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Originally Posted by Severian
Your review of It Was Written is more generous than most.
I love "If I Ruled the World," and feel like the album has always been overlooked.
Btw: what's the theme here? NYC hip hop from 1994 forward? Chronologically? If so, you're skipping around a bit 
I continue to be impressed by your knowledge of hip hop and the intelligence of your reviews. You'd do an excellent job. Keep up the good work. |
I think I was a lot harsher on It Was Written in 1996. I've had a lot of years to grow more attached to it, and sort of understand it more. I think it's a really, really good album that most folks didn't give the attention it deserved (deeper than the singles anyway).
No theme... anything I review is from my physical CD collection. I've just been making it a goal to actually listen to the CD's that I'm buying and then giving them the proper attention so that I can jot down some thoughts on them. For the most part it's been skipping around randomly (literally going to my discogs collection page, and hitting the "random item" button to decide what to listen to next). But last night I just decided I was in the mood for Nas and Jay, so grabbed a handful I hadn't reviewed yet. So I might start to just do little clusters of 3 or 4 albums by a single artist - not necessarily chronological though cuz again - it's just the ones I happen to own physical copies of.