I think if you cut 2-3 songs off of Eardrum, it would be a masterpiece. Liberation was also great.

But everything since then has been lukewarm. RPM was good, but not great. Admittedly, had it been billed as a Kweli album, I wouldn't have felt so let down by it.

Gutter Rainbows was very meh and Attack the Block was cool for a mixtape.


I'll give this new album a spin because Kweli is one of my all time favs, but I'm worried. I dont understand why an artist this late in his career is so caught up with labels. No artist wants to be told he should stick to a certain lane, but he's one of the best in that lane. Plus he's been able to make some pretty cool pop-rap songs "Get By" "I Try" "Hot Girl" "Soon the New Day" to name a few. This whole thing just feels very contrived, but this is all speculation becasue I haven't heard the album yet.

And I agree with the Common comparisons, but he has yet to put together something together as awful as UMC.