Because of this uniform production, the tracks would seemingly blend well together and create a nice flow if they were allowed to. The production here is largely standard fare post-Weeknd trap with minor electronic flourishes.
This belies one of the album’s biggest strengths, which is the general flow and coherence of the songs. The skits themselves have Tory literally telling the listener the narrative context for the songs. Surprisingly enough though, that may be its saving grace.Ī look at I Told You’s tracklist reveals an ambitious and bloated album with just as many “skits” as tracks. I Told You answers that question very simply: it doesn’t. This being the case, I was curious to see how a Tory Lanez full-length would look to distinguish itself from an album by, say, dvsn or Roy Woods. And to this point, his music has largely inhabited the space between Future, Travis Scott, and The Weeknd (which is to say, an increasingly narrow space). In a number of reviews, I’ve used him as an example of the most insidious and generic form of modern hip-hop. Good for him.Īs a reviewer of contemporary hip-hop and R&B music, I’ve been a bit hard on Tory Lanez. Review Summary: Tory gets ambitious with the aping.