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Review Of We Are Jedi 2 (Royale Review)
2- Jedi Mind Shit Ft. TeaJae 5/5 Love the chillness of this beat. And Nova chose the right tone of voice for the hook. As for the verse, again, though I’m trying not to look at specific lines too hard: “I just happen to rap” applies to people who have rap as a secondary facet of their talent/skill etc. If you know Ac, you know that Hip-hop is his life and his passion is clear. But as for TeaJae, his delivery is always razor sharp, he always has metaphors you wish you had thought of yourself and as a bonus, he has a voice that steals attention. Towards the end, you start to feel like he should’ve done the hook, even though Ac sounded fine on it.
3- This is Your World 3/5 Love this beat. DJ Corbett does his legendary type of thing. Ac actually attacks this beat with the aggression and the type of punchline braggadocio that this beat would demand. My favorite was verse 2, “my verses be a year old but still be better than anything you ever did.” I feel like if Ac really learned how to flex his rap voice and added more “color” and varying emotion to it, it would grip the listener more.
4- 93 Interlude 2/5 Tough talk, like gun threats and things of that nature. I liked the beat and how he was rapping but the fantasy-talk about nines just turned me off as a listener. Songs like these make me think of Ac Nova like a younger Rick Ross. And frankly, I don’t like it. I Like it more when he sticks to the reality of his actual life and not get too caught up in mixing fiction into his reality.
5- 93 Til Ft. P.A.T. 4/5 Ac Gets on that Till infinity beat with a drum modification from German Producer Creativ. His delivery is actually very smooth on the first verse. His background singing on the hook sounds very natural and just sounds great. P.A.T. paints some reality on the song and raps about his life in real-terms. AC Nova comes in with the confusing “I’m ASAP but rocky like I’m a Russian.” You’re as soon as possible but have jewelry like you’re a Russian? Lines like that make me stop trying to listen to the lyrics as a listener, because they’re not well thought through.
6 Sail Ft. Krafty & Sabo 3/5 Krafty owns the song from the first line. “I wake up every morning saying everything the light touch is mine.” You can brag like a mortal trying to sound godly the way Ac does, or you could brag like a god in mortal flesh the way Krafty does. Sabo raps about bitches, his team and money in a better than average fashion. Still, he could work on his voice inflection. Ac.. raps a verse that could’ve easily fit on another song on this album. In other words, I’m not sure what this song is about, but everybody should’ve just rapped like Krafty did and stayed on his tangent. I know what verses I’m going to skip on this song.
7. How do I 3/5 Ac puts this ho on blaaaassst lmao. I like this song. So many females will relate to the first verse. Verse 2 is about the dumb fuck guys that the girls on verse 2 fall in love with. But this song is a perfect example of not thinking things through. If you’re going to talk to girls, then as an artist, be smart enough to use a beat that not only you like, but a beat they like too, otherwise they won’t play the track. Someone whousl tell him: don’t use the exact same inflection as every other song on the mixtape, because people that aren’t listening too deep into your lyrics (75% of your listeners) won’t immediately catch on to what you’re saying. But I dig the idea of the song. It was just poorly executed cuz now its replay value is a lot lower.
8. Revelations (Remix) 4/5 As a listener, I have no clue what this song is about. I get a vague a idea. Ac talks about the generation of today and how we like to party and what we wear, etc. But the hook has nothing to do with the verses… even Royale’s verse doesn’t match up exactly with the hook. This Royale verse wasn’t the best…but I guess he did what he could without any clue of what the song’s point was. Good voice-inflection, enunciation etc. Overall, this song is forgettable.
9. Dear Phoenix 5/5
Starts with an interesting intro reminiscent of the music that was popular around the time Tommy was the Green Power Ranger. Throwback video game sound ish. Which is actually pretty cool. Not sure why that was there but it was pretty cool. Then the real song comes in with Nova rapping sincerely venting to a love interest about starting a family and such. Nova even sings/chants “Who you love? Where yo heart is at?” in a way that feels right. Idk what it was but Nova bring his focus into full 100% and stays consistent with the feeling of the song. Well, that is until there’s 2 Ac-Nova’s each saying different things in each of my ears….followed by a Whitney Houston sample which honesty, is a risky albeit, ballsy move. The type of move AC has gained my respect from.
10. Windows Fr. Krave 5/5
Wow. So Nova kills the double-tone voice.
The guy sounds like audio Gold. A rapping Sun. The rapper “Krave” sounds incredible on record as well.
Royale should’ve been on this -_____- Js Beat is great too.
11. River 4/5
A chilling instrumental track/interlude leading to something..idk what.
12. The Raven 3/5
A narrator reads Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.
Why. I don’t know. But its creepy as fuck even though
the music in the background doesn’t match it at all. 2/5 for terrible use of this great vocal sample. Next time, understand how to manipulate the listener’s feelings! You want them creeped out, not confused!
13. No Mas 4/5
Really like the thump of this beat.
She said “Cocky Much?” I said “My cock IS much”
is really all I care about on this lmao
14. 4/5
Revelations
Verse 1 was about the attitude of this generation
and verse 2 was just about the feelings he experiences being involved as a serious rapper.
15. Live from Montclair 2 5/5
Just an incredible inspirational
16. Jazz. 4/5
Nova basically calls an incredible, mid-tempo Electro-influenced rap beat “Jazz”
“You hear that shit? Thats Jazz?” ….no its not. Its Rap. Maybe Hip-Hop.
The AC proceeds to shamelessly rap in his best “Drake – Look What You’ve Done” impression.
But, I’ve got to commend Ac for spitting one of his clearest and most engaging verse on the mix tape.
Too bad he had to pretend he was Drake to really deliver.
Ac Nova isn’t a lyricist’s lyricist, but a lyricist nonetheless. I mean, the guy sounds like a Wale/Rick Ross. He’s the kind of rapper that will tell you that he’s far from average after 12 bars of not saying anything special yet. But at the same time, only the small number of people that can really rap their asses off will detect that he claims a much higher degree of lyricism than is actually in his music at this point in time. But the interesting thing about that is with each release, he gets closer and closer to that next-level bracket.
Overall the mixtape sounds like a decent project, if you don’t pay attention to what is actually being said on each song. But if you’re a new AC Nova listener, take a note from his current fans: don’t listen too deep into his lyrics. Because a lot of times, his lines and words don’t connect to make pictures that make sense to anybody but him. Unless of course you ask him what he meant or he directly tells you.
If Ac took more time to listen to himself and hear himself like ….somebody that isn’t himself, he’d make his music a lot more listenable and memorable to others. Nova definitely stands head and shoulders above much of the rap competition because he actually has a vision. What he lack though, is focus and a more selective ear. He songs would do better with things that make more sense and us listeners wouldn’t have to cling to a punchline we liked and soon forgot, but we’d understand the entire “vivid-picture” he was trying to paint.
Maybe.
An’ I ain’t too big to tell,
If she broke my heart a single time,
She broke it ten or twelve.
I walked and talked all by myself,
I did not tell no one.
I’m a long time a-comin’, babe,
An’ I’ll be a long time gone.
- Bob Dylan
Hollywood Weekend : “ARKHAM”
We Are Jedi 2
And Then We Woke Up
Singles
Regarding Dear Phoenix;
“Going through heartbreak was new for me. I wasn’t trying to make a record that people could relate to. I was just trying to make a record with the shit that I wanted to express. The shit that I wanted to get off my chest. Everybody has a unique experience, but it’s a feeling that’s so human that others can relate to it”
Dear Phoenix
