When I first heard "Bad and Boujee" I thought sure that Migos were about to release a project that had banger after banger after banger on it. Then after hearing T-Shirt my mind was made up that there was no possible way for Migos to release an album that was anything short of excellence. Then the album came out and long story short, I was underwhelmed. However, this is not the short story, this is the long story. "Culture" by Migos is a lazy project with songs that all sound the same, except for the singles. Nothing on this project stands out to me, in fact I hate more songs on it than I like. Quite frankly I am disappointed in this Atlanta Hip-Hop collective that showed true potential back when they released No Label.
Outside of the three singles this project has no good songs on it what-so-ever. It doesn’t help that the singles were the first tracks on the album. After these songs "Culture" takes a massive nose dive into the abyss of being a bad album. What got me through this album were the songs that had other people on them which were also not good at all. Gucci Mane shocked me with his trash-ass verse on "Slippery," it felt that he just took the stuff he didn’t use on "Burrprint 2" and gave them that. This was the worst I have ever heard Gucci Mane perform. That one verse was better than anything that Quavo, Offset, or Takeoff. I think feature wise 2 Chainz had the best verse on this project with Gucci Coming in at second and Travis $cott taking second place. It just seemed like everyone on this project was trying to out-bad themselves. What makes matters worse is the rapping wasn’t even the worst thing about this project.
What’s even worse than the rapping is the production. Now before I tear into the horrible production, I would like to preface by saying Metroboomin’ and Zaytoven did very good jobs on this project. However, every other song by the other producers, which I will not be naming because I don’t feel like doing accurate research (some reviewer I am), was terrible. "All A**" sounds like a Chris Brown song. "Kelly Price" sounds like a trap rendition of an Odd Future song. "What the Price" sounds like The Weeknd but on more drugs. I could go on, but I feel that you get the idea. The production is not necessarily lazy, it’s just annoying. I cannot stand any of the songs and they frustrate me to no end to listen to. It’s like if someone just kept hammering nails in your ears every five minutes. That would probably be better than listening to this album though.
What frustrates me the most is how this album is structure. As I mentioned before the singles are the first thing that you hear on this project. I feel like if an artist does that the artist is making a claim that the singles are not even the best thing about the project. Furthermore, the artist is making a claim that the album is going to be so good that the singles, which are also amazing, are not even going to be your favorite tracks on the album. So, when I looked at the tracklist and saw that, I automatically thought the album would be amazing the fact that the singles were the only thing about the project that I like makes this album ten times worse than it already was. The project also lacks consistency; not only is it all over the place but, it is just plain dumb. I feel that Migos went commercial in a bad way with this album. Which makes me sad because I always want to like rappers that rep Atlanta.
As a parting word, this album sucks don’t listen to it. If you’re in the mood for Migos, listen to "No Label 1" or "No Label 2." This album is garbage and I feel like a sucker for thinking it was going to be anything different.
