like, he had the big production budget, but in terms of what it was going for nothing was too far off from League of Starz or the dudes that work on stuff for Skeme, Dom Kennedy, etc. I'm not a huge fan of Dom Kennedy but his pop appeal seems undeniable. If this album can lead to a rise of that smoothed out, not-so-trap sound that west coast mixtape rappers have been cultivating for a while, then it's impact will be way less debatable. But if it still sounds...basically like a hardcore Drake album (or whatever) in two years...maybe the sales are just a fluke.


Or, more simply, if the other Black Hippies (other than probably Jay Rock) can get a bigger share of the market, that would be enough too.


I don't personally weigh "classic" by penetration, but it's definitely hard to deny years where Nelly's Country Grammar or 50's Get Rich was all that mattered. Of most recent albums, Thug Motivation is about the only zeitgeist one I could get with as not just a cultural classic, but a personal one as well (though I've probably heard Get Rich front to back, like, three times as much, because that was what 50 Cent meant to middle school and high school life).


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