‎HOW TF IS THIS A MIXTAPE? – Album by DaBaby

In relation to addressing controversy, DaBaby has repeatedly proven himself to be greater than prepared to reply on document. After onstage remarks in entrance of a music competition crowd again in 2021 led to appreciable nationwide backlash, the Charlotte, North Carolina, rapper spoke on the matter and the impression on his personal life and livelihood that very same 12 months on Kanye West’s “Jail pt 2” in addition to on subsequent initiatives of his personal. Coming two years after his final album Child on Child 2, this comparatively brisk 14-track effort finds him boasting of resilience as he as soon as once more attracts upon the ability set that introduced him fame and success within the first place.

Opening HOW TF IS THIS A MIXTAPE? with the defiant “In a Minute,” an introduction that curiously doubles as one in all its longest songs, he primarily shrugs off the previous couple years whereas embracing his household and explicitly promising a return to chart glory. On “Gimme a Purpose,” he presents a blunt rationalization as to why this isn’t an album regardless of its runtime similarities along with his chart-topping full-lengths BLAME IT ON BABY and KIRK. Nonetheless, with returning producers together with Sean Da Firzt and Charlie Warmth behind the boards, songs like “I’m Exterior” and the clubbier “PHAT” nonetheless really feel like prime DaBaby materials.

All of the whereas, he thematically maintains a defensively righteous stance, his man-against-the-world mindset wholly evident on “Carry It On.” He directs no small quantity of his ire on the media, however reserves a few of the tape’s most pointed criticism at these in his circle that didn’t stand by him, through “Ain’t {That a} Bitch.” Elsewhere, he shifts his focus in direction of the women he needs, making his proclivities identified on “Hate a Good Chick” and “Hollywood Freak.”