Lazer Dim 700 released The Rule of Success on June 24, his latest full length in a release schedule that has not slowed down all year. Thirty tracks, just over an hour, out across SoundCloud and the usual stores. It is also one of the weakest things he has put his name on.
This one lands at a 2 out of 10.
The issue is not that The Rule of Success is offensively bad. It is that it is inert. Lazer Dim built his name on a specific bit: blown out 808s, beats that sound like they are caving in on themselves, and a stream of consciousness flow that treats coherence as optional. On the early run of tapes that was a real novelty. A few years and a stack of projects later, it is a template he refuses to touch. The titles rotate, Xans, Collektable, Crush Drink, Kushhed, but the song underneath them barely does.
Thirty Tracks, One Idea
Length is the tell. A 30 track album is not a statement, it is a content dump, and The Rule of Success never earns the runtime. There is no sequencing logic, no peak, no track that reframes the ones around it. By the back half you are not listening to songs, you are watching a counter climb. Nothing here argues for Lazer Dim as anything other than the guy who made one viral loosie and decided the formula was finished.
The audience is starting to say it out loud. Reception has been tepid since the album went up, sitting on a low user score within a day of release. Listeners in the same underground rap forums that championed him early now describe the output as oversaturated and the gimmick as wearing thin, with more than a few openly predicting a fast fall off if he keeps flooding the feed instead of building the sound out. When the people who put you on are bored, that is the score talking.
“The titles rotate. The song underneath them barely does.”
There is a version of Lazer Dim 700 that takes the chaos he is known for and makes something with it. The Rule of Success is not that, and it is not close. It is a 2 because the ceiling was always there to clear and he did not reach for it.
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