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Done 2 listens so far. As you might expect (since I say the same thing about nearly every rap album we've covered), I'm not really a fan. This is just so very verse heavy and I need those choruses to ground me, otherwise these songs tend to just glom together. The songs that stood out to me are the 2 Open Mic Nites and Can I Watch?. That's not surprising, as they're the songs that prominently feature other voices.

Which gets to my second takeaway, which is that I also think I'm just not a big fan of MF DOOM's rapping, just in terms of voice and delivery. This might be herasy to rap fans, but from my limited perspective, his overall sound reminded me a lot of Nas. I could also see maybe some of the Wu Tang influence with some of the little skit/clip things at the end of a bunch of the songs?

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On a completely unrelated note, I started watching Cowboy Bebop. About a quarter of the way through and I'm not really seeing what makes it so beloved so far? I'm not a big anime guy, but maybe it goes crazy like Neon Genesis Evangelion does near the end? (No spoilers!)

I did do a lot of "Leo DiCaprio pointing" at recognizing a whole bunch of the music. Not to say that it doesn't still land, but I can't imagine how much harder the opening theme must have hit 25 years ago. Also, I was surprised it's a different vocalist for Rain in the show than it is for the album.

BTW, Hulu fucking sucks ass. Start episode, ADS, opening, ADS, 1-2 AD breaks during the episode. Literally 5-6 minutes of horseshit for a 25 minute episode. No way to skip the intro or the outro (so I skip the little "on the next episode bits at the very end). Not auto playing the next episode. Just awful.