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"Legendary" is the seventh studio album by American rapper Tyga, released on June 7, 2019, by Last Kings Records and Empire Distribution.
On the day of the release,Legendary was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Legendary debuted at number 17 on the US Billboard 200 with 24,000 album-equivalent units, of which 3,000 were pure album sales. The album marks his highest-charting project since 2015’s Fan of a Fan: The Album collaboration with Chris Brown.
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Legendary recognizes that the formula of “Taste” is, not only a successful one, but what a lot of people want and expect to hear from him. In fact while longtime partner/collaborator/producer Jess Jackson has no involvement on this album, a lot of the people involved with this album are Tyga mainstays, such as the aforementioned D.A. Doman, Dupri or DJ Mustard. While this is by no means Tyga's worst album (because again, Kyoto most vividly exists), it’s the most conservative and regressive as it finds him strip-mining his catalog from the beginning of the decade-- but without the more ambitious or experimental decisions. Besides maybe the Dr. Luke assisted (and probably TisaKorean inspired) “Maykherkhum,” so much of it remains in the same mid-tempo post-ratchet sound that was pioneered by Tyga’s early successes such as “Faded” and “Rack City.”
Legendary is undoubtedly a bounce back from the Tyga we found at the beginning of 2018. At the same time, there’s an unmistakable air of "playing it safe" at the expense of any extreme emotion-- whether that be satisfaction or otherwise. Nevertheless, Tyga’s proven more than a few times that counting him out entirely is a fool’s errand, and that he has the talents and the capabilities to prove doubters wrong. He also has the talent to do a little more than that however, and one hopes that next time around, the rapper makes an album that offers just a little bit more than what's tried and true.
Reviewed by Maxwell Cavaseno for hotnewhiphop.com.
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