{"id":907141,"date":"2026-09-23T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907141\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:06:10","slug":"yeat-cocoon-album-review-a-dull-return-to-form-plus-a-drake-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907141\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeat ‘Cocoon’ Album Review: A Dull Return to Form Plus a Drake Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA few months ago, on his March release ADL<\/a>, California-born rapper-producer Yeat<\/a> took a by now predictable leap toward more traditional pop sounds. While not as craven as a full-scale switch-up, it was clear the 26-year-old wanted a bigger audience and was willing to make himself a little more palatable to get there. His latest, the compact, seven-track EP Cocoon, appears on the surface to be a return to form, though its barely 17-minute run exposes how little he has left to do with the sounds he made his name on.<\/p>\n

\n\tCocoon\u2019s brightest spot, the Drake<\/a>-assisted (or, rather, Drake-led) \u201cMISS MY DAWG,\u201d is the most convincing Yeat has sounded since his SoundCloud days. The song initially premiered during Drake\u2019s Fear of Missing Out<\/a> film and marks the pair\u2019s fourth collaboration. On the track, you can feel genuine emotional stakes, as both artists rap<\/a> about loss and growth. You get the sense, in his grizzled, machine-gun-style delivery, that Yeat was hungry. The issue is that aside from a few flashes of inspiration in these tracks, we\u2019re served what could charitably be described as slop: overwrought, repetitive rhyme schemes, like on the confounding \u201cCOCOON,\u201d where the Migos mimicry only adds to the monotony.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s also impossible not to hear Yeat\u2019s other sonic forefather, Travis Scott<\/a>, across the EP. The elongated croon at the start of \u201cEARN\u00cbD IT\u201d might as well have been plucked from Astroworld. Indeed, there\u2019s something detestable about the posturing in Yeat\u2019s music contrasted with its obvious debt to more established and talented artists. In early September, after rumors swirled that Scott had made the call to have Yeat\u2019s verse removed from \u201cEaters,\u201d off Young Thug\u2019s YSL compilation Slime Language 3, Yeat responded with the apparent Scott diss \u201cON NOTHING.\u201d But his insistence here that he\u2019s \u201cpushin\u2019 the limit\u201d strains credulity when the whole EP sounds like feeding \u201cTravis Scott\u201d into an algorithm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThere is a sense of fan service to Cocoon, a return to the familiar product that Yeat\u2019s medium-sized nation of monthly listeners have come to expect, but even on tracks where he makes overtures to the rising generation of rage-rap fans, like the Synthetic-co-produced \u201cHOLY WAT\u00cbR,\u201d Yeat\u2019s efforts fall flat. \u201cI\u2019m a lumberjack, yeah, I split the tab\u201d has some of his old absurdity, but by the second verse, he\u2019s reduced to repeating variations of \u201cI don\u2019t give a fuck \u2019bout shit,\u201d as though saying it enough times might make it feel like a point of view.<\/p>\n

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\n\tCocoon arrives with the promise of something like a metamorphosis or rebirth, an increasingly familiar proposition from Yeat. \u201cI\u2019m definitely trying to change it up, trying to give the youth some real music, some real art,\u201d he told Zane Lowe ahead of ADL. As with that album and 2093<\/a> before it, it seems much of Yeat\u2019s musical concern these days is sorting out where, exactly, his sound fits. His early releases had the benefit of novelty. Even as his sound was clearly indebted to the times, he managed to provide a recognizable distillation of early-2020s rage rap. Now, as tastes change, Yeat\u2019s output sounds more like a scramble for identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few months ago, on his March release ADL, California-born rapper-producer Yeat took a by now predictable leap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,12891,341,37878,313479],"class_list":["post-907141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-rap","tag-yeat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907141","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=907141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}