It’s Almost Dry is Pusha’s masterpiece, not Daytona

[Mike the Executioner]

I won’t argue with that. That makes 4.

But then hard piano and Come back baby

And then Infrared, which in hindsight sounds a lil light…it sounds like exactly what it would become: a warning shot/appetizer for a much bigger diss song. It’s no Addidon. It’s no Exodus 23:1

None of these songs are bad, but for a SEVEN song album?!?! Nah. Every single song needs to be monumental to validate a “classic” type ranking and it wasnt that

I need to go back to It's Almost Dry. It took me months to listen to it, and when I did, I thought it was cool, but it didn't grab me like DAYTONA did.

 

[Air Nikes N Hats]

For sure. Also imo he fell off a lil bit as a producer as well. From a consistency standpoint. ‘Old Kanye’ 7 songs could be a classic bc he was batting 100.

Like Nasir isn’t bad just because it’s short it’s bad bc the beats suck.

I am one of the few people who liked Nasir (outside of Cop Shot The Kid, I liked the rest of the album), but coming off of a six year hiatus, and Life is Good......the album was destined to fail. Had Ye spent more time on it, produced a fully fleshed out 10-11 tracks it could have been special.....the release itself was rushed, and poorly planned.

I still liked 6 out of the 7 tracks........and even with that said, it could have been so much more.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[L $ C]

i voted daytona but honestly going back now maybe I agree with threadstarter...I def listen to its almost dry more

 

[Tetris v2.0]

IAD is a bit shaky in the middle, but it's still his best

I don't like Kanye production on Daytona for the most part. That project is overrated IMO. Beats felt cheap. Nothing from the Wyoming era was particularly great. That project stuck out because it was first for that run, and led to a classic battle

 

[H. Selassie]

i voted daytona but honestly going back now maybe I agree with threadstarter...I def listen to its almost dry more

Same

 

[Braman]

What I say?!?!


Disagree with the actual rapper brehs.

And Push is not the typical BS rapper who says every project was his best. He’s keeping it real. To me it’s not even close.

 

[H. Selassie]

Think about it from Pusha’s perspective…He managed to get arguably 2 of the 5 greatest Hip-Hop producers ever to directly compete and basically got a “Daytona” from each of them and combined it into 1 album.

 

[Braman]

i voted daytona but honestly going back now maybe I agree with threadstarter...I def listen to its almost dry more

Honest man.

I like Daytona, but I’ll never get the hype for it. I think it benefited from a lot of moments that in real time seemed rare, iconic, moreso than just the music

-The rollout, 7 songs each for multiple artists. Novel idea, but…ok?

-New music from artists we hadn’t had new music from in Pusha and Nas. Nas goes on to do 10 more albums all better than Nasir

-The Drake diss. At the time groundbreaking. Since then Push destroyed him with a song that dwarfs infrared, and kendrick with 4 diss tracks

So yea Imo people bought into Kanye’s marketing and it influenced the memory of that album (cough, EP). If more people would go back and listen, they would come to the conclusion it was gassed

 

[Ziggiy]

Both are damn near flawless

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

I listen to IAD all the time along with LGSTO. Daytona is my shyt too, but its too short. The only thing stopping IAD from being unskippable is that track with Uzi. That shyt aint really fit the vibe. Push still killed that verse and its not a horrible song its just, sometimes it gets skipped sometimes it dont. All the other tracks are guaranteed to get played.