EminemBase wrote:I'd be amazed if this doesn't get rave reviews.
Critics are obsessed with the musicality of rap albums more than anything else, which is why Kanye's shit always gets 55/10 despite always being very mediocre conceptually...
This is Em's dark twisted fantasy. It feels like theater, it feels big and epic.
Critics are more obsessed with the craft & the concept of an album tbh.
Killer Mike, Kendrick, Nas, Ab-Soul all got +80 or +90 on metacritic with their albums.
people think kanye got 94/100 with mbdtf because of the hooks and the musicality of his album but Kendrick got 91/100 with gkmc and the album ain't
musical at all, Earl got +80/100 on metacritic and his voice is monotone as fuck