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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tara Joshi

French Montana: Jungle Rules review – cleverly curated bangers

French Montana
‘Understands how best to capitalise on features’: French Montana.

The rapper’s cohesive second album nods to 2017’s most zeitgeisty sounds: swirling trap on Migo Montana with Quavo, sultry R&B on She Workin with Marc E Bassy, even dancehall with the air horn-heavy Formula, featuring Alkaline. Montana understands how best to capitalise on features – Pharrell rapping on Bring Dem Things is glorious – yet simultaneously, when drawing on his Moroccan roots with Arabic-style beats on Famous, this is an artist trying to keep a sense of his own voice throughout the cleverly curated party songs. At 18 tracks, Jungle Rules is too long, but provides the “playlist generation” with bangers to choose from.

Watch the video for Unforgettable by French Montana ft Swae Lee.
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