also T/S,,,Louis Logic and Jay Love"The OddCouple" was so much better than misery loves comedy IMO, some dope ass back and forth flows on that album foreal
em's flow, now, is overrated... maybe not his earlier stuff.. but as of late he has no bounce/syncopation in his flow... all his newer 'ish is this direct 1:1 relationship with the beat/element of the beat...
becomes monotonous and boring after like 30 secs. listening to it...
Also let's not forget the *speculators* fault in all this as well... remember there was a point where you couldn't turn on the t.v without seeing some late night infomercial like carlton sheets "no money down" system for flipping houses... or all the HGTV shows like "flip this house" etc...