Last Friday Atlanta hip-hop artist Lil Baby released his new album “It’s Only Me,” and after listening to it for the first time (instead of doing school work), the album was overall a decent listen.

But before I dive deeper into the album it’s important to go over Lil Baby and his success.

Lil Baby is an Atlanta-based rapper that has been rising into the mainstream spotlight exponentially in the last couple of years. Known for hits “The Bigger Picture,” “Yes Indeed” with Drake, and “Drip Too Hard.” Lil Baby has gained a large fan base and has rose to the top with his second studio album My Turn peaking at number #1 on the Billboard 200. My Turn also had multiple songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Now onto his newest release”It’s Only Me.”

The album contains 23 songs with it being one hour and five minutes long. The album has eight total features including popular rap artist Future and that’s where our review begins.

Lil Baby found a music style that is more of a strength and ran with it, however this can lead to a feeling of repetitiveness or all of his songs sounding the same. In order to counter this artists have features from other artists but the features on this album are not strong.

With a total of 23 songs, which is way too many for a rap album, the eight features fall short and don’t help counter the feeling of every song sounding the same. This may or may not be a real complaint but the album does not contain a song that’s gonna get crazy numbers and be played everywhere.

Obviously there’s no way to predict whether there will be that huge popular song, but that’s just my first impression. There are positives to the album, Lil Baby does his thing and the highly thought of flow is still present and consistent throughout the whole album. The production is also good and the album does a great job of providing songs that would be perfect for a hype video.

Overall the album is decent with main criticisms being that it’s too repetitive and too long. On the other hand the biggest positive takeaways are good production and Lil Baby’s rapping in general.

If I were to give a number rating after one listen, I would give it a 6/10.