Been listening to Live Love lately and yea he def improved on ALLA

I’m biased though, seeing the lead up to his debut tape was cool. Was already anticipating it then it dropped and it exceeded my expectations

By the time he dropped ALLA I was a bigger fan so I was attached to my personal idea of what direction Rocky should go in. Feel like that’s why I wasn’t able to fully appreciate it. I was running it heavy but I was too focused on the flaws. Def grew on me over time. A lot of those songs are some of Rocky’s best moments artistically

I still lean towards the tape being his best project. Works better as a full package imo. I feel like it flows better. Feels more cohesive. It was more impactful to me. That whole wave was so fresh. A lot of people borrowed swag after it dropped bc people hadn’t heard a full tape that captured that feeling. By the time ALLA dropped the novelty was gone. Guess you could say ALLA was a lil more ambitious but I don’t really listen to the second half (outside of M’$ ofc)

No cap though when I look at individual songs from each project I can see why someone would choose ALLA. By 2015 he was a better artist. His sound was more polished/refined. That run from L$D to LPFJ2 is crazy. We got some great visuals from that era too. Gonna run it today

ALLA def a ripped black skinnies album

Holy Ghost such an underrated track

Easily a top 5 Rocky song imo

That Danger Mouse production blows me away everytime, Plus Joe Fox and Rocky singing at the end is beautiful

Absolutely.

I got my own relationship with God
LORD

Love this album

Huge interlude fan and that’s one of my faves

Easily a top 5 album of all time for me, that being said, Holy Ghost and Dreams were always the tracks I ranked slightly lower than the rest, and those are the only ones everyone’s talking about itt lmao

Max B/Better Things supremacy

Absolutely could not agree more

Rocky's darkest and grittiest album. A classic!

always has been

I agree

Is there anyone on earth who doesn’t make this face to LPFJ2

Bring me back man

hearing pharsyde for the first time

Facts

I'm honestly really blessed to have experienced this album when it dropped overseas in Thailand

the last great MIA work was on Fine Wine

I love this album but of all time is wild lol

ALLA has aged great. It wasn’t incredibly beholden to any of the trends at the time and so it doesn’t sound particularly dated. The closest things to trendy on this album was maybe the inclusion of a Future feature and the flip of that bones song, and even then theyre pretty unique/unorthodox as far as those go.

Probably the most unique utilization of Future I’ve still ever heard besides the way he showed out on Scientists & Engineers

Yea

yeah it is and unfortunately he will never reach these peaks again