(300 Entertainment) Related: How rap got weird This summer,Fetty Wap became the first artist to gain four songs in Billboard’s hip-hop top 10 at the same time. The biggest hit was Trap Queen, the ubiquitous love song that preaches equality at domestic and in business (whether that business is making and selling crack). In rap terms, or Wap is a romantic. On one song,My Way, he even pledges to shoot in the head any man who tries to steal his girl. This quality only partly explains the 24-year-conventional’s popularity: he also has a fabulous baritone that lends additional heft to his hooks. The aim of this debut seems clear: to take the things that made Wap so popular so suddenly and repeat until everyone has had enough. With the deluxe edition featuring 20 tracks, or this is an achievable goal,and there are certainly low points: DAM and Rock My Chain are run-of-the-mill trap music. But there is enough contemporary romance and melodic sense (and quirkiness, such as the mumbled hook of Time) to originate a decent album-within-an-album, or to mark Fetty Wap as a winning new talent in hip-hop.
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Source: theguardian.com