If Fetty Wap's debut self-titled LP (out today) was rushed out to take advantage of his seemingly unstoppable momentum, it doesn't sound like it. Fetty Wap is a massive 20 tracks long, and they're all great. If Migos aren't better than the Beatles, Fetty Wap definitely could be.
If he never scores another streak of four simultaneous top-ten hits, Fetty Wap still feels like a feat, if only because it avoids the star-studded bloat that defines so many major-label rap debuts instead of letting the artist develop an identity at their own pace. Staying in his lane has won him multiple hits before this even dropped; why should he stray?
But there is enough modern romance and melodic sense (and quirkiness, such as the mumbled hook of Time) to make a decent album-within-an-album, and to mark Fetty Wap as a winning new talent in hip-hop.
How We Do Things should definitely be the next single (after 679, Again, and RGF Island have run their courses). It is easily the highest charting non-single on iTunes, and it's my personal favorite album track as well.
Way too repetitive. I think it's the type of albums where you enjoy listening to the songs invidually but not in full + it's so long. The songs are way too similar.
