Oh, but now Cole's back with some of those dark lyrics, bemoaning the effects of the internet and the pressures of fame. Ooooh.this is smooth, I feel like I'm idly playing some jazz piano in a penthouse suite dressed only in a robe and drinking fresh-squeezed orange juice.
That's what happened with Forest Hills Drive, and that's what's going to happen to 4 Your Eyez Only. And then six months later, once we'd had some real time to figure out the album's impact on the world and ourselves, we'd do a follow-up review. It would be a gut reaction, stream of consciousness, no-editing and no-rewinding reaction that would reflect everyone's first time hearing it. No, it struck me that the closest thing to assessing an album in the internet age was to do a one-listen-review that was naked, honestly itself. Those reviews had the distinction of being both inaccurate and dishonest while smugly believing they were neither. And in some ways, it was even worse to assign an album some exacting score or claim to understand its place in the hip-hop pantheon because they had listened to it for all of three days.
It was one listen reviews that didn't admit they were one listen reviews and pretended to be more. He was almost right, but it wasn't one listen reviews that were so bad, exactly.
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