There are interludes that emphasize dreamy, jazzy production, and “Tryna Find My Way” lacks any rapping at all, leaving Dom to sing instead. Rather than verbal intercourse, Dom’s words are a part of the bigger picture that is the sensory experience of listening to his music. Don’t get it twisted, though-Dom can spit when he wants to, like on “Black Bentleys” and the end of the first half of “The 5 Year Theory.” Still, Get Home Safely has its fair share of lyrical duds (“I had the Craig Mack tape with that one single/Lotta niggas back then had one single”) that would stand out if the album wasn’t inundated with complacent bars throughout. His music transports the listener to his sunny side of the world from beginning to end. On Get Home Safely, Dom’s sound has become something of a dream world that can’t be fractured or interrupted. The project isn’t exactly headphone music to zone out, but more like background jams that sound great while you’re sipping margaritas or playing basketball. Lovers of 2012’s The Yellow Album are the first to admit that Dom makes strictly “summer music” that can accompany a lazy day of lounging and partying.
Eminem’s “Rap God” proved that surgical talent doesn’t always equate to enjoyable music, and Dom excels in making the latter. Yet Dom has never tried to be a rappity-rap spitter. He doesn’t have to talk about traveling to Europe to sound like royalty-Dom can make a Häagen-Dazs sundae sound like a What Would Yeezus Do?-style stunt. At a time when rappers are dropping names of foreign countries that they’ve never even been to, it’s a fresh change of pace to hear a rapper saying he doesn’t want to leave his people. He’s not a gaudy show-off, preferring Mickey D’s over five-star restaurants (“Dominic”) and being on the block instead of shopping in Rome (“17”). That alone is a crowning achievement.ĭom has a gift for elevating everyday events and making them sound majestic, or at the very least, effortless. But his new album Get Home Safely will mark the first time that the independent artist is being sold in Best Buy. His debut mixtape 25th Hour dropped in 2008, and by 2011 he was iTunes-certified with From the Westside With Love II on iTunes. It’s been a long time coming for Dom Kennedy’s first physical retail album to drop.
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