{"id":2812,"date":"2025-07-17T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2812\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:56:08","slug":"demiyaa-lil-rae-my-world-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2812\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMIYAA \/ Lil Rae: My World Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are the couples who travel the world together; the couples who double as workout partners (living like the 1-on-1 scene<\/a> in Love & Basketball, I imagine). When I was in high school, there used to be couples who dry humped at lunch. There are the couples who spend their time dressing each other in matching outfits and snapping pics\u2014I\u2019m reminded of them whenever I listen to a Ken Carson<\/a> song<\/a>. A lot of couples have their thing. DEMIYAA<\/a> and Lil Rae<\/a>\u2019s thing is that they rap together. Technically, My World is the solo mixtape of DEMIYAA: a sometime rapper with a day job that seems to be selling cosmetics and bundles on Instagram, who appears on all 12 of the tape\u2019s tracks. But it functions more like a two-hander with Rae\u2014her man and a diss-happy rapper in the full-throated Atlanta drill scene that popped up a few years ago\u2014who is on seven of the songs (eight if you count his ad-libs on \u201cIk I Look Good\u201d). Together, DEMIYAA and Rae carve out an unusually romantic slice of drill.<\/p>\n

The general vibe of My World is DEMIYAA sitting in the passenger seat doing her makeup, while Rae cruises around Atlanta buying her stuff and getting into bullshit. Basically, it\u2019s a new generation \u201c\u201903 Bonnie & Clyde<\/a>,\u201d in which Jay<\/a> and Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> were so joined at the hip that Hov said, \u201cHow hard she rides with me, the new Bobby and Whitney<\/a>\/Only time we don\u2019t speak is durin\u2019 Sex and the City<\/a>.\u201d OK, sure, that\u2019s a little blasphemous; Miyaa and Rae aren\u2019t storytellers anywhere close to that level, but they\u2019re good at making it seem like they care deeply for each other in their own ways. On \u201cOne Call Away,\u201d DEMIYAA holds Rae down by sneaking a weapon into the club for him. On \u201cWith the Gang,\u201d over a sweet beat that sounds like it should be in Animal Crossing, Rae returns the favor by threatening to beat the ass of a guy that was bothering her. He spends the rest of his verse alternating between fighting inner demons and hyping Miyaa up: \u201cCan\u2019t lie you thick as fuck, yeah, I know you eat your cornbread.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without each other, DEMIYAA and Rae are less interesting\u2014the tape rides on their flirtatious push and pull. On DEMIYAA\u2019s solo tracks, her casual delivery sounds too much like she\u2019d rather be doing anything else other than rapping. She can\u2019t make up for her lack of energy with stylish flows like the laid back Detroit<\/a> guys<\/a>, or jokes and charisma like the chill Atlanta girls<\/a>. But together with Rae, her carefree demeanor and his jacked-up chaos complement each other, as they pull off set ups and scams with the regularity of other couples going on walks in the park. The tape is at its most loving when they\u2019re just sending each other twisted words of affirmations. DEMIYAA lets him know she will roll his blunts for him on \u201cCyber Truck\u201d; Rae promises that if DEMIYAA wrecks her whip he\u2019ll buy her a new one on \u201cBack of the Bank.\u201d It\u2019s not exactly In The Mood For Love, but they sound like they really mean it.<\/p>\n

Too bad the beats aren\u2019t better. They\u2019re a bunch of cheap-sounding drum-heavy flips of pop songs and rap hits that have been flipped a million times before. They\u2019re boring and unconsidered, like they rapped over whatever \u201ctype beats\u201d their YouTube algorithm recommended that day. It\u2019s not the biggest deal\u2014the point of the tape is the chemistry and feeling between them. There\u2019s a moment on \u201cIk I Look Good\u201d that captures it, where over a decent enough rework of a soul classic, DEMIYAA softly mentions what it\u2019s like to hang around Rae. \u201cRae hop out the backseat and act a fool,\u201d she says, almost like she\u2019s shaking her head at him. And then, for a half-second Rae appears just to say, \u201cI be trippin\u2019,\u201d his equivalent of a guy apologizing with puppy dog eyes. It\u2019s the sweetest moment on My World, one of the only drill mixtapes I can think of that could be reasonably described as pretty cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are the couples who travel the world together; the couples who double as workout partners (living like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[342,49,48,75,341,343],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}