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Louisiana's rapper Kevin Gates (born Gilyard) began releasing mixtapes in
2007, notably
The Luca Brasi Story (2013),
Stranger Than Fiction and By Any Means, and established
himself with
the melodramatic single I Don't Get Tired (2015).
Islah (Atlantic, 2016) leveraged the popularity of emo-trap
with elegantly worded narrations but also contained tons of irritating
fluff: the ridiculous lyrics of The Truth are
redeemed by the impeccable stream of consciousness of Not the Only One;
the mediocre 2 Phones is
redeemed by the melodic Really Really,
the languid Time For That
is redeemed by the emotional La Familia,
and so forth.
The standout is the dreamy synthesizer-driven Ain't Too Hard, which
is also the one that sounds out of context.
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