Kid Ink - Missed Calls EP

Kid Ink
Missed Calls EP
2018
Spotify

I randomly started following Kind Ink a few years ago because He was an LA guy that was making some decent headway in the hip hop scene. However as I listened to more and more I saw what a Tyga clone Kid Ink was becoming. The flow was the same, the lyrical content was the same hell even the two sound similar when they are rapping. For some reason though Kid Ink keeps working with the best in the business even though each new record arrives with little fanfare if any. Have you ever heard a Kid Ink song and knew it was a Kid Ink song? I thought not. Yet He promotes each new project like He is running a victory lap. This new EP is his first since last years 7 Series , but if you are looking for growth you have come to the wrong place. Kid Ink talks about two things: his clout and sex. Each track is a new place to be braggadocios or to write the most explicit lyrics humanly possible. I love a good song about sex, but Kid Ink is so damn explicit it comes across as childish. Teenage boys talk about "pussy" and "titties" less than Kid Ink and when He has features they fall into the same traps He does. There are some major names on this record like Lil Wayne, Rich the Kid and Saweetie but they all sound generic and pedestrian when working with Kid Ink. Some of the beats are decent, but they are always just off in some way or another.

Songs like "Lob" feel like Kind Ink is playing a game He doesn't understand. He tries to emulate what is hot on the radio right now, but it never seems like an original thought. Did Lil Wayne make a song that sounded like this? Let's do that too. Does Travis Scott use autotune? Let's try that too. You never get to know anything about Kid Ink besides how he wants to "do his bitches" and "fuck shit up" He gives you nothing else. I think that is one of the reasons I have been following him for so long, I don't quite understand how music this bad can keep being made album after album. Kid Ink never shows any growth, never tries something new and instead just keeps making the same two songs over and over again. It's infinitely frustrating, but not because it's talent wasted, it's more a situation of how many opportunities is this guy going to get? Nothing has popped yet but He continues to make music and produce albums like every song is a hit. They aren't, He isn't and we have yet another disappointing Kid Ink Record. I've probably written that same line 5 times now over the history of this blog.

2.0 out of 10