Album Rating: 3.0

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Fake and gay

i want to know what good man channing thinks. great review 2 omG

chans jammin good charlotte

And not homicidal michael? Unlikely

oh my bad i was in 2007 for a second

You’re on thin ice buddy

When I heard him invoking Fred Hampton in a recent interview, all I could think about was this clip (particularly the line about black capitalism)...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mungAFfoc

The de-evolution of Mike is a disappointing one.
Dude went from somewhat of a leader against the system to posting car videos.

Guy got paid and politely changed his tune

didnt he call fantano a colonizer for 6ing his album

well he shoulda called him something worse cause this is a 6 on a good day

how he have a halo if he have horns?

Album Rating: 2.5

Dropped it to a 3 yw

Album Rating: 3.5

I feel like this is slightly disappointing when compared to RAP Music and the amount of time he has had to put this album together. But it's still pretty good and getting criticized for some weird reasons.

Album Rating: 3.5

Pretty much

Album Rating: 3.0

I feel like the review lays out why this is getting criticized just fine.

“This tour is not a rap show. This is a church service.”

lol

Album Rating: 2.0

I mean, criticism of rap album for lyricism and delivery thereof (with attention to context, re previous catalog and public persona) is kind of hip hop criticism 101, no? Certainly grant you that the lines of criticism this is receiving are heavily subjective ones (I.e. do you personally find some of the double standards and u-turns in the messaging here grating or no?), lending it to a marmite response, but I think it’s a stretch to say the criticism is ///weird///



Perhaps would have been an easier sell if I’d built on how none of the beats match up to RAP Music, and the flows are kinda boilerplate, but the messaging critique seemed the more interesting one, so I focused on that.

Album Rating: 3.5

when this first came out the shit-stirring part of me wanted to argue that the reason people weren't liking the beats on this one compared to RAP Music is that this one was trying to appeal to a Black audience this time around, which is facile but I kinda think there's something there when you consider the RTJ fanbase ya know?

Album Rating: 2.0

For sure I think there’s something in that, and have seen this get a lot more hype behind it from those it was clearly more designed to appeal to (I don’t follow much YouTube music stuff, but Dead End Hip Hop praised the heck out of this, and cited it’s quote “blackness” as one of the main reasons why). It may be a subconscious reason why I don’t fuck with this as much as mikes collabs with EL-P which are clearly aimed more to me than this is, but then again I didn’t find myself struggling to get into the 40 hip hop records I jammed for my rec list in March, and most of those were aimed squarely at an audience/culture that isn’t me, so I’m not sure the argument is watertight. It’s a fair point to raise tho.



However I certainly don’t think that line of thinking justifies some of the clap backs Mike has engaged in, in response to criticism eg calling fantano a coloniser. But that’s a separate point.