Album Rating: 2.5

Really wanted to like this album as a big RTJ fan.. And i really agree on El Ps verse on Dont Let The Devil the most engaging performance on this record

Album Rating: 2.0

@DAD idk doing the braggadocio (is that word starting to look fucked to anyone else) thing when you’ve finally made it didn’t land thaaaat well for artists who have tried it before, did it? works better when you’re still the underdog or when you do it with just a drop of wit and/or self awareness (which the comic book OTT stylings of RTJ succeed at where this doesn’t)

Album Rating: 2.5

"oh dude idk if my joke was even accurate, i just heard back in 2020 dude owns a ton of property down there"



there's apparently a line on here where he defends landlords or something that the rym comment box was dunking on him over lol

I remember really enjoying rap music. Need to check this

Album Rating: 3.5

"idk doing the braggadocio (is that word starting to look fucked to anyone else) thing when you’ve finally made it didn’t land thaaaat well for artists who have tried it before, did it? works better when you’re still the underdog or when you do it with just a drop of wit and/or self awareness (which the comic book OTT stylings of RTJ succeed at where this doesn’t)"



By what criteria does it stop landing? Regardless, Mike or anyone else are rarely going to openly style themselves as underdogs. Any rapper (for the most part) is going to be speaking in a vocabulary of excess, whether material wealth on one end of the spectrum or knowledge/consciousness on the other. Going from underground to mainstream isn't going to change that. Granted, is it as fun and exciting when the artist in question is at the top of their game (no)? And does Mike's political stylings make him more hypocritical than others (ya)? Doesn't it make more sense though, at least in this genre, to take a more narrative approach to the imagery here? Old-school greats Public Enemy are probably the best example I could give here. Could it be that the purpose of Mike and RTJ's music is primarily to entertain? Is the image of riots and falling dollars in the Ooh La La video intended to incite action and inspire revolution? Only if the commodity can undermine the capital.

Album Rating: 2.0

What a disappointment.

Album Rating: 1.0

The underdog rapper making it out of the projects and making a name for themself against all odds is a tale as old as time steak

Killer Michael

Album Rating: 1.0

The saying “fake it til you make it” is appropriate for a lot of hip hop

Such a letdown after RAP Music, damn.

The hype for his last album always felt contrived and forced upon the site by the same folks who believe jpeg and rtj are gods gift to this world. Mikes always been solidly ok. Nothing more

wow pots beat me to the “killer Michael” punch

critics say they miss when hip hop was rappin, mothafucka if you did killer Michael would be platinum

Album Rating: 3.0

really keen to listen to this. Love Killer Mike. Review has me a bit worried though!

my feelings on killer mike were that the contradictions in his politics/music never bothered me with his solo stuff (he's fairly consistent there! love RAP music) but made RTJ kinda meh for me from the jump. there were all these reviews written about how RTJ4 was like "music for the revolution" or somethin and i'm like y'all.... respectfully, i don't think killer mike is or has ever been that dude. note that i still like his music!

on that note i listened to this briefly and it didn't hook me - bummer

Album Rating: 2.0

Idk, maybe i skirted around it too much in the rev, but perhaps the nub of my complaints is that this LP clearly markets itself as authentic and introspective and personal and I don’t think it does any of those things. The inconsistencies (and the manner and context in which the braggadocio is done) is one of the factors that hacks away at that. If this had marketed itself as a OTT old school romp that didn’t take itself so seriously, and even if the bars and rhyme schemes had been more interesting, I suspect I wouldn’t have had the same complaints about the subject matter.

>I remember really enjoying rap music. Need to check this
biggest RTJ fan

Album Rating: 2.5

fecal

Album Rating: 3.0

Rap music slaps. This is ok. The song with Andre 3K is fucking CRAZY