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Originally Posted by louder
I feel the same about Summertime '06. I was all over this album for about a week, then I realized it might've not been THAT good.
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Yeah, I kinda had that experience too. I still think it's quite good, but I can't believe I had it topping TPAB for a while. I'd say it was probably the #3 hip-hop album of 2015, after Kendrick and Pusha.
The world seemed to forget about it rather quickly too. It really is a hell of a debut album, but I was expecting it to be on people's lips and fingertips until his follow-up dropped, as was the case with good kid, TPAB and... you know... every Kanye album.
This happened to me a few times in 2015. I mean, first it was Tetsuo & Youth, which I just gushed over until, you know, I didn't. Then B4DA$$, which I went back to a few times but haven't listened to in full in a year. Then ALLA, which I wanted and tried to love like Live.Love and Long.Live. And Sour Soul, and that Raekwon album I listened to twice, and blah, blah, blah.
None of those albums are bad, but none of them are good enough to warrant the praise I heaped on them, however temporarily. That's what 2 years without Kanye will do to a man. It'll make you desperate for something even semi-classic.
Really, the year was pretty much just TPAB, with Darkness Before Dawn acting as a nice little cherry on top. The rest of the year's big hip hop releases have proven to be very forgettable indeed.