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TPAB is a good album of course. It just isn't doing much for me. I mean I'm still playing it shuffled w/ all the other recent releases tho.
Lupe has never really grabbed me. I like some songs by him. But never wanted to sit thru an album.
I Don't Like Shit is a great album.
If you want to see good interviews w/ A$AP Rocky, then you need to watch Suddenly, the documentary that Fuse did last year. It's great.
Anyway, I listened to Bush yesterday. It's good. Better than I feared anyway. I think that once the expectations were out of my head, it started to sound better. Like, what I wanted was Snoop rapping over Neptunes shit. I wanted an album of "Drop It Like It's Hot," "Beautiful," "From The Church," but that's not what this is. In fact, take a look at his resume. Snoop hasn't made a 'rap album' in a while.
SIDENOTE: I'm ok with that, to a degree. You have to admit that a fair share of Snoop's latter day work started to really blend together. Most of the work he did after No Limit say. You could easily confuse songs from Paid Tha Cost, Doggumentary, R&G, Ego Trippin, Malice... SOOOOO to see him just say "y'know what? I'm Snoop. I can do anything I want." is at least admirable. He could just coast in his comfort zone until retirement. Instead he's made 3 albums in a row now that are experimental and ignore the genre he's spent a career in.
So back to Bush: it's really not that much of a shocker after 7 Days Of Funk, y'all. And I mean Doggystyle is a G-Funk classic right? Why not want to go back and give homage to the samples? Meaning, I think Bush is basically Snoop's attempt at making a Parliament (et al) album. 7 Days hinted on this, but Bush is more sincere.
No lies - hearing Kendrick and Ross kill it on the closer certainly does make you wish for more rapping (and Snoop does drop a few verses throughout), but I still respect the grind here. And I liked (like really liked enough to say "I'd wanna hear that again") several songs here. And I enjoy the fact that it was kept to a nice brief 10-song svelte package instead of sprawling overkill (see: MOST Snoop albums).
So uh yeah. I guess I like this album then.
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