At moments, its political truisms seem to reflect back on that persistence: “It get hard for all of us, but we campaign,” he murmurs on the intro. ![]() 14 on the Billboard Top 200.) Campaign outpaces his recent efforts like $ ign Language and Airplane Mode but, still, mostly just preserve Ty’s musical bottom line. ( Free TC debuted to little fanfare at No. This gives him leverage Ty is clearly making the music he wants to make, even if the stakes for it remain low. Performing his most impressive trick, Ty somehow gets the temperature just right for his frequent collaborator and label head Wiz Khalifa to be bearable-even welcome-in his cameo.īy 2016, pop’s biggest names are no longer hesitating to acknowledge their underground benefactors: Ty is getting features on Top 10 singles as well as songwriting checks. ![]() It incorporates all the key ingredients of the original, wiry, subs-busting Dolla/Mustard/YG-originated recipe, with an expected vintage of chorus: “At the end of the day, it’s still my pussy, my pussy, my pussy.” (ad infinitum). Coming in Campaign’s third act, “Pu$$y” has the satisfying quality of a desperate, last-call room service order. It’s nice to see Ty continue to complicate the Mustard-wave script, but also rewarding to revisit the elements that made those songs-even with their collar-tuggingly softcore content-undeniable in the first place. And, most notably, as he did on the TC highlight “Miracle / Whenever,” Ty arranges an a cappella track by his brother TC, who is incarcerated on a life sentence: “No Justice” hits hard, a testimonial to the long-term effects of police discrimination. On “Campaign,” he makes a garden-variety Future hook-a retread of his “wicked, wicked, wicked” cadence-shine by juxtaposing even more prurient interruptions. Much like TC’s Hot 100 hit “ Blase,” it scans like a flair-less dirge on first listen but gradually takes on a creeping, narcotic appeal.Įlsewhere, against all odds, Ty continues to sell unlikely pop/R&B Jack Johnson posturing, as he perfected on TC’s lascivious, Tish Hyman-penned guitar ballad “Horses in the Stable” (“That I-I can ride/Anytime”). ![]() The Travis-Scott-featuring “3 Wayz” features some of the most oddly detailed synth layering you’ll hear in hip-hop this year against a backfiring electronic drum loop that never quite springs into action. Still, Campaign’s most acerbic songs are rewarding after an acclimation period Ty remains obsessed with bending grating and unlikely sounds to his will, as he has been since his breakout days. ![]() While Ty’s debut studio album from last year, Free TC**, was overrun with enormously catchy, even pestilential hooks, Campaign’s sordid refrains are more of the first-thought-best-thought variety. Tracks like “Zaddy” represent the comfort zone of the mixtape: mid-tempo, trap- and hyphy-inflected tunes about responding to booty calls while faded on pills. singer/songwriter/producer’s sound, for that matter. Despite the PSAs, Campaign doesn’t represent a major overhaul of Ty Dolla $ign’s talking points-or the L.A.
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