I really "understood" Maxo Kream some time ago, because before I didn't really find any interest there except for a few songs here and there, but one day I had like a vision, following and being dazzled by an intense light outside I discovered Brandon Banks, I can tell you that I fell under his charm from the first listening. For a while I didn't believe it, I thought I missed something that made me think this album was so great wrong, so I listened again and again to all his first projects to have some elements of comparison and first of all I realized that I had missed some great stuff in the past and especially it comforted me on the fact that Brandon Banks is an excellent album. In fact, Maxo didn't invent much here, he just made the most of the Southern heritage (Scarface, UGK, Three6) and refined his technique that he has been using for 5 years to find the perfect Maxo formula. If his formula has gained in unstoppable melodies, his writing and versatility have really taken a serious step forward. This album features both crazy bangers (The Relays, She Lives), ultra well written songs, sometimes intimate, with a monster storyteilling (Meet Again, Still etc...) and fantastic technical demonstrations (like 8 Figures, Drizzy Draco). Production and beats are part of the best this year and there are no songs to throw away here. As for the featurings, they are all great, he even succeeded in resurrecting from the hells of Schoolboy Q and Asap Ferg, while Travis offers us his best verse of this year. It's clearly one of the best Rap albums of 2019
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