Stanisland Magazine

This album does not deserve your time and we strongly recommend you pick up the phone and call a loved one rather than listen to such debasing musical efforts.

VERDICT:

Yes, that’s right – zero out of five.

On ‘Aye’ Lil’ Uzi Vert says he’s going to go “harder”, but that simply isn’t the case for an artist that is, to put it bluntly – soft. Rather than bore you with the details, Pink Tape inspires a sleepy demeanour, though we persevered.

Pink Tape relies more on the pageantry of performance than musical effort

Investing heavily in gimmicks to retain a sense of relevancy, Uzi Vert, born Symere Woods, continues with the charade of utilising auto-tune for almost every track without merit. If anything, this album falls below acceptable standards in many areas and comes across as a project recorded over a weekend. And in using the term ‘project’ the assumption would be that there was some form of planning behind it. That doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

In a nut shell, reviewing this album was a chore

Considering this album was ‘teased’ with a trailer, you’d expect some sort of skill to be present here. Instead, the ‘artist’ lives off his pretentious self-absorbed attitude which is hard to understand why.

Rushed, void of any integrity, and hoping to hang on to the spoils of what public relations may yield, you will see through this album from start to finish. Bar-for-bar Pink Tape is a vacuum, filled with cliche tropes and awfully constructed rhyming patterns with little attempt at wordplay or creativity.

No music lives on this album and only a slither of hip-hop may exist. Considering it is a best-seller, the question remains – who is buying this junk?