Easily the best instrumental hip hop album, Dilla's final album before his tragic passing was produced in the hospital while he was battling lupus and ttd, essentially his own body was basically trying to kill him, yet he still worked hard to finish this album, it would be released on February 7th, 2006, his 32nd birthday, and 3 days before his passing, he left us wth a masterpiece to remember him by
This album is great, I'm not fully sure how to review it other than saying that he ... read more
Had to take a couple points off because the Pusha T feature was only a chorus and that goofy logic feature at the end
Besides that, this is prolly Royce's best work and it's definitely his most personal work, discussing his life, his past as a drug abuser, his family, depression, amongst other issues, he's always been a great lyricist but if there was anything holding him back for me it was prolly the substance, a problem that's really answered here with this album the ... read more
R.I.P CHINO XL
Chino XL is a rapper I knew of for years in fact I listened to this album years ago, back in my underground old head phase, it's just that it's been a while since I listened to it and given the tragic news, I chose to give it another spin, and man this guy was underrated as hell, surprised I don't see many talking about him
This album shines in it's rapping performances, Chino reminds me of like Big L or Ras Kass, he has the grittiness of those two, as well ... read more
This is prolly one of the most tragic albums I've ever listened to
So to actually review this I feel like I gotta explain some context to this, in the late 2000's to early 2010's JPEGMAFIA used to go by Devon Hendryx, an alias based off his actual name, this album specifically was made during the roughest time in Peggy's life, and I do gotta warn y'all this shit gets rough
Peggy made this album when he was severely depressed and had made several comments saying that ... read more