Not only are there no emotional highs like a " Top to the Bottom" or a " Finger Fucking," but the prevailing mood here is weariness. It's like watching your most positive friend try to speak it into existence one last time.Īnd yet, while you'd be forgiven for being morbidly curious about 10 tracks of Boosie at his lowest, the album's construction is its Achilles heel. "Cancer," the record's centerpiece, is plaintive even by his standards: "Told my bitch, she cried/ Told my niggas, they cried/ Mama tried to downplay it to the family-she lied/ I'm thinking, 'Damn, how'd I get cancer?'" There and at Feelings' other high points ("The Rain," the beautiful closer "I Know They Gone Miss Me"), Boosie is who you wish you'd be in his situation, resolute and concerned with others before himself. As always, he has the ability to explore in-depth and with great precision the extent of his unhappiness, without ever sounding self-indulgent or as if he's wallowing. That question is the catalyst for In My Feelings (Goin' Thru It), Boosie's brief new album. It was a relief to his legions of fans, but the very public process had been disorienting: how is one person so chronically, powerfully unfortunate? A few weeks later, in mid-December, he reportedly underwent surgery to have half of one of his kidneys removed, and announced that it went well, and that he's now cancer-free. That's when Boosie posted to his Instagram-then hastily deleted-a notice that he had been diagnosed with kidney cancer. It seemed, for 18 months, that Boosie had beaten every odd and would go down as one of the greatest feel-good stories of his era. For an artist who had spent the ages that account for many rappers' creative primes behind bars, there were remarkably few cobwebs to shake out. Miyagi," the unadulterated happiness of "All I Know." Save for a four-song stretch on the back half, the preceding mixtape Life After Deathrow was even better, and ranks alongside Boosie's best work. There was the snarling intro, the grizzled wisdom on "Mr.
His return to retail shelves, last spring's Touch Down 2 Cause Hell, played like a blues record. (A remake of "Lifestyle" was so good it justified its existence.)
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He quickly went scorched-Earth with a series of guest features and loose singles that saw him very near, or perhaps at his creative peak. He seemed, finally, free-a pair of freestyles recorded on the ride home had him singing about seeing his kids and figuring out when he could squeeze in a haircut. In March of 2014, Boosie was released from that (barely) repurposed plantation in Louisiana after beating a drug smuggling case and first-degree murder charge.
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