But yeah, there’s definitely good stuff here.

Also, not to beat the Dangerdoom comments to death, but “Benzi Box” is one of my favorite doom tracks. Then again, it’s also one of the only tracks on the album that doesn’t have an ATHF skit in it…

This album is more unfocused and haphazard than could be predicted, and my expectations were low. The recycled beat for Raekwon to rhyme on (how many times have we heard that beat before?), the Dilla Lightworks beat that Kweli used years ago…cmon man.

Im pretty sure this is some new material to hold people over until the next show, when some other cat shows up to perform while DOOM continues to sleep on his mom’s couch.

I wouldn’t rank the album up in the man’s top 3 (Top 5 even) but to be fair, I think very few rappers who’ve been as remarkably consistent over the past 20 years. Scarface is the only guy who comes to mind actually (hmm Scarface vs Metal Face? Probably wouldn’t work but it’d be a fun one off track)

I actually think many people would, especially since Ghost seems pretty candid about the fact that his earlier work experimented with some pure fly sounding surreal, stream-of-consciousness shit. I’d also like to add that writing fly sounding stream of conscious stuff isn’t all that easy, and not something to be scoffed at completely.

As for tracks like ‘that’s that’, I’ll admit it does seem a bit more stream of conscious than his previous work. Calling it nonsense is a bit harsh though. I actually remember people saying the same about tons of other past tracks in his discography, so it might again be an issue about how much time we’ve spent with the record.

Like the first time I heard:
“Cornish hens switchin positions, auditionin’ mortitions
saw it in a vision, ignorin prison
Ignoramuses enlist and sound dumb
Found em drowned in cows dung, crowns flung”

I was like dude’s just blazing crazy off the top of his dome, but a few seconds later I was like this could easily be a war-related thread - it could be abt those who’ve enlisting in the army, could be abt street kids getting involved in a seemingly glamourous life of crime, or it could be abt anyone who’s decided to battle Doom in a cypher. It all ends very badly though I know for sure.

I dunno. Guessing if there’s a narrative under all that gibberish is half the fun.

P.S I interpret “DOOM rock grandma like the kumbaya” as a rebuking of our youth-obsessed culture and a call for you to get in on with some senior citizens.

aaron: in my opinion, “microwave mayo” is right behind “gazillion ear” as the best “pure spit” song on the record. in “more rhymin’,” i think it’s about as introspective as doom’s gotten over the course of his career, but you have to listen closely and read between the lines.

one of the the other complaints about this record is that people say the stream-of-consciousness lyrics sound like he’s just stringing words together, but would anyone who reads this blog regularly have the balls to say that “nutmeg” does the same thing? no, because it doesn’t. neither do the lyrics here.