''The Life of Pi'erre 5'' is the second

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by American record producer and rapper

Pi'erre Bourne Jordan Timothy Jenks (born September 19, 1993), known professionally as Pi'erre Bourne (), is an American rapper, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for producing the singles "Magnolia" by Playboi Carti and "Gummo" by 6ix9ine ...

. It was released on June 11, 2021, by SossHouse Records and

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. The album features

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, and Sharc. It is the final album in ''The Life of Pi'erre'' series.

Background

in an interview with '' Complex'' in April 2020, Bourne stated that he was completing work on ''The Life of Pi'erre 5'' and that it would be the final album in the series, saying, "My initial objective for this whole series was to get Kanye ests attention, and I kind of got that while I was working on ''TLOP4''. So I'm pretty much cool with what I've accomplished with it."

Critical reception

Dylan Green of ''

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'' said that Bourne continues to display his talents "as a producer first and a rapper second", but that lyrically "his jokes and scene-setting are typically colorful enough to infuse each rhyme with enough personality", concluding that "Bourne's consistent tinkering brings him closer to fully reconciling both sides of his art. If ''Pi'erre 5'' proves anything, it's that Pi'erre Bourne the producer and Pi'erre Bourne the rapper are less at odds than ever." Kadish Morris of ''

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'' said that the album "is saturated with his idiosyncratic earworm tricks: mid-tempo wavy beats, inebriated syncopated synths and gloomy piano arrangements" but "the repetitive drone of his robotic vocals and disjointed storytelling can make the project feel laborious".

Track listing

Charts

References

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