At the forefront of SoundCloud rappers to achieve massive commercial success, Lil Pump returns with his sophomore effort Harverd Dropout. Themes include doing drugs, partying, being rich, having sex, and rejecting the United States educational system. None of these are things I'm necessarily against, but Harverd Dropout makes me want to reclaim my virginity, flush my weed down the toilet, and get a 4.0 GPA. Without further ado, here's the review.

As far as production goes, it's pretty unimpressive the whole way through. "Drop Out" is pretty much a dead ringer for Rico Nasty's "B*tch I'm Nasty". Diablo uses nearly the same rising synths as Kennybeats but doesn't put nearly as much effort into the song as a whole. "Racks on Racks" is one of the better produced songs, and even then it's still pretty basic. "Too Much Ice", produced by DJ Tree Gotti, just sounds annoying. Most of the producers on this project seem to think that all you need to make a song is an overdriven bass line, an annoying tri-tone loop, and a firing squad of snare and hi hat rolls. Also, most of the songs are only two minutes long, and many of them sound almost identical to one another. I would say that they should have just combined the ones that sounded similar so we didn't have sixteen anticlimactic tracks, but I could barely get through the one song that does reach the 4 minute mark, "Be Like Me".

Lyrically, it's not great either. The majority of "Nu Uh", "Multi Millionaire", and "Be Like Me" are him just saying "nu uh", "multi millionaire", and "everybody wanna be like me", respectively. There isn't that much substance but it's not like we expected much anyway. He clearly isn't a very flexible lyricist, and although it's one of the better songs on here, "Butterfly Doors" is pretty much a carbon copy of "Gucci Gang". By the time "Vroom Vroom" rolls around, I'm tired. (Update, after a minute into it I am annoyed). "Drug Addicts", "Esskeetit", and "Who Dat" make me never want to do drugs again - at least whatever he's on. I will say that although it's pretty crude, "I Love It" is one of my favorite songs on the album. The lyrics from Kanye and Lil Pump are so goofy I can't help but chuckle. I think Lil Pump sounds best when he's not taking himself too seriously. Also, I'm not sure if he's flexing the AP classes he never took on "Fasho Fasho" but it made me laugh.

Let's talk about the features on this thing. "ION" has one of the better features on here from Smokepurpp even though it's an otherwise forgettable song, and I already talked about how I liked Kanye on "I Love It". But from then on, the features fail... epically. Uzi's vocals on "Multi Millionaire" are edited to hell. How much is he getting paid for this? Speaking of getting paid, YG deserves to be sued for rhyming "boom shaka laka boom" with "zoom shaka laka zoom". And Lil Wayne's line about him wiping with hundred dollar bills is just… offensive.

Overall, Harverd Dropout is a pretty abysmal follow up to Lil Pump's debut self-titled album. The whole thing feels like it was made in about a week. It's just lazy and has no real direction anywhere. I'm going to listen to The College Dropout now to cleanse my ears.

Rating: 3/10

Favorites: "I Love It", "Butterfly Doors"

Least Favorites: "Be Like Me", "Nu Uh", "Multi Millionaire", "Drug Addicts", "Essketit", "Who Dat"