 Hey what's up guys it's Isaac and I'm coming to you with a special edition of an album review and you're asking yourself why is Isaac reviewing albums? Does he know anything about music? The answer is no but that doesn't stop me from using my small audience to purporting myself into some kind of music aficionado and reviewer and such. So I don't know if any of that actually made sense or I used actual words beforehand but what I do know is I'm going to so dumb I'm going to be reviewing I'm not going to cut that either because I'm doing this the day before I literally literally just listened to the album yesterday and I'm recording this on Sunday before church so here it goes this is my NF album review it's going to be more general because dude there's 19 songs on this thing I can't go in depth and all of them so let's talk. Going into this album I was kind of nervous because to give you a little bit of context I am an NF fan I went to his concert last time he was here in Winnipeg and so every time somebody you like is releasing a new album I think there's always a sense of nervousness that's associated with that because you really appreciate their past work and you just want them to be able to live up at least to a degree of what they've done previously but there's always that that oh man what if they what if they just totally blow it and it's not good but this album did not disappoint this is very classic NF style of real raw just going at it in terms of musically the poetry the artistry is very very elite at least in my opinion as I was saying I can't really go into depth in a lot of the analogies he was using a lot of the songs are are quite deep some of the other ones maybe not so much but I definitely found key themes of you know change and moving and trying to be trying to be a better man in those areas of his relationships with his wife and just generally as he's trying to figure life out through a lot of his past trauma and hardships and pain and trying to sort all that stuff out there was a key clip that I felt was really really impactful for me where he was just literally speaking I think it was just kind of a take of him talking about when he was at the peak of his career success and just saying you know that was when I was actually most depressed and and I could see this is a key theme throughout many of his songs is this idea that look I have everything I ever wanted um I came up from nothing and now I have money and I have fame and I'm selling out tours and yet there's still this sense that I haven't made it and this doesn't make me happy and so in the midst of that he's struggling with this feeling of I should be happy and yet I'm not and it's kind of driving him crazy in a way and I could relate with that because there's been times in my life where yeah I felt like I should be happy here but I'm not and that kind of drives you crazy almost throughout this album as I was saying earlier you get a sense of his real authentic feelings in regard to his overall feeling of just his career and his personal life and how that's impacted his personal life um throughout different songs he contemplates this idea of going back to um when it wasn't so crazy when he wasn't so famous when he wasn't and I know it's kind of one of these things where sometimes people um you know you complain where you want to get to the top and then you're at the top and you complain about being at the top but I could really connect with him and I know it's kind of interesting because I'm not at the the top I can't relate with him totally on what that feels like but I could understand his heart in this and understanding hey look when you have everything it's not gonna satisfy and that's that's pretty much the key thing that I got from this album the first or second time I've listened to it I'm sure as I listen to it more and more that I'll begin to pick different things out in terms of the music itself um my one kind of critique but not necessarily critique it's just kind of like oh what I wish he might have did a little bit was include some more courses within some of his songs because it makes it more memorable um he's really really talented at just going verse verse verse verse verse verse verse and being really poetic and just uh it's sounding awesome the only problem is is sometimes they kind of mush together in your mind and you can't really differentiate oh which is this song which is this song which is this song and I think a chorus like a really solid chorus singing chorus whether he sings it or a feature um it helps differentiate the songs a little bit more make it a little bit more memorable that's my one critique but otherwise I really really enjoyed this album and I'm actually looking forward to listening to it again and I probably should have said this earlier but if you've never heard NF before and you you've probably clicked off by now but NF is kind of like a it's he's a rapper um but with the Christian bases he is a Christian and um not all of his songs are about God but I can really see his worldview shining through even through the midst of his struggles um some of my favorite songs are change talking about this idea that look he needs to change in order to find this new inspiration and what he's doing and in his life because when it becomes when he's scared of that change um it just becomes monotonous and boring and then he feels uninspired and kind of without purpose so he needs that change but he's scared of it I can really relate with that um song my stress I can definitely relate to that song and I really enjoyed that song um a song called only um and um I really enjoyed trauma at the end of the album where it was just singing and I mentioned earlier that I really like NF singing and I would like more that in future albums um but that is a song that's just really powerful and um so those are some of my favorite songs also time fantastic song fantastic music video um so if you're interested in this album you want to check out some songs I encourage you to listen to the full thing through um but it's like 19 songs so that's a long commitment so check out the songs that I like maybe and you can tell me what you think also um if you enjoyed this album review um I don't I doubt I'll be doing this very often because I don't really know what albums I would review this is interesting to me um but um let me and uh I'll talk to you next time see you