50. "oh he's great at collecting random features from diverse artists" In response to In response to 49
it was actually cool on Beautiful Mixtape 1
to say thats some sort of artistic risk tho is ludicrous
in fact its an easy & quick way to *appear* to be taking risks when hes actually watering his whole shit down by having no unique vision beyond "look what not a hater i am i work with anyone!"
he came in the game & gained a rep as a skilled but whiny backpacker type, a complainer, a nerd
my take has been for sometime that he grew to be so ashamed of how ppl saw him that he rebelled against it & he wasnt prepared to handle it
i think he also fell under the spell of Jay Z, frankly ...thats a dude a young kweli could take to task
he works hard but his music of recent years wont be remembered as anything but middling hiphop during a weak era bc he spread himself too thin
he still got classics & id like to hear Liberation 2 at some point, he could use direction from a single producer or an exec producer that's not tryna make the 476th backpack rip off on a weak Jay Z album
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