{"id":5526,"date":"2024-01-29T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicreviewworld.com\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2024-01-29T18:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:59:52","slug":"21-savage-american-dream-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicreviewworld.com\/21-savage-american-dream-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Savage – American Dream (Album Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

21 Savage \u2013 American Dream<\/strong> (Album Review)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing his year-long dominance over mainstream rap, the Atlantan icon returns with his first solo project since 2017, drawing upon his British background and unique life story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the release of Her Loss in late 2022 to Heroes & Villains in 2023, 21 Savage has taken a large portion of all mainstream hip-hop music over the past year, exerting his presence via features on almost everybody\u2019s album. Much like Lil Baby\u2019s feature run in 2021, 21\u2019s voice has been hard to avoid recently, and his pen has been sharper than ever in previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this is 21\u2019s first solo album since his label debut \u201cIssa\u201d in 2017 when he first went fully mainstream. How will the rapper fair without enlisting the help of his constant collaborators Metro Boomin<\/a>, Drake and Young Nudy? American Dream provides the answer to that question, and it isn\u2019t as straightforward as it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening the album, 21 puts the context of his British origin in the forefront as his mother explains the circumstances of her family\u2019s migration and the hope, she instilled in providing him with a good future in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually reserved and overtly subtle, this intro humanizes 21 Savage in a way that has never been done before. The hard exterior of the rapper is broken down into something more relatable, proving that 21 is more than just your average machismo trap rapper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However after this intro, and the song that succeeds it, \u201call of me\u201d, the album feels very much like 21 just going through the motions. Despite stellar production on songs like \u201credrum\u201d and \u201cpop ur shit\u201d, the rapper finds himself still talking about the same street life tropes he was talking about in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21, a rapper who has won a Grammy, has a collab album with Drake, nearly got deported and lost his half-sibling from the UK, has nothing new to talk about? Really? I find that very hard to believe. Lyrically and thematically 21 could\u2019ve done a lot better considering how much has happened in his personal life, instead, it feels like a project filled with the same old same old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This doesn\u2019t mean that he doesn\u2019t have great performances however, \u201csneaky\u201d has that old sinister flow from the Savage Mode mixtape days and \u201cnee-nah\u201d is a fantastic song overall with a feature from Travis Scott<\/a> that oozes personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n