{"id":5215,"date":"2018-05-25T22:41:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T22:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2018-05-25T22:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T22:41:05","slug":"review-superduper-kyle-light-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/25\/review-superduper-kyle-light-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: (SuperDuper) KYLE &#8211; Light of Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5216\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/25\/review-superduper-kyle-light-of-mine\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream.jpg?fit=760%2C760&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"760,760\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream.jpg?fit=747%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5216\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.surrealresolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/kyle-light-of-mine-album-stream.jpg?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You remember the first review I did for this site? The one on Lil&#8217; Yachty&#8217;s recent mixtape\u00a0<em>Lil&#8217; Boat 2<\/em>? Ah, good times&#8230; even though it&#8217;s been 2 months. But you&#8217;re wonder why I&#8217;m talking about him now. Well, this has much to do with our next artist with an album out now and it is &#8230;..KYLE!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; OK then&#8230; SuperDuperKYLE!!!<\/p>\n<p>Look, he was also known as either K.i.D, King Wavy or Kidd Kash, but I guess Kyle just stuck with him. Anyway, he&#8217;s a rapper-singer from Ventura, California, who has been doing things for himself since 2010 with some mixtapes here and there before he garnered widespread attention in late 2016-early 2017 with his hit song &#8220;iSpy&#8221; featuring the rapper that Rob and Alex loves to torture me with: Lil&#8217; Yachty. As that song topped the charts, Kyle became a XXL Freshman that year, and I remember his freestyle being good during his cypher with Amine and A Boogie wit da Hoodie.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a year later, he releases his debut album\u00a0<em>Light of Mine<\/em> under Atlantic Records, and with only 15 tracks including the single &#8220;iSpy&#8221; (which was merely OK to me TBH), how was the album?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XK4v2fgMPU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well, this was an interesting listen throughout, especially with the concepts in the album as Kyle talks about his come-up and success, relationships both good or bad, and his past life experiences. All of it directly has that relatability that sees a little bit of us in him, although I don&#8217;t know if Lil&#8217; Yachty would be my conscience, or as Kyle puts it: &#8220;like Jiminy Cricket.&#8221; Or as Yachty also puts it: &#8220;Yes, like Jiminy Cricket, you Disney-ass motherfucker.&#8221; Oh yes, Lil&#8217; Yachty is very involved in this album as Kyle&#8217;s &#8220;Light&#8221; or conscience: someone that tells him everything is going to be all right and that it&#8217;s about that time to glow up and shine.<\/p>\n<p>His style of rapping is goofy and endearing that can be close to annoying despite his adolescent nature, but thankfully, it doesn&#8217;t do that much, or at least it wasn&#8217;t trying to go that way. It can creep in there and make you go &#8220;WTF&#8221; at him, but you can tell he&#8217;s not that type of guy. Hell, you might think I&#8217;m crazy saying this but I was good with Lil&#8217; Yachty as his conscience, and as someone who isn&#8217;t a Yachty fan (see my Lil&#8217; Boat 2 review for that), he&#8217;s better-used in here.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQhjbCxOxdo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But what of the songs? Well, I can say that the first song, &#8220;Ups &amp; Downs,&#8221; is a good way to start out the album with him talking about how he went from being an unknown to where he is now. The two following tracks, &#8220;Coming, Going?&#8221; and &#8220;Ikuyo,&#8221; caught my ear more sonically in its production, with the former having this smooth, synthy, twinkling and 80s sounding production, and the latter starting off with a pre-chorus sung by singer Sophia Black in Japanese. Yes, she&#8217;s multilingual, and it goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a class=\"referent referent--linked_to_preview referent--yellow referent--highlighted\" href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Kyle-ikuyo-lyrics#note-14541195\">Doko-Dokokara mitemo itsumademo<br \/>\nStyle mo ginsei sutekidayo<br \/>\nI-Ishou killin&#8217; it fuan demo<br \/>\nDokokara mitemo sutekidayo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and that translates to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From anywhere, forever<br \/>\nStyle is nice<br \/>\nEven though I\u2019m killin&#8217; it<br \/>\nIt\u2019s nice to see it from anywhere<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is also a 2 Chainz feature on here, and it&#8217;s adequately good for what the song was. &#8220;Games&#8221; does sound like a typical braggadocios song but uses video games to further his point along with the production that has an 8-bit sound on it. The album also has its fair share of love songs, whether it&#8217;s about the beginning of a relationship, the middle period of one, or a breakup. Examples of that include &#8220;Babies&#8221; with Alessia Cara, where they are feeling confused in the relationship and part of them still feels young as they&#8217;re maturing; &#8220;Playinwithme&#8221; where he and Kehlani talk about a significant other wasting their time, &#8220;playing games&#8221; aka fucking with them (hence the music video about them on a game show); and there&#8217;s &#8220;iMissMe&#8221; where he and Khalid reflect on the end of the relationship.\u00a0 Yet it sounded like it ended on a mutual note and doesn&#8217;t have that bitterness that most break-up tracks would have.<\/p>\n<p>All those tracks I listed, while fine, are more on the &#8216;meh&#8217; side for me when it comes to going back to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Yours&#8221; does provide the story of how Kyle lost his virginity. That track also gives you a reminder of the first time when you meet your significant other&#8217;s dad and how much of a scary motherfucker he can be while hoping you don&#8217;t get caught by the guy.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"747\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4YFo4bdMO8Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The production overall goes a lot of ways for me, as it has a lot of groove worthy beats from tracks like &#8220;Ikuyo,&#8221; &#8220;Coming, Going?&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Games,&#8221; and it does go for that pop rap style that has some dated production that sounds like it was from 7 years ago with some cheesiness to it. It reminds me of the production that was on Amine&#8217;s debut album\u00a0<em>Good For You,<\/em> but Kyle has the advantage of it being more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, this is an album that will mainly have an audience that&#8217;s actually very younger than myself, but while KYLE might not be a grand MC, he&#8217;s definitely an artist that&#8217;s got potential in what he does and can delve in typical topics you hear in hip-hop and R&amp;B but in a more relatable and positive sense that doesn&#8217;t alienate the audience despite getting cheesy in a few areas. Oh, and the album made Lil&#8217; Yachty tolerable for the most part.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL VERDICT:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Stream it.\u00a0<\/em>This little light of his does shine in many ways.<\/p>\n<p><em>Light of Mine is available on digital download via independently popular.\/Atlantic Records.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You remember the first review I did for this site? The one on Lil&#8217; Yachty&#8217;s recent mixtape\u00a0Lil&#8217; Boat 2? 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