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Unironically one of the better hip hop releases this year

Look, Im biased, I'll take that on the chin, but there's something you gotta understand ab Cities Aviv and his artistry. Aviv isn't a "genius", but he's an incredibly creative mind who is talented enough to create some of the best Abstract Hip Hop pieces. He's an artist you WANT to hear more from, but you just can't. Well, this tape is a solution to this issue.

It's 35 tracks of beautiful, ... read more

Snoozefest post Jukebox Joints (halfway into the album btw)

It's really ironic how Rocky dedicated the first track off the album to dissing people who have "sold their soul" for profit, meanwhile the biggest issue with this album is that it just sounds soulless. There isn't a single good song that follows Pharsyde and it's a shame, because the album's start was... promising, to say the least.

Hate to butcher artists for switching genres and experimenting, ... read more

This record is surprisingly hollow when you look beyond the pumpatous, egotistical attitude it delivers on each track. Though this might just be the issue of me coming back to this album a fair lot and just... growing a bit tired of it. This is Kanye at his "highest", every songs is dripping with ego and self confidence and, thanks to Kanye being a, well, "character", he manages to not only use this ego to feed into his own disrespectful and beautiful and TWISTED persona, he ... read more

I really, really REALLY wanted to like this album. My initial listen was somewhere in the beginning of October. I returned to it in November, and, finally relistened to it for the third time in December. Each time I left this album in an unsatisfied state. I look at the RYM score - great, I look at the AOTY score - Fucking amazing, on the same level as LYSF, but when I listen to the album it just sounds... okay-ish? Like, the fuck is wrong with me? I expanded my taste in music enough, I started ... read more