That line can also be looked at as a throw away. Whereas the stuff on this album comes off as punctuations/climaxes.

I feel like Freddie has reached a point in his career where he's not to be taken seriously - in that, he raps better than most and will do that the way he learned to do it. Meanwhile Royce is doubling down on real life as source material. Not to mention he's always been a bit of a guiding figure for me - through my teen years, delinquent years, self-accounting years. Royce'll akways be cool with me.

Royce has that same physical/mental quality that makes Gibbs a wildly fun listen, but I'll bet he's mostly admired for being the lead guy in "the group Eminem put together" or however my fellow midwesterners want to spin it. He at least writes with that sort of earnest resolve Freddie doesn't, even though they're both Midwesterners. Freddie often sounds like L.A. was where he found himself. So there's more conviction to anything Royce says. And that makes his bad takes harder to stomach, same as when I sit at a bar next to somebody that I usually respect, but I had to sit next to him this one time he want off on a weird AM radio tangent.

So what he says, pointedly, on this album sucks. More than the yellow flag Gibbs earns here.


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