Hope is a rap album by NF where he paints a story comparing himself as a person now vs his
past. The three most listened to songs in this album are Hope, Motto, and Happy. It was
released on April 7th 2023 and has a combined listeners of 176.7 million across 13 songs.
The most listened to song in this album is Hope with 52 million listeners. This song really hits his
mentality between the present and his past. Throughout the entire song it is him going through
his morals to a beat and rapping “against” his past represented by a more demonic voice. He
also raps about his regrets and then tries to bring the song to a more inspirational song by trying
to tell the listeners that they can do what they put their mind to basically. The song consists of
vocals, violin, synth, a bass boosted sound effect of some sort and piano.
The next most listened to song is Motto with 28 million listeners. Which is a song going through
why he does the things he does and also a response to the diss to him by the one and only
Eminem. During this song he talks about how he is in the industry fully now and how different it
is now then it was when he was in his room making music. He also says how he could do all
these big things like hiring 50 people to help him write songs, or write songs for a radio show,
etc.
The third most listened to song is Happy with 38 million listeners. This song is him confronting
his depression and talking about it and talking about how he wouldn’t know who he would be if
he was happy, and how he has gotten so used to being depressed that something feels wrong
when he isn’t. This song really hits my heart and at least allows me to relate somewhat to this
song and for some parts of it it’s like listening to someone else rap/sing about my problems
which I have a feeling some people could relate to as well.
This album even to me is a really good album, which I don’t tend to listen to rap all that often.
I’m going to have to rate this album a 9/10 because the way NF writes his music allows for his
listeners to relate to him in a way because he writes about what is going on in his life whether
it’s positive or negative and that’s probably why he is popular now, Because the things
happening in his life are happening to other people all around the world.
