Desiigner "New English" Mixtape Review

Alright, we have another sort of “re-review” here. This one is of the first “mixtape” I ever reviewed, Desiigner’s 2016 project “New English.” Again, if you wanted to find the old review, you’d have to dig through all of my 50 bazillion posts to find it, so adding it here is for ease of access. However, because I have zero interest in listening to any of these songs again, this entire review is gonna be a copy-and-paste of what I previously thought. So, here goes:

Intro: I’m very confused already.

Caliber: Honestly, this has potential: it’s some catchy, head-nodding stuff with a solid hook, but it feels like he could’ve put more time into polishing this one up.

Make It Out: Desiigner’s more “aggressive” sound actually works on this track. Still feels like he could’ve spent more time on it. Instead of repeating the hook so many times, add another verse or something.

Shooters: I’m repeating myself at this point, but this track was too short and too repetitive.

Monstas & Villains: What was even the point of this? It’s 37 seconds long, and right as it starts to kick in, it just ends!

interlude 1: Why is there an interlude right after a 37-second track? This is already really confusing me.

Talk Regardless: Alright, so we finally have a full-length track here, but for a rap song, it just sounds like a lot of his other songs, just on a longer scale. It’s also again really repetitive, and it’s also a bit too spacey for me. Too much dead air on this one for me.

Roll Wit Me: Hook is not catchy, EXTREMELY repetitive, and again, FAR TOO spacey for my liking.

interlude 2: ANOTHER INTERLUDE?

Da Day (ft. Mekado): When I said “make some longer songs,” I didn’t mean make a nearly 7-minute marathon!!! The saddest part of this song, though, is that it doesn’t even feel like Desiigner’s song. The song features a rapper named Mekado, and it feels more like it’s his song than Desiigner’s. The weird change of sound in the second half is kind of interesting, but again, Desiigner’s performance on it is very repetitive. Mekado’s hook in the first half of the song is boring, but he really shines in the second half of the song. Even so, the song is just really problematic. For how intense it gets, it can’t help but come off as just feeling like everything else you’ve heard before.

Jet (ft. Pusha T): Once again, his “featured artist” outshines him on this one. This song features Pusha T, and it feels like he actually puts more into his raps than Desiigner puts into his boring, repetitive, spacey hook.

Overnight: I actually like the slower sound and the overly-autotuned sound on Desiigner’s vocals on this one. Again, far too spacey on the verses, but this is another track that could’ve been great if he had worked on the verses a little more. The hook isn’t too bad actually, it’s just again, the verses have too much dead air.

Zombie Walk (ft. Kingsavage): Again, this sounds like quite a few other tracks on this mixtape. Unexciting hook, unexciting verses, just an all-around unexciting song.

Panda: The strongest track on this mixtape. Actually sounds like there was actual effort put into completing this. The hook is catchy, Desiigner’s performance is good, it’s not overly repetitive, overall not a bad song.

Overall, this mixtape had potential. Some of the tracks are not awful: Panda is still pretty good, and Overnight has potential, but unfortunately, the mixtape just feels really unfinished. It feels like Desiigner could’ve easily spent a lot more time on a lot of these songs, and he could’ve easily done without the 20 and 30-second interludes. This mixtape was slightly better than I thought it would be (it wasn’t quite “cringe-worthy,” if you will), but it was just repetitive and boring. It’s not the worst thing ever, and there is potential, but it’s certainly not good.

Favorite tracks: Overnight, Panda

Least favorite tracks: Roll Wit Me, Da Day, Zombie Walk

Rating: Bad