This might be the greatest hip-hop album I've ever heard. For any album to have 20+ songs, and keep consistency is impressive, but when not a single song is passable, when the entire journey is enjoyable, it surpasses all. One of the things about The Unseen that pops out on the first listen, and then reveals itself more and more with additional listens, is Madlib's sheer love of music. More jazz, reggae and hip-hop samples than one could shake a stick at, placed in all right places. This album alone brings Madlib up to a Cut Chemist-DJ Shadow-type caliber, without going into all of his beat collections & his works with DOOM and Gibbs and all that. All pieces in the right places, for all those who like to smoke, drink and listen to hip-hop, this is home. And if you don't... "you gonna feel like a damn fool laying out at that hospital dyin' from nothin'".
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