![]() ![]() It's also probably the best pure rap release of the first quarter, and the best-case scenario for how a locally famous rapper can make a great album for a wider audience without getting lost in a corporate ledger. It's by far the best single release of his career: It's more melodic and more focused fiercer and more playful funnier and sadder. Islah is a sustained and triumphant outpouring, and Gates gives every good, bad, and ugly thing he has. Someone, somewhere, correctly deduced that the appeal of Kevin Gates is that he offers the maximum amount of Kevin Gates, and they’ve left him alone to turn out as much of that product as he’ll offer. ![]() Gates' major-label debut Islah, released this week on Atlantic Records with few pushbacks and (even more astonishingly) almost no big-name guest spots or features, suggests that no-holds-barred candor is working for him. ![]()
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