i'll just put it out like this:
i have it amazon'd on pre-order, but until it gets here, im stuck with 128k sound. with that stated, this is some of his best work, without doubt his most passionate full-release. shady has always been funny, quirky and full of humor, sometimes passionate--track's like lose yourself, white america, way i am, brain damage, kim, mosh. if this album is what he can accomplish sober, i hope he stays on that clean wagon. if you can get me emotional, that's how you get me tracked. he goes off and intimate and crazy. the first time i spent with the 128k was genuine, and when this album drops the hip hop world will shake.. mos def will tilt his head, and black thought will say, Damn. rakim is gonna trip. the internal rhyme has not commonly been brought to the extreme like this. dude goes off like crazy. this isnt shady; this is the culmination of what shady and em and marsh have worked toward for more than a decade. at his best. he just fucking strictly-4-my-niggaz this shit. it's like he took the track "underground" and gave it hella depth and prolonged it for sixteen tracks and then added one more track for good measure.
hahahaha sixteen tracks for sixteen bars, but there's always room for one more word !!