SremmLife 2

Rating

Album: SremmLife 2
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Start a Party	More Info...
2)	Real Chill (Feat. Kodak Black)	More Info...
3)	By Chance	More Info...
4)	Look Alive	More Info...
5)	Set the Roof (Feat. Lil Jon)	More Info...
6)	Shake It Fast (Feat. Juicy J)	More Info...
7)	Take It Or Leave It	More Info...
8)	Came a Long Way	More Info...
9)	Now That I Know	More Info...
10)	Patti Cake	More Info...
11)	Just Like Us	More Info...
12)	Over Here (Feat. Bobo Swae)	More Info...
13)	Swang	More Info...
14)	662 (Feat. Impxct & Riff 3x)	More Info...

Album: SremmLife 2
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Start a Party	More Info...
2)	Real Chill (Feat. Kodak Black)	More Info...
3)	By Chance	More Info...
4)	Look Alive	More Info...
5)	Set the Roof (Feat. Lil Jon)	More Info...
6)	Shake It Fast (Feat. Juicy J)	More Info...
7)	Take It Or Leave It	More Info...
8)	Came a Long Way	More Info...
9)	Now That I Know	More Info...
10)	Patti Cake	More Info...
11)	Just Like Us	More Info...
12)	Over Here (Feat. Bobo Swae)	More Info...
13)	Swang	More Info...
14)	662 (Feat. Impxct & Riff 3x)	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Mixers: Stephen Hybicki; Randy Lanphear.
Recording information: Bass Recording Studios, Atlanta, CA; Chalice Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; D-Brady Studios, Memphis, TN; Ear Druma Studios, Atlanta, GA; Gucci's Home Studio, Atlanta, GA; Hit Factory, Miami, FL; Sauce Studios, Atlanta, GA; Studio City Sound Studios, Studio City, CA; Treesound Studios, Atlanta, GA.
Creator: Stephanie Hsu.
Photographers: Julot Bandit; Gunner Stahl.
Coming two years after they hit big with the singles "No Type" and "No Flex Zone," plus one year after they dropped their debut album, SremmLife, Mississippi rap duo Rae Sremmurd return with more reasons to swag, dab, and chill, but not flex. Kicking off with the aptly titled "Start a Party," this sophomore LP is a much more druggy affair than the duo's debut, as it stumbles up to space like Future on a bender. Highlight "Look Alive," which comes courtesy of the album's main producer Mike Will Made It, glides with an ultra-sheen and a galaxy-sized echo that's as beautiful and as vast as they come, while the Gucci Mane feature "Black Beatles" churns like a robot gone full Terminator as drum machines pound in circles before they fall into a chasm. "Do Yoga" ("All my girls do yoga, then get high at night") warps traditional Asian music into something Desiigner would welcome on his mixtapes while many of the other songs drift into nightmare landscapes and dank territory, although it's all intoxicating. Big exceptions come when Juicy J goes full strip bar on "Shake It Fast" and when DJ Mustard and Lil Jon join forces for the crunk-trap track "Set the Roof." Lyrically, it's the same Sremm swagger as before with boasts like "I got Playboy bunnies on standby," all of it delivered in an infectious style, even with the slow tempos. Hotter singles make their debut a better buy, but for a group pegged as a one-hit wonder early on, SremmLife 2 dispels that myth with style. ~ David Jeffries

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Much of SREMMLIFE 2 is basically a modern reboot of high-octane Southern crunk music, complete with cameos from vintage champagne sprayers like Lil Jon and Three Six Mafia's Juicy J. Here, Mike Will's beats are often made to tear clubs up..."

Entertainment Weekly - "[A]n ambitious collection brimming with beats from mentor Mike Will Made-It..." -- Grade: B-

Pitchfork (Website) - "The album's default setting is synthpop, retrofitted with Mike Will's disorienting array of bells, whistles, tones, and clattering drum kits."