Light of Mine

It is hard to personally fathom the amount of positive vibes required to give yourself the nickname SuperDuperKyle, but hey, more power to him. The Ventura, California-born rapper gets it—he grew up on the beach, he has a self-described “soccer mom voice,” his sunshiny beats are pure Nickelodeon—and on his debut album, he owns it all with self-aware assurance that’s hard to hate on. Feel-good bops abound, like his Lil Yachty-featuring breakthrough “iSpy,” a carefree ode to shooting your shot on the ’gram. But lest you fret that Kyle is in danger of overdosing on optimism, *Light of Mine* keeps it real on tracks like “Ups & Downs”: Nobody’s happy all the time, and that’s perfectly all right.

The carefree California rapper’s debut is an exceedingly joyous and self-aware slice of pop rap.