USee4Yourself
2021 album by IDK
USee4Yourself Cover for standard and Complete editions; deluxe edition features a blue background
Released July 9, 2021 Genre Hip hop [ 1] Length 43 :51 Label
Producer
IDK & Friends 2 USee4Yourself Simple.
"Shoot My Shot" "Peloton" "PradadaBang" "Red"
USee4Yourself IDK . It was released on July 9, 2021, through Clue No Clue and Warner Records .[ 2] Young Thug , Offset , Westside Gunn , the late MF Doom , Jay Electronica , Lucky Daye , Sir , T-Pain , the Neptunes , Swae Lee , Rico Nasty , Slick Rick , and Sevyn Streeter ; Trippie Redd , Jvck James , Shy Glizzy , Lil Yachty , JID , Kenny Mason , and Royce da 5'9" additionally feature on its deluxe edition. IDK primarily handled production himself, alongside high-profile producers including ATL Jacob , DJ Dahi , CashMoneyAP , and T-Minus . It serves as a sequel to his debut album Is He Real? IDK & Friends 2 (2020), his soundtrack for the documentary Basketball County: In the Water
Background
IDK stated, "I needed to make this album to become a better person", and expressed during the process, "took away a sense of fear... of people finding out who I am".[ 3] [ 4]
Critical reception
USee4Yourself received "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 5 reviews.[ 5]
Track listing
USee4Yourself – Deluxe edition Title Writer(s) Producer(s) 18. "Dinner Date" (featuring Trippie Redd ) 2:46 19. "Temporary Love" (featuring Sir; extended version) 4:16 20. "Puerto Rico" (featuring Jvck James ; version 2) IDK Rascal Blue Rondo[c] Buddah Blessed[c] 3:18 21. "2 Cents" (featuring Shy Glizzy ; extended version) 2:24 22. "Justin Like Martin" Mills 2:33 23. "King Alfred Plan" (featuring Lil Yachty ) IDK Tane Runo Blue Rondo[a] 2:37 24. "Cereal" (featuring JID and Kenny Mason ) 3:19 25. "Rain " (SWV cover) Brian Alexander Morgan 3:46 26. "Dogs Don't Lie" (featuring Royce da 5′9″ ; extended version) DJ Dahi McKenzie IDK[c] Blue Rondo[a] 2:57 Total length: 70:50
Notes
^[c] ^[a] The Complete Edition features instrumentals of all standard edition tracks.
"Dogs Don't Lie" contains a sample of "Cracking", written by Brian Aronow, Jesse Brotter, Jonathan Gilad, and Caroline Ramani, and performed by Crumb .
"Red" contains a sample of "Hier Aujourd'hui Demain" written and performed by Michel Ripoche and Phillipe Briche; and interpolations of "Still Fly", written by Byron Thomas and Bryan Williams , and performed by Big Tymers .
"Puerto Rico" contains a sample of "Nature Boy ", written by Eden Ahbez , as performed by the Singers Unlimited , and an interpolation of "Can't Get Enough ", written by LaShawn Daniels , Fred Jerkins III , Rodney Jerkins , and Kelly Price , and performed by Tamia .
"10 Feet" contains a sample of "Monkey on the D$ck", written by Renetta Lowe and Byron Thomas, and performed by Magnolia Shorty .
"Peloton" contains a sample of "Payback Is a Dog", written by Thomas Bell and Kenneth Gamble , and performed by the Stylistics .
"Hey Auntie" contains a sample of "Love Theme" from the Black Shampoo
"Cry in Church" contains a sample of "The Prayer IV", written and performed by DMX .
Personnel
Musicians
IDK – vocals (all tracks), programming (tracks 18, 25, 26)Aishah White – additional vocals (tracks 1, 17)
Andrew Schulz – additional vocals (track 1)
Javonté – additional vocals (track 1)
Eden Eliah Nagar – drum programming (track 2)
Mike Tyson – additional vocals (track 3)Blue Rondo – additional vocals (track 10), programming (19, 25, 26)
Jason Brown – additional vocals (track 10)
Mother Marygold – additional vocals (track 11)
City Rominiecki – additional vocals (tracks 12, 13)
DMX – additional vocals (track 16)Take a Daytrip – programming (track 18)Westen Weiss – programming (track 18)
D Smoke – programming (track 19)D.K. the Punisher – progrmaming (track 19)
DJ Dahi – programming (track 26)Kurtis McKenzie – programming (track 26)Technical
Calin Enache – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6, 10, 11, 14–24, 26), mastering (17–26), engineering (2, 3, 9, 11, 14, 15, 21)
Josh Gudwin – mixing (track 2)
Mike Dean – mixing (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9, 11–13), mastering (1–17)Eden Eliah Nagar – mixing (tracks 8, 25), engineering (all tracks), mixing assistance (1–7, 9–24, 26)
Vic Wainstein – engineering (tracks 2, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21)
Chaz Sexton – engineering (tracks 9–11, 15, 19, 20)
Kouroush "MyBoyRoach" Poursalehi – engineering (track 9)
Mike Larson – engineering (track 12)
Kahlil Vellani – engineering (tracks 14, 18, 22, 23)
Kai Lasker – engineering (track 14)
Bernard "Bezo" Chavez II – engineering for Sevyn Street (track 16)
Anthony Kilhoffer – engineering (track 18)Robert "Nimbusmixedit" Middleton – engineering (track 21)
Christo – engineering (track 24)Kenny Mason – engineering (track 24)IDK – arrangement (track 12)
Frank Hamilton – arrangement (track 23)Guy Carawan – arrangement (track 23)Pete Seeger – arrangement (track 23)Zilphia Horton – arrangement (track 23)
References
^ a b Maplethorpe, Dale (July 9, 2021). "Album Review: IDK – USee4Yourself " . Gigwise . Retrieved October 1, 2021 . ^ "IDK | Credits" . AllMusic . Retrieved 2021-09-28 .^ "On New Album, Rapper IDK Reconciles A Disparate Self: 'And Here We Are Today' . NPR.org . Retrieved 2021-09-28 .^ "IDK's Vulnerability Is a Superpower" . Complex . Retrieved 2021-09-28 .^ a b "USee4Yourself by IDK" . Retrieved 2021-09-28 .^ "USee4Yourself – IDK" . AllMusic .^ "IDK – USee4Yourself " . Clash Magazine .^ Brake, David Aaron (July 28, 2021). "IDK Sabotages His Vision on USee4Yourself " . HipHopDX . Retrieved October 1, 2021 . ^ McMullen, Chase (July 13, 2021). "IDK balances emotional weight with silky beats on the diverse USee4Yourself " . The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved October 1, 2021 . ^ "IDK – USee4Yourself album review" . NME . 7 July 2021.
