Ameer Vann's new EP is great. He has some real fucking bars on it for Brockhampton.
"I ain't no boy in a band, I am more than a man"
"N****s s'posed to stick up for their family, but we see they don't.
I got all that meaning and that gutter they been fiending for"
"Money complicated every issue.
Man it's crazy how the deal with you.
Talk about it like they still with you.
Money complicated every issue."
For those of you that dont know, Ameer Vann is an ex-member of the hip hop boyband Brockhampton. He left the group in May of last year after being accused of being emotionally manipulative, a cheater, and too into bdsm-style sex with two of his exes, along with apparently setting up a friend of one of the Brockhampton members', whom he owed money to, to get robbed.
He admitted to basically all of that on multiple songs b4 the accusations surfaced, and on Twitter during the controversy, though he never told his coworkers who exactly it was he set up to be robbed. He also initially denied the reports regarding his exes to his coworkers (really more like ex-friends now. Some of them he knew since he was a teenager).
While Brockhampton has moved on without Ameer (for better or for worse,) Ameer took a year and a half long break out of the public eye. No one really knew what he was up to, and we only got glimpses of him thru his trainers Instagram and his uncle. That was until a few days ago, when his EP was announced.
A lot of people will hear the EP and feel like he's not apologizing at all, but that's misguided criticism. Half of the EP's subject matter is about how he's fucked up and how he had demons and how his past still effects him.
The shots at Brockhampton just prove that we dont know the whole story. Even now we've only heard the detailed story from Brockhampton. Ameer has only given us bits and pieces of info through songs.
It's likely UMG, the company BH signed to before the Ameer split, gave some sort of ultimatum regarding kicking Ameer out and the rest of the members chose the deal over their friend. Neither Ameer nor his fans absolve him of the guilt. It's just that prior to his departure, BH seemed intent on getting him therapy and working through this with him, so things are fishy. But I dont know shit about shit, so I'll stop there.
As for the actual music, his rapping is better than it's ever been. The biggest fault he had while he was in Brockhampton was that his flows were almost always the same. That isnt an issue at all here, and his versatility as a rapper is further proved because of that.
The beats are the weakest part of the project, but none of them are below average. I expect this is something that'll be improved on any future releases from him.
Anyways, if you're into hip hop, check it out:
