Let's keep it real, this is way better than the Westside Gunn album. And I thought that was cool, but this is objectively a lot better.
I relistened to a few other R.A projects recently since he dropped the album, some of that shyt was wack and the songmaking was poor. I can understand people not liking him and his music from that.
However on Legends Never Die and this album he showed growth and improvement, it is what it is and this is a good album overall.
There's songs I could have done without but some of the highlights are really high and excellent work.
Credit where credit is due and I appreciate the growth, if he cut out some weaker lines/content and songs and kept the very best it could have been classic.
I listen to all these albums quite in depth so digest it.
I would say there's 8-10 songs that are great/classics.
And some good ones and a few that could have been removed.
Solid 4 mic album, not classic to me, not even close to it, but solid and some very strong highs. He's got better as an artist.
If he cuts out some of the immature shyt in the future I think he could be even better because he is a skilled MC. Some of his old shyt was very gimmicky, his music feels more authentic to himself now.
The After Life song was really a great song, the First Born 1 was dope and some of them posse cuts were hard.
This is 1 of the better albums of the year, The Four Owls album was really good also, may even give that the slight edge considering there's no weaker tracks, that album may be 4.5 mics. Planet Asia's album was nice this year too. Been a lot of dope albums have checked out.
Westside Gunn ish is very divisive and hate or love it type shyt, I'm more in the middle, I appreciate certain aspects about it and disliked some others, that could be a 3.5 - 4 mic album to me. There's some excellent beats but it doesn't have the range in terms of rapping or content that R.A's album did.
