‘God Did’ – DJ Khalid – Album Review
By: Wyatt Rosier
Overview
Dj Khalid isn’t particularly known for being an extremely skilled rapper or vocalist in this fast growing industry. Uniquely on his new album ‘God Did’ He gathered a large number of big named artists to feature on the album to create buzz and talk in the music community. He put out big marketing campaigns for his new album, and even managed to secure a posthumus feature.
‘God Did’
Currently on the album he has features from Drake, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Future, Quavo, Takeoff, SZA, Travis Scott, Gunna, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Lil Baby, Jadakiss, and an interesting feature from Juice WRLD. With all these features it has brought attention from fans all across the board. Just these features alone is a sight to see, let alone all in the same album, there is no way he could mess this up right? Hopefully we see growth from DJ Khalid with a quite interesting track list.
This album has 18 tracks with a wide range of names listed here:
1. NO SECRET
2. GOD DID
3. USE THIS GOSPEL (Remix)
4. BIG TIME
5. KEEP GOING
6. PARTY
7. STAYING ALIVE
8. BEAUTIFUL
9. IT AIN’T SAFE
10. LET’S PRAY
11. FAM GOOD, WE GOOD
12. BILLS PAID
13. WAY PAST LUCK
14. THESE STREETS KNOW MY NAME
15. Juice WRLD DID
16. JADAKISS INTERLUDE
17. ASAHD AND AALAM CLOTH TALK
18. GRATEFUL

While listening to this album, it kind of started off very mainstream with the Drake feature. It is a decent Drake song to say the least, but that’s all it is. It’s nothing special or attention grabbing, and the beat just sounds like every other beat Drake uses in his albums. noticed DJ Khalid never sings in any of the tracks in this album, which comes off really odd, considering it’s supposed to be his work. But when the features are doing most of the heavy lifting, is it really something that uniquely belongs to him?

On his main track ‘God Did’, which is 8 minutes long, he doesn’t sing once except for the cliche over the top intrusive producer tag at the beginning. The people who carry the song are Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross, and even with the feature collection, the song is a total mess with three totally different rapping styles all on the same beat. The main track for this album is a total mess and poorly thrown together, it doesn’t even bother to stay on topic of what I assume is supposed to be a religiously based album. The only song I could find on this album that seemed to stay on topic was, ‘Use This Gospel’.Which features Eminem and Ye. This track keeps the lyrics on topic, but at the same time the beat and flow feels more directed towards kanye in this song, Leaving Eminem out to dry.

A large portion of the tracks on this album have their usual obnoxious producer tag; which is truly just a repulsive listening experience. The one song I was excited for was, ‘Juice WRLD Did.’ He managed to butcher it as well. The song has his extreme producer tag, but he makes it extended compared to the other songs. The song comes off as Juice WRLD basically praising DJ Khalid, coming off with bad taste. It’s just disrespectful to have a deceased artist singing praises about you on your own album.

He wraps the album up with the last song featuring Vory pretty well. The problem is it feels like this track just skipped over the fact he had Drake and other artists rapping about materialistic things on a religiously themed album.

Overview
The album overall was okay, it wasn’t amazing, but then again none of his current discography is really that striking. I came in expecting something halfway decent, but left with just a bad taste in my mouth. The album felt thrown together and rushed, adding to the fact that half the album isn’t even on theme. It felt like DJ Khalid spent more time on the advertising and trying to collect features than he did trying to just make the music enjoyable. The album has been one of the better pieces of garbage made this year, but nonetheless garbage.

Final Rating:
4/10