{"id":2398357,"date":"2026-05-01T21:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2398357"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:14:40","slug":"every-track-on-north-wests-n0rth4evr-ep-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/every-track-on-north-wests-n0rth4evr-ep-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"Every track on North West\u2019s N0rth4evr EP, ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>There\u2019s a scepticism that tends to follow any new release from a \u201crapo baby\u201d, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/63089\/1\/rapo-baby-babies-death-of-hip-hop-north-west-legend-glover\">a term coined by Dazed<\/a> in recent years to describe the children of established rappers now stepping into music themselves. But <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/northwest\/\">North West<\/a>, the 12-year-old daughter of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/kanye-west\">Kanye West<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/kim-kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a>, is silencing her critics with her debut EP, <em>#N0rth4evr<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After signing to the label <span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamma.com\">gamma.<\/a> <\/span> in late 2025, she dropped her first solo studio single, \u201cPIERCING ON MY HAND\u201d, back in February. But even before that, she had already racked up a handful of production credits, moved in underground hip-hop circles, and just this week featured on Edward Skeletrix\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Have Some Fun\u201d, whose music video includes cameos from some of the scene\u2019s freshest talent.<\/p>\n<p>The six-track EP feels shaped by the internet pathways she \u2013 like many Gen Alpha artists \u2013 has grown up with. Even the track titles, \u201cH0w sh0uld ! f33l\u201d, \u201cD!e\u201d, and \u201cTh!s t!m3\u201d, read like Roblox usernames or the mashed-up chat of a streamer Discord.<\/p>\n<p><span>From the first listen, it\u2019s clear that North West is at her best when she\u2019s doing her own thing: the Carti-inspired maximalism, the whiplash melodics of jersey club basslines and pluggnb, and an anything-goes production where the songs that go hardest are blown-out and bouncy. The points where the project feels slightly weighed down are when too many outside hands have been pulled on deck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While N0rth4evr isn\u2019t flawless (she is 12), it\u2019s far more experimental than cynics might have expected. Below, we rank every track on North West\u2019s debut EP from worst to best.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"North West - #N0rth4evr (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k0agRRNjFc4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>I\u2019m not ragebaiting by putting the title track last, I swear. The nu-metal-leaning pop-rap experiment \u201c#N0rth4evr\u201d is the one moment on the EP that falls slightly flat. All the ideas are there, but they struggle to cut through the noise \u2013 and there\u2019s a lot of it. Maybe it doesn\u2019t help that I\u2019m listening to this at 7am.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying visuals are harder to fault, though, and the unexpected ad-lib from Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku fits neatly with the EP\u2019s wider fascination with Japanese digital culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aishite (\u611b\u3057\u3066)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfInvicthvo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p>The title of this track translates from Japanese as \u201clove me\u201d or \u201cplease love me\u201d. Here, North once again draws from the Vocaloid world: \u201cHatsune Miku &amp; North West\u201d is quite a wild pairing to see credited together. The track also samples Kikuo\u2019s 2015 song \u201cLove Me, Love Me, Love Me\u201d, folding its chorus into the production.<\/p>\n<p>As the final track on the EP, it works as a fitting apex to North\u2019s Japanese nu-rock fixation, something we first glimpsed on her feature on FKA twigs\u2019 <em data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"521\">Eusexua<\/em> standout \u201cChildlike Things\u201d. Still, it ends up being one of the record\u2019s less memorable cuts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"North West - H0w Sh0uld ! f33l  (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JvDQXeFoEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Kicking off the project is track \u201cH0w Sh0uld ! f33l\u201d, which plugs a sample from Meg &amp; Dia\u2019s 2006 track \u201cMonster\u201d into the opening verse. Here, West\u2019s hyper-charged production amps up immediately, but for all its intensity, it\u2019s also where the singer gets most vulnerable on the project, with lyrics like \u201c<em>All this money turn my heart to a black hole<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>In the back of the Lamb\u2019, it get lonely<\/em>\u201d heard within the chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Th!s t!m3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7cYNz7tYCE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>I\u2019m not going to lie, the production credit for Marcus Mumford of Mumford &amp; Sons on this EP had me puzzled. The dad-coded indie-folk band feels worlds away from the North West universe. But the connection makes more sense once the track opens with a sample of artist Social Repose\u2019s rock cover of Mumford &amp; Sons\u2019 \u201cLittle Lion Man\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From there, \u201cTh!s t!m3\u201d snaps into a thumping club beat and genuinely goes hard before looping back to the sample. It\u2019s one of the EP\u2019s clearest examples of North\u2019s anything-goes instincts paying off.<\/span><span\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"W0ah\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I9kMYFKZ1xI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>North taps Swedish group Caramell for this one, but it\u2019s in the lyrics where she really shines. She\u2019s got the very specific 12-year-old-in-the-spotlight worldview down as she sings, \u201c<em>I was born a star, I ain\u2019t ever had a choice (had a choice)<\/em>,\u201d over crunching basslines.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D!e\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JVnx2bvbl9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- WhiteSpaceFilter: Exclude --><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>When we said North is at her best when she\u2019s doing her own shit, this is what we meant. \u201cD!E\u201d is the point where the project peaks. It\u2019s also North at her most arrogant, firing off lines only the 12-year-old daughter of two A-listers could deliver this casually: \u201c<em>How am I younger than you? How am I younger than you?<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>Once they on trend, I\u2019m already off it (What?)<\/em>\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The track opens with a sample of JubyPhonic\u2019s trancey chorus from \u201cShinitai-chan\u201d, before torpedoing into some raucous maximalist production. What makes this one land is that there\u2019s enough room for North to flex without getting swallowed by the beat, as her \u201c\u30ce\u30fc\u30b9\u3061\u3083\u3093\u201d tag, translating to North-chan, ricochets throughout. This is clearly a girl who has learned her kana.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function () {\nn.callMethod ?\nn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n}; if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n; n.loaded = !0; n.version = '2.0'; n.queue = []; t = b.createElement(e); t.async = !0;\nt.src = v; s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n}(window,\ndocument, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '357833301087547');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.dazeddigital.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a scepticism that tends to follow any new release from a \u201crapo baby\u201d, a term coined by Dazed in recent years to describe the children of established rappers now stepping into music themselves. But North West, the 12-year-old daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, is silencing her critics with her debut EP, #N0rth4evr. 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