And for my first hip hop album since making removing the genre filter… The album opens with push it along and my god the sample work at the start is good! I’am I’am surprised by how great this is as an opener Q-tip is essentially introducing himself as an artist with the sharp inelegant lyrics that fill throughout the song.He introduces the others with this wired echoey chat with his group, nice interlude bit. Well luck of lucien does start with part of all you need is love by the Beatles which heightens the song a bit making it sound of a higher level and there’s some jazzy bit too throughout that gives it a much needed personality. This song is more energetic then the last song the beats are better, the rapping is very on point and the samples used are great! Ooh, my first turn table noises came in after hours. The song is good as unlike the last two songs the beat is backed up by other noises ( by what partly sounds like synth and then it goes into drums). The Frogs are wired though. I’am not great with my hip hop knowledge but these guys seem like the masters of the samples making an otherwise okay song into a masterpiece ( oh yeah that’s footprints for you). I left my wallet at el Segundo actually had some guitar parts in the samples which works well! The lyrics tell the story of loosing a wallet ( of course at el Segundo) in a surprisingly lyrically sharp way. Love the angry Spanish/ Mexican men sample at the end. I really don’t like the shaky beat in Pubic enemy but the lyrics are somewhat good especially for the subject involved. I love the samples in Bonita Applebum as they aren’t overused unlike some of the others. The lyrics are okay not they’re sharpest but at least the chorus is kinda catchy. The album slows for it’s best song and biggest hit can I kick it, the it’s probably got the best sample beat of the album and some of the best strongest rapping. A good thing to note though are how cool the turntable spins are in headphones. Anyway good song! Youthful expression also has a decent groove to it and probably my favourite line so far with “ politicians are magicians make your vote they hope you’re wishin” yeah this is the best lyrical track for me in general! Then we have rhythm ( devoted to the art of moving butts) the verses are good but wait are those sex noises before the chorus; also the chorus is weird because it’s proper whispery, not a favourite but good try. Mr. Muhammad is probably the the most “rhythmic” sample filled song of the whole album, it’s a track without personality but I wouldn’t miss it if it wasn’t on the album. Ham n eggs is actually quite interesting for it’s time as it’s a pro vegan song ( so something not common in the late 80’s/ early 90’s times it was written and released in. It’s done in a very of it’s time goofy way but I like it. And the rhythm keeps the same sorta energy of Mr Muhammad. The album’s penultimate track is the rather groovy go ahead in the rain straight up solid beat but it’s one of the worst songs on this album. That last song does flow perfectly into description of a fool though it’s a great closer sharp lyrics, good beat, great rapping. Making most of the song instrumental was a good way to kill of the album slowly, but yeah a banger to end a banger of an album. Well this was a great (yet slightly over bloated) album (even though like 70% of rap albums are over bloated) will definitely revisit!