After fans have patiently waited, Maryland rapper IDK has finally released his fourth studio album F65. However, according to Genius, IDK would say this is his tenth album. Moreover, this project touches on many touches regarding race, life, and African-American history. While each track has influences of smooth jazz that one gets lost in, IDK does a great job ensuring the message shines. Although, the rapper has been “ignorantly delivering knowledge” this effort is far from ignorant.
Furthermore, prior to the record’s release, IDK had quite an extensive roll-out that garnered much hype from his fans. Not only that the Maryland rhymer has a solid list of well received that even celebs like the Weeknd rave about his music. Last year he released an EP titled Simple that was short and sweet but packed a punch. The standout track “Dogfood” featuring Denzel Curry, landed on the Weeknd’s radar prompting him to post it on his Instagram. Additionally, this time around, IDK does nothing short of delivering with his new project.
IDK Drops “F65”
IDK paints an F1 racing scenery over beautiful snappy jazz beats that leave you pleasantly surprised. Not only that, the album has a lot of skits that give a spoken word in a speakeasy type of feel. IDK puts a lot of thought into his music, to the point where you don’t know who he’s going to work with. Henceforth, F65 has a lot of great moments from IDK’s guest verses. Surprisingly the musical chemistry between the Maryland MC and Saucy Santana on the track “Pinot Noir” is dope. The most recent single release “Salty” featuring NLE Choppa also showed the rapper’s range when it comes to working with different artists.
Moreover, according to IDK his new album is, “kinda like a matured version of SubTRAP, but I’m talking about people of color in general, not just drugs.” F65 has many great elements that take more than just one listen to catch all the nuances. However, after listening to the singles he released with the complete album, you can see the conceptualism throughout the project. What are your thoughts on IDK’s new album F65? Let the HNHH crew know what you think below!