USee4Yourself
USee4Yourself is the second studio album by American rapper IDK. It was released on July 9, 2021, through Clue No Clue and Warner Records. It features guest appearances from Young Thug, Offset, Westside Gunn, the late MF Doom, Jay Electronica, Lucky Daye, Sir, T-Pain, the Neptunes, Swae Lee, Rico Nasty, Slick Rick, and Sevyn Streeter; Trippie Redd, Jvck James, Shy Glizzy, Lil Yachty, JID, Kenny Mason, and Royce da 5'9" additionally feature on its deluxe edition. IDK primarily handled production himself, alongside high-profile producers including ATL Jacob, DJ Dahi, CashMoneyAP, and T-Minus. It serves as a sequel to his debut album Is He Real?, and follows IDK & Friends 2, his soundtrack for the documentary Basketball County: In the Water.
Background
IDK stated, "I needed to make this album to become a better person", and expressed during the process, "took away a sense of fear... of people finding out who I am".Critical reception
USee4Yourself received "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 5 reviews.Track listing
Notes- signifies a co-producer.
- signifies an additional producer.
- The Complete Edition features instrumentals of all standard edition tracks.
- "3018091821" contains a sample of "Body Song", written by Benjamin Cooper and performed by Panares.
- "Dogs Don't Lie" contains a sample of "Cracking", written by Brian Aronow, Jesse Brotter, Jonathan Gilad, and Caroline Ramani, and performed by Crumb.
- "Red" contains a sample of "Hier Aujourd'hui Demain" written and performed by Michel Ripoche and Phillipe Briche; and interpolations of "Still Fly", written by Byron Thomas and Bryan Williams, and performed by Big Tymers.
- "Puerto Rico" contains a sample of "Nature Boy", written by Eden Ahbez, as performed by the Singers Unlimited, and an interpolation of "Can't Get Enough", written by LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney Jerkins, and Kelly Price, and performed by Tamia.
- "10 Feet" contains a sample of "Monkey on the D$ck", written by Renetta Lowe and Byron Thomas, and performed by Magnolia Shorty.
- "Peloton" contains a sample of "Payback Is a Dog", written by Thomas Bell and Kenneth Gamble, and performed by the Stylistics.
- "Hey Auntie" contains a sample of "Love Theme" from the Black Shampoo soundtrack, written and performed by Gerald Lee.
- "Cry in Church" contains a sample of "The Prayer IV", written and performed by DMX.
Personnel
Musicians- IDK – vocals, programming
- Aishah White – additional vocals
- Andrew Schulz – additional vocals
- Javonté – additional vocals
- Eden Eliah Nagar – drum programming
- Mike Tyson – additional vocals
- Acyde – additional vocals
- DJ Honey – additional vocals
- Jet Luna – additional vocals
- Blue Rondo – additional vocals, programming
- Jason Brown – additional vocals
- Mother Marygold – additional vocals
- City Rominiecki – additional vocals
- DMX – additional vocals
- Calin Enache – mixing (recorded music)|mixing], mastering, engineering
- Josh Gudwin – mixing
- Mike Dean – mixing, mastering
- Eden Eliah Nagar – mixing, engineering, mixing assistance
- Vic Wainstein – engineering
- Chaz Sexton – engineering
- Kouroush "MyBoyRoach" Poursalehi – engineering
- Mike Larson – engineering
- Kahlil Vellani – engineering
- Kai Lasker – engineering
- Bernard "Bezo" Chavez II – engineering for Sevyn Streeter