Albums Raekwon - The Emperor's New Clothes (July 18th)

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havent heard the entire album but i started on 1 life

cause i wanted to hear stacy barthe… ehhh her hook went on a little too long

but just finished it
Album is pretty good

chef fire as always
he gotta be top 10

Edit: okay went thru the whole album:whew:

Bear Hill is the only miss tho
 
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I wish Nas would’ve jumped on Mac & lobster….rae really dropped a solid album. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if SC2 is as good as this
 

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Good album nothing wrong with the beats everything can't sound like it's 96 lol just move on

I think the precise problem is that these beats DO sound like they're from 96. And not the good 96 either. A lot of these beats just sound generic and cheap. Rae coulda went to YouTube and found 15 better beats in 30 minutes. Prolly pay no more than 2k for em. The production on Wu Tang forever sounds more polished and current than the beats on this album.
 

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I finished this and by today’s standards it’s damn near a classic
 

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I think the precise problem is that these beats DO sound like they're from 96. And not the good 96 either. A lot of these beats just sound generic and cheap. Rae coulda went to YouTube and found 15 better beats in 30 minutes. Prolly pay no more than 2k for em. The production on Wu Tang forever sounds more polished and current than the beats on this album.
Well… wu tang forever was defacto major release of louds existance. It got proper engineering.

This is an indy album. With ai videos. no promo. And an in house team. I gather they chinced. Dont think it would have changed it much except give some depth tho. Im not huge fan of the production myself on a base level, mix or not. Just not much going on. Immobilarity had more impactful beats imo.

Mixing standards have dropped in ughh for sometime tho so im used to it. Youre not getting top notch mixes on albums like these from legacy artists most the time unless tbey on production. Noones putting the care the rza did because it costs.
 
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