that I didn’t get the first time I listened to it. Man, there are a lot of references to this song on Do What Thou Wilt. The first verse was dope, and I love his flow on this hook. I like when artists make references back to their older work. The opening lines of the first verse were repeated on Invocation from his latest LP, Do What Thou Wilt. I love the way he delivered that Lion King line too. The third verse is where he really slaughters this shit tho. Sinister literature given from this wicked minister / Witness your future diminish / No present from Saint Nicholas in particular / You’re just a thing of the past / I’m a diamond ring in the trash, no reason to brag it’s Ab. He unfortunately dropped an F bomb-I’ve noticed he throws that slur around very casually-but aside from that the verse is fantastic. His flow isn’t too flashy, but I love his aggressive delivery. This is one of 8 tracks from this album that I’m already very familiar with. This wasn’t really the best way to start the album off, but at least it wasn’t complete trash. There’s no way he didn’t know those first two verses were bullshit. It seems too strange to be a coincidence. The final verse is fantastic, but everything else about it is bizarrely underwhelming. He fucking killed that last verse.įuck a foe ’cause I’m focused as four bifocals / I’m prone to leave a vocal booth totaled for the right total / The bad boy, you boys pussy as Total or Dorothy’s dog Toto.įuck. What the fuck…? Why the hell did he do that? The first two verses are so bad compared to this one. I know it gets better on the other songs, but why the fuck would you start your album like this? Oh fuck… Okay, he’s actually goin’ in on this final verse. The second verse was a little better, but… What the fuck is he doing? I really don’t remember him rapping this lazily the first time I listened to this album. It’s not terrible, but it’s definitely not good. Huh… This isn’t… I mean… This is pretty bad so far. His flow was really boring, and he didn’t say anything interesting. It didn’t really seem like he was trying. The first verse was… Well… It was kinda bullshit. This track opens up with Jhené Aiko reciting the same exact intro that Janet Jackson started her hit single Control with. From what I can remember, this is a really substantive listen. Anyway, I’m expecting this to be really great. Why the fuck am talking about this? I guess it’s pretty ironic that I’d be so familiar with Dragon Ball after that rant I did about Japanese culture and weebs in my latest Lil Uzi Vert review. Half of the show is just every character getting the dogshit beat out of them until Goku shows up to save them. I mean, they don’t, but I just hate how they made Goku the only capable fighter in the entire series. Man, the characters in Dragon Ball fucking suck. And uh… ScHoolboy Q would be… Tien? Nah… Q’s better than Tien. I guess that would make Jay Rock Piccolo. He’s kinda like Vegeta if Kendrick is Goku. This is the closest thing we have to that, and until he surpasses it people will always compare his future material to this project. It’s one of those situations where I know he’s capable of giving us greatness, but it just doesn’t seem like he’s had the right mentality to deliver a focused album. I know I skimmed this project once around the end of 2013, but I honestly don’t remember anything about it outside of a few standout tracks, which is probably surprising to a lot of my readers since I used to list him as one of my ten favorite rappers. This is the album that really showed what he’s capable of. He would at most be the least popular member of TDE. Honestly, if this album never happened Ab-Soul might not even be around anymore. This is the closest thing to a classic album released by any member of Top Dawg Entertainment other than Kendrick Lamar. This album was released on May 12th in the year of our Lord 2012.
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