K+ (mixtape)

Several demos were recorded for K+, both in the studio and at home.{{cite web|last=Kish|first=Kilo|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsE5tZHDhm0|title=K+ by Kilo Kish|date=February 7, 2013|accessdate=December 19, 2013}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1=Consequence of Sound

|rev1Score={{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Madden|first=Mike|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/03/album-review-kilo-kish-k/|title=Album Review: Kilo Kish – k+|work=Consequence of Sound|date=March 20, 2013|accessdate=December 18, 2013}}

|rev2=NME

|rev2Score=7/10{{cite web|last=Rowe|first=Siân|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/various-artists/14159|title= Kilo Kish - 'K+'|work=NME|date=February 27, 2013|publisher=IPC Media|accessdate=December 18, 2013}}

}}

Initially, K+ received a mixed to positive critical response. BBC Music's Mike Diver wrote K+ recalled "both Lauryn Hill’s guard-down emotions, articulated brilliantly on The Miseducation of [Lauryn Hill], and the solid narrative structure that served Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city so well. Her promise is reaching fruition."{{cite web|author=Diver, Mike|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/2fhf|title= Kilo Kish K+ Review|work=BBC Music|publisher=BBC Online|accessdate=December 19, 2013}} Writing for The A&T Register, Jeffrey Lockhart felt the mixtape was "very well polished, and professional," and assumed that Kilo Kish had "a future in the music industry."{{cite web|last=Lockhart|first=Jeffrey|url=http://www.ncatregister.com/thescene/music/mixtape-review-kilo-kish-k/article_70b8f624-81f1-11e2-b3d3-0019bb30f31a.html|date=February 28, 2013|title=Mixtape Review: Kilo Kish - K+|work=The A&T Register|publisher=North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University|accessdate=December 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017005115/http://www.ncatregister.com/thescene/music/mixtape-review-kilo-kish-k/article_70b8f624-81f1-11e2-b3d3-0019bb30f31a.html|archive-date=October 17, 2014|url-status=dead}} NME writer Siân Rowe, giving the album a 7 out of 10, said that Kish "might not be entirely #wow just yet (unsurprising, considering she made songs for her debut ‘Homeschool’ EP as a “joke… kinda”) but she’s heading there." In a more varied review, Mike Madden of Consequence of Sound said the mixtape was "a very of-the-moment project" due to its influences and elements of genres like neo-soul and trap music, but criticized it because "it winds up so exemplary of some fads in music circa now – and gets so little out of them – that it’s all too easy to imagine it blending in with everything else that sounds similar and going obsolete within a year or two."

{{track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 30:56

| title1 = K+ Intro

| writer1 = Lakisha Robinson

| length1 = 1:03

| title2 = Goldmine

| writer2 = {{hlist|Robinson|Darren Williams}}

| extra2 = Star Slinger

| length2 = 3:54

| title3 = Ghost

| note3 = featuring Childish Gambino

| writer3 = {{hlist|Robinson|Donald Glover Jr.|Matthew Martin|Aaron Jerome}}

| extra3 ={{flatlist|

• Matt Martians
• SBTRKT
• Kilo Kish

}}

| length3 = 2:37

| title4 = Trappin'

| note4 = featuring Vince Staples

| writer4 = {{hlist|Robinson|Vincent Staples|Thebe Kgositsile}}

| extra4 = randomblackdude

| length4 = 3:53

| title5 = IOU

| writer5 = {{hlist|Robinson|Martin}}

| extra5 = Matt Martians

| length5 = 2:23

| title6 = Turquoise

| writer6 = Robinson

| extra6 = Prof. Calc

| length6 = 2:58

| title7 = Scones

| writer7 = {{hlist|Robinson|Glover}}

| extra7 = Childish Gambino

| length7 = 1:59

| title8 = Love2K

| note8 = featuring ASAP Ferg

| writer8 = {{hlist|Robinson|Darold Brown Ferguson Jr.}}

| extra8 = Very Rare

| length8 = 2:40

| title9 = Better

| writer9 = Robinson

| extra9 = Patrice Raige

| length9 = 3:03

| title10 = Creepwave

| note10 = featuring Flatbush Zombies

| writer10 = {{hlist|Robinson|Dimitri Simms|Antonio Lewis|Erick Elliott}}

| extra10 = Cronos

| length10 = 3:44

}}

;Notes

• "Trappin'" features additional vocals by Earl Sweatshirt
• "Scones" features additional vocals by Childish Gambino

;Sample credits

• "IOU" contains a sample of "SexyBack" as written by Justin Timberlake, Timothy Mosley and Floyd Nathaniel Hills and performed by Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, from the album FutureSex/LoveSounds

Source:K+ liner notes. [http://www.soulculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/k+-tracklist-1.png Image One], [http://www.soulculture.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/k+-tracklist-2.png Image Two]. Links retrieved December 19, 2013.

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• Kilo Kish – songwriter, vocalist, producer
• Childish Gambino – songwriter, vocalist, producer
• Vince Staples – songwriter, vocalist
• ASAP Ferg – songwriter, vocalist
• Kilo Pez - songwriter
• Earl Sweatshirt – vocalist, producer (as randomblackdude)
• Flatbush Zombies – vocalists
• Jesse Boykins III – vocalist
• Joe McCaffery – guitarist
• Star Slinger – producer
• Matt Martians – producer
• PROF CALC – producer
• Very Rare – producer
• Patrice Raige – producer
• CRONOS – producer
• Benjanim Julia – engineer
• Leon Kelly – engineer
• Joey Raia – mixer
• Joe LaPorta – mastering
• Phillip T. Annand – artwork

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