Originally Posted by
richardp
Listened to it twice now, and that's still not remotely near enough to make a definative call on this album. What I do feel after these two tracks is that this is a near flawlessly put together, very sprawling, all encompassing album. It transcends the Hip Hop genre on so many levels. The funk/jazz/soul elements are ridiculously good. "u" is a practically a game changer, with K Dot pulling a Jonathan Davis in the second half. The new "live" version of "i" also pretty much blows the roof off of the second half of the album. I love this version. Also the build up of the fake interview with Tupac is really cool. I just really love this album. It's pretty much everything I wanted it to be. The only disappointment that I have is that the track he did on Colbert Report isn't on here. But, when the rest of the album is this good, fuck it.
Like I said, still too early to call it, but I feel like this could end up being one of the best hip hop albums of all time.
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