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Originally Posted by Certain

If you're looking for "Backseat Freestyle"-type songs, no, it has none. It doesn't even have anything on the "jam" level of "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" or "Compton" or "Poetic Justice," nothing that you would want to bump in the background necessarily. But I think "Alright," "u" and "i" qualify as radio-friendly, very good songs, more in the vein of "Swimming Pools (Drank)" as far as "jam" status. They make you think but still function as playlist-able tracks.

It's clearly an attempt at a classic album, whether or not you think it succeeds. It reminds me a lot of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The album consumed the songs. But I will take that ambition from time to time as a replacement for the higher-end-production mixtapes that qualify as albums from so many other rappers these days.

I haven't come to a conclusion on it yet, but I get the mixed reaction.

I do disagree with the depiction of its supporters being white. Most of the reviews I've read of it have come from black people. The album is steeped in blackness, in black history, in being black now. It's a very black album, to the point of alienation. White intellectuals might be reluctant to call it on its flaws for that reason, sure, but I definitely have seen and heard plenty of praise from black people (often black intellectuals) for the album.

I was referring to the reaction on this site, not in the general media.