>I use to like "As The World Burns" except one or two songs,
>but these days this album isn't as good as I thought it was,
>some songs are cornier than I thought too, to me it was too
>many rappers in the mix and not enough cohesion between them
>all, I can see why Dstroy left, he got overlooked plus he was
>better on his own if you ask me; Q-Unique & Jise were dope
>together while the others seemed to not jell well with their
>vocals & verses sometimes.
>
>I remember finding the instrumentals of this album and liking
>most of the beats but a few beats were kind of bland, when it
>first dropped I liked all the beats but not now, oh well.
>

selling like hotcakes, and a lot of flat, unfinished sounding music was released under the guise of "real hip-hop".

You can hear it all in the rhymes, if only they knew people would still be listening 20 years later. I play a lot of tunes from that era off the strength of nostalgia, then end up cutting them off.

Doom still holds up, Cannibal Ox still holds up, and I still enjoy some songs out of Thirstin Howl's early catalog. But for the raps have aged extremely poorly, and the beats are blander than I recall.