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2815165, Picked up this album today
Posted by Anonymous, Sat Jun-22-13 07:51 PM
And I must say that I'm disappointed at the reception that its receiving on here.

I was looking at the "1st half" post and some of the bullshit people were posting in there was sad while this album was noticeably absent.

The only bad song on here is Upper Echelon.

I really don't see Kweli trying to please everyone at all. This is a very soulful hip-hop album and it doesn't accomplish that by sampling soul records.

The album starts off strong as hell from 1-5.

Push Thru with Knedrick is dope.

Hamster Wheel is excellent.

RZA comes through hard.

The Nelly collabo is nice.

The Seu Jorge feature is perfectly sequenced.

And the closer is an actual closer.

Production is right throughout.

Songwriting is strong but I do get the complaint about some of the borderline wack punch lines that Kweli and Com are know to do at times.

The packaging of the album is real nice as well. I'm assuming most people didn't purchase the physical album though. Much more thorough piece of art than Gutter Rainbows was.

I will say this though, this post was just yet another disaster due to the completely ignorant OE who leads a sad existence of a life.