He's slowly but surely falling off. I say this as a supporter since 2011. Got put on by my homie in February that year, and when HOB dropped I got It off tumblr and after the other two tapes dropped I was in awe. Maybe because that's where I was in my life, on drugs, fukking girls, running around the city partying and shyt.
But I look now, and His music doesn't have the depth it once did. It doesn't mean it's not good, because it is. The Hills is an amazing track, just like KOTF and Often were, but there's a noticeable difference in it. Lazy lyrics. Carried by production in a way. It doesn't sound raw or unpolished. Not as haunting or unpredictable.
He's still better than most artists. But I think for his type of music, he'd have been better off taking some breaks. So that the quality doesn't get diluted. No lie, when it came down to it, I never thought I would see him make songs like Drinks on Us or Earned It. I literally could never picture it. He had that darkness about him and his music and it seemed authentic.
He's still making the highest quality mainstream music possible. But I just preferred his shyt a little darker. But everybody gotta get paid, so
I appreciate HOB/THURS/EOS and those are all personal classics to me.
Still about 4 galaxies ahead of PND though, even this version of him
