father is one of the best songs i've heard in a while lol idk why that father / bother flip hits so hard

right in the feels

Damn near the whole album kinda gives that feeling for me

The whole album paints a picture of him on the road to grief, the road to fully accepting his sister’s death, basically all of it following the theme of the first track, a lot of the content showing him running, the chaos mentally of all the s*** he said in the first song (the 3 track run with father and issues of trust being the most focused one on his father) until the last like 3 where he’s finally in a state of feeling, last song is basically a funeral song for his sister of accepting her death “we laid you down low when we said goodbye, 3x the bar Dave says about your sister would be proud looking down on you being so important

At the same time throughout with the sounds he uses, the visuals, the language, the tags and especially the references and interpolations all draw on the history of black British music from rap to rnb to afrobeat to rock right even the titles

I think most ppl aren’t catching this in any of the discussion around this but I think it’s 2 beautiful personal ideas that r executed so well, all making a kinda portrait of the black British experience and the heritage of music produced by it.

The idea of “it doesn’t expand on the idea of heritage enough lyrically” kinda missed the whole point. He pays homage sonically and through interpolation etc it’s more of an aesthetic and sonic social layer, the lyrical layer is incredibly personal.

its good but the album before is better

"06 wayne rooney" had you moving like that one shorty from tiktok who can "hear every part of the music"

great project. been playing it a lot

nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/music/jim-legxacy-black-british-music.html

This and Tyler’s albums being short is great because I’ve been able to go back and forth without feeling like I’m missing the other

BIG TUUUNE

second listen, '06 wayne rooney and big time forward the only ones i'm not really feelin. dope tape

sos is crazyyyy

playing both back to back, this is an improvement over homeless nigga pop music

big up jon caramanica

nah those are great too

Agreed. '06 wayne rooney gave me a similar feeling SlowThai did with Feel Good.

Feel Good felt more natural with SlowThai's voice, but both a felt a bit undeveloped and out of their element.

I went back and tapped into HNPM and that is a dope project fs but I need to get into to it more. I kept more songs off this. But this is also the first project from him so that could be it

I love this album so much

beautifully articulated my friend , whole heartedly agree with your a***ysis 🫡

Can confirm the tings are feeling joints like SOS and big time forward

AOTY

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Is this supposed to be clipping and scratching all across the first couple of tracks? Think my copy is f***ed up

Finally listened to this in full, one of my favourite releases this year

Black British music

not worth making a sep thread for this lol