And though that's perfectly understandable, it's quite jarring considering that Juicy is trading in his ability to make the listener believe that he's self-destructively destroying his body regardless of the consequences. The latter part of the tape gives shine to blog favorites like A$AP Rocky, Spaceghostpurrp, Alley Boy, and Kreayshawn, all of whom sound much too eager to please. The latter, done by notable up-and-coming producer Harry Fraud, features a lush, soulful sample that's a breath of fresh air amongst the album's suffocating palette. Interspersed throughout the album are songs like "Big Bank"(produced by Drumma Boy, one of the most diverse producers in the South) and "Stoners Night 2", which break up the slight monotony but deserve to be highlighted even further. The opening quarter of the mixtape is especially inspired, as it finds Juicy at the point where he's most concentrated on casually, almost mindlessly, talking shit. It's a shame, too, because a combination of the best Luger-style tracks and the few songs that go in a different direction would make for a very good album. Blue Dream & Lean could be chopped in half and be no worse for the wear, but that's par for the course. The flip side of that, of course, is that a 28-track mixtape featuring Juicy J chanting over largely similar beats is far too many tracks, especially on the heels of two related tapes. Lesser artists have tried much harder to achieve the same effect and failed, and Juicy pulls it off effortlessly. The result of Juicy's chanting about taking drugs over tracks that are largely similar is that he pulls you into his world, one where narcotics blur everything together until one day you have a 28-track mixtape, yet you still need to title every song, but you're so stoned that you just pick the dominant line from every chorus. On the one hand, there's cohesion to Blue Dream & Lean that serves it well. The success and failure of the mixtape are two sides of the same coin.
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