Introverted Intuition

On May 20, 2016, Lance Skiiiwalker signed a recording contract with Top Dawg Entertainment, and announced that he was working on his debut album Introverted Intuition.{{Cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Victoria |date=2016-05-20 |title=TDE Announces Signing Of Lance Skiiiwalker |url=https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.38900/title.tde-announces-signing-of-lance-skiiiwalker |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=HipHopDX |language=en}} The album's lead single, "Speed", was release alongside his signing.{{Cite web |last=Lamb |first=Karas |date=2016-05-20 |title=TDE's Newest Signee Lance Skiiiwalker Plants Flag w/ "Speed" |url=https://www.okayplayer.com/news/lance-skiiiwalker-tde-speed-mp3.html |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=Okayplayer |language=en}} "Could It Be", the second single from the album, was released on May 27.{{Cite web |last=Diep |first=Eric |date=2023-05-27 |title=Watch TDE's Lance Skiiiwalker Awkwardly Seduce a Girl in "Could It Be" Video |url=https://www.complex.com/music/a/eric-diep/lance-skiiwalker-seduces-girl-could-it-be-video |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=Complex |language=en-us}} A third single, "All Stops", was released on August 5.{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Darryl |date=2016-08-09 |title=TDE's Lance Skiiiwalker Makes "All Stops" On His Quest To See The World |url=https://www.vibe.com/music/music-news/lance-skiiiwalker-all-stops-video-443651/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=VIBE.com |language=en-US}}

Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, the chief executive officer of TDE, revealed on October 14, 2016, that Introverted Intuition would be released on October 18.{{Cite web |last=Ivey |first=Justin |date=2016-10-17 |title=Lance Skiiiwalker Drops 'Lover's Lane' Video, Unveils 'Introverted Intuition' Tracklist - XXL |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/lance-skiiiwalker-lovers-lane-video-introverted-intuition-tracklist/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=XXL Mag |language=en}} The day before its release, Skiiiwalker unveiled the album's tracklist and released the music video for "Lover's Lane".{{Cite web |last=Espinoza |first=Joshua |date=2016-10-17 |title=Listen to Lance Skiiiwalker's 'Introverted Intuition' Album and Watch the Video for "Lover's Lane" |url=https://www.complex.com/music/a/cmplxjoshua-espinoza/skiiiwalker-introverted-intuition-lovers-lane |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=Complex |language=en-us}}

Introverted Intuition received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Aaron McKrell of HipHopDX described the album as a "flawed but intriguing foray into abstract soul over a futuristic soundscape." He commended Skiiiwalker's vulnerability, but found the four skits of him portraying a disc jockey to be "both obnoxious and unoriginal," and the voice distortion techniques to be a "hit or miss".{{Cite web |last=McKrell |first=Aaron |date=2016-10-22 |title=Review: TDE's Lance Skiiiwalker Shows Promise On Funkily Weird "Introverted Intuition" |url=https://hiphopdx.com/reviews/id.2831/title.review-tdes-lance-skiiiwalker-shows-promise-on-funkily-weird-introverted-intuition |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=HipHopDX |language=en}}

Writing for Exclaim!, Calum Slingerland thought that the album "fails to paint a vivid picture of who [Skiiiwalker] is, either as an artist or person." He also criticized his voice distortions, writing that it "not only runs stale over the listen, but also hurts him more when pushing his range into its higher reaches, revealing that he isn't the most tuneful of vocalists."{{Cite web |last=Slingerland |first=Calum |date=2016-10-18 |title=Lance Skiiiwalker, Introverted Intuition |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/lance_skiiiwalker-introverted_intuition |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=Exclaim!}}

PopMatters' Marshall Gu called Introverted Intuition the "worst album released by a TDE artist so far". He criticized Schoolboy Q's "three half-sung lines" on "Toaster" and the lack of a personality Skiiiwalker showcases throughout the album. Gu believes that Introverted Intuition "sounds like the exact same thing everyone’s been pushing for a while now in the corners of hip hop and alternative R&B. It’s the narcotic haze of Isaiah Rashad's The Sun's Tirade without the benefit of a Kendrick Lamar feature, the lugubriousness of I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside without the benefit of a prodigy behind the microphone, Travis Scott without the connections, the Weeknd without the capacity to sing, and all of Drake's affiliates without the co-sign."{{Cite web |last=Gu |first=Marshall |date=2016-10-31 |title=Lance Skiiiwalker: Introverted Intuition, PopMatters |url=https://www.popmatters.com/lance-skiiiwalker-introverted-intuition-2495410270.html |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=PopMatters |language=en-US}}

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Forbidden Fruit

| writer1 = {{hlist|Lance Howard|Mark Spears|Dacoury Natche}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Sounwave|DJ Dahi|Rocket}}

| length1 = 2:42

| title2 = ((Ni)) Radio

| writer2 = Howard

| extra2 = {{hlist|Rocket|O'bonjour}}

| length2 = 1:22

| title3 = Could It Be

| writer3 = {{hlist|Howard|David Friley}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|O'bonjour|Dave Free|Ben Shepherd}}

| length3 = 3:10

| title4 = Speed

| writer4 = Howard

| extra4 = Rocket

| length4 = 2:43

| title5 = Stockholm

| note5 = featuring Michael Anthony

| writer5 = {{hlist|Howard|Friley|Jason Pounds|Michael Anthony}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Rocket|THEMpeople|J. LBS.|Dave Free}}

| length5 = 3:59

| title6 = Sound

| writer6 = {{hlist|Howard|Stefan Ponce}}

| extra6 = Ponce

| length6 = 2:03

| title7 = All Stops

| writer7 = Howard

| extra7 = O'bonjour

| length7 = 2:50

| title8 = Skit / Her Song

| writer8 = {{hlist|Howard|Donte Perkins|Adam Feeney}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Rocket|Tae Beast|Frank Dukes|Ben Shepherd}}

| length8 = 2:11

| title9 = Attraction

| writer9 = {{hlist|Howard|Carter Lang|Peter CottonTale}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Rocket|Lang|CottonTale}}

| length9 = 2:47

| title10 = Toaster

| note10 = featuring Schoolboy Q

| writer10 = {{hlist|Howard|Perkins|Quincy Hanley}}

| extra10 = Tae Beast

| length10 = 1:49

| title11 = Advantage

| writer11 = {{hlist|Howard|Pounds}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|J. LBS.|Rocket|O'bonjour}}

| length11 = 3:44

| title12 = Lover's Lane

| writer12 = Howard

| extra12 = B. New

| length12 = 2:49

| title13 = Reality

| writer13 = Howard

| extra13 = Chef Byer

| length13 = 2:57

}}

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