probably the best east coast rap record in a long, long time. pisses over kanye from a great height.
some superb rhyming ("My momma say I got her nerves stressed/ Got her waking up in cold sweats/ ... I got her screaming 'Lord Jesus', like Mahalia/ 'Son, I'm telling ya, please don't let me bury ya.' ") but the production on this album is absolutely sublime and really pushes it up to the next level.
my personal highlights are the heavy d-produced opening track, gotta have it featuring peedi crakk and twista (twista absolutely smashes it on this cut), bread and butter feat. grand puba and sadat x from brand nubian and produced by just blaze (hows that for a roll call - and it really lives up to it, for a change) and tales of a hustler #2, which actually almost brought me to tears the other night (totally spine-tingling instrumentation), but as a whole album it's just beautifully understated, incredibly soulful (i mean that in a very good way) and so good i can't see hip hop coming up with a record i like more this year.
anyway, enough of the hyperbole - anyone else heard it? thoughts?
some superb rhyming ("My momma say I got her nerves stressed/ Got her waking up in cold sweats/ ... I got her screaming 'Lord Jesus', like Mahalia/ 'Son, I'm telling ya, please don't let me bury ya.' ") but the production on this album is absolutely sublime and really pushes it up to the next level.
my personal highlights are the heavy d-produced opening track, gotta have it featuring peedi crakk and twista (twista absolutely smashes it on this cut), bread and butter feat. grand puba and sadat x from brand nubian and produced by just blaze (hows that for a roll call - and it really lives up to it, for a change) and tales of a hustler #2, which actually almost brought me to tears the other night (totally spine-tingling instrumentation), but as a whole album it's just beautifully understated, incredibly soulful (i mean that in a very good way) and so good i can't see hip hop coming up with a record i like more this year.
anyway, enough of the hyperbole - anyone else heard it? thoughts?
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