![]() ![]() Presumably, this isn’t his next big statement album, but a stop on the way to album number two. This is the first project he’s released since the surprising, ebullient Good For You, which saw the rapper expanding his horizons as an artist after catapulting to fame with one of the most unique hits in rap in the past few years. As for Aminé himself, he’s given ONEPOINTFIVE a title that hints at its place in his catalog. “They,” presumably, are other rappers he’d rather not name. ![]() “They call their albums mixtapes because, if it flops, it’s an EP.” “Mixtapes are albums, and albums are mixtapes,” Aminé says (to himself) in a promotional video dropped just hours before the release of ONEPOINTFIVE. In the past few years, rappers releasing new music have often drawn distinctions between what is an album versus what is a mixtape (or, in Drake’s case, what is a playlist). Aminé, who dropped a surprise project called ONEPOINTFIVE on Tuesday night, opted to call it an “EP/LP/Mixtape/Album.” Aminé, the Portland rapper best known for his 2016 sleeper hit “Caroline,” has a bone to pick with how rappers classify their albums. ![]()
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