Driving off the success of LNGSHOT’s debut, company founder Jay Park is injecting much more credibility to the group by collaborating with them on an album launch. I wasn’t too impressed with final week’s teaser 4SHO 4SHO, however understood the purpose of that train. LNGSHOT are constructing a fanbase on the fringes of mainstream Okay-pop, making an attempt to mix the idol and hip-hop worlds collectively. To this point, they’ve been extra profitable than most would have predicted.

There’s a mode of Okay-hip-hop that basically appeals to me, however most of these songs have been launched within the early-to-mid 2010s earlier than lure and rage and monotonous flows turned fashionable. Right now, most hip-hop releases on this vein bore me to dying. They’re one way or the other each noisy/obnoxious and boring/repetitive. I get pleasure from some boisterous disruption, however not should you’re merely chanting the identical predictable traces time and again. Yeah! Yeah! has about two melodic/rhythmic concepts and makes use of them up inside the house of a minute. An prolonged verse earlier than the ultimate refrain injects much-needed structural selection, however by this time my eyes have already glazed over. The percussion is tinny and shrill, the vocal results are incessant and the posturing is exhausting.

Grade: D+