Truth be told, I listened to the new one and the production is great. But it does overall feel a little more wallpaper-ish than what we all would ideally hope for.

I don't know what I would say or suggest for him to get back on track. No diss, but I think his greatest work has come out of him riding in the passenger seat to creative partners that have given him a good framework in which he can operate.

At this stage though, it almost seems like the producing would need to extend beyond the sound, and be more direction of the songs. And I just don't see a world in which any rapper, let alone one who is so deep into his career and quite frankly doesn't NEED it, to go along with something like that.