i've had 2 or 3 these remixes from the producers for a while now & their demo versions sounded infinitely clearer than these
the vocals on NoYork! were recorded pretty well, so everyone had clean shit to work w/ Blu went out of his way to make them sound like this, so hes obviously tryna make a statement or stylistic choice w/ it
not defending it, jussaying... its not a matter of recording quality, limited resources, etc.