![]() He attended an arts high school (NYC’s High School of Art & Design), and is an unabashed student of visual art and fashion. This is Still Striving (and Ferg’s) biggest strength, and most glaring weakness: His style is his substance. More than anything else, the crowded real estate takes some of the pressure off of him as a writer he rarely contributes more than a single verse and a hook. Of the 14 tracks on Still Striving, only three are without guest verses, and with few exceptions (Cam’ron, Busta Rhymes), most of the guests are lyrical lightweights that avoid showing him up. Like Ferg Forever, his latest tape feels light and loose, a collection of mostly throw-away verses and guest features that serve more to flex Ferg’s network than anything else. For Ferg, it appears to be an indictment of the record’s quality, or perhaps how much time he spent on it. ![]() The line between “mixtape” and a proper “album” has long been inexorably blurred, with the distinction lying mostly in how the artist chooses to refer to it.
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