I was immediately sold on Disc 1, it took a little longer to get into 2. But yeah, what a crazy long way they came in four years. I love the five-percent concept album feel of it. As far as I'm concerned, Raekwon and INS absolutely own it lyrically. Triumph isn't even Deck's best verse. Damn, why couldn't Uncontrolled Substance couldn't have more stuff about gliding like a hovercraft on the Everglades or wearing baseball caps low to disguise the crooked eye? I didn't know how much the RZA liked Ghost's verse on Impossible. He knows his shit man, that song is incredible, RZA and U-God too. Ghost's verse on Older Gods is pretty stellar too. The beats on For Heaven's Sake, A Better Tomorrow, It's Yours, The City, Bells of War, Heaterz are all like Jeeeesus. I love the transition between For Heaven's Sake and CREAM 2. ODB out-wests the West Coast on Dog Shit. The whole thing could've used more Cappadonna, he kills it whenever he's on. So yeah, I've really been enjoying this for the last week, though it doesn't quite live up to its promise; I think it definitely had the potential to be the best album ever made, and you can see it toeing the edge of that on a lot of the tracks, but ultimately it seems like they got lazy about pushing themselves forward, which evolved into this depressing stagnation over the last fifteen years. Still better than 99 (or 85?) percent of anything else.
Choice cuts:
For Heaven's Sake, It's Yours, Impossible
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