awww

you ever listen to half of an album and really dig but for whatever reason wait days or weeks to finish it and when you come back to it the rest is terrible and you don't have the first half on hand to reevaluate because you deleted it from your MP3 player? That never happens to me.

haha j/k that happens all the time. it just happened with Da Bush Babees' Ambushed - first six tracks I was certain I had just unearthed one of thee lost classics of early 90s hip hop: ragga-flavored jazzy boom bap from just one year shy of the best vintage? What's not to love? Then I stopped listening to music because I'm weird like that. Now I'm addicted again, and I have really built this album up in my head, see? Like I had prewritten all these accolades and placed it in my top 50 or w/evs of the 90s and then I actually finish listening to it and... it's just kinda' unremarkable. The beats are exactly the sort of beat I'm usually nuts for and the rapping's competent (except for the guest spot from some corny clown who tries to pass off "random" and "asthma" as a rhyme, which really hurts, deep down) but there's no spark, no chutzpah, nothing to set it apart from any of the other dozens of albums from around this time period that attempt the same thing. And there's a "wasn't rap so much better in the ~good ol' days~?" track. In ninety-fuckin-four! So *pop* goes those accolades. And their next album has multiple Mos Def verses! D: In the immortal words of my mother: "peaturkey."