>I'm not sure how I feel about the album, though. It feels
>massively overproduced to me.

I'd say I only feel that way about four of the last five tracks. Particularly the ones produced by DJ Dahi. I'm okay with the rest of the beats.

>musically, it's the kind of album someone who doesn't like
>hip-hop would claim to be elevating the art form.

See, this is exactly how I felt about MBDTF, seeing as it got exactly those type of comments. This album doesn't feel as overcooked to me. And the lyricism displayed makes me cut it a lot of slack. And it's not like MM2, where the lyricism was great, but the beat swere mostly unlistenable. For the strength of lyricism shines through here.