Fresh out the cell block, Gates returns with the Terminator Lestat in the year 3000 destruction: half-robot, half-Vampire. Kevin Gates and Boosie as True Detective, Season 2. I’m putting this out there world. You don’t even wanna’ know what will happen when these two touch down to give Thibodeaux hell. By Any Means is still seeping into my blood and brain and I’ll probably be bumping it all summer when I’m embedded in Suntanama. There will be a full review later. But on my first few listens, the hooks are better, the rhymes are better, the singing is better, the emotions are still bi-polar in the best way. The thing about Gates is that you don’t really know Gates because there seem to be about 35 Gates, all of them a balance of brilliant and deranged. He can be whoever you want him to be, but by the time you think you’ve figured it, the chemicals are leading him astray, angling towards a different warpath.
This is one of those weeks that we will not remember in hip-hop history because our memories are about as long as Manute Bol’s arms and we only remember who said that because someone Googled Big L on “Rap Genius.” Alas, when the Sharebeast indexes are excavated in the future, we’ll look back and think that Gates, MadGibbs, Y.G., Vince Staples and Nocando all dropped a blizzard of good-to-great records this week. And then we’ll see a comment on some blog where someone said that hip-hop sucks. In 10 years from now, kids who are now 13 are going to be bitching about the good old days when Kevin Gates was planting peers in the dirt. I can’t make this up.
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ZIP: Kevin Gates – By Any Means (Left-Click)
