>I don't think most folk listen to DIADs and say this is a
>bummer...
>

That's because it's not a depressing album.

>What O_E and I are saying is that it's an album where an
>artist is working through Depression, and it's def in the
>sound.
>

It is? It's a dark album...not angry or sad or frustrating even. Redman has actually never taken on any topics. The album doesn't sound depressing at all. It sounds like a hard mid-90s east coast hip-hop album about smoking weed and how nice of an MC he is. Nothing depressing at all.

>We also were hella young, well I was, and that type of
>analysis wasn't in our lexicon in 1994. it's perspective with
>age that allows us to speak about it as such


How convenient the interview dropped when you came of age.

>also DIADs isn't an album ABOUT depression such as a Cage
>album or the Earl album that dropped this year

That's because it's not.