Album Rating: 4.5
This is the only RTJ album I can listen to from start to finish without skipping over any tracks. Their other albums' high moments are better (especially RTJ2), but this is very consistent.
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Album Rating: 2.5
I've listened to this twice now and I keep trying to like it but I keep turning it off so I'm gonna say 2.5 and walk away
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Album Rating: 2.5
Bandana is better
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the first three tracks slap so hard, go to your room
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm about to. I gotta get dressed
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Album Rating: 3.0
Ehhhh, this was decent. I didn't really expect better, though.
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I think it being a shorter album helps it.
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i guess i'd take freddie gibbs over killer mike if i had to pick but el-p and madlibs talents are both wasted on those dudes imo
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I'm partial to El over Mike because his voice is made for rapping, Mike I am just ok with (it's sort of nasal maybe?). But the smartass nature of El's bars plus his affinity for blowing through the end of a bar and flowing across two with assonance, alliteration, and other pleasing auditory options is my shit.
But obviously Mike's socially conscious lyrics are really good. And he killed it on "Ju$t".
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yeah, lyrical nature aside, mike is a weak ass rapper imo, every time el-p is popping off enough for me to get really vibing with anything on this mike starts a verse it completely removes me from the experience. part of it is his cheesy ass voice, part of it is the lack of dynamism of his flow.
also that being said, i don't actually think mikes lyrics are always that great either. he might touch on a lot of important issues but he also has a whole lot of cringe references and one-liners. his verses on Ooh La La almost ruin the song for me tbqh, and otherwise i think that song bops.
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Album Rating: 4.0
the second half is way better than the first
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I'm white, so surprise, I don't get most of his references. He says "it's an honor to get robbed by Denise's only son" or whatever, and I looked it up. How am I supposed to know his mother's name. So yeah, weird choices. Doesn't necessarily make me dislike it less automatically, but doesn't help.
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Album Rating: 4.0
the hook for Ooh La La is really irritating to me tbh
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Maniac shows up after who knows how long to give me a troll take, you son of a bitch
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i just find a lot of his references serve literally no purpose whatsoever other than to plug shit from the lowest common denominators of our cultural zeitgeist... off the top of my head i would include his kurt vonnegut and ayn rand references as well as his ODB reference.
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yeah fuck Rand I don't really know anything about Vonnegut because I don't read fiction, but I don't mind throwback references, although over the last 24 hours I've noticed more and more and wonder if they did too many
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references are fine as long as they are clever and serve a purpose but just randomly plugging ODB in the middle of a song for instance just feels like empty pandering
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Album Rating: 4.0
‘the second half is way better than the first’
Of this album?
Not hearing it
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Maniac shows up after who knows how long to give me a troll take, you son of a bitch"
trollin' the truth
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also the Ooh La La hook is definitely irritating, for sure, but for some reason it ends up working and feels like one of the most quintessentially rtj moments of the album
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