I'm a big fan of Lupe's conscious work featured heavily on Lasers and Tetsuo and Youth and his collaboration with other artists on those albums really shined. I listened to both of those albums hundreds of times and I think they are true instant classics.

I heard Jump, Made in the USA, Wild Child and some of the other songs he released ahead of the album and I said to myself.."surely these are not the best songs on the album". I really liked Jump and I think Gizzle killed it but the others to me were kind of "meh". I get that Lupe is trying to expand his parameters and I can't be mad at that and maybe these songs will grow on me, so I thought I'll just wait to see what he brings to the table this time.

I'm glad to read this review as I have been really hyped for this album and had been following Lupe's twitter religiously waiting for the release date to drop.

I'm glad to read Lupe trying out the new Atlanta sound, as some of the best flows (imo) in hip hop have come out of ATL (IE Dungeon Family and DTP) and I'm really excited to see the merger of Lupe's Chi-town style and the ATL style.

I'm also glad to see Lupe's departure from Atlantic, I know they always stifled his creativity and he certainly speaks to that quite a bit in his earlier work.

At any rate, thanks for this review!

And Lupe thanks for the inspiring music! I think you will go down in hip hop history as one of the greats. I can't wait to get my hands on this album!