He has the polysyllabic rhymes down, and the self-laceration, too. There’s precious little negative space on this sometimes vigorous, sometimes exhausting album listening to it is a lot like living inside a snare drum during a marching band’s halftime performance. “Leave Me Alone” feels like a real-time reckoning with success that arrives too quickly: “Hide my plaques inside a closet, I just can’t explain it/My wife, she tells me that she’s proud and thinks that I should hang ’em/But I just leave them on the ground right next to my self-hatred.” On “My Stress” he confesses, “I don’t love my work the way I did” - who can relate? And yet an NF victory demonstrated roughly the same thing as a hypothetical Chance victory would have - a triumph for a certain style of intricate rapping, intermittently popular over the years but not particularly in vogue right now, and a certain moral value set that’s also not terribly in style. Undoubtedly, then, Chance the Rapper was surprised to learn that his new album, “The Big Day,” was bested by “The Search” by NF, a white rapper from Michigan who got his start in the world of Christian rap.Īs a stand-alone event, it’s not particularly meaningful: Chance is, broadly speaking, far more popular than NF. ( Merchandise and ticket bundles frequently figure into the equation.)
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1 album these days indicates popularity, but also the power of release-week shenanigans: As major stars move toward short-notice album-drop strategies rather than extended rollout periods, they look for open windows that will all but ensure they’ll debut at No. 1, none for more than two consecutive weeks. So far, 24 different albums have been No. 1 for 18 weeks - the rapid churn at the top of the album chart has told a rowdier and truer tale about what’s happening in contemporary pop music. If the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this year has been deadeningly constant - Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” has been No.
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