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168024, Yeah, I like the album, but agree w/most of this. Posted by Ketchums, Mon Jul-08-13 11:08 AM
Personally, I'd like to see him stunt with more detail, or dig with more conviction.
He's rapped a lot about these deals, but it'd be cool to see him rap about how these deals actually get done, or the sentiment of how these people he's dealing with seem to really look at him despite how rich he is, the racism he may still encounter in these situations, etc. *How*, exactly, does he "move in a room full of vultures"? With the concepts, dig deeper, deliver something from top to bottom; "Heaven" and "Oceans" are satisfactory, but they still sort of just scratch the surface. By contrast, "I Know" and "Fallin'" from American Gangster were much more candid deliveries of concepts.
I don't think he's that far removed from showing conviction, either. I thought his performance on Watch The Throne was superb.
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