Originally Posted by
TSA
There's a lot of nonsensical group-think takes in hip hop and this is one of them. So many ppl will say it that you'll look crazy saying otherwise but you're right.
Forever is one of the most sonically, thematically, lyrically and conceptually consistent albums in hip hop history. All of the songs there fit and sound like the fit. That album is grand/epic. The lyrics are grand and epic, the references in the lyrics are grand and epic down to the word choices. The beats and sounds are grand and epic, the song concepts the same. And that being the peak of their careers even adds to that. It's pretty moronic for ppl to come for that album when most of the groups career highs are on that album skill-wise (beats, lyrics).
People want to be able to say something and that's something that can be said. Whenever people say songs should be taken off Forever I ask them which ones and there's barely an answer. Are you going to take off Hell's Wind Staff, Scary Hours, Bells of War or Triumph? The most they'll give you is Black Shampoo which is a great fucking song that has no equal anywhere in hip hop, but the group-think hot take is to say U-god is wack so that's the least safe one.
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