Tupik wrote:LamarMatic7 wrote:Tupik wrote:B4.DA.$$ is very good, and although I anticipated more hard-hitting songs like Christ Conscious, in the end it's still a very satisfying album. Love Paper Trail$ in particular, along with the singles which are all awesome.
the first listen of the album had me feeling like all of the songs blended into one. it seemed just "okay".
Completely agree on this, I was actually fairly disappointed after the first listen but it's a really good album. Like you said, I love the diversity of his flows/deliveries, even though I prefer when he's at his most agressive personally (I'm one of the very few that preferred Summer Knights over 1999 because of that).
It's not a transcendent album, he's not doing anything that I haven't heard before, but he does it extremely well and it's still a very good album. I think Lupe's album ended up being the better one though, which I would never have expected.
Yeah, you probably are one of the very few. I also prefer his 1999-sound over his aggressive personality in the long run.
Still not ready to listen to Lupe. Will keep monitoring the reception it gets once the initial surprise wears off. He's been disappointing to me the last few years.
