AbramIsaac wrote:The creativity he was exhibiting in terms of delivery and song structure was interesting...
This... plus it was obviously very experimental & a lotta people didn't understand it.
The weirder thing is people started to call it garbage like a year after it dropped, not at once.
There are strong songs on it & if some other ones didn't leak prior to it it'd be even stronger... meaning some of the songs on ''Straight from the lab'' that supposed to be on it but weren't because they leaked.
Off course it's nowhere as strong as his first 3 albums but it's nowhere near garbage as well. For instance up until today people call ''Big Weenie'' one of the worst songs ever but they still don't understand EM is literally doing Benzino on it, on purpose. If you listen to Benzino diss songs to EM & then listen to it, you'll know what I'm talking about. I mean it suppose to be obvious EM is not just acting as a Benzino character on it but he imitates the way that sucka raps as well!!!
I do like it because it gives you another perspective of how people wouldn't fully acknowledge if someone is way more than wack up until someone else who's not wack does that same thing. Like ''Nail in Coffin' & ''The Sauce'' did show the gigantic difference between EM & Benzino but to me ''Big Weenie'' is way more vivid of that. It truly sounds like a painful confession coming outta jealousy & it matches Benzino's reality as a "rapper''.
''Nail in Coffin'' & ''The Sauce'' murdered Benzino & proved EM was/is one of the sickest MC's to ever graced the mic, but ''The Yellow Brick Road'' & ''Big Weenie'' totally made that sucka vanish even though both records are totally different kinds of songs.
Overall I'd love if it was stronger lyrically , but I've enjoyed it a great lot that way as well.