Phyno’s ‘Something To Live For’ exalts excellence and consistency in his decade of craftmanship.
With his first three solo albums, Phyno became an underrated ‘Mr-no-bad-albums,’ kinda like T.I or The Game and here Phyno’s ‘Something To Live For’ exalts excellence and consistency [Review]
His debut, No Guts, No Glory, was the excellent genre-bending Rap album that defined the 2010s and elevated indigenous rap.
His sophomore, The Playmaker, was a career switch into Oliver De Coque-esque singing style that brought him continental smash hits and superstardom.
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While he released the unifying collaborative 2 Kings, alongside his brother, friend, and collaborator, Olamide, his third album, Deal With It was where he truly crowned himself.
As the window of his superstardom slightly slowed down, Phyno released an impressive album, which merged his famed gritty Rap side with his Oliver De Coque-esque side to produce some timeless bops.
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Sadly, the album was slept on outside the South-East. But Ezege never stopped cooking.
He quickly moved to consolidate two things: a more contemporary sing-songy style, drenched in Afro-swing and more experimental dabbles in traditional Igbo pop genres like Ogene, Egedege, and Ekpili.
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The result of his journey so far has resulted in his fourth solo album, which comes with yet another impressive album title, Something To Live For.
In a lot of ways, that title reflects Phyno’s current standing in Nigerian music: a young OG on the fourth of his nine lives in the Nigerian music industry. Money is not an issue anymore, neither is a thirst for stardom.
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He is not as acclaimed as a superstar as he once was, but he keeps going; buoyed by a natural love for music and an appetite to chase new horizons and additional successes.
When you’ve been the dancer and then the music producer from Enugu, who came to Lagos and became a superstar, you don’t see impossibilities.
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The astounding number of Afroswing records (6) on this album, as well as Phyno’s D Smoke feature, might suggest that Ezege has his eyes on the UK and/or American markets/appeal with this one. More so, he blends more English with his Igbo deliveries.
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His demeanor is grown, confident, affirmative, and sometimes contemplative.
Across 16 tracks, Afro-swing forms the bedrock of most tracks, sprinkled with one or two hard-hitting rap records, some Highlife, one Ekpili, and one Amapiano – which is quite amazing, to be honest.
More than anything, this album showcases Phyno’s already documented range.
Ratings:
Production quality
Tracklisting
Songwriting
Intro
Outro
70%
70%
80%
80%
70%
Mid = 0.00
Average = 0.01
Good = 2.5
Excellent = 2.5
Conclusion:
Mp3bullet gives the EP 75% (Good) general rating