Ventura
After the hard left turn of Oxnard, Paak sinks back into the bubbly smooth grooves that got him noticed.
Hot on the heels of the interesting but flawed Oxnard, this is a great leap forward for the California rapper
The California soulman-MC ponders grown-up love on the companion to last year’s “Oxnard”
The album borrows heavily from the singer’s consistently brilliant 2016 record ‘Malibu’, itself a fresh slice of soulful funk
Paak won a Best Rap Performance Grammy award for "Bubblin" and returned in April with Ventura, at which point his preceding Oxnard wasn't even six months old.
From Venice to Ventura, what you see (and hear) is what you get with Anderson .Paak. Such is the life of a genre-straddler in the modern mus...
The album was met with critiques of lack-lustre impressions and dissatisfied fans, leading to whispers that the quick turnaround of his brand-new record Ventura was to shift the focus away from its bad publicity.
Hot on the heels off Malibu and Oxnard, comes Ventura the third in California-native Anderson .Paak's trilogy.
It's only been five months since Anderson .Paak released his major label debut 'Oxnard' and, despite some commercial success, the album
The album serves as a reminder of the magic that can result from looking to the past to inform the future.
The rapper’s new album feels like a riposte to criticism of his last one, amping up the subtlety and dialling down the grand ambition
Anderson .Paak - Ventura review: can't a young man dream? can't we all live the life on a widescreen?