Premo is my personal GOAT
But I feel you on that. All his stuff is sounding the same now. His style is his style, but after 30 years…
You can play his 30 year old beats and they still sound fire though. There's just something different to his sound now. His sampling is a little bit stale, but the biggest problem is that his drum programming has been dogwater for years now. Real stiff sounding. shyt is always mixed down, with no low end on his kicks too. No warmth at all on the beats either. I think he must have switched up his equipment and it fukked with the feel of his shyt.
The contraband joint has a dope beat that still holds up (other than how the drums are mixed), but the other two joints are meh. I'll check the whole album when I get a chance though.