On his two mixtapes, last year’s Meet the Woo 1 and 2, Pop filtered New York City’s tradition of raucous, streetwise melodramas through the militant spirit of Chicago drill and the woozy, haunting production of London drill. This triangulation of hyper-regional rap elements gave Woo 1 and 2 a narrow focus. By contrast, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, Pop’s 19-track posthumous debut album, marks a dramatic expansion — and dilution — of his signature sound. 808 Melo, who produced about two-thirds of Pop’s music to date, is less of a defining presence here. While Stars features a handful of hell-raisers in the vein of the Woo tapes, it also works to merge drill’s swooping rhythms with the kind of austere Atlanta trap that Migos and Zaytoven mastered mid-decade (“For the Night,” “Snitching”), as well as the arpeggiated guitar lines that ornament the music of A Boogie, Gunna, and other melody-minded rappers (“The Woo,” “Enjoy Yourself”). The album also takes many of its cues from mainstream R&B and rap of the late Nineties and early 2000s, with samples and interpolations of Playa’s “Cheers 2 U” (“Diana”), Too Short’s “Shake That Monkey” (“West Coast Shit”), Tamia’s “So Into You” (“Something Special”), and Ginuwine’s “Differences” (“What You Know Bout Love”).
| A1 | Bad B**ch From Tokyo (Intro) |
| A2 | Aim For The Moon |
| A3 | For The Night |
| A4 | 44 Bulldog |
| A5 | Gangstas |
| A6 | Yea Yea |
| A7 | Creature |
| A8 | Snitching |
| A9 | Make It Rain |
| A10 | The Woo |
| B1 | West Coast Sh*t |
| B2 | Enjoy Yourself |
| B3 | Mood Swings |
| B4 | Something Special |
| B5 | What You Know |
| B6 | Diana |
| B7 | Got It On Me |
| B8 | Tunnel Vision (Outro) |
| B9 | Dior |
