Blu & Exile - "Miles" Album REVIEW

Who remembers listening to your parents records on the old record player? Do you remember how long the albums use to be? Well, guess what? Chicken Butt! Sorry, I couldn't resist. I'm still a kid at heart. This "Miles" album explains exactly how long this album is. It's so long, you may think it repeated. It's the reason it took me so long to review. Let's go, but have patience.

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Blu & Exile (Parental Advisory)

"Miles" (20 Tracks)

Release date: July 17, 2020 Length: 1:35:29

EXPLICIT

01. *Blue

02. When The Gods Meet Ft. Ishe

03. *True & Livin'

04. Miles Davis

05. *The Feeling Ft. Jacinto Rhines

06. Music Is My Everything Ft. Jimetta Rose & Choosey

07. Bright As Stars Ft. Ishe, Iman Omari & Aceyalone
08. *Blue As I Can Be

09. *You Ain't Never Been Blue

10. Miles Away Ft. C.S. Armstrong

11. Troubled Water Ft. Gappy Ranks

12. Roots Of Blue Ft. Jacinto Rhines

13. African Dream Ft. Gappy Ranks & Aloe Blacc

14. *Requiem Of Blue Ft. Fashawn

15. *The American Dream Ft. Miguel, The Last Artful & Dodgr

16. *Dear Lord Ft. Jimetta Rose

17. To The Fall, But Not Forgotten

18. All The Blues

19. Spread Sunshine

20. *The End Ft. Cashus King, Adad & Dag Savage

(Entire Production: Exile)

In Bold: Favorite Tracks

With Asterisk: Rotation Songs in My Playlist

Review:

I'm just a light skin nigga my nigga

I don't see the glass half full i see the whole pitcher
Am I blue like the [?] blues or like B.B. King and Muddy Waters singin' the blues
Billie Jean in blue jeans singin' the blues
Or like anything for the youth singin' the blues
Not right like Langston Hughes - "Blue" (Blu. Miles, 2020)

The world has slowed down with the Covid allowing people to actually pay attention to themselves. I know I've been working on myself during this time. It's been eye opening to me on how I handle stressful situations, but it also has allowed me to spend more time with my favorite genre of music, Hip-Hop. And with this project, I needed the additional patience I've learned through this epidemic.

It's an album that took me a couple of days to listen too at first, but now it seems shorter to me, based on how great the album is. Sometimes I tune into just the lyrics, sometimes just the music. If you reading Blu x Exile, thank you for this incredible piece of work. I'm so happy I love Hip-Hop.

Blu & Exile blessed us with 20 tracks, that equaled over an hour and thirty minutes. And when I did research, this is the longest album out and it's not a double album. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is 80:42. The Beatles' "White Album clocks in at 93:33. George Harrison's "The Concert for Bangladesh" is a triple LB that is only slightly longer at 99:32.

You don't fit in that school, you got beat up in a fight
Your car got a flat tire, and you got one on your bike
You try to be like your idol, you heard he say he don't like you
You had a fight with your rival and lost the championship fight
You couldn't walk at graduation though you tried hard to make it
But everybody don't make it man (You ain't never been blue) - You Ain't Never Been Blue (Blue. Miles. 2020)

The album is named partially based of the legendary Jazz great Miles Davis, but the project is mainly about the premises of life. "It felt like we had been miles away from where we started, and it felt like we had a lot to say about all those miles that we've traveled since we've begun," Blu told Bandcamp. Blu's grandfather introduced Miles Davis to the young lad, but he didn't really go back to Jazz until his 20's. He actually named his son Miles as a tribute.

The actual title of the album is "Miles: From An Interlude Called Life" which brings more value. When I first heard just Miles, I didn't know where they were going with this project. And this project is eight years in the making since their last project, "Give Me My Flowers While I Can Smell Them". Also, check for their first cult classic collaboration, "Below The Heavens".

The good news about this review is, I'm going to keep it short. The album is long enough, so I won't punish your eyes today.

Overall I'm giving this longest album on the planet 4.8 MICS. This album is close to a #HipHopClassic. And some days, I may call it one, but for now, let's just give these artist their flowers while they can smell them.

All I want is the American pie
You know, a big fat slice of that American lie
Same dream they sold that made America fly
Into the sky, to the moon, back to Houston, bullshit - The American Dream (Blue. Miles. 2020)

My Grade For Album (Rate: 1 Lowest and 5 Highest)

Beats: 5

Lyrical Content: 4.5

Album Structure/Theme: 5

Youtube review coming soon! Please enjoy Tajh Malik's below for the time being.

>>Blu x Exile - "Miles" YouTube Review<<

Cincerely Yours,

Marquis J. Walker

Father, Blogger, Youtuber and Ear For Good Music Expert

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