![]() ![]() ‘Try Again’ is a much faster pace and typical Pierre Bourne track. ![]() It is here that Pi’erre sings/raps to a love interest of his, and while he doesn’t re-invent the wheel lyrically or thematically, the lyrics remain complex enough to contain substance while being simple enough to be accessible to hip-hop fans old and new.Įvery track flows perfectly into the next, and as quickly as it began, ‘Poof’ ends and ‘Try Again’ begins. This track, like every track that follows it, is mixed and produced perfectly, no manipulation required. The song’s crisp hi-hats and 808’s contrast nicely with the ambient and eerie pads and instrumentation. The track had been teased multiple times over the past two years, so hearing it leading the album feels almost like coming home. The song title however, is actually in reference to the producer’s late Uncle, who was nicknamed ‘Magic’. The album begins with “Poof, an aptly titled track for an album that dropped quite literally out of nowhere. Each track on the album (which is not a mixtape like the ones before it) features writing, production, engineering, and a performance that comes from Pi'erre and Pi'erre alone. The album lasts 50 minutes spanning sixteen tracks, and it is a wild ride from start to finish. Pi’erre’s ability to both rap and produce is something that makes many draw comparisons to this generation’s Kanye West, and I believe that those comparisons are not as farfetched as they may seem. Notoriety and clout aside, TLOP4 is a great album. The biggest difference separating Metro Boomin and Pharrell from Pi’erre? Pi’erre only needed four (some could argue fewer) years to reach such a level of notoriety, while Metro soon enters his second decade in music, and Pharrell his third. Perhaps with the exception of Metro Boomin, or Pharrell, very few others can claim that they have come close to doing what Pi’erre has done. Every year, the list grows, and today Pi’erre Bourne’s cultural preeminence as a hip-hop producer is almost unrivaled. Since then Pi’erre’s discography and credits have increased significantly, with his ubiquitous producer tag being spread across artists from NAV to Playboi Carti, 21 Savage to Travis Scott, Young Nudy to Warholl.ss. This led many to ask: How would an album that had been worked on for potentially years compare? Even the older entries in the ’TLOP’ saga were only released weeks apart, and those came out at the tail-end of 2016. Pi’erre’s 2018 mixtape Pi’erre and Cardo’s Wild Adventure (entirely produced by fellow producer-prodigy Cardo) was an incredibly diverse and well-produced project, even though all but two of the songs were recorded in just one day. After years of scattered rumors and details, Pi’erre blessed fans last Friday with the hotly-anticipated TLOP 4.įor many like myself, seeing him finally confirm the release date over Twitter was surreal. Almost three years after the release of producer/rapper-powerhouse Pi’erre Bourne’s mixtape The Life of Pierre 3 (often styled as TLOP), Pierre (né Jordan Jenks) has finally released his newest body of work. ![]()
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