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Album	You	Global	Diff
Illmatic Nas	5	3.61	+1.39

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Album	You	Global	Diff
In Rainbows Radiohead	1	3.87	-2.87
Pearl Janis Joplin	2	3.71	-1.71
Born In The U.S.A. Bruce Springsteen	2	3.69	-1.69
The Köln Concert Keith Jarrett	2	3.39	-1.39
Back At The Chicken Shack Jimmy Smith	2	3.38	-1.38

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I feel like I should like this more because of what album it is, but...I just didn't. Not my style.

I loved this. N.Y. State Of Mind is on my running playlist so I was already familiar with it. At some point a few years ago I started seeing rap and hip hop as spoken word poetry, and ECR seems to have a lot of people pouring their souls out on the page, describing their lives and the hardships of people around them. "Life's A Bitch" is full of this. "I woke up early on my born day, I'm 20, it's a blessin'" is quite literally "you're lucky if you live this long as a black man in New York". The style and the genre of the music may not be for everyone, but the messages in the lyrics are really moving.