Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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  • Blue Lips [Interscope/Top Dawg Entertainment, 2024] A−

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Blue Lips [Interscope/Top Dawg Entertainment, 2024]
Already pushing 40 somehow, this proudly old-school, inexhaustibly quick-lipped L.A. gangsta brings his own more humane thematic range and distinct musical flow to an aesthetic that seems to progress through or jump around within what I guess I should call the thug worldview call. Ever the committed cornball, I find myself especially impressed by the simple couplet "Some days you gotta be a deadbeat/When your kids gotta eat." A−