As with Lil Boat, released only four months earlier, follow-up
Summer Songs 2 consists almost strictly of tracks lobbed like pies at the face of a hip-hop purist. The bulk of these rhymes, as with those of the debut, are willfully juvenile --
Lil Yachty is only 18 -- delivered with an aloof irreverence. Purpose-wise, provocation is second only to goofing off. There's even a track titled "DipSet," after the like-named divisive crew whose
Juelz Santana, compared to
Yachty, is long-winded. The youngster sounds more natural, like he's putting forth less effort, when he projects enough to signify alertness. This mixtape succeeds at sustaining the rapper's 2016 visibility. ~ Andy Kellman