Kid Ink
My Own Lane (Deluxe Version)
Reviewed by: Sebastian Mackay
“Hello World” is the fairly cute opening track to My Own Lane. I say fairly because the moment Kid Ink decides love and crack are a good simile you can feel any charm of the song flee in a series of quivers, shakes and bloodshot eyes. He’s not creepy as much as he sounds slightly drug crazed and while it may provide a similar to high to love (so the proverbial They say) I’d argue the down sides of love are less destructive. But let’s move on shall we? Because the rest of the album is “hello baby” and a healthy amount of auto tune.
“My G’s are all in my unit” are another one of Kid Ink’s less than brilliant and earth shattering lines (but the pun isn’t unappreciated). It also “smells like trees” in his room because they built this “from the roots”. We have “The Movement” to thank for such vivid, if not utterly pointless, imagery.
The track “Main Chick” is a classic hip hop I -want- to- bed- you- regardless- of- your- relationship- status- look -at- me- I’m- in- the- VIP- section song. It also features Chris Brown and there’s certain level of horror that comes with listening to the pair’s advances. As the song advises, don’t let it go to your head because “Tattoo Of My Name” is well..well it’s worse.
Musically, it’s more or less the same as what we’ve been served up in the nine tracks before it and while sex isn’t boring, songs about sex are. And this track, just like “Main Chick” doesn’t escape the fact that, while it’s packaged as a corny and awful love song, it’s about Kid Ink wanting to do vile things to an unsuspecting broad. Maybe it’s just me, but listening to tracks of sexual desire is dull and unoriginal (Dead Prez fit into the rap/ hip-hop genre – see my point?).
If you make it through all 18 tracks of this deluxe edition without a gun to your head, you deserve a prize.
Rating: Semi – Obnoxious
