However, it’s not good to have a handful of decent songs on a twenty-five track album. He is just a basic, beat riding trap crooner.Īdmittedly, some of these songs manage to hit somewhere near their mark, like “Fr Fr” which displays some of the better flows and melodies on this slog of an album. Rolling Papers 2 equalizes Wiz Khalifa with the likes of Rich The Kid. As an artist, you’re supposed to reinvent or reinterpret these trends in a way that will fit your aesthetic and keep you from dissolving into a trend. Putting your own spin on something doesn’t mean getting trap beats and rapping over them while being you. I understand the desire, especially within rap, to want to stay relevant by keeping your sound current, but that doesn’t mean you should be chameleon blending into the now overdone trend of trap music. And I demand to know what that reason is. But, now, there’s this one that has twenty-five songs on it for some reason, as if we haven’t suffered enough lately. Though it feels like he’s supposed to be a kind of spiritual successor to Snoop, Wiz has never had a record that was particularly interesting enough to listen all the way through. In many ways, he’s simply Diet Snoop Dogg. Wiz Khalifa is probably one of the most forgettable figures in rap history.

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