Yes he became trash for me when Ass Like That came out. Just Lose It was also trash so I was kinda down on Em, but Ass Like That cemented it. Didn't want to hear him doing generic pop songs about women.
K i listened and gave it a chance.
He spends approx. half of those songs doing the same tired mediocre flows that everyone does these days (but in a weird voice) and half yelling and biting Lord Infamous' (or Koopsta Knicca, or MC Mack) flow directly. Plus the beats are generic modern beats...
This is my takeaway from the album. I had not listened to a full em album since TES, just knew that the singles were trash. But he's really lost it. He just doesnt understand how to make good music anymore. If he did he'd have vetted these beats and concepts better.
Buying a beat is probably just being licensed an intellectual property anyway.
Only person who truly "owns" a beat is the one who owns the copyright (legally), they just license the beat to artists. It just so happens that for years the unspoken understood rule was that if you paid for a beat...
this reminds me of that chiraq documentary where he visits his mom in the projects talking about how he's trying to make music to support his family but is soon after shown it rain at the strip club.
man everything in rap is indistinguishable from a parody now. its mad corny
i kind of believe that this kind of music is so big because whites can highkey experience it as a mockery of rap and black culture. like white kids go to these shows to experience a "ghetto party" type thing.