{"id":6353,"date":"2018-11-14T02:09:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T02:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2018-11-14T02:09:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T02:09:53","slug":"review-idk-idk-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surrealresolution.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/review-idk-idk-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: IDK – IDK & Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, this is the first time I get to talk about IDK in written form.<\/p>\n

Many of you who have listened to\u00a0Decibel Boost Podcast<\/em> know that we heavily fuck with IDK ever since last year when he was featured on the 2017-2018 Adult Swim Singles Program. Later on, he released his debut album\u00a0IWASVERYBAD,<\/em> which was one of the best rap albums that year, as it definitely topped my best albums of 2017 list (top 3 for me, to be precise. You can also see the Season 1 Visual right here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Now IDK has not been a slouch in 2018, dropping some one-off tracks, freestyles, and collaborating with the likes of Denzel Curry, A$AP Ferg, Joey Badass, etc. on top of once again dropping an [as] single for their 2018-2019 installment. He is also diligently working on his upcoming sophomore album\u00a0Is He Real<\/em> coming in… 2019. However, he still has some heat for us in the form of this EP titled\u00a0IDK and Friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, his tweet should explain it.<\/p>\n

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My album \u201cIs He Real\u201d doesn\u2019t drop until 2019, but on 11\/9 me and 7 of my friends will give you #IDKANDFRIENDS<\/a>. \ud83d\udda4\ud83c\udf2a<\/p>\n

— JAY IDK (@IDK) October 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Yes, and he gathered some big-name people with him on this project. Some he already collaborated with before like Denzel Curry and Q Da Fool, but the others include Maxo Kream, Rico Nasty, Thirty Rack, Wale and Domo Genesis. They’ve all partnered up with him on these tracks, and for the majority of them they delivered some OK to great verses on here. We talked about “Moral” on Decibel Boost before, and my feelings on that track are the same, with IDK delivering a dope verse, especially with these lines:<\/p>\n

Get a ho, pin her up, knock her down like a hammer (Woo)
\nMake her disappear, it ain’t my fault, yeah, bitch, I’m mystical
\nI don’t shed no tear, I take a loss and I’m like “Okay, cool” (Right, right, right)
\nPretty pussy pink and it’s fat, it look like Majin Buu (Woo)
\nOpposite of Usher and Alicia, bitch, you not my boo (My boo)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, I felt nothing with Maxo Kream’s verse, although I haven’t heard much of him aside from a bit of the album he put out at the beginning of January. There’s Thirty Rack on “Poke Poke,” and while I did like his verse for the most part, that last line had me scratching my head:<\/p>\n

Don’t get poked nigga, don’t get smoked nigga (Smoked nigga)
\nGot a thirty on a Uzi, don’t get smoked nigga (Don’t get smoked nigga)
\nI’m the butcher of the shop, don’t get chose nigga (Don’t get chose nigga)
\nI’m eatin’ toes nigga, bone marrow on rows nigga<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK… who knows? It might be some wordplay I don’t know, and I’m missing the point. Plus, rappers are always eating ass, so I shouldn’t be that weirded out by that. Anyway, IDK in general in this EP is still at his best, delivering dope tight rhymes with some good hooks and punchlines, He can still flow his ass off, and the best example of that is the freestyle track with him and Denzel Curry: “ONCE UPON A TIME.” This was just so damn great, as they didn’t write down anything: all this came from their heads, and it sounds fantastic.<\/p>\n