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To copy/paste my reply in a post from 2019:
"It clearly isn't touching his Black on Both Sides and fails to live up to the expectations set by that and the Black Star album, but Mos took a lot of chances on this album, it's all over the place. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, but the best way I can describe the album is that it's a beautiful mess. It crosses over rap, rock, blues, R&B, soul and still remains somewhat cohesive even though it has no business being so. Oh, and "Modern Marvel" is an all time great Mos song."
I can understand initial disappointment with the album, but to give some context to my relationship with the album I became a fan of the OKP darling (The Roots, Talib, Mos, Common) in 2004 so I didn't have the attachment and reverence (or even heard) of albums like Black Star, Reflection Eternal, Black on Both Sides and Things Fall Apart by the time I heard The New Danger, The Tipping Point and The Beautiful Struggle. I don't remember exactly if I had heard BOBS when I bought The New Danger, but I know for sure I hadn't heard the Black Star album.
With all that, it's probably a good thing I didn't fully come to love BOBS like I do now (it's easily in my top 10 favorite rap albums of all time) because if I did I probably would have rejected this album from the get go for not being more like it.
In another reply I found I said it's a 3.5 mic album like I love like a 4.5 mic album. If I had to pick a non-BOBS Mos solo album to listen to I'm probably going to pick this one 4 out of 5 times, though I definitely consider The Ecstatic the better album.
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