Now before we even start today guys, I wanna point out something, and that is that this
album has been falsely advertised.
As you can see, the album name is OMGRONNY, which is Ronny J's main producer tag right?
Nothing seems amiss there, everything seems fine, no suspicions right?
However, in one of the tracks he doesn't use that producer tag, he uses his "Ronny J
listen up" beat tag.
What the h*ll is going on, what is that, I thought this was the OMGRONNY mixtape, not
the "Different Ronny J Producer Tags Mixtape".
That skit probably wasn't even worth it, I'm so sweaty now before we start the video.
So Ronny J, OMGRONNY, Is It Good?
Today I'm gonna be answering that.
Is Ronny J's newest album good?
This is CDTVProductions and let's talk about it.
(Intro)
Now one thing that I do respect on here is that Ronny J didn't only produce every track,
he also actually tried his hand at rapping on around 5 of the songs here.
And let me just say, no matter what, I respect that.
When someone handles more than one aspect of their music, I think that is admirable
because they are putting more of the workload on themselves, instead of letting someone
else do it.
However, I do have to say his rapping harboured some less than favourable results.
One of my least favourite tracks on the album OHSHI, is a Ronny J solo track, and lets just
say, the vocals really aren't great on it.
(Ronny J "OHSHI").
The tone he's delivering the vocals in just doesn't sound suited to the beat so it just
results in this really unappealing sound, it's almost like they're in two different
keys.
Then on the opening track Thriller, Ronny's vocals are mixed in this way that just makes
them sound really reverb-ey, and that isn't great either.
Although I'd be lying if I said he did bad on every single track he rapped on here, because
that is not true.
On the flip side of it, one of my favourite tracks from the album called 824 was another
complete solo track from Ronny.
Even though Ronny's lyrics are incredibly simplistic, he has a very nice sense of melody
on this song, which I guess makes sense because he is a producer right.
This can also be seen on the song Costa Rica where he provides a very catchy hook.
(Ronny J "Costa Rica" feat.
Ski Mask the Slump God).
He has a lot of work to do to become a bearable rapper, but he does have some moments on here
that are nice.
Now let's talk about the guest features, because they are almost as important as Ronny
is on this album.
Being an album from someone that's mainly a producer, it has a lot of guest appearances.
I think there's around 10 different features on this project.
And overall, I feel kinda mixed about all these features.
Smokepurpp, who is a rapper I actually enjoy in some instances, just comes with an incredibly
average hook and verse here, I mean this sounds like it could be any one of his random SoundCloud
singles produced by Ronny, its nothing special or out of the ordinary.
We also have Fat Nick who gives a nice enough performance, but he has this high pitched
vocal in the background of his hook for the song Fiji Island, and its actually kind of
annoying.
(Ronny J"Fiji Island" feat.
Fat Nick).
Then we have Danny Towers who, no offence to him, sounds hilarious to me.
This man sounds like a drill sergeant out a cartoon or something, it genuinely made
me laugh when he just burst into the track.
I'd have to say, my favourite guest appearances on here were by Ski Mask the Slump God, and
Denzel Curry who appeared on 2 tracks each.
Now Ski's verse on Thriller was quite nice, but it came off to me as quite weird that
he recycled a few bars from a song he did earlier with Pollari called Creepin'.
I mean Ski you've not been rapping for that long, why are you recycling bars already?
However his verse on Costa Rica was great, it was just a nice, short, punchy verse, and
his flow was brilliant on there.
As for Denzel, he killed it on both tracks.
On the song Glacier he comes with this very aggressive tone of voice, and Denzel is one
of the few rappers that I can actually really tolerate shouting from, because when Denzel
does it, he sounds angry.
He's not pointlessly shouting to give the track some energy that's just not there.
He sounds p***ed off.
There is one thing that ruins that song and I'll talk about that later, so keep that
in mind.
As for his other contribution, Houston, it was another very nice verse.
Denzel did a great job on both his performances on here.
And now let's get to one of the most important aspects of this album, and that is the production,
of course all handled by Ronny J himself.
Now I know what you think, I bet you're thinking that I'm gonna say I didn't like
these beats because of the distortion, but no, a lot of the beats actually aren't distorted.
On most of these tracks the bass is just very loud, but its not overpowering, it doesn't
shake the whole beat up (maybe with the exception of the song Snakes).
On most of them its not distorted.
That's not my issue.
Loud bass, a-ok, distorted bass, that's a no-no.
But I do still dislike most of the production on here, and lemme tell you why.
A lot of the beats on here just sound so uninspired and Ronny seems to follow a very basic formula
that he follows with a lot of the beats on this tape.
If you listen to songs such as One Time, Fiji Island or Trauma, you'll start to notice
that these songs all have the exact same fundamentals.
Not only that, these tracks only have the fundamentals.
It goes like this; a drum pattern, some loud 808's and a single looped melody.
So many of the beats on here just stick to that basic framework, and it makes a lot of
the songs boring despite the fact that most of them are under 2 and a half minutes long.
I feel like he might have played it too safe here, there's nothing innovative about these
beats.
This is a full project so it should have some more ambitious beats, but these just sound
like the same thing that Ronny J has been putting out.
Although saying that, one of the times that he does try to make an instrumental more layered,
it gets in the way of the song, and that is on the track I mentioned earlier, the Denzel
Curry song, Glacier.
I do not know why in the world he did this.
During Denzel's verse, this incredibly loud piano comes into the song, and it completely
overshadows everything Denzel is saying, it overshadows every other sound on the track.
Now granted this piano only lasts about 20 seconds, but it's such an obstruction to
the song.
Why you would want to ruin one of the best guest performances on your album, I don't
know.
(Ronny J "Glacier" feat.
Denzel Curry).
It was obviously intentional, like Ronny knew what he was doing with it, but it was intentionally
bad mixing.
Now keep in mind this is not me saying Ronny J is a bad producer, it's just on this album,
he really doesn't provide his best work.
So as you can tell there were a few aspects of this album I enjoyed, but there was a lot
of stuff that fell short for me.
Ronny J isn't amazing as a rapper yet, the guest verses were mostly mediocre with some
very good performances, and the well produced tracks were few and far between.
There are admittedly a few great tracks on here, it's just not enough to save it in
my opinion.
I'm gonna have to give OMGRONNY by Ronny J a 3.8/10.
That's right, just after I gave my highest score in an IS IT GOOD?
video yesterday, I'm giving my lowest one today.
As you guys know this is just my opinion, and hopefully Ronny can come out with something
that impresses me soon, because like I said, he's not a bad producer, and I would like
to see him improve as a rapper too.
So what do you guys think about this album?
Let me know in the comments below.
(Outro stuff)
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