>Corny singing hooks on every track by various disaffected no
>name crackers.
>
>Zero sample clearance budget. Not one track has a sample
>(except maybe All Black Everything). Its all cheesy soft
>synths. There's even autotune here and there.
>
>The drums are all buttery soft (mastering engineer's fault,
>maybe?)
>
>There are no hits on here at all. You'd think that for
>completely embracing the "pop" sound, he'd at least have some
>undeniable hits. Even BoB had a couple...idk. None on here.
>
>Overall impression: This is sad. I cant possibly believe Lupe
>had any artistic integrity on this album. I could give him a
>break if there were some hits on here, but it just sounds like
>a generic album that is a lower quality version of that it is
>trying to copy. I'm embarassed for the dude. He went full
>pop retard.
>

Don't put this shit on Lupe... it was this or be buried forever

But yeah, your point really hit me, that there is one track that samples.

0 tracks produced by Soundtrakk.... you know, the guy who did Kick, Push, Superstar, Paris Tokyo

Instead, he was fed shitty snyth beats and taken off his own hooks. The beats seriously take any feeling out of the lyrics