Larry June & Cardo – The Night Shift Album Review

The tenth complete-duration LP from Vallejo emcee Larry June. Steadily grinding his ass off on the grounds that losing out of high college by losing his last nine studio efforts in addition to 14 EPs & 7 mixtapes with the highlights of his ever-growing discography which includes the Lex Luger-produced Trap Larry, the Cardo-produced Cruise USA & it’s sequel Into the Late Night, the Harry Fraud-produced Keep Going & greater these days the mobb track-motivated Jay Worthycollab effort 2 P’z in a Pod & greater recently The Alchemist-produced The Great Escape this past spring. So when it became announced that Cardo turned into producing The Night Shift, I went into it knowing this became gonna be at the identical degree as The Great Escape. 

“Clocked In” is a very smooth opener to the album with the bass hitting difficult & pockets on complete whereas “Chops at the Blade” slickly talks about trappin’ like a motherfucker. “Ocean Cuisine” offering 2 Chainz lavishly finds the two trying to make it remaining nowadays simply before “Love of Money” embraces a jazzier, soulful entice sound reminiscent of the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony single “Foe tha Love of $” from the sample to the problem depend also. 

Meanwhile, “Sweet Lady” is extra of a sluggish jam describing a different sort of love for Larry leading into the synth-heavy “Pop Out” offering ScHoolboy Q sees each of them coming collectively to drop braggadocio. “The Great Escape” providing The Alchemist brings Larry with the person who produced his nice album at the mic in order that they boast about being the ones over a pillowy beat, but then “Glasshouse Knockin’” draws suggestion from mobb song instrumentally speakme that traphouse shit over again. 

“Without You” presenting Blxst turned into a decent desire of a unmarried & I can see why because it’s leaning more towards the pop rap style as they inform their great others that they’re the ones even as “GRGP” presenting Peezy & Too $hort brings the trio collectively for a breezy anthem getting on their pimp shit. “Stickin’ & Movin’” has a piece of a funkier flare musically admitting that it’s feeling like 2019 all yet again for him even as Jordan Ward’s hook at the delicately produced “Won’t Wait” needs to be certainly one of my favorites in the course of the LP as Larry talks approximately being good on his personal. 

To begin the very last leg of the album, “Let Me Know” gives off a cloudier vibe acknowledging shit’s changed but she ain’t ever met another man like him at the same time as “Made a Way” offering Payroll Giovanni brings back the synths that allows you to speak about being as fly as they may be. The track “Road Runnin’” gives me a futuristic feeling to the instrumental looking to get the cash whilst “Big Fish” offering Alemán atmospherically talks about putting rap first over the sport in recent times. “The Good Kind” is a wavy closer going in bag mode. 

These men have by no means overlooked in the four-5 years of teaming up with each other & The Night Shift lived up to the expectancies I had going into it continuing to churn out some of his exceptional cloth to this point. Cardo’s production is extra rooted in mobb tune & g-funk rather than the jazzier, drumless loops Uncle Al whipped up on that previous LP matched with equally stable performances from The Freeminded leader & almost all the visitor MCs/singers. Great process all over again, Larry!

Score: nine/10