EarthGang - Ghetto Gods ALBUM REVIEW 

Definitely resonated with the idea that they’re stuck between going full weirdo and going full commercial. I’ve been listening to Earthgang since 2014 and feel like I’ve watched them struggle to find their place in the industry. Personally I love their music and always wish they would fall solidly on the weird side of the divide. F Bomb is one of my favorite rap songs of all time. If Earthgang is bringing that kind of energy I feel like they can’t lose.

I really think when they embrace their weirdness they will make a classic.

Melon's 2022 Scores: 10/10: 0 9/10: 4 - Silvana Estrada - Marchita - Black Country, New Road - Ants from Up There - Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You - Conway the Machine - God Don't Make Mistakes 8/10: 6 - The Weeknd - Dawn FM - FKA twigs - Caprisongs - foxtails - fawn - Krallice - Crystalline Exhaustion - Beach House - Once Twice Melody - Black Dresses - Forget Your Own Face 7/10: 9 - Nas - Magic - tricot - Jodeki - Yard Act - The Overload - Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep - Ustalost - Before the Glinting Spell Unvests - Animal Collective - Time Skiffs - yeule - Glitch Princess - Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa - EarthGang - Ghetto Gods 6/10: 6 - Earl Sweatshirt - SICK! - Cordae - From a Birds Eye View - AURORA - The Gods We Can Touch - Mitski - Laurel Hell - Saba - Few Good Things - alt-J - The Dream 5/10: 0 4/10: 5 - Boris - W - Yeat - 2 Alivë - Big K.R.I.T. - Digital Roses Don't Die - Zeal and Ardor - Zeal & Ardor - Avril Lavigne - Love Sux 3/10: 3 - Roddy Ricch - Live Life Fast - $NOT - Ethereal - Oliver Tree - Cowboy Tears 2/10: 0 1/10: 0 0/10: 0 NOT GOOD/10: 1 - Gunna - DS4EVER NOT BAD/10: 1 - Walker Hayes - Country Stuff The Album There are some cool ideas here but I mostly feel like a voyeur at this point looking at something that is very much in progress while also watching one of the darkest times of somebody's personal life that I'm not really sure that I want access/10: 1 - Kanye West - Donda 2 v2.22.22

I remember seeing Earthgang and JID back in 2018, best concert I’ve ever been to. Best part was that it as $15

Anthony, that’s supposed to be where you put the album cover, not a picture of your backyard.

AMEN is really such a groovy track, Can't wait to play it the whole year

I was really impressed by this project. It’s much more versatile, topical, and revealing than their last solo effort while still retaining what made the best spots on the last one so infectious

After barely seeing any coverage of this album on RU-vid and overall pretty mediocre reviews on rating sites I’m really thrilled to see how positive this review is. I really loved the project and I’m glad melon gave it the nod it deserves

Waterboyz is the best song off the album JID and Jermaine went crazy

Idk, Anthony. Saying that the record "fell flat" near the end is a little controversial, especially considering that the earth is a cube.

It's definitely my favorite Earthgang album yet, I think it's going to age really well.

Really loved this one. Honestly my favorite Future feature. I hard disagree about that. I felt the gravity of Future’s voice came in and worked really well with how the song suddenly got really dark.

Swivel and ready to die was great songs from them. Their older and mellow songs are much more my vibe, but sadly it's not what I did get from Mirrorland and I was so hype for it. Now because of that this album waiting to get listened downloaded on my phone

I really loved Mirrorland and was excited to see another record, which I’m loving, but I also agree that I don’t think they’ve quite reached they’re stride. That said I expect that at some point they’re going to release a VERY strong record, they just need to nail down the right formula of consistency and weirdness.

Is that a window into your basement behind you? Damn Melon…..

I like Earthgang's EPs Rags, Robots, Royalty all were incredible especially Royalty.

This was my favourite kanye album to date

sad there wasn’t a cal chuchesta interlude where he’s playing the piano singing gospel music in the middle of a church with a scarf around his neck and a shirt saying “worlds best grandma”

yooooo purple-ish shirt??? this album must be a banger

*Melon you can’t just listen to an album then eloquently dissect all the pros and cons of it and call it a review*

Would've been a 10 if it was called Affluent Suburb Gods

I miss the old earthgang. I don’t blame them for going more commercial, and I still support them, but their EPs and earlier projects were so much more complex and interesting

Strong 7. Some of it I'm not that into, but tracks like "American Horror Story," "Lie to Me" and especially "Smoke Sum" are some of my favorite of the year so far.

Personally this album was at least an 8/10, with what I feel is just a more polished and better version of the more recent dreamville projects

Idk I feel like earthgang have not surpassed shallow graves for toys yet. I might be biased, since it's the first album I heard from them, but the sound they bring on sgft is really special.

CeeLo really dropped the feature of the year so far, he needs to rap more 🤯🙏

have a lovely monday everybody

A solid album. A solid review.

Earthgang made a MBDTF level album already huh

When this album first came out I was really disappointed but as time moved on I re listened and fell in love with the album I’m glad I listened again in the recent months and not left it in the back burner

The title track was such a good tone setter

LIE TO ME is my favorote track

Fair score. The C-Lo track had potential, but as mentioned the heavy handedness prevented it from being enjoyable. Song was too Nick Cannon specific, if this was what Nick think was the reason why people went after him, then it kind of made his original apology insincere.

This whole vid looks like melon has children locked up behind him💀

That Nickthony Nametano there has to be the longest one we’ve got ever

Personally I've never listened to this album and therefore have no opinion of it. Unsubscribed

Future's part on Billi reminded me of the "slob on me knob" part on King's Dead, just totally killed the vibe😭

Awesome review Anthony I'm really glad that you liked this album because I thought it was amazing I would go as far to even say it's a 8 imo the beats flows and lyrics all touched my souls and this might be crazy to say but this is one of my top 5 favorite albums released this year so far

Mr Fantano, will you be reviewing the new Stromae album?

Please Gang of Youths review soon

EarthGang is the new and the only new gen OutKast...

Yea it seems like they’re limited somehow and I don’t know why.

There were some absolute bops on this project but some redundant tracks

i give this album an 8.5 out of 10

I think you're a bit biased being one of the 7 billion members of "earth gang". smh melon

It’s a fun listen with a good message. Solid record.

Melon, you’re holding two children hostage behind a metal fence and they’ve been staring at you for the past 9mins. Please let them out

Agree with this review on all fronts except for ALL EYES ON ME. It shouldn't be taken as a chill track, wholly more banger-ish than relaxing and the production is aggressive to exemplify that. Quality review aside from that.

Billi was such a good song until futures part 😭😭😭

When Dot’s verse starts on Amen 😤

You should check out the new Guided by Voices album (Chrystal Nun Cathedral) - their best album in a decade and way more consistent than the last dozen or so albums...

Great Intro Anthony 👏

shave lookin mad clean tony

They changed their names melon

Review the new Buckshot, you goof

7 seems good enough for Earthgang

My favorite Earthgang project is their short mixtape Royalty and it's bit sad but they havnt done anything better, in terms of their own project. The songs Cocktail, Build, Nothing But The Best ft. Ari Lennox, and Off The Lot are AMAZING songs that made me love them. Those songs are so soulful and stylish and sound like nothing else out there. Mirror Land did something different but the album reay grew on me after a while so now I love it. Ghetto Gods has yet to grow on me like Mirrorland but I do still like the album.

i was waiting for this!!

Was worried this album wouldn’t go over as well as it did for me, but glad so see you actually enjoyed it.

i was so expecting him to shit on this

Is it just me or did j Cole do nothing on waterboys? That song is still one of my new favorites but still.

and im still here wondering what the effect chain for fantanos intro vocals are

Wonder if Cole would sign me when I get better

my sweet mel mel I’m surprised there wasn’t a mention of strong friends sounding almost exactly like a teezo touchdown track.

Everybody in here who calls albums albums instead of projects is cool.

i had fun with this ngl

I really think this is an entertaining album. I'm feeling a light 7

Anthony got that fresh cut

That tangent toward the end where you compared nuclear warfare in Ukraine and racial discrimination in modern America was a bit uncalled for and totally insensitive. Way too early melon!!!

Cmon dawg billi is not the worst song

This was my least favorite project by them. While I do appreciate and resonate with a lot of the lyrical/emotional topics, I felt the rapping and production was all a very boring attempt at being more commercial. Felt clean and unmemorable for the most part.

forgot this dropped. got to listen.

Solid 8/10

What does "If your diamonds don't dance, what's the chain of command?" mean?

Fantano had the same score as me. I’m surprised 😂 usually when I decently like something he either goes higher or lower. Glad we had the same thoughts on this album.

Nick Cannon went WAY harder on his feature than he did on all three of his disstracks combined. 😑

Anthony Fan Shave Tano

I liked the LP. But didn't like how they blatantly bit "Strong Friends" by Teezo Touchdown.

"Billi" slaps so hard, how tf is it the worst track...

S/o to everyone who skips to the end to see the rating

Did you (or anyone who reads this) notice how the first eight lines of Dot’s verse on “Smoke Sum” was NOTICEABLY SHARP intonation-wise in relation to the beat (in a bad way obviously)?? Also, Future had the same problem on ALL of the song “Too Comfortable” off of High Off Life! But I’d say this album is pretty okay, definitely not bad-I’d say a solid 6 and I haven’t even watched the full review yet. ANYONE LMK IF IM TRIPPING ABOUT THE INTONATION ON SMOKE SUM THO!!

this was my favorite album of the year. every song is perfect

It's okay not the best like a low 5 or a 6

This uploaded so late in the night

Waterboyz alone makes this album a 8/10 at least

Probably a 6/10 for me. I thought the first half of the album was just really boring and bland but some of the second half tracks really stuck out to. Still think they work better when they're experimenting.

7 a Godly number 🙏🏽

I give it a 8/10

please do tears for fears fantano

My fan score is 8.5 my review score is 7 slight step up from Mirrorland.

I really enjoyed their robots ep, I guess I really want that again. But it's still available for listening

Hey melon

Review stromae’s new album pls melon!!

Earthgang underrated

this isnt the weekly round up.

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Idk how you could not like that future feature

The album was actually enjoyable, no cap ✊🏽

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