Because I hate when critics say stuff like this:

>The song knows what it wants
>to be but doesn’t have the wherewithal to be it.

But this is what I was worried about:

>Kweli’s absolutely owned his lane when he’s been committed to
>it but now he's jumping around from style to style with no
>destination in sight.

I don't want to put anyone in a box, but I do like having a general idea of what I'm looking to hear. These days I don't really know what to expect from Kweli. I respect an artist having range, but for some reason the way he and Common do it, it always seems forced like "I can make these songs too!"

The Roots style can change for album to album, but there's still and underlining consistency that I feel I can expect from them. Like I don't know what their new stuff will sound like at all, but I know it'll feel like "The Roots" to me, whatever that means. I don't really know what to expect from Common or Kweli these days.