Album Review: JACKBOYS

Travis Scott is an unbelievable artist! Not only is he capable of making hit records, but he also knows how to make futuristic trap music. In JACKBOYS, Travis proves that he can play mentor to trap artists that are beneath him.

While JACKBOYS is a short body-of-work (It’s only seven tracks long), I do think it accomplishes its main mission - to push trap music forward. So how were the JACKBOYS able to do this? By rapping/singing over instrumentals that felt dynamic/futuristic, and by embracing styles of rapping/singing that is unchained and completely unpredictable.

I’m not the biggest fan of Don Toliver, so hearing him throughout JACKBOYS didn’t do much for me (Some people think he had a helluva showing on this album). I am a big fan of Travis Scott, and was disappointed that he wasn’t on this album more (He was on four songs). As for Quavo, Offset and Young Thug, I loved what they gave us on the songs they had guest appearances on. I didn’t love what Lil Baby, ROSALIA and Sheck Wes provided us with on the songs they had guest appearances on.

JACKBOYS feels like a trap-rap tasting.