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Metro Boomin and Future Look to Marry Their Respective Styles, With Mixed Results, in ‘We Don’t Trust You’: Album Review
Metro Boomin and Future have released the first of two full-album collaborations, in which some tracks mix their trademark styles better than others.
Metro’s Freddie Kruger-meets-Jaws ambience and uneasy piano line on “Magic Don Juan (Princess Diana)” only picks up steam when Future’s flow finally rises to the occasion of the track’s plucked strings and swelling, faux-French-horn ending. Metro Boomin’s un-steadying orchestral see-sawing does finally find an aptly theatrical flow when Kendrick Lamar jumps on the verses of “Like That” with his yelping rap, dip-diving breaths and much-needed frenetic energy … not to mention the cuttingly snarky lyrics dissing Drake and J-Cole that sparked fan intrigue and news headlines immediately upon the album’s release. Young Thug doesn’t have Lamar’s vigor, ire or salt, but instead brings gravelly menace to the choruses of Metro’s whistling horror-track of “Slimed In.” Though Future’s lyric of “charging a chicken just for a verse” sneaks in some surprising laughs, the bleak mood of “Everyday Hustle” only finds briskness in Rick Ross’ jovial take on criminal enterprise.
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