Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM

Pitchfork 81

The triple album from Slim Jxmii and Swae Lee is their clearest personal statement yet, a shining triptych of what it looks like to be young, black, and euphoric.

The Guardian 60

This triple LP lets the chart-topping MCs show off everything from spacey psychedelia to brisk trap – but its sheer size ends up diluting their pop genius

No one is ever going to accuse Rae Sremmurd of lacking ambition. It’s not so much that the duo announced that their third album was made in the image of Outkast’s 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, although that in itself obviously constitutes fighting talk: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below went 11 times platinum in the US alone, won three Grammys and so dominated pop music on release that the only thing that could depose its first single Hey Ya! from the top of the US chart was its follow-up, The Way You Move. It’s more that the Brown brothers and their producer Mike Will Made-It have suggested that it’s an improvement on Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. In addition to two solo albums, Swae Lee’s Swaecation and Slim Jxmmi’s Jmxtro, it also features a collaborative effort: “Outkast fans, we still waiting on that, the next project with both of them together,” said their producer, clearly no great fan of Outkast’s admittedly flawed but undoubtedly collaborative 2006 follow-up Idlewild.

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