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| 3.0 good | dihstyle69 | September 2nd 16 |
i was anticipating this album a lot since cilvia demo was easily one of my projects of 2014. laid back production, amazing bars and isaiah going in out of nowhere on tracks like modest and soliloquy made it a standout of that year. so, my expectations were sky high for this one! did it deliver? eeeh, not all the way through imo. my biggest problem with this new album is that not only didn't he show any improvements in relation to his last project; he actually downgraded in many aspects. first, there a lack of wow moments unlike on the first tape. everything sounds too familiar across the whole thing, to the point that mid-way through i was actually bored of it. the sun's tirade is too mellow for its own good, and unfortunetly, the beats aren't the only thing creating that problem. worse than that is the fact that rashad feels like he's not even trying in most of these tracks, especially in "a lot". it sounds as if he was struggling to say his last words before dying. to make things even worse, the writing is not that good either. most of the time, he doesn't get too deep into the stuff he's tackling. he doesn't allow us to go inside his world in order to know him better. having said that, the album have some really good moments, especially during its first half. the singles were hot, just to begin with, and then we have shit like "wat's wrong" (kendrick delivering an amazing verse) and tity & dolla (once again, the guests doing their job). but these moments are not that great. there are no standout tracks! huge disappointment. 3+
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| 3.5 great | Objectivity 69% | September 14th 16 |
shit's dope don't know what you fucbois are talking about
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| 2.5 average | hiphopthuggin | September 2nd 16 |
yooo fuckn disappointed fam he sounds like he been smokin some b4 hittin the studio or smt like cilvia demo 1000x better cant lie
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| 3.5 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | August 28th 24 |
The Sun's Tirade treads the same path as Cilvia Demo: jazzy, hazy conscious rap - albeit with slightly less good tunes across a longer runtime.
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| 4.0 excellent | letlivekid | September 12th 17 |
Although he's definitely not reinventing the wheel here, Rashad offers a thoroughly enjoyable project. One of the premier guys coming out of the south right now
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| 2.5 average | jmh886 | October 17th 16 |
This is really boring and really drags at 17 tracks and over an hour. Pretty disappointing. Unenergetic beats and unenergetic raps putting me to sleep.
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| 3.5 great | Alabaster Jones | September 4th 16 |
The long-awaited full-length debut from Isaiah Rashad of TDE fame, The Sun's Tirade is a really nice, yet ultimately underwhelming record. The production on this record, while quite good, very laid-back and even slightly jazzy or cloudy, becomes a bit one-note when spread amongst seventeen tracks. Rashad himself does well enough, but he seems so underhanded and restricted at points throughout the record that you'd be hard pressed to realize that you were listening to a record of his if his name wasn't on the cover. That's not the case for the majority of the material here, though, as songs like lead single "Free Lunch" do an amazing job and all of the features here perform excellently. All this said, it's unfortunately a bit of a disappointment, if only for the notion that he doesn't seem any closer to realizing his full potential than he did when Cilvia dropped. Let's hope he can make the necessary tweaks to his game, because there's no telling how great of a project he could make if he does.
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| 4.0 excellent | Zaydoune | September 26th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | mttgry | August 5th 24 |
| 2.0 poor | bmelt | February 1st 24 |
| 5.0 classic | JuriHan | September 27th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Timmy | January 23rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | C. Deez | September 3rd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Risodo | June 20th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Skiiddz | October 5th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | botb | November 12th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cadey | July 26th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Adamn | May 9th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Prole | December 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | MSPAINT | October 22nd 18 |
| 3.0 good | Jaqz | August 3rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | A.R.O. EMERITUS | June 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | K Bowman EMERITUS | March 7th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | meeboe | December 17th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | 40Cal | November 4th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Kurisu | September 18th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | qwe3 | August 26th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | cbjeeby | July 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bharry | June 4th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Emo | May 20th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Sithese | February 28th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Nastril | February 11th 17 |
| 3.5 great | TaMo | January 31st 17 |
| 3.5 great | Adamrk | December 16th 16 |
| 3.5 great | tellah | December 1st 16 |
| 3.5 great | dnem | November 29th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Elvis | November 4th 16 |
| 3.0 good | LOE | October 17th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | tgdv | October 13th 16 |
| 3.5 great | spur55 | October 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Keira | September 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | slaps | September 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aids | September 17th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Undertow | September 16th 16 |
| 2.5 average | jchen24 | September 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | jsounnd | September 10th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | EJinHD | September 8th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Davidl31 | September 7th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Tupik | September 7th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | Jade | September 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | eazye | September 6th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | cirq | September 5th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | September 5th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Jordan M. EMERITUS | September 4th 16 |
| 3.5 great | ellagos | September 3rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | Tb1114 | September 3rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | vauxrock | September 3rd 16 |
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