Desiigner’s New English: NOT GOOD

[Intro: Anthony Fantano]
Uh, the new Desiigner mixtape, is not good

[Review: Anthony Fantano]
At this point you may have already heard of New York rapper Desiigner. He's been having a huge 2016. He was recently named as a 2016 double-XL freshman. His hit song "Panda" has gone up to number 1 on the charts. He is now a GOOD Music signee, Kanye West's imprint off of the Def Jam label and his song "Panda" was also included on Kanye West's new album "The Life Of Pablo" where it was kinda renamed and remixed a little bit into thе song "Father Strech My Hands, Pt. 2". So now, with the wholе industry watching, waiting for this dude to come out with his commercial full-length debut, he drops this thing. And it is not good. And the sad thing is that it didn't need to be like this. He's under Kanye West's wing, he doesn't need to rush things, he could have taken his time, written some songs, developed a sound, gotten some decent features and groomed out a full-length project even if it was just a mixtape. But instead we got this half-assed, rushed job of a project. Of the 14 tracks on this thing, there are 2 decent songs and one of them is "Panda". And the other one is the 6-minute track "Da Day" which is sort of progressive, dirty, dark, grimy trap, has a cool beat change up as well in the second half, reminds me a little bit of something that would be on a Travis Scott record. But Desiigner does his thing, he doesn't simply come off as a Travis Scott copycat. The rest of the songs are all blatant Future ripoffs. I-I just don't see the point, its like he's a carbon copy of Future from the minimal, dreary, moody, kind of spacey trap beats to the deep voice and the autotune on his vocals. Sure, before I thought his voice was a little similar to Future's, but now it seems like he's really going out of his way to sound exactly like it. He clearly doesn't have an issue with riding on Future's coattails, he clearly doesn't have an issue to the question "Who is the rapper that sounds like Future popping up when you Google Desiigner's name". So we either have these Future ripoffs or we have tracks that are so redundant and so short that they're not even worth addressing, I'm talking 30 second songs, 1 minute songs that are clearly unfinished tracks, its like he gave us a mixtape of snippets. This thing is just so lackluster, not even the Pusha T feature that's on here could save it, in fact, Pusha T on a mixtape that's-that's really so effortless and mindless sounds incredibly out of place like "Whoa, wait, I have to pay attention to lyrics now, get the fuck out of here". I hope his commercial release is not as cobbled together. And doubly, I hope that this is not a trend that becomes the mixtape of the future, all of these, like, snippet tracks, chunks of tracks, let's just release that, does Desiigner and company think so little of his audience that they can just release anything and they think everybody's just gonna eat it up? I can give it to Desiigner that he's a little more grim, he's a little more dark, his beats are a little more moody, maybe because they have that Travis Scott sort of monstrous, grand presentation to them. And there are some spots here where his voice does get pretty growly and aggressive. But without some decent hooks and songs and structure to back any of that up this tape is almost pointless. Almost nothing good on this tape, a few interesting things here and there but the potential that Desiigner has, its not presenting itself here. And that's it, not a good tape, trans-

[Outro: Anthony Fantano]
-sition, what did you think of this not good mixtape, did you think it wasn't good, let me know. Anthony Fantano, Desiigner, New English, forever.