Baby Keem's second album, The Melodic Blue, was a step forward sonically, lyrically, and thematically as he continued his ascent in the hip-hop scene. He also toured on Kendrick Lamar's The Big Steppers Tour, serving as both an opener and a closer alongside Kendrick.
- Josh Wilson
FanSided Managing Newsdesk Editor
How this fandom is changing entertainment
The most unique thing about Baby Keem is the number of songs that have beat switches included in them. While this has been used previously by other artists like ScHoolboy Q and Travis Scott, arguably no artist uses it as frequently and deliberately as Keem”It stems from too many records ... When you sit down and make beats all day long and you just have, you're kinda just going and know exactly what you want, and then sometimes you may get something that's left field ... And you're like is this a hard song on its own, or can it go somewhere else? It's a level of knowing ... It's like, the switch-up has to be better than the first part. It can't be a worse record. And then I think about live, too, like live it goes crazy, it goes so crazy. It's just building that into the album as well,“ he told Ebro Darden. Most artists think about the album first and integrate it with the live performance second. Keem is integrating both, making for epic shows, and other artists are going to have to follow suit if they want to keep pace with the expectations Keem is creating in the industry.
What we’ll remember about this fandom a decade from now
The way Baby Keem's album, The Melodic Blue, made us feel. For me, it was a flurried mix of excitement, rage, patience, and fascination with Keem's desire to put the best product out. Albums we hang on to have a tendency to bookmark how we felt in particular life stages and cultivate those feelings when we return to listen decades later, and I'm excited to feel these things again when I come back in 10 years.