One of those conscious rappers happy to accept he's not an abstract observer transcending the state of things and thus describing them, but rather a product (in the beginning) and an active agent (since ages ago) in said context- intelligent enough to realize that the personal can become political when such a realization is made repeatedly clear, and so 30 something black male going introspective is an intensely emotional/personal and by extension satirical/political work, by now commonly known to be his overblown masterpiece. The lyrics, the sound, the turns, all serve to capture the love hangover: the memories, the damage it does to the ego, the lust, the highs, the lows. A very big, sad, ambitious pop record.
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