Tune Evaluation: Younger Posse – Freestyle

To date of their profession, Younger Posse have waffled between quirky, colourful music and extra subdued bids to be taken severely within the hip-hop realm. They’re at their greatest someplace within the center, reminiscent of final yr’s enjoyable 90’s throwback Ate That. New single Freestyle borrows a few of this vitality but in addition falls sufferer to a well-recognized Ok-pop hazard.

My notion of rap music could merely be coloured by the period I used to be first launched to the style, however I are inclined to lean in nearer when rappers take a extra nuanced method to their supply. Too typically in Ok-pop, the urge is to go louder and shoutier, however you not often hear rappers within the Western market take this route. The closest analog I can consider is Beastie Boys, and actually I’ve at all times discovered their shoutier tracks fairly irritating. As an precise music, Freestyle is quite a lot of enjoyable, however Younger Posse’s overblown efficiency makes it troublesome to get pleasure from.

It’s virtually as if there’s a thread of insecurity driving Freestyle — a continuing sense of “take heed to me! If you happen to’re not listening, I’ll simply get LOUDER!!” This method isn’t wanted as a result of the group has talent and their greatest songs are compelling on their very own deserves. I really like Freestyle‘s punchy, full-bodied manufacturing, however the monitor wants extra selection. When the ladies do swap issues up, it’s within the type of an ill-fitting jazz breakdown that interrupts the weather that make Freestyle enjoyable. An superior music exists someplace inside this frenzied association, but it surely’s all a little bit of a multitude. And at 2:21, it’s a really brief mess!

Grade: C+