Most of the creativity is gone from Hoodie’s lyrics, replaced instead by a sample of stock tales of Saturday night debauchery and the many women that Hoodie apparently now attracts. Most songs are now reliant on catchy hooks and relatable, cautious verses.
As a result, his song compositions have changed vastly from his other efforts. Hoodie has now adopted a delivery heavy on sing-song rhythms and slurring words together that falls somewhere between his Pep Rally days and Wiz’s Rolling Papers era style. Most all of his songs now seem to borrow heavily from Wiz Khalifa- he even goes so far as to steal the song structure and portions of the beat of Wiz’s party anthem “No Sleep” on lead single “No Interruption.” Surprisingly, the Wiz influence works very well on All American. That album, along with newfound blogosphere hype and relative fame, brought another facelift to Hoodie’s ever-changing style.Īlthough All American sees Hoodie ridding himself of his Gambino-like rhyme schemes, he has become mired in another identity crisis. When Childish Gambino came along and supplanted him as having the best punchline deliverer around, Hoodie started to steal heavily from Gambino’s style, resulting in the unequivocal disaster Leap Year.
Mixtape Pep Rally seemed to cement him as one of the more clever MC’s in the hipster-hop game. Review Summary: For the second mixtape in a row, the most creative part of Hoodie Allen is his nameįor a rapper who has only been in the game for two years, most of which while also working as a Google employee, Hoodie Allen has undergone many changes in identity.