Review: "See You When I Am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!!" Album by KYLE
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In May of 2018, KYLE released a project titled "Light of Mine". The album was narrated by Lil Yachty and it featured the most successful song of KYLE's career, "iSpy" (which also featured Lil Yachty). Two years later, KYLE has now dropped his new project "See You When I Am Famous!!!!!!!!!!!!".
Before listening to this project, I had been keeping up with KYLE's tweets. A few days before the release he stated that this project was his best work to date. Needless to say, I had high hopes going in. After listening to the album, I must say that I have mixed feelings about it.
KYLE dropped three singles for this project: "Bouncin", "YES!" and "What It Is". I loved "What It Is", thought "Bouncin" was ok and didn't really care for "YES!". These tracks left me very curious about how the full album would sound.
Now, it is very clear from the title and cover art, which both come from KYLE's high school yearbook, that this project was intended to be sort of a dive into the past. I believe that his goal was to sort of recreate the feel and sound that he had when he was a teenager hungry to make it big in the rap world. This is also made clear by the track 10 interlude and by track 11 where KYLE raps as K.i.D, his original rap name. He also mentions that he had a lot of his original team do work for the project, both musically and visually.
All that being said, as a fan of KYLE’s, I cannot agree with him that this is his best project. Truthfully I don’t think that it’s better than any of his previous ones. Tracks like, “Money Now” and “Forget” are cool but are really only likeable because of the bigger name features; Tyga and Trippie Redd. On the other hand, some songs are alright but seem to almost be ruined by the features. Examples of this are “YES!” featuring Rich The Kid & K CAMP and “GIRLS” featuring Rico Nasty.
The songs I truly enjoy and feel are up to par for KYLE are “Bouncin”, “Over It”, What It Is”, “The Sun” and “Mr Man & K.i.D”. Honestly, if it was an EP that consisted of just these songs, I would’ve enjoyed it more. The rest of the tracks either feel like filler or have features on them that feel unnecessary.
The reason I have mixed feelings about this project is because I believe that this was the music KYLE wanted to make. As an artist myself, I know what it feels like to make music that you personally love and to not have it be accepted as well as the catchy songs that you don’t really care about. I believe that making this project made KYLE happy, gave him a chance to reminisce and allowed him to feel the way he felt before he had all the pressure and stress of being a famous rapper. I also think it reminded him of his climb and just how far he has come from his humble beginning in high school.
If I had to rate this album off the music alone I would have to give it a 5 out of 10. To put that in perspective, I’d give “Light of Mine’ about a 7. I don’t believe that KYLE has fallen off or anything like that, I just think that this was a project he wanted/needed to make for himself. I can’t be mad at that.