Ubiquity has severely tampered with the Migos brand.
Rewind the clocks back just two years and the Atlanta-bred trio was on the cusp of megastardom (simply because Donald Glover loved “Bad & Boujee” so much) after putting in years of grind just outside of the mainstream’s wandering eye.
But a year later, they were on the cusp of overexposure after they dropped the bloated Culture II onto the masses and followed up with unsolicited solo albums from Quavo and Takeoff.
With the group possessing enough drip music to fill a dozen Rap Caviars, remaining solo rookie Offset wisely makes his debut effort — Father Of 4 an interpersonal affair. As the outright MC of the bunch, the 27-year-old Offset digs deep into his Atlanta Hip Hop lineage, crafting an album that’s equal parts rare in this climate (seeing it follows an unfolding narrative) and refreshing, given its telling content.
From the onset, it’s clear the album’s theme is all about bridging family strength — and no cap, building off his much-ballyhooed Cardi B cheating scandal. The revelation doesn’t disappoint, as an apologetic Offset spills his soul on the woozy “Don’t Lose Me” with unfiltered thoughts: I’m sorry, let me come on home/She said, ‘Put down the Styrofoam’.”
Elsewhere, Offset delves further into the life of celebrity where he blames the blogs (the CeeLo-boosted “North Star)” retracing his past adjacent from J. Cole (“How I Got Here”) and the seminal title track boasts its honesty with a well-placed diatribe from Dungeon Family’s Big Rube (score two points for paying it forward).
Despite having the usual production suspects such as Metro Boomin, Southside and Zaytoven, (among others), the entire album is underscored with stark and daunting instrumentals, giving way to Offset’s detailed lyricism. (The music also teeters along the lines of symmetry or consistency depending on one’s eardrums.)
Ironically Father Of 4’s ambitions to mirror an intentional rap classic are also its shortcoming. About 30 minutes in (a.k.a. after the autobio has run its course), the LP leans on A-list collaborations for C-list results.
Offset and Cardi can absolutely do better than the flossy “Clout” (which feels trite in the causatum of the aforementioned “Don’t Lose Me”). The Without Warning reunion on “Legacy” is anticlimactic and unproven if it’s actually new music from the original sessions. And with a new Migos album in the works, the Quavo-assisted “On Fleek” (do kids still say that?) could have been spun into a more fleshed out idea.
Offset may be easier to say than Kiari Cephus, but on Father of 4, the man behind the gaudy ice pendants and random gossip headlines dominates the spotlight.
Way to man up.
AVERAGE. I DON’T HATE IT, BUT IT’S AVERAGE.
I’m on the same page.
This album boring af lmaoo.. The beats dope but man offset can’t rap to save his life
I loved it! I felt his heart man salute to him for honesty and just being raw with it ?
Nah Im not feeling it.
This ain’t it chief
Sorry, wasn’t feeling this one. All the beats in the world can’t hide the lack of bars required to pad out a full album. It really shows.
Quavo had the best album. These other two guys album was a waste of time. Quavos album sounds like a musician actually took time to make it. Wish offset and take off had done the same thing.
Easily the best of the three albums. I love the Migos, Quavo’s album has some great songs but over half of them I listen to once and pass them over again. Takeoff got a couple hits but a lot of filler. Sure its more trap then the other two but FO4 every song is worth listening to at least twice. Red Room is an ok song but wasn’t the single needed to hype the album. Lick or Legacy would have made more people take a look at it. North Star you feel the pain but CeeLo let that one down. Is it Culture no, but its closer then any of the others. Now can Culture 3 change the vibe of the Migos?
Overall 5/5
Naaaaah
Still no review for CZARFACE MEETS GHOSTFACE ?????
Migos. Trash. This guy couldn’t rap to save his life. The beats bang but it couldn’t possibly hide the lack of talent. 0/5
garbage… i wish you can take digital music back….
Dope beats. That’s about it. But even those sound the same. At one point thought the song was mad long but actually 3 had played. No lyrical skills and no style switch up at all. Boring. No energy. No substance.
I feel this forsure. Particularly on not switchin up style. I feel like if you aint heard the album before you should be able to think “aight let’s see how this next one sounds” rather than being like, “man this song is dumb long”. Where do you go when you tryna listen to substance?
I wonder if the Reviewer got paid to write “MC” or “lyricism” ???
LMAO…….Fire the person who gave this trash @zz album and artist a 4.0……You are the Donald Trump of hip hop!
This is clearly the best of the 3 Migos solo efforts to date. I give it a strong 2 to a light 2.5. If they can all keep pushing each other to improve then I predict that by 2034 they will be able to compile a solo album that is worth listening to.
Trent clark should be fired! What the hell r u listening to? Trent must be kid that is used to this bullshit. Find an old head to review this album. I guarantee offset wouldn’t get a high rating. These Little kids are playing with the mic and don’t know what their doing.
This morning, I awoke to find out that my teenie white penis had grown into a massive Negro schlonger donger hanging between my pasty white legs!!! I had been praying to Allah for months day and night that my teeny white pee pee would grow to the length and girth of that of the typical American Negro. Today, at long last, my prayers were answered! Where once there was a tiny pink wee wee, now there is a giant black mamba, a 10 inch boa constrictor hanging out of my boxers, splayed across the floor! I thought my prayers had indeed been answered, my life was finally worth living, all the bitches would want me, and I praised and thanked the Profit Muhammed until tears streamed from my eyes and snot dripped from my nose, but I am now suddenly shocked to find that, although my penis is now Sambo-Sized, all the money that was in my bank account has suddenly vanished, my fridge is full of nothing but two week old fried chicken and malt liquor, I have dozens of illegitimate kids with names like Leroi and Shaquanna, I have four fat, lazy, angry baby mamas on food stamps, I have nothing in my wallet but a maxed out EBT card, I have three outstanding warrants for vagrancy, robbery, and public chicken consumption, I’m unemployed and I live in a filthy trap house! HELP! HEEEELLLLPPPP!!! PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP MEEEEE!!!
I listened to Takeoffs album I liked it for about a week and enjoyed it. That’s all these guys are gonna get from me in terms of support. I’m not listening to Quavious nor his cousin Offsets album.
Your name is iconic lol
I wanna have real size Cardi B s.e.x doll and f.u.c.k. it every night.
Why yall keep deleting my comments
I mean, they’ve got right to delete my comments because I’m a kindergarten dropout…
Same problem.
I don’t see any missing. Askimet spam filter is overly aggressive, though. Mine have gotten deleted on countless occasions.
I love his album he very famous his rapper about his work .He ? his kids and his album and his fans ? him he is the best so give him credit for his album okay
4.0 ???? 4.0000000??? Yall crazy ….
Daytona got 4.3 so this is almost as good as Daytona? lol
he did amazing don’t get mad at him he tried his best stop being mean you all should be happy what if he didn’t drop an album
A solid 1!
Offset new release