Dave East - Survival

I listened to Dave East #newalbum - Survival.  It's actually his #debutalbum and it's a very good debut. He's been at this for a while but he pretty much nailed it with this offering. It's a 20 song offering and they are full-length songs, so he had a lot of space and opportunity to mess up. He showed tremendous growth and development, development and maturity in crafting this piece of work. We all know that he can rap and he has a flow, but he made wise choices on his production, greatly improved the song making and the sound on this project is expanded and bigger. I don't think it'll get any radio play, none of the songs have a radio single appeal based on how radio is formatted these days. But it's a good whole album listen, he's creative, dropping jewels and he's crisp with the bars. It's repeatable and it'll grow on you, it's headphone music, it's the type of music you listen to on your commute. I liked “Me and Mine”, “Daddy Knows”, “What You Mad At”, “The Marathon Continues”; his career lacks a signature song but this is a very good album. Good traditional East Coast street music. I'd give it an A.