Did a great job of tailoring each beat to fit the guest MCs just as well as the beats fit Thought's style. Pretty impressive to match a lot of MCs who you wouldn't necessarily would think would have the same type of vibes. The DOOM track captures this thought perfectly. You nailed it. The beat is breezy and floats, and sounds like a song that would've been perfect as a Thought solo *or* a DOOM solo.

I wonder if the DOOM verse is from some Dangerdoom-era leftover that DM re-did the beat for.

Anyway regarding the other songs and what my friend said, perhaps the most impressive example of this (even if it's not my favorite song, per se) is the beat for the song w/A$AP Rocky & RTJ. The beat seems to fit all 4 MCs perfectly, somehow, despite the fact that I never would've expected Rocky & RTJ to be on a track together because their styles seem so different, to me.


>going on lyrically, the beat floats, on some classic sixties
>foreign intrigue shit, where you lamping overseas in a nice
>fit.
>
>DOOM's verse is dope. sounds like tariq heard it, and wrote to
>match the vibe (even to the point of inserting the California
>Highway Patrolmen reference to match DOOM's inexplicable
>dropping of CHPs and 'estrada').
>
>whole album is crazy. just understated lyrical genius on every
>track and it felt like everybody was on they A game. (how
>could you not, considering who you rhyming with?)
>
>so many jewels and gems. some strewn on the surface, on
>purpose, and others buried beneath, revealing themselves upon
>later listenings.