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I Won't Touch C***s B***n's "Indigo" Album, So Here's My Perfectly Generic Review

C***s B***n is an abuser and I refuse to listen to his album. This is my review.

While we're still vocally holding other predatory celebrities to task for all the awful stuff they've done, we're also dropping everything to listen to notorious abuser C***s B***n's newest album.

Megastars like Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, and Drake lined up to collaborate, because we're apparently all fine with a guy beating the s**t out of his girlfriend, as long as he's also involved in an active rape case overseas. Sorry, Freudian slip. I meant as long as we like his music.

Well I won't support it. I won't touch C***s B***n's dumb Indigo album with a ten-foot pole. I'm still going to review it. I'm just not going to listen to it first.

That's basically the nature of music reviews, anyway. Someone half-listens to an album right after it drops and then frantically scribbles 300 words about their first impressions under the guise of expertise. I'm saving myself half an hour, tops. Besides, you don't actually care what any reviewer says––you don't know them, you don't share their tastes, and you just want them to agree with you so you can feel validated or disagree so you can get mad.

So upfront, here are my tastes: I greatly enjoy Broadway musicals, and nothing will ever top Les Miserables: The Dream Cast in Concert from 1995 starring Colm Wilkinson as Jean Valjean opposite Philip Quast as Javert. The last thing I listened to was this two hour "Most Epic Anime Mix," which is truly indicative of a lot about me. I'm not a fan of Kanye West as a person, but yes, I think his music is phenomenal.

Now that we have all that out of the way, here are my thoughts on C***s B***n's Indigo, which again, I have not and will never listen to:

The first track of Indigo kicks things off with some major audio. The sound designer definitely knows how to lay down a beat, and I found the beat to be both consistent and fitting for the lyrics. The lyrics themselves spoke to me in the literal sense that someone was speaking lyrics and I was listening to them. The voice was on pitch, or maybe it wasn't. (Who cares? C***s B***n is an abuser.)

I thought it was very interesting how that one song sampled that other song. The song it sampled was a song I recognized but haven't actively listened to since I was younger. Now, every time I hear this new song, it brings up memories of the old song, which may or may not be a positive experience. I do think the sample works for this track, but it's also a little lazy, and I'm not sure whether or not I feel comfortable calling it transformative––at least, not enough to warrant hearing this old song on the airwaves again. (Remember when C***s B***n pleaded guilty to felony assault for beating Rihanna?)


Another major part of the album was all the featured artists on so many of the tracks. If I'm being perfectly honest, some of them were a lot better than others. The featured artist I already liked did a really killer job! His/her/their verse was straight fire, and stole the whole track away from abuser C***s B***n. The featured artist I liked least, on the other hand, dropped a lazy verse that sounded like he/she/they were totally phoning it in. It sounded bad to me, and I did not like it a single bit. (I almost liked it less than I do abuser C***s B***n.)

Ultimately, while this album has its ups and downs––some parts are certainly musically stronger than other parts––nobody can deny that this album is something you are technically capable of listening to (unless, of course, you're deaf). My suggestion would be to avoid it entirely, because C***s B***n is a giant piece of human fecal matter, but should you choose to listen, go in with low expectations. You just may be surprised, or maybe not. Either way, the UK had the right idea when they banned C***s B***n from entering their country.

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Soulja Boy Says He 'Made' Drake

In the hour long interview, Soulja Boy insulted just about every major rapper.

Soulja Boy has had his fair share of beef in the past, but as he's lost relevance, so has his drama. But in a new interview with Hot 97's The Breakfast Club, Soulja Boy insulted just about every major rapper and repeatedly made wildly false claims, receiving a raised eyebrow from host Charlamagne tha God. Things first took a turn when Soulja Boy claimed he had the biggest come back of 2018 and Charlamagne pointed out that Tyga made a bigger record. To which Soulja Boy responded, "Tyga? The n—- that lost his bitch to Travis Scott?" Then, when it was suggested that Soulja do a record with Tyga, he said, "I love Tyga."

After that not-at-all-forced 180, the interview moved on to his beef with Chris Brown, his bizarre new video game console, the Soulja Watch (his knockoff Apple Watch product), Marriage Boot Camparriage Boot Camp, and the shoot-out at his house in Atlanta. He eventually moved on to criticizing Kanye, saying, "I'm younger than you. I'm flyer than you. You crying on Twitter every week about Drake. You gotta stop that shit. You look lame. You look cap. Real street n—-s, young kids like me, and the generation looking at you like you goofy. You up here supporting Trump and shit. You supporting Trump? What the fuck wrong with you? That shit not right. I done sat back long enough. I'm not holding my tongue no more. Kanye, call me. Get in tune with me 'cause if not, I'm gonna keep checking you. You need to stop supporting Trump."

Then, most notably, the hosts pointed out that Soulja had beef with Drake, and Soulja stood up and shouted, "Drake? DRAAAAKE? The n—- that got bodied by Pusha T? The n—– that's hiding his kid from the world but the world won't hide from his kid? Aubrey Graham in the wheelchair? DRAKE? … Stop playing with me like I didn't teach Drake everything he know."

He then went on to rap a segment of Drake's "Miss Me," and Charlamagne pointed out it sounds exactly like "Kiss Me Through The Phone," Soulja's song from 2008. And Soulja said, "That's Soulja! That's my bar! He copied my whole fucking flow! Word-for-word! Bar-for-bar! Don't act like I didn't make Drake."

Watch the full interview below:


Brooke Ivey Johnson is a Brooklyn based writer, playwright, and human woman. To read more of her work visit her blog or follow her twitter @BrookeIJohnson.



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