{"id":363666,"date":"2025-12-22T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363666\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:06:07","slug":"niontay-soulja-hate-repellant-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363666\/","title":{"rendered":"Niontay: Soulja Hate Repellant Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the next-gen rap auteurs that characterize MIKE<\/a>\u2019s 10k label\u2014El Cousteau<\/a>, Sideshow<\/a>, and Anysia Kym<\/a>, to name a few\u2014Niontay<\/a> has his finger on the wildest and weirdest pulses. Since crashing into the scene with the bold-faced statement \u201cReal hiphop<\/a>,\u201d the posse cut where he put Earl Sweatshirt<\/a> and MIKE in some of their most audacious environments yet, Niontay has kept his trailblazer reputation up with projects like Dontay\u2019s Inferno and Fada<3of$<\/a>. His movements around the country\u2014he was born in Milwaukee, raised in Central Florida, and now lives in Brooklyn\u2014inform his geographically blurred sound. Chipmunk flows and equally chirpy beats bridge the gap between the Florida fast movement, Detroit cloud rap, and the hazier elements of New York\u2019s young alternative scenes. With the help of 454<\/a>, who hosts the tape via his Gatorface alter ego, Niontay lets the contrast between these disparate ideas and sounds ring loud on Soulja Hate Repellant.<\/p>\n

The mixtape doesn\u2019t veer away from Niontay\u2019s established sounds, but it does probe their deepest and murkiest corners. Niontay\u2019s style\u2014his slurring, nasal voice that sometimes renders bars indecipherable\u2014appears faster, blurrier, and more piercing. The beats are from a likeminded set of new-age underground producers like Surf Gang<\/a>\u2019s Harrison, young Raleigh-based hotshot Dylvinchi, and wild cards like Jay Critch<\/a> collaborator Laron<\/a>. \u201cRockoutcentury\u201d quickly establishes the tape\u2019s central idea with some quiet 808s and nostalgic synth pads that don\u2019t vary much, but the tracks on Soulja Hate Repellant don\u2019t stick around long enough to fatigue.<\/p>\n

This lane can be surprisingly wide. The immense jump from \u201c100days100nights,\u201d a smatter of excited drums and synth patches that make for a perfect pregame soundtrack, to \u201c3am@Tony\u2019s,\u201d a lethargic swamp of blown-out low-end, feels like a vivid look into Niontay\u2019s hyperactive mind. This is a road where nothing stays in the same lane for too long. Wild swings\u2014the baffling squeals on \u201csoulja hate\/ Mr.Havemyway x Mr.Beatdaroad\u201d or the surprisingly fitting samples of the titular guitarist<\/a> on \u201cMark William Lewis Flow\u201d\u2014are logical byproducts of the meeting of two minds as unrestrained as 454 and Niontay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of the next-gen rap auteurs that characterize MIKE\u2019s 10k label\u2014El Cousteau, Sideshow, and Anysia Kym, to name a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[776,88,216,777],"class_list":{"0":"post-363666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}