''Introverted Intuition'' is the debut studio album by American singer and rapper

Lance Skiiiwalker Lance Howard, better known by his stage name Lance Skiiiwalker, is an American singer, rapper and record producer from Chicago, Illinois. He is signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and his debut album, '' Introverted Intuition'', was released in ...

, released on October 18, 2016, through

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(TDE). It features guest appearances from

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and Michael Anthony. Skiiiwalker, who produced the album under the pseudonym Rocket, worked alongside

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, and

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for a majority of the album's production.

Background

On May 20, 2016, Lance Skiiiwalker signed a recording contract with

, and announced that he was working on his debut album ''Introverted Intuition''. The album's lead single, "Speed", was release alongside his signing. "Could It Be", the second single from the album, was released on May 27. A third single, "All Stops", was released on August 5. Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, the chief executive officer of TDE, revealed on October 14, 2016, that ''Introverted Intuition'' would be released on October 18. The day before its release, Skiiiwalker unveiled the album's tracklist and released the music video for "Lover's Lane".

Critical reception

''Introverted Intuition'' received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Aaron McKrell of ''

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'' described the album as a "flawed but intriguing foray into abstract soul over a futuristic soundscape." He commended Skiiiwalker's vulnerability, but found the four skits of him portraying a

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to be "both obnoxious and unoriginal," and the voice distortion techniques to be a "hit or miss". Writing for ''

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'', Calum Slingerland thought that the album "fails to paint a vivid picture of who kiiiwalkeris, either as an artist or person." He also criticized his voice distortions, writing that it "not only runs stale over the listen, but also hurts him more when pushing his range into its higher reaches, revealing that he isn't the most tuneful of vocalists." ''

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''' Marshall Gu called ''Introverted Intuition'' the "worst album released by a TDE artist so far". He criticized Schoolboy Q's "three half-sung lines" on "Toaster" and the lack of a personality Skiiiwalker showcases throughout the album. Gu believes that ''Introverted Intuition'' "sounds like the exact same thing everyone’s been pushing for a while now in the corners of

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and

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. It’s the narcotic haze of

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's ''

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'' without the benefit of a

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feature, the lugubriousness of '' I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside'' without the benefit of a prodigy behind the microphone,

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without the connections,

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without the capacity to sing, and all of

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's affiliates without the co-sign."

Track listing

References

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