![]() Raps tumble, sputter, and croak, stretching his timbre’s range and depth. His voice can deflate in an instant or shrink to a mumble or mushroom into singsong. The tension is usually built up in his cadences with his uncanny sense for when to give and when to pull back. ![]() These are soul-baring cuts lined with pent-up emotions from the tour, which “BDay” hints at in a single lyric: “How do you tell the truth to a crowd of white people?”įittingly, though, Rashad really finds his voice on The Sun’s Tirade, an album filled with the tensions caused by a cycle of self-loathing and self-discovery. ![]() The Sun’s Tirade is brutally honest and open, a record saddled by substance abuse and melancholia. It’s an album that examines the strain of family ties, smalltown spokesmanship, and self-awareness. “I can’t admit, I’ve been depressed/I hit a wall, ouch,” he raps on “Dressed Like Rappers” from his long-awaited follow-up, The Sun’s Tirade. Drug dependency threatened to derail a promising career and almost getting him dropped from Top Dawg Entertainment on a handful of occasions. ![]() During a stint on Schoolboy Q’s Oxymoron tour in 2014, he got hooked on a potent brew of Xanax and alcohol, a concoction used to numb himself during an ongoing battle with depression. In the two quiet years since Isaiah Rashad released Cilvia, his inactivity fed his addiction, and vice versa. ![]()
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