![]() And though it probably doesn’t hold up as a more hip-pop adjacent exhibition for those still clinging to Caroline though it probably doesn’t suffice as a raw rap project for those more inclined to listen to ONEPOINTFIVE and those turned on by the release of Shimmy Limbo is 45 minutes long, so get over it and find the part of the project that pleases your own musical sensitivities. There’s something in Limbo for everyone it would seem. It’s a natural progression for a rapper, vocalist, and experimentalist that has long earned through his wide-ranging talent listeners from across music’s myriad grey areas. The album isn’t some forced attempt to meet the expectations of his wide-ranging audience. But for Aminé, it feels bigger than that and a chosen – or at least accepted – space for him to end up. A place in which one gets stuck an inescapable middle ground neither here nor there. Limbo is usually described as a negative space. Coupled with Shimmy, it’s also jarringly wide-ranging – an A-Side / B-Side microcosm of what was to come. Riri is a warm, melodic merging in form of a breakup anthem, putting on exhibition the Portland icon’s sharpness of tongue and refined sense of laid-back vocalism. Where Shimmy shined as a reminder of his more recent past, Riri reached further into Aminé’s canonical styling, bringing at first perhaps confusion and then certainly clarity into where it was that he was heading en route to Limbo. ![]() Now circling back to that predecessor, Amine’s debut: Good for You, without sacrificing anything in terms of the lyrical tour de force that emerged with ONEPOINTFIVE, Limbo is a multi-tiered composition celebrating the balance between his dueling masteries on hip-hop’s sliding scales. Though lyrically endowed has always been an understatement for the hard-hitting punchliner, ONEPOINTFIVE was a project that highlighted that truth with more intent and traditionalist vivacity than its predecessor or than its follow-up. With Shimmy, his listeners were reminded more of 2018 album, project, or middle ground – whichever it was given such a title – ONEPOINTFIVE than anything else. And he successfully keeps pace with a nonchalant, straightforward limerick to one of the greats. And if the hip-hop world needed a deeper dive into his self-image, an ode to Ol’ Dirty Bastard – one of the more inventive, left-of-center hip-hop artists of all time – speaks widely and accurately to Aminé’s acute role in modern music. Shimmy opened the gates as a brash statement of volatile penmanship, keen to a no longer understated braggadocio, if ever Aminé was understated in the first place. There was a sense that something was a little different when he started his campaign towards the album’s release. His new album just happens to be his most refined take yet on a sound he’s always had. It’s that balance between spaces, that suspension in Limbo that provides him a sound unlike any other. And, he can merge it all with a painfully underrated knack for vocalism – on fervent display with his new album – and an affinity for experimental production. But, he can also spit, rapping at a pace, with individuality and lyrical intent that few in modern hip-hop can match. He can seamlessly stitch together bouncy hits that find themselves attracting a wider ranging audience than perhaps they should given his crass sense of lyricism. The rapper has long approached rap from both sides of a double-edged sword. Tethered by the polarizing nature of his first project, Good For You, and his second, ONEPOINTFIVE by their attached standout anthems: the aforementioned Caroline and the hard-hitting REEL IT IN Limbo is the only organic space from which he could deliver his multi-tiered, wide-ranging thesis of self.Īminé calls home to Portland, Oregon – not necessarily known for their hip-hop scene, but certainly known for being, if nothing else, different. As it stands, Aminé is at least in the conversation for most creatively influential hip-hop artist alive if by no other measure than the word unique and what it means to a modern musical scene in constant search for the next groundbreaking, experimental sound. ![]() From a rapper who was at first typecast by the hilarity and fun-loving nature of his debut hit from a rapper who subsequently went on a lyrical tear, reaffirming his place as more than a hip-pop one-hit wonder from a rapper who has since 2016 been on the tip of hip-hop’s tongue at large, comes the amalgamation of it all.
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