G.I.H.F., the debut studio album from Alabama rapper Rylo Rodriguez, follows his 2019 mixtape Rogerville (made in collaboration with fellow Mobile, Alabama rapper NoCap) and several early tracks notable for their inventive sample-flipping. Rodriguez's rise to mainstream success got a significant boost from his affiliations with Lil Baby, who appeared on several of Rodriguez's tracks before offering him a record deal. Throughout G.I.H.F. (short for "Goat in Human Form"), Rodriguez combines elements from several different phases of his development, delivering autotuned lyrics about street struggles over huge beats that sometimes lean on the kind of samples his earliest tracks were built on. The booming 808s, trap hi-hats, and eerie piano samples that swirl on "Walk" are the perfect atmosphere for Rodriguez's pained flows, and woozy verses from Lil Baby and 42 Dugg make it one of the album's best tracks. Sad-hearted guitar samples on "Dreaming" and the floating fragments of R&B vocals on "Body for Body" call back to Rodriguez's earlier material, and he uses the sentimental production to accentuate bars about betrayal, lost friends, jail time, and striving for better days. The majority of G.I.H.F. centers around these themes of hardship, and Rodriguez's somber perspectives are broken up on the best tracks by guest appearances from Jackboy, Moneybagg Yo, and Yo Gotti on the energetic, string-sampling album standout "For Me."
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