When It's Dark Out

“In one year, I went from overlooked to overbooked.” The line from “Sad Boy” encapsulates G-Eazy’s mindset on *When It’s Dark Out*. He raps long and hard about the changing landscape (“One of Them” with Big Sean) and the spoils of success (“Order More,” the trap stomper “You Got Me”). But it’s late-night confessionals like “Nothing To Me,” “Me, Myself & I,” and “For This” that elevate G-Eazy from rap VIP to MVP. The album’s highlight, “Everything Will Be OK”—which finds him reminiscing and sending messages to the family and friends he left behind in his quest for immortality—is one of the most vulnerable, soul-baring tracks you’ll hear.

G-Eazy is a white indie rapper from the Bay Area who has built a sizable cult fanbase. His second record, When It's Dark Out, is a deliberately serious affair that refuses to play to his strengths.

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The rapper’s second major-label album has hooks aplenty, for the first half at least

'When It’s Dark Out' by G-Eazy, album review by Graham Caldwell. The full-length is now out vis RCA/Sony Records.