We All Shine
| YNW Melly
We All Shine
On January 17, 2019, while incarcerated, Demons released We All Shine, his second commercial mixtape, consisting of 16 tracks. The project featured collaborations with Kanye West and Fredo Bang. A music video for "Mixed Personalities" featuring West was released with the album.-Wikipedia
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DJ Booth
Per the title, We All Shine is a brighter and, at times, more sing-songy affair. Here, when Melly doubles down on his signature gun and prison talk, he proves himself to be an artist growing into his own. Yet, when he wanders into freewheeling territory, Melly often loses sight of why his music is successful.
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Pitchfork
A true child of SoundCloud, the small-town Florida rapper trades some of his storytelling skills for enhanced fidelity on this Kanye West-assisted project.
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Rhyme Junkie
Melly is not seasoned enough to release a fifty-five minute long album. If he creates a shorter album about personal plight with his infectious and gritty delivery, he’ll make a great record. If he doesn’t, he’ll continue to make formulaic rap albums.
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Hot New HipHop
This is Melly's sophomore effort following his debut I Am You, which touched down last August. Kanye West and Fredo Bang are the only guest appearances on the 16-track album.
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The Ratings Game Music
While, for me, this album isn’t full of game-changing or ground-breaking music, it also isn’t terrible. There were 7 to 8 solid/good songs out of 16 in total, which in perspective, isn’t that bad.
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Spill Magazine
This album highlights his growth throughout the last year, presenting a more polished version of his previous work. The enhanced spacing and precision makes We All Shine cleaner and more distinctive than his SoundCloud material from the past.
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HipHopDX
The emerging artist from South Florida has released We All Shine, which includes a collaboration with Kanye West.
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Rolling Stone
When YNW Melly released We All Shine earlier this month, listener attention was focused primarily on “Mixed Personalities” — the track featuring a high-profile guest turn from Kanye West. But the album’s standout is “No Heart,” a harsh, unfriendly, yet hyper-melodic track that furthers rap’s current obsession with liquid guitar loops.
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The FADER
YNW Melly's new record We All Shine is here. As promised, the album features an appearance from Kanye West on a song called "Mixed Personalities"— West's first feature of the new year. The two also shared a video for the track, which pairs the two rappers with a squadron of robotic cyborgs.
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All Music
There are still shades of the reflective lyrics, sinister energy, and youthful vigor that comprised the best of the rapper's early songs, but emotional threads on We All Shine tend more towards relationship issues and romantic drama.
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Passion of the Weiss
When he bares his soul on We All Shine, Melly is magnetic. But We All Shine is often more potential than execution.
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Spin
The most striking thing about We All Shine, the latest project from South Florida rapper YNW Melly, is how much more melodic it is than his gruffer debut tape, last year’s I Am You. Melly possesses an untrained, warbling singing voice with a skeevy but sweet vulnerability to it, but he is also a charismatic, hyperactive rap talent.
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The Observer
The production of “We All Shine” is best described as appropriate. Just as YNW Melly pounded his fist as the beat to write much of his work, the underlying instrumentals provide a sufficient framework for Melly to display the heart of his music, his voice.
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The New Yorker
The nineteen-year-old rapper takes plenty from the gospel of Future, but, on “We All Shine,” he injects a disarming levity into his blues.
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The Fresh Committee
YNW Melly’s debut “We All Shine” is a Ballad of Trials and Tribulations. Giving his album a play for the first time, I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it from front to back.
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Rock NYC
Excellent emo-rap via the mean streets of Florida, autotuned yet catchy and while the milieu and the world it arrives from is as mean as streets can get, Melly can sing love songs as well.
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