Camille Onyaire

Album Review for Kehlani by Kehlani Respectfully, we’ve reached a point where we need to have a conversation about her music. Yes, the album is soulful (in some cases), yes the album has some interesting features, but overall the album is really missing one thing and it’s glaring. Creativity! This album, from a production standpoint, is bland and lacks true varied sound quality. Out of 17 tracks more than half the album sounds virtually the same in either the beat, the cadence, vocally, or in song structure. It feels like one long ass run-on sentence and that’s very unfortunate considering how well versed Kehlani actually is. Majority of the features didn’t help because you have more of an upbeat sound and a bunch of rappers trying to match methodical vocals on a single track. Now it’s not all bad. Lyrically she’s really touching on some new feelings of joy so it’s not all doom and gloom and you can hear the growth in her music. She’s not the same woman she once was and that allows her music to have a different tone and perspective on what happening to and around her. Leon Thomas adds a pretty nice feature, as does Brandy but honestly the album just feels stuck in a place of redundancy. People who are fans of her will tell you that you’re wrong for not liking this and I’m gonna be honest, they’re tripping. Using known sample flips and having bland music is crazy, but that’s where we are with this. Final Score: 3.5/10

And if I said that was the best thing I’d ever seen in my life from him?

Chris Brown feat Leon Thomas ‘Fallin’ music video out now.

This is a very commercial r&b Kehlani album. It is good yes but leans heavily into nostalgia essentially abandoning her unique sound.