Remember My Name Review

He arrived with a genuinely unusual instrument, a strained melodic wail that could carry a hook without ever sounding trained, and the debut spends half its time trying to attach that to beats built for a wider audience. Like Me is the clearest case, a Jeremih feature and a bright synth line that has almost nothing to do with the tapes that got him here. What still works is the darker material.

500 Homicides is the record's spine and it is plainly felt. Watch Out and Tryna Tryna have some real menace. The production is thin throughout, the drums undersized and the mixing flat, which was a common problem for drill artists moved onto major label budgets at exactly the wrong moment. Nothing here is embarrassing and almost nothing is memorable. It is a competent first album by someone whose best work was still six years away, and it sold accordingly.