Illmatic could drop today, sell 60k and the internet would call it trash. Real music is done in the mainstream.

its crazy how one mans skip is another mans top 5 on the album

Music lovers are dwindling as the average listener is being taught to skim.

Si-si, wait a minute
Ven aquí (Ven aquí), c'est la vie (C'est la vie)
I tell the whole truth from A to Z, ayy
Show me you real, show me that you bleed, ayy

Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?

Dumb down my flow to double my dollars

HOV

I still can’t get myself to rank any of these songs

Why would you do that

Let's start with bottom 2

Pause

Yeah it’s not like I need to

Lmao probably Count Me Out and Purple Hearts, and that’s not even saying they’re average, I’ve just played everything else so much they automatically slide to the bottom

Would love a video for Rich Spirit

Tough love bottled up. No chaser

If you don't like Count Me Out you ain't been at the bottom

I could never live my life from a computer

The interludes

Then Purple Hearts, then Auntie Diaries.

Without these on the album it’s a 10/10 for a lot more people.

the discourse around this album has been horrendous

After a week to digest

Rich Spirit is the one

It was bound to happen on this site, it’s just essentially waiting and trolling top artists now, no music discussion at all.

Wowwwww did you really just not like these two? What did it for you?

Imo auntie diaries don’t even need lyrics that beat is beautiful

This is tough

I understand the interludes purpose, but I just think they are meh.

Auntie Diaries something off about it, like he tried to hard to make a conscious track like some of his previous ones that were really good, and it doesn’t have much replay value IMO.

Purple Hearts I love and is grown music, but I can see people calling it filler making sense.

I knew exactly who he was, and i still loved him