I mean it's Snoop and a lot of the beats are good so it's a pretty fun album to listen to but it's sad to think this is considered his best post-Doggystyle work. When it comes down to it I think he just lacks the organizational skills to build a strong album on his own. There's a stretch with 5 songs about bitches in a row, it's beyond belief.
As with The Ruler's Back, the mix is continually infuriating, but one I got used to a lot of quiet indeterminate mumbling with lovely cadence I started enjoying myself quite a bit. There's surprisingly little storytelling, the features from folks like Nas and Raekwon are huge letdowns, and the run of the mill beats often rely on recycled samples, but for all that it's more than a solid album that's a nice return to Rick's headspace. Adults Only sticks out like a sore thumb, nasty and unpleasant. When Kool G Rap or Ghostface include rape in their stories it's at least in the context of consciously over the top gangster narratives, whereas since his first album Rick continually relishes in the trope of consensual sex turned nonconsensual in a disturbingly giddy way. Pretty fucking upsetting.
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