Album Sequels: Music Conspiracy

3.12.20

Whenever I hear about an album sequel, I get super excited, and then extremely disappointed. I just was talking about this yesterday, which all stemmed from Eternal Atake. Lil Uzi announced that he will be dropping the second half of his album, Eternal Atake. I was thinking, I really don’t need that right now. The album was okay, but half of it was boring, it just didn’t leave me wanting more. Then, I heard it was going to be filled with these songs that we’ve heard clips of, that we’ve been waiting on for years, but had never dropped until now. For that, I want this half of the album. I need the music that’s been in the vault. But to me, that is not Eternal Atake music. It should have been its own title if it was enough to be a whole album, or, just a surprise ‘bonus track’ on the original.

The images above are a ton of album sequels, that I do not think lived up to their prequel. Not to say they were bad, they just were not the same flow, sound, feel, content, etc. No Ceilings 2, however, that was bad. No Ceilings was probably the greatest mixtape of all-time. When the sequel came out in 2015, I was so pumped, I thought it was going to be the greatest comeback of Lil Wayne. I absolutely hated the album. Not only was it bad, but it was nothing like No Ceilings. The whole tone, vibe and energy was completely different. On top of this, they were all remixes to very popular songs. I still to this day, am confused why this was not called Sorry 4 The Wait 5.

These albums I don’t think aligned with their prequels, and should’ve went a different route. I think the only time have two completely different styles and calling it one album, would be Scorpion, with it’s Side A and Side B, so you know it’s two different tones, one overall concept. Not that I liked that album, but I see what Drake thought he was doing there.

Luv Is Rage and MMLP were both a lot better than their sequels. They were more intense and high level energy. The sequels aren’t bad, but I don’t put them on the same level as the previous albums. Luv Is Rage was definitely my favorite Uzi. He felt much more like a Philly rapper then, whereas now he’s basically a SoundCloud-autotune rapper that has been around the longest. I was definitely pumped for MMLP2, and I did enjoy it. But there was some weird, deep, slow stuff that definitely wasn’t on the original. Completely different stages in his life, I get it, but just call it something else. I think Culture III was probably the most anticipated album of the Migos generation, and it was absolutely trash. I genuinely thought the Migos would have broken up by now, because of how awful that album was.

If you’re going to make a sequel to your album, you better come with everything you had from the first one, times ten.