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SoThe WIZRDdoes, in a sense, live up to its billing as a career-spanning work.
If you squint,The WIZRDhas a similar shape, stringing together 10- or 15-minute stretches at similar tempos.
It unfolds at breakneck pace and never lets up.
In this sense,The WIZRDis overwhelming.
Its last is the lush, naked Tricks on Me.
YNW Melly,We All Shine
YNW Melly is better than he needs to be.
Instead, its a fully realized document of nauseating loneliness and unhinged celebration.
Fortunately, the last two-thirds ofWe All Shinesee him buckle down.
Like the rest of his work,Free Sweatpantsfeels forceful and alive.
