Apart from minor costume changes from project to project- Curren$y with Alchemist Curren$y with Styles P Curren$y over Ski Beatz- his releases are beginning to blur together, even, in some cases, inducing déjà vu. If you have listened to one Curren$y release since 2010, there are zero earth-shaking revelations to impart. Reviewing new Curren$y albums has, in a way, become a diminishing-returns exercise: He has long settled into a groove that hardly rewards fresh commentary. Relax: This is going to be another Curren$y album. Apart from this buzz-harshing moment, The Stoned Immaculate proceeds apace, and you can feel the air clear, everyone settle down. In fact, the second Curren$y reclaims the spotlight from his guest on the second verse, things snap into focus, or rather dilate back out- Curren$y's music is best experienced through a dim glow- and stays there. "What It Look Like", the song that Wale snickers all over (he's also acquired a repellent habit of pausing to chuckle at all his own lines) is otherwise a fine example of the sort of song Curren$y has made his career perfecting: languid, precise rapping unspooling generously over high-thread-count, lush jazz-funk music.
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