I can definitely see where your coming from, Little Brother does get a bit repetitive talking for instance about how they drive leased cheap cars…I definitely get that vibe, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in terms of their ambition and I think their flows were nice and the beats absurdly good. 9th Wonder does kill it.

As for Dilated, I’m mixed on them. I was a huge Dilated Fan when they first came out with their early stuff like Work the Angles and liked about half the Platform a lot. But I confess to almost never listening to Expansion Team team anymore. It kinda bores me and I haven’t heard their last two albums but from what I hear about the latest album it sounds like more of the same. As for their skills, I think Evidence is really good while Rakaa leaves something to be desired. His politcal diatribes always come up half baked to me, like he has some right ideas but lacks the knowledge to not sound like everybody else. I feel you really get two albums to make the same point: see Mobb Deep and Eminem. They were great for two albums but by the third one it got really old for me. I feel artists need to continually break new ground or risk staying stagnant. Unfortunately, Dilated in my humble opinion got a bit too stagnant for my tastes. Thanks for the comments. I’m glad that at least someone got to enjoy the show.