![]() ![]() ![]() “Raw” rides twinkling synths and 808s with a spirited Gucci Mane flow so in pocket you forget it’s kind of a commercial. ![]() Sometimes the pared down songwriting approach succeeds. (“In my car, uh-huh/ Cruisin’ down the street, uh-huh/ So stoned I’ma need something to eat, uh-huh”) “So High” caps every line with an enthused “Uh-huh” refrain, but rather than wringing humor or menace from the device (a la Juvenile’s classic “Ha”) Wiz hurtles a stream of minutiae about what happens after he lights up. ![]() “Hope” invites a group of gold-digging clubgoers to “Come fuck with the stoner and get stoned.” “The Sleaze” informs us that Wiz “Just copped the newest thing” and “did it with ease,” without divulging what, exactly, he bought. There’s a wispy resignation in his voice and a faint, noncommittal thread in the songwriting that sends a few of these songs across the line from pop accessibility to plasticity. The issue, then, is that Wiz doesn’t sound like the guy rocking the party so much as the one out back baked as shit and melting into a couch. Blacc Hollywood is a blur of late night bottle service orders and wake-n-bake seshes that imparts more elite weedhead bonafides than hopes or dreams.īut people don’t come to a Wiz Khalifa album to plunder the mysteries of the heart-they come to party. He’s got his own strain of Afghan kush (“KK”), he breaks it up with a grinder (“So High”), he smokes it out of his own brand of rolling papers (“Raw”), he does this every day (“Stayin Out All Night”), sometimes in his car. It’s possible for an artist to be too on brand, and Wiz’s music is almost monomaniacally obsessed with outlining how much weed he has amassed and his plans for burning through it. Labs and Sledgren, Blacc Hollywood’s production choices are inspired-but you could never mistake it for possessing an adventurous streak, thanks to the waxen array of prurient drug raps at center stage. From the smooth jack of Ghost Loft’s Kitsuné America 2 single “So High” to ace placements from radio titan Dr. ![]()
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