My gut feeling is that a sizable amount of people who beg him for an album haven’t actually sat with this one the way they probably sat with Blonde…since everyone forgot how to download mp3s
hip hop has made me so worldly, so interested in people and the idiosyncracies of life, and more empathetic to plight. which is why i HATE when people disrespect it, viewing it as a lower form of musicianship, disassociating when it’s convenient, and infantilizing its means