You know you're in trouble when one of the better tracks on your album is one of the weaker ones on another mediocre album. Or when you're not featured in any capacity on your own album. I picked this up at Amoeba expecting some crazy experimental spoken word shit from Popa Wu, but it's just a collection of songs by mostly bad rappers.
Choice cuts: New Improved, Prepare for the Buddha Monk, How It Goes
Damn, I don't think I've heard an album that's resounded more with me politically. I appreciated the shift from the political to the personal as it progressed too, though I think I like the former more. Also Mike and El-P are as ideal a synthesis of rapper and producer as I've heard. Doesn't have a huge amount of replay value, but for kind of a small album it's about as good as it gets.
Choice cuts: Big Beast, Jojo's Chillin', Reagan
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