>This album is black nihilism presented as satire because no
>one really cares about the nihlism of blackness in 2014 and
>yet it's so prevalent. It's not even hopelessness, because
>hoplessness comes with that since of there could be hope.
>Things are just presented her as is, this is what we do today.
> Oh and then you shoot your cousin. Just what happens. All
>folk can do is just stare at it like 'uh huh'. Nobody can do
>anything about it. But The Roots are at least trying to
>address it and that to me is more important than stroking your
>desire for nostalgia.
>

>All of that to say I just want 15 to keep making music. I've
>accepted the fact that I'm not going to like it all at this
>point, but I feel like he does have a hand on the undercurrent
>of the state of blackness and a bit of the cynicism to reflect
>that even if it goes beyond the audience. Sometimes its more
>important to say these things than to have them be enjoyed.





Those two paragraphs are my favorite things I've read about this album.
Especially that last sentence.