{"id":192580,"date":"2025-12-19T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:08:08","slug":"on-what-happened-to-the-streets-21-savage-is-out-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192580\/","title":{"rendered":"On What Happened To The Streets?, 21 Savage is out of ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n            The latter line is something of a microcosm for the record as a whole: aiming for blunt nonchalance but landing closer to crass juvenalia. Earlier on that song, 21 snarls, \u201cIf rap wasn\u2019t working, I\u2019d probably rob a Brinks truck.\u201d This specificity and energy is sorely lacking across the tape as a whole. Flash back to 21\u2019s standout feature on Lil Baby\u2019s uneven January album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2025\/01\/07\/lil-baby-wham-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHAM<\/a>, where he compared the diamonds in his watch to Hi-Chew candy and puts the bulletproof Maybach in cruise control, and it\u2019s genuinely confusing as to why the raps on his own album are so undetailed.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Speaking of Lil Baby, their collaboration on \u201cATLANTA TEARS\u201d is a clear highlight, tender and introspective. \u201cWhen you thuggin&#8217;, it&#8217;s like fuck it when the judge give life sentences \/ Fifteen years in and I guarantee you feel different,\u201d Baby advises over a warmly analog instrumental. 21 meets the moment with a reflective verse that lopes from island vacations to legal appeals to dirty sodas, threading together trophies and trauma alike. There\u2019s still a boneheaded, lascivious edge to his problems (\u201cWould you suck my dick the way you do if I was local?\u201d), but it doesn\u2019t overshadow the wisdom in a line like, \u201cThought you had to rap &#8217;bout what you live and I got older.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Much will also be made of \u201cI Wish,\u201d both for its R. Kelly sample and its litany of inverted RIPs, but it\u2019s the album\u2019s clear nadir, cringe for its overly broad conceit and clumsy in its execution. No matter how raw and honest his feelings may be, 21\u2019s bars are too weak for the emotional weight he wants them to carry. \u201cI wish Dolph would&#8217;ve Uber Eats\u2019d them cookies instead \/ I wish Nipsey stayed at home with Lauren, chilled in the bed.\u201d These sound more like middling slam poetry than the laments of a Grammy-winning rapper, and the throwaway hypotheticals undercut his allusions to more personal grief.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latter line is something of a microcosm for the record as a whole: aiming for blunt nonchalance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-192580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}