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Originally Posted by evollove
!!! I just went to go listen to Radio Silence on youtube and read this comment:
Talib is low-key crafting one of the biggest and most comprehensive discographies for a rapper ever created. When he's on his 20th album and people finally respect him like they should all of these will become retroactive classics.
youtube comments are so wise.
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Talib used to have pretty broad recognition. He was on a level with, say, MF Doom at one point, but he’s faded from the relative spotlight (like Doom) because he doesn’t give a fuck about the spotlight. Anyone who knows hip-hop and isn’t an idiot knows he’s a legend of lyrical hip-hop. He’s reverted in semi-underground circles, and he was basically he face of “Conscious” for a good five years.
But without doing anything drastically new sonically, he sounds like an artifact at this point. But... man, he’s a legend. That’s the one-half of BlackStar that’s still making decent rap music right there!
Talib and Common both suffer from the same disease: awesomeness in a former decade. But it’s still awesomeness.
I haven’t heard the new one yet.