 minutes (!)

The method of looping isn’t the problem, it’s a matter of synthesizing an addictive/interesting loop + raps + track length. Just think everything didn’t add up on here (coming from a massive Navy fan)

Feel like an ideal Navy-produced album would be something like SRS—under 2-min tracks with a really really strong/eccentric lyricist.

Never Fall off is f***ing beautiful

Me liking repetitive loops

glad im not the only one lmfao i love minimal s*** so i appreciate navy’s approach in his beats

huge cosign on your last sentence

when this pairing of Wiki x Navy got announced i was hoping for a similar approach to the one Wiki and NAH followed earlier this year with Telephonebooth, making it really short and sweet but focused on one sound

in a vacuum i could listen to Wiki rapping for hours straight but when he's working with only one producer the challenge lies in balancing it out

I can understand the critiques regarding the production at times but I feel like for the most part this was done very well and I'm not even the biggest Wiki fan generally speaking

Just noticing the Em and Cam'ron influences in Wiki's raps

Back on my roof and ain't s*** boring
My fit kicks Jordans with a Mets lid on 'em
Been wet since a jit, the kid had s*** sorted
Last miss dipped on 'em, but now my chick foreign

Great storytelling on D*** Supplier, y'all niggas is SLEEP!

I'm certain, a certain publication is going to give this an 8 while simultaneously giving Telephonebooth a 6 lmao

Why nobody tell me this white man was fire

So far maybe the beats a bit more but Wiki bodied all of them tbh, great mic presence, flow and lyrics. That said I think his rapping could be more concise at times and being an Earl fan too I feel like some songs could've done with a verse less and there's one or two hooks I'm only so so about so far.

Just having revisited Ratking and fallen in love with that sound I feel like his performances on So It Goes were a bit stronger and more catchy on there too and Oofie still got some of my favorites of his as well, this is among his best releases tho for sure

He was one of the few features on IDLSIDGO