The truth with this album is that many of us from my generation (millenials) enjoyed it when it was released, and it was one of our entry point to louder/heavier music. The "white dude rapping" thing was also probably part of its success for us, as hip hop was big for people around me, and all this *gesture* including nu metal, with white people rapping and collaborations between rappers and metalheads was a gateway to a whole new universe. And I think that, for many of us moving to other, "more serious" stuff, it started to be frowned upon to like this as it is way too mainstream. Yes, this white dude rapping is cringe sometimes; yes, the lyrics are totally dumb (but hey, English is not my first language so I generally don't really care to be honest); yes, some songs are too cheasy, but fuck it, it still works. It's not perfect -- far from it -- but it is an efficient album, very mainstream, but with some good bits in it, skillful musicians, and it was a gateway album opening to new horizons for many of us. So fuck self-righteous gatekeepers, this is good. The first half of this record is solid (with peak dumb lyrics in the first song, they really know how to open an album), with a strong progression until Californication. The second half is a bit more chaotic and it might have been shorter but, once again, it's not perfect.