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Album: Flower Boy: I can see why this was a major step up for Tyler, though might be suffering from a bit of Seinfeld is Unfunny syndrome for me. Still no real misses, and a couple of top tracks

Foreword: 7 Oh nice, early Deutsche Elektronische rate promo, thanks for doing my work for me. Also just realized this album is gonna remind me of those two years I was super into Rex Orange County

Where This Flower Blooms: 8 Listen, if you do that thing where you bounce the sound between headphones I'm gonna go aaaaaahhhh in excitement, so good job

Sometimes...: 6 That's a really good radio dj voice. I don't know if this is a real dj, but if not they gotta drop whatever they're doing and take on-air song requests for the Morning Drive at Five

See You Again: 10 Wish I thought this was mid so my comment could just be "idk I thought it was just okay okay okay okay okay okay ok-" but alas

Who Dat Boy: 9 Love a Tyler track that sounds like it's chasing me with a blood-soaked kitchen knife

Pothole: 7 If you're single and raising a bunch of lizards please hit me up

Garden Shed: 9 Gorgeous track, perfect placement on the album

Boredom: 7 Song of the summer (specifically those summer days where you do absolutely nothing at all). Fun ending breakdown

I Ain't Got Time!: 10 Heard "thicc Yoda" and thought too long about it (approximately 8.93 seconds) and burst into flames

911/Mr. Lonely: 10 "I can't even lie I've been lonely as fuck" is one of those all-timer phrases. Excellent two parter, even if the Elon stuff dates it like crazy

Droppin' Seeds: 6 Man who thinks all minute long songs are interludes: A Lil Wayne verse interlude!?

November: 8 Last November I saw Soccer Mommy & grilled in the rain

Glitter: 6 Wasn't feeling the hook, though I did like the percussion in the first verse

Enjoy Right Now, Today: 8 "Oh, this sounds like the start of a great rap beat" - me, seconds before disaster

Album: Veteran: Yeah, this seems like a hard album to score track-by-track, definitely not as straightforward as his future albums. A unique listening experience, and there's a real fire under Peggy that keeps him from being overpowered by the beats, but there's no way this rate doesn't have a listening party for him over days 1 and 2

1539 N. Calvert: 10 I've seen people's scores of this album, you don't gotta do much hoping

Real N: 9 Damn Peggy how'd you get an intro guest appearance off a clicker from The Last of Us

Thug Tears: 8 Not the MK announcer sample. The clacking in my ears has me stressed

Dayum: 4 IIP vibes where people are gonna go "Wane!" and then Wane gives this a zero for lazy ambient-ish

Baby I'm Bleeding: 9 Dude's referenced wrestling a million times and I'm still the goofy dude pointing meme when he drops an AJ Styles line. Whacky ass beat

My Thoughts on Neogaf Dying: 4 If this was r/shitpostheads though I'd give it an 8

Rock N Roll Is Dead: 6 Me thinking about what song might place last in popheads' Rated M For Mouseketeers rate:

DD Form 214: 7 Dark sewer type beat. Also I really do no research on anybody, because TIL JPEG was in the military

Germs: 7 Okay. How many of these songs are gonna sound like they use ASMR samples. Did he go all in on some dude eating popcorn or what

Lib Anthem: 5 So this album is gonna have the lowest total average, huh

Panic Emoji: 10 After the last few tracks this sneaks up and hits you with a right uppercut out of nowhere. Oppressively effective and utterly devastating

DJ Snitch Bitch Interlude: 6 This isn't even the most interlude track on the album?

Whole Foods: 7 Hands up if this song also gave you a headache

Macaulay Culkin: 8 A Jason Jordan reference!? The way this is just a normal ass beat for this album

Williamsburg: 7 Gotta remember these songs are rarely gonna be about the colonial Williamsburg and aren't gonna be about my man Peggy churning butter

I Cannot Fucking Wait Til Morrissey Dies: 9 If we rated song titles this would win Winners Rate with an 11 average

Rainbow Six: 10 Sometimes I do wish more of the beats on this album were fleshed out like this. Almost lost me right at the intro but instead turns into such a unique track

1488: 7 "Piss same color as Logic" one of those lyrics that makes you really stop and think

Curb Stomp: 8 I support the Peggy literally stomps out racism initiative

Album: TA13OO: Dude consistently puts out great shit. Might not listen to this as much as his next three releases, but still a super high quality album. Always love love love his flows

TA13OO: 8 Delving into this track one is crazy.

13LACK 13ALLOONZ: 10 So goddang smooth, chorus melody is top notch

CAZH MAN1AC: 5 It's nice but never really gets out of first gear. Got me in a Peter Griffin death pose

ZUMO: 11 The Chowder bit is the best. I know this. In your heart you know this too.

ZUPER ZA1YAN ZUPERMAN: 8 This song makes me feel like I'm inside of a pop can that's getting shaken up

ZWITCH 1T UP: 10 Fire emoji fire emoji fire emoji

MAD 1 GOT 1T: 9 Track for when you wanna just drive around and stew and just nod your head. Not sing, just nod to the beat

ZIRENZ: 10 What a killer teamup. Always forget the final verse is used again in the Bulls on Parade cover which tbh I've listened to more, so it feels weird to me here lol and probably cost it the 11. Still a helluva track, and also obligatory BILLIE EILISH!?

CLOUT CO13A1N: 10 He got the Rumble Pak on for this one

THE 13LACKEZT 13ALLOON: 9 :(

PERCZ: 9 This goes hard even if there's a line or two that makes me slip on a banana peel

VENGEANCE: 8 Reading the lyrics during the song and for a second I thought it said "you don't mess with the Z-Efron"

13 M T: 8 Solid closer

Album: Some Rap Songs: Yeah this finally clicked a bit when I got the better headphones on, a very interesting album all around. As said, definitely another tough to score album, the brevity works for the pace but meant nothing really hit that grand slam button for me

Shattered Dreams: 8 Cool beat

Red Water: 5 The less we say about that beat, the better

Cold Summers: 10 With repeat listens I swear his flow just gets smoother and smoother, ten more and I could glide right across it

Nowhere2go: 9 Oh lord, if this is the closest thing on this album Earl had to a single he is in TROUBLE

December 24: 8 Might fuck around and put him on the Nice List

Ontheway!: 7 This album feels like it's got the same rating track-by-track problems as Veteran, where the more experimental structure benefits the overall listening experience but hurts it when scoring individually

The Mint: 9 Tbh a guest verse worked super well to make songs off this album feel more full

The Bends: 6 The Bends cover is all of us who are seeing the lowest possible hanging fruit reference and will be taking it

Loosie: 6 I was still typing the previous comment and when I looked up it was halfway through Azucar

Azucar: 8 An almost breathless pace

Eclipse: 8 Those few first lines of the verse hurted

Veins: 7 I'm a bit of a sucker for these type of sample beats

Playing Possum: 10 Definitely a track where you really should look up the context before you score it. Kinda wild that the track that's got my mind reeling the most doesn't feature a verse

Peanut: 8 Inside of a helicopter type beat

Riot!: 9 The absolute disappointment that this isn't used as a beat/stops when it does as an instrumental. Wonderful sounding, I do think it works as a closer and it makes sense after the theme of the last two songs, but man there's some untapped potential here

BONUS TRACKS

Legend Has It: 9 I watched that first Black Panther teaser trailer way too much

Giving Bad People Good Ideas: 10 Death Grips has been one of my blindspots for a while and I guess I should change that soon. Anyway idk if my initial gut comment makes any sense but you're getting it anyway: it's giving "IDLES but if they slayed"

Ain't It Funny: 10 Theme song to an amusement park dark ride gone dangerously out of control

Bounce: 9 Damn thats a fun beat

BOOGIE: 10 Now this'll get the party going

Yeah Right: 10 Verses over a SOPHIE beat is one of those "hey you got your peanut butter in my chocolate" type situations

151 Rum: 9 Probably wouldn't fit the prompt as well but man I should've tried to payola Off Da Zoinkys

Hungry Hippo: 9 You should've put the whole album as her rep in the bonus, we had the time

Nothing is Safe: 9 Finally watched Hamilton on Disney+ this summer. Now all I hear is Thomas Jefferson coming to murder my ass

Jailbreak the Tesla: 10 The vroom line followed by Somehow Another Outdated Elon Reference In This Rate knocked me out

Crime Pays: 8 Once again, I'm a sucker for this type of sample beat

Spongebob: 10 oh neptune

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