DJ Khaled "Khaled Khaled" Album Review

DJ Khaled has been promoting Khaled Khaled since
his last album dropped in 2019. No one really knows why and how
Khaled is able to have more guest appearances than an Obama All
Black White House party. But he keeps getting them.


Khaled Khaled is a 14 track effort by We The Best/ Epic Records,
a division of Sony Music Entertainment. A legacy project, Khaled
kneels in the Garden of Holy Mountain on the cover in prayer
surrounded by his two sons Asahd and Aalam who along with Allah
are executive producers.


The album soberingly starts off with the Ain’t No Love sample and
the haunting but resurrecting sound of negro spirituals. A
grateful Lil Wayne and a recovering Jeremih croon survival at all
cost as the choir’s melody sets the tone for a wild ride.


The irony and artistry of a song named Thankful, sampling Bobby
Bland’s Ain’t No Love track, released in 1974 and famously
sampled by Jay-Z in 2001 for his Blueprint Album cut of the same
name, affirms Khaled’s ability to resurrect familiar sounds
and make them new.