throughout the album, there's sample chopping, there's drum breaks, theres vocal scratches.

the idea that when you have live instruments, changes in chord progression, basically anything 'more' than 1-2 repeating loops for 4 minutes straight makes it 'over produced' or 'not hip hop' is insane to me

i don't think "music > hip hop"
i do think i would rather listen to something 'more' musically than something simple that repeats itself over and over

i say this as someone who worshipped dj premier from the time i was about 16
but if i try to listen to primo instrumentals nowadays, i have to skip forward after about 70 seconds, because i know i've heard the entire thing and there is nothing more to it, there's nothing to wait for, there's nothing to look forward to
i'm glad there are increasingly more albums that sound like this