>But I also don't really "get" today's hip hop, so overall I'd
>say I'm neutral on it.

^^^^ that's me too, but I'm certainly more into it than you if only because I can appreciate what Dre did with the engineering and production. But yea --- all the voice inflections and the TDE type stuff, I haven't been able to get into that (Vince Staples' album, Kendrick's latest...) so at first I was like "blah" when I heard the direction this album was going. But once I can look past the vocal issues I can truly appreciate the beauty in the production.