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IDK: Bravado + Intimo review – bright beats, retrograde rhymes
The US rapper and Harvard mentor’s inventive, trap- and jazz-influenced tunes are let down by unreconstructed lyrics
In the 10 years since releasing his first mixtape, IDK has evolved into an authoritative rapper with a solid back catalogue, flipping smoothly between singing and rhyming. Inside, he’s well-respected enough to collaborate with A-listers such as Snoop and Burna Boy as well as underground acts including MF Doom and Sad Night Dynamite. Water-treading single Tiffany is little better, with Gunna’s usual mellifluous hogwash floating amiably in the wake of IDK’s perfunctory lead verse.
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