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It was the first Binary Star album (Waterworld is essentially the same album as MOTU)...I can't see how you would've been invested in them and then disappointed by MOTU.
Go re-listen to "Glen Close", "Evolution Of Man", and "I Know Why The Cage Bird Sings", they were not at all rapping about rap, and OneBeLo has done plenty his solo stuff. "Wolfman Jack" too, although that hasn't aged as well.
But really, the straight up rap tracks are the best..."Reality Check", the title track, "One Man Army", "Honest Expression", "What It's All About"...the majority of it still sounds incredible.
>Masters of the Universe has to be one of the big events
>albums of my musical life. So much hype. So much
>anticipation. So much promise of this being the beginning of
>a new movement.
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>Consequently, so much disenchantment.
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>It had a few nice beats. But, wow, so boring. Every song was
>literally the same rappity rap babbling about how real and
>pure they were.
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>And then, 'Binary Shuffle.' Uhhm, okay, guys. Do that
>shuffle.
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>Just really underwhelming. I can pretty much pinpoint this as
>one of the albums that began my turn away from hip hop.
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>/ˌästəˈnädō/
>noun
>a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm
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