May as well go for some rap/hip-hop while I'm here. Not too often I feel that a rapper's lyrical material will turn to the likes of the seasons (maybe “Bitch you're cold as winter” or something) but neverthless Chris Brown did include a track on one of his albums that really screams to be included just for the title. What the song is actually like I don't know, but I guess we're about to find out.
Title: Autumn Leaves
Format: Album track
Written by: Chris Brown, Leon Youngblood, Kendrick Duckworth (Lamar), Melin Watts, Mark Pitts
Genre: Hip-hop/R&B
Performed by: Chris Brown and Kendrick Lamar
Taken from: The album
X by Chris Brown
Year: 2014
Well, there's a pleasant guitar and piano intro with what sounds like a female vocal before the beat comes in, but to my surprise and delight it's a slow ballad, not without its autotune but you can't have everything. Slightly harder kind of beat coming in now, but still slow, and there's a nice lyric:
”It seems that the autumn leaves are falling/ I feel like you're the only reason for it.” Then we get Lamar coming in with his rap, which quite honestly for me ruins the song. Don't see the need for it at all but that's hip-hop for you. It's not to be fair a hard rap, and it works relatively well with the music, but as usual we have to have the expletives. I mean, I'm not trying to be a prude, but why do we need the f-bomb in a song that doesn't require it?
Good enough song, but the addition of just that one f-word gains the video the warning “Explicit” and it really does not deserve that. Not quite sure why many rappers seem to think they're obligated or even duty-bound to drop f-bombs everywhere. It doesn't make you harder, you know, the more times you swear on a record.
Things I like about this song:
1. Good vocal, even if he does use autotune
2. Nice instrumental parts
3. Good imagery in the lyric
Things I don't like about this song:
1. Lamar's contribution: I feel it ruins it and is unnecessary
2. The f-bomb, again totally pointless and just dropped either for shock value or because he doesn't know any better.
Rating: 