Kingdom Come Review

The problem is stated in the opening verse: a man who spent a decade writing about ambition now had everything he wanted and made a record about that. Boardroom talk, expensive cars described without wit, and a chorus comparing himself to a basketball great. Beach Chair and the title track are the sound of a rapper trying to grow up in public and discovering that maturity is not automatically interesting.

Lost One is the one keeper, three verses about a friendship, a relationship and his nephew's death, and the only place the writing gets specific. Minority Report is well meant and clumsy. The production is glossy and expensive and completely mood free, and his flow has slowed into something stately and dull. He has since called it his weakest album, which is accurate and also generous, because the real failing is not that the music is bad but that there is nobody interesting inside it.