Those projects where they’re not bad, but you think- “damn, this ain’t hittin like the last one” the purgatory between artist rebirth and the fall off

Kanye: Cruel Summer/Yeezus: after grad/mbdtf/wtt/cs I really thought Kanye was going to change music I still remember how magical that CS intro sounded. Then he dropped Yeezus which wasn’t bad but was sloppy and rushed. First real sign of Ye getting washed

Kendrick MMBS: the gap between damn and morale was 5 years and all he really had to say was a throwaway pandemic bar and copied Hov using an album release as a launchpad to offload cheating allegations

Drake Views: one of the biggest moments in modern hiphop and he chooses to make a bloated mess for streaming. Truly the start of the end as all his projects afterwards p much follow this archetype

0/3

Ban OP

I know you breath smell like dookie with that s***ty taste

Dawg woke up with a plan to piss everyone off on ktt2 this afternoon

Didn't miss a shot

2 of em are correct

Op got 1 out of 3

none of these niggas were behind the curve at any of those specific points lmao i dont think you know what that actually means

Are you smoking crack?

Not an album but Meek dropping that Dreams & Nightmares sequel

Cruel Summer hate

Views definitely wasnt perfect but it wasnt behind the curve

It was literally right on time lmao

Insano was 5 years too late

Yeezus hate is dusty in 2026.

Like I can understand if you were a Fantano stan from 2015 repeating the whole "he just copied Death Grips" s*** but hating on the album in 2026 is just dusty af.

It's like when niggas call TPAB "critic bait." That's such a dusty af opinion stuck in the mid 2010's that it almost feels like a troll or LARP.

Bait thread

casual dom fans not gonna wanna hear this but yellow album was when i first noticed doms rapping was starting to fall off (really love half of ghs tho which came out after yellow album)

then he became a completely different rapper by the time he dropped by dom kennedy and hasn’t really been the same since

closer to 10

Views was lowkey ahead of it's time if not the new Blueprint for the current era's idea of what an album is

Mans said all Kendrick had to say on MM&TBS was a pandemic bar...

"Do you fools listen to music or skim through it"

Bad for me. I remember during the lead up to that album there was a lot of rumors flying around that Michael was going to return to the Ben sound. I got myself so hyped for that s***.

As you can imagine it was a pretty disappointing first listen. It's grown on me a bit since but he was never the same to me after that

Every Cole tape since Friday Night Lights