Taking a more pared-down approach than on 2020 studio album
Bill Israel,
Haitian Boy Kodak sees the Florida MC keep things simple with an eight-track, feature-less mixtape. In typical
Kodak fashion, the project swerves between loose and melodic trap styles; the rapper proves equally confident across triplet-flow trap ("Z Look Jamaican"), zeitgeist-heavy melody ("Dirty K," "Don't Leave Me"), and his signature slurry sonics ("Maffioso," "Basement on Fire"). With stories of heartbreak and court dates, the tape offers some of the rapper's celebrated introspection, bolstered with the hedonism and swaggering that have characterized much of
Kodak's work thus far. The project's title -- an obvious homage to
Kodak's Haitian roots -- surfaces only briefly in the lyrics, with
Kodak embracing Haitian Creole for the chorus of "Dejanbem" and the second verse of "Oracle." ~ David Crone