>was his ability to make you forget you were essentially
>listening to a loop (at times.) In fact, surely I'm not alone
>on this point, but I tend to think emcees can get in the way
>of the track especially when there is no instrumental
>counterpart. His beats (songs IMO) were finished when he was
>done with them; not when an mc blessed it.
>
>That point aside, Donuts in particular, had a recurring theme
>and cohesion that unmistakeably put it in the album category.

^tabernacle