Summer Songs 2

On his latest mixtape, the divisive Atlanta rapper sounds best when chasing fresher, weirder, spacier styles instead of trying to live up to hip-hop’s storied traditions.

As with Lil Boat, released only four months earlier, follow-up Summer Songs 2 consists almost strictly of tracks lobbed like half-baked pies at the face of a hip-hop purist.

It's important to get one thing out of the way early: Lil Yachty is not a good rapper. Even in an age where it's perfectly acceptable to be...