I was having a pretty traumatic morning so my powers of expression were a bit shaky

There's definitely a lack of songwriting there above all, but I also think there's a lack of dynamics, of color... You're right that he is all texture... he does the kind of shit that 1990s music critics pretentiously referred to as "soundscapes."

And that kind of description was most often applied to stuff like Dr. Dre and Warren G, which is why I made that comparison.