Album Review: Pray for Paris by Westside Gunn

Release Date: April 17 2020

This is Griselda member, Westside Gunn’s 13th Album since 2016. I think that this rapid album releasing is what makes the quality of the albums so poor. A lot of the songs felt unfinished, annoying and I literally hated some of the songs (No Vacancy, French Toast, Allah Sent Me). Here’s a little challenge find a Westside Gunn verse on here that doesn’t start with the word “Ay-yo” I’m quite sure it’s in every song. I think he means it to be some sort of tag or catchphrase, but once you notice it, it fully kills the album. I really really dislike Westside Gunn’s voice, I can’t imagine someone listening to it for pleasure, it’s not a good voice for rapping, but it’s even worse when he sings. I feel like he relies too much on samples, it was constant, long chunks of audio from WWE/F at the beginnings and ends of songs. The features were not too bad, there was like an old school Tyler verse that sounded like “Goblin”, as well as some solid Benny the Butcher verses. I think maybe if you get passed the machine gun mouth noises and the trash rhyming there might be a deeper meaning to this madness. I had to keep taking breaks when listening to recover.

Score: 2/10

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