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the pfork review surprised me yeah.
I thought the Jay/Kanye comparison was slightly off too. (I'm not calling them The Throne). But maybe for diff reasons than you. I do actually consider Ferg the artsier one. I consider Rocky the better rapper, and to have more star appeal. But I think Ferg looks at music coming from being a visual artist. Which is to say, on his first album he did a track "F out my face" and then the following track used the same exact beat... in reverse. Stuff like that. He seems to have the more experimental mind. It's also in the voices and cadences he chooses. Like on "Doe Active." He's all over the track it's crazy. Or on this new album he has that song "Never Let You Go" I think it's called - where he raps a verse from the perspective of his girlfriend who he's treating poorly. I mean, it's not "better" than what Rocky does - but I don't think Rocky's mind works that way. I don't think he'd think to write from the perspective of a girl who he's cheating on.
Another way to think of it: Rocky is a fantastic rapper. But Ferg is compelling because he wasn't a proper rapper. So maybe he kind of does things "wrong" because he's not thinking about the right way to do it. Does that make sense?
Of course I prefer Rocky. But Ferg is great. I really want a proper Mob album to happen still.
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