Not sure why mainstream feels the need to make 4-5+ minute tracks for an entire album

REAL MUSIC

yeah my original question was referring to all albums, not just ones you like but that answer makes sense

and usually i watched it to know its bad. i give it its proper run, evaluate and then either proceed to rewatch it or skip it later on if i revisit the season

because this is how it always was lol

need someone to ask Cole when The Let Out was made because it really does sound like it was inspired by Sinners lol

Wouldn't mind if Cole dropped an album like Circles

It's a Boy being a singing album was a theory I had lol

Songs like this is why im confused with the "he played too safe on here"

On The Villest I hear Alchemist, OutKast, and Badu

it's funny too cus in alot of ways it's his most experimental overall even more than kod

I thought i was the only one who felt this way

Rap songs don’t need to be drawn out

Sounds very dungeon family inspired to me

Ehh, I just think you're so used to rap songs nowadays being no longer than 3 minutes long lol. Rap albums in the 90's and 2000's always had long song lengths.

I absolutely love that Cole made a lot of these tracks 4-5+ minutes long.

Yeah I mean he cant even attempt a Two Six

Exactly why I’m not replaying rap albums from 90’s and 2000’s

Disc 1 is good

For selfish reasons I think I could help them reignite the flame and fall in love with this again
If they could trust in young Jermaine, we'd do our drills, we'd shake the rust
We'd blow the dust off of the pain and go shake up the game
And maybe then I'd have someone I want to be again
But even as I write that thought, I don't believe it, dang
'Cause maybe it wasn't even them, it's really me that changed

Saved this album for a long drive I'm on rn. Finished disc 1 and it's crazy how the latter half has some of the best songs he ever made. Shame the streams fell off after track 7.

Two Six is regional. Boldy goes similarly crazy on Detroit beats

Never admit this out loud people will think you’re an idiot

Hip-Hop has been dropping 20-30 great projects every single year since 2014. So unless one of my favorites are dropping, Nas, Common, Thought, Clipse as of recently, I’m not going back in time 95% of the time

Wait I may have misread you then