My Name Is My Name

by Pusha T

Without turning a release review into a treatise on the artist, I'll just say that I think Pusha T has an incredible voice, flows extremely well, and knows his lane. He's the undisputed king of modern coke raps and modern Arby's raps. In his (admittedly, pretty specific) lanes, no one is better. Nothing gets me going quite like Pusha T's best material and I will always seek out anything he releases to give it a shot. All that said...

My Name Is My Name contains some of Pusha T's finest work, but it's ultimately a fairly uneven record with a few too many skippable tracks to be fully recommendable. Even with that in mind, Nosetalgia, Numbers on the Boards, and King Push are so strong that I almost don't care that the rest of it is so middling. It's a decent start-to-finish listen, but sags in the back half, for sure.