Man....I can't believe my eyes. Are we listening to the same Lou-E-Lou? Homeboy came with some heaters on Trunk Muzic, and Dying Species is one of the hardest songs on NE5. That track demonstrated sophistication and development beyond the material on his solo album...it looks like Lou will be (is) one of East Co Co's most productive artists.
It just goes to show how different our opinions can be. Regarding NE5, to me the CD is hard. Plenty of songs stand out as excellent (#21,4,20,14,7,2,19,15,1,2) easily justifying the $12.98 it cost at Rasputin's. There's only one unplayable song (#16) but with a decent chorus it might have been tolerable.