5 year anniversary reissue on white vinyl - NF’s fourth studio album The Search was produced by Tommee Profitt - the album features hiphop, pop and cinematic elements, of which are evident in tracks such as “When I Grow Up,” title track “The Search,” and lead single “Time.” The Search is a dark record. NF may be a Christian rapper, but his primary muse is misery, not faith, and although he uses too many words, he doesn’t mince them: His struggles with mental illness are life-threatening. On “Hate Myself,” he pictures himself in hell, where he belittles his own corpse: “You ain’t nothin’ but poor and weak.” On “Leave Me Alone,” he’s undone by obsessive-compulsive thoughts, like a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story. And on “Like This,” “Trauma,” and a few other somber tracks where he isn’t scream-rapping, NF begins to sound less like Eminem and more like Mac Miller circa Swimming, maybe the last major rap record that was this blunt about its creator’s longing to escape his suffering.
| A1 | The Search |
| A2 | Leave Me Alone |
| A3 | Change |
| A4 | My Stress |
| B1 | Nate |
| B2 | Time |
| B3 | Returns |
| B4 | When I Grow Up |
| B5 | Only |
| C1 | Let Me Go |
| C2 | Interlude |
| C3 | Hate Myself |
| C4 | I Miss The Days |
| C5 | No Excuses |
| D1 | Like This |
| D2 | Options |
| D3 | Why |
| D4 | Thinking |
| D5 | Trauma |
