thats what i been saying thats a big fat L for nas

Project seems a bit unfocused and lacks direction.

Using Ai to remove instrumentals from low quality cassette rips of freestyles and putting them over new beats and random features was a direction I hope they wouldn’t go with but they did.

But they also put actual finished songs on here that sound out of place and clearly not remixed or remastered. Must not have the reels.

The middle of the album just being a bunch of freestyles with replaced beats and replaying the instrumental for 7 min freestyle completely ruins the sound of the track for me.

Also some of these vocals on the remix tracks seem a bit off at times. Like whoever arranged them on the beat didn’t align them perfectly.

Should have just done an archival compilation type album with the mac, nas, method man & joey songs as bonus songs.

Has some similar issues that the big picture had but even worse.

not good just as i thought

I absolutely can’t stand taking something previously released and altering it just to get around clearing it for streaming. Was hype to have the 7 minute freestyle on DSPs but nope will just continue to listen on YouTube

what a shameful project

advice for big l fans just listen his first album ,only legit album when he was alive , dont Support this cash grab bullshit

This is embarrassing.

Probably the one Legend Has It release I don't plan on peeping. Lifestylez is good enough.

Also @op I remember it being announced as Rise of the Forgotten King too, but it's officially Return of the King

This guy hates anything made past 03 besides carti/rocky

This is pretty much exactly how I expected it to be. It’s not bad but easily the weakest of the mass appeal releases. Not sure we needed it but it’s not horrible I guess

that's fair. i don't get people saying this is horrible. its still big l verses over good production

just makes me appreciate the mobb deep even more. it just aint easy to make posthumous albums work

The Mobb had way more material left compared to L tho. Thats the thing so my expectations weren’t that high. L had more radio freestyles on the internet than actual unreleased verses

they did a great gift to the culture, you just cannot appreciate anything anymore.

and that is why you dont drop nothin ......

New Big L

it is better to not drop this bullshit , if you dont have enough material and decent production - big l deserve that , not - fast cash grab material , he didnt have enough material , so why they even did this?

I’m not mad at them dropping because from what I’ve been reading this album is an opportunity for L’s fan to eat off his music so I support the project for that reason. But yeah idk if you were an L Stan over the last decade plus I feel like it should be expected there really isn’t much unreleased left. Might as well threw some Children of the Corn joints on here

and have some ditc production there

They did a great job on that Mobb Deep album. It was produced by Prodigy's two closest producers, so it feels like he was actually part of the project. It's cohesive and really does sound like those guys were all in the studio creating it together. Lots of love and respect went into that one, and you can hear it. I don't hate this Big L album, but I don't see myself listening to it much in the future. The features are mostly random. They aren't bad, but it doesn't feel natural the way the Mobb album does. It's just weird. I'm not a fan of many posthumous albums unless the artist was actually part of the process. That Mobb album is an exception. The last Tribe album is up there too, but I think Phife was around contributing his parts. I'm hoping the De La album is done tastefully. I have faith in that one. This L album is just kind of okay in my opinion. Feels a little exploitive honestly.

yeah this is a weird release tbh

okayplayer.com/de-la-soul-announce-new-album-cabin-in-the-sky/1414661

the de la soul album sounds like it's mostly gonna be posdnous/maseo with only some unreleased verses from trugoy so i think that just automatically makes it seem like it'll be better handled, also just the dynamic of them as a group

Big L is one of my all time favorite rappers. One of the first rappers I really dug deep into as a child and for that I don’t feel comfortable giving this a listen, maybe in the future