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How Did Lil Tecca’s ‘Dopamine’ Album Score His Career-Best Debut?
Lil Tecca's 'Dopamine' becomes his highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 this week, debuting at No. 3.
Kyle Denis: I find most “Video Killed the Radio Star” samples incredibly derivative, so I’ll go with “Dark Thoughts,” which interestingly positions Tecca as a straight-up pop-rapper with a gifted ear for hooks. Dopamine contains traces of the flow and production that he utilized on “Dark Thoughts,” but also toys around with dance, pop, trap and rage music, turning into a 41-minute listen that flies by without ever growing stale or repeating itself. His lone hit came even longer ago than Tecca’s — 2017’s “Caroline” — but he’s maintained a fanbase with a genre-hopping mentality that’s recently seen him excel in a kind of updated hip-house, with help from producers like Kaytranada and Lido.
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