Are non-Clipse Pusha T-s records before "Darkest Before the Dawn" worth listening to?

Okay, I didn't really enjoy MNIMN that much. All the songs are lyrically top notch on Push's part, but half the beats are just not suitable (Hold On, No Regrets, Let Me Love You, Who I Am), and the Big Sean verse is up there with the worst verses I've ever heard... In my entire life. Like, really bad. Really, really bad.

It's just so bad. He can't stay on beat, he doesn't really rhyme in any manner that makes sense. It's just a toddler's string of verses that rhyme. I could do that. "Mañana, banana, can and a, man and a sand in a can". That's a Big Sean verse.

Sorry for that tangent, but most of the other songs are pretty solid at least. King Push, Numbers on the Board, Suicide, Nosetalgia and Pain are fucking solid. I don't really care for that Future hook, but then again, I don't really care for Future. These songs are just perfect, better than the best ones on Darkest Before The Dawn. I can't fault anything here, they're just vicious, dark, grimy... ummmphhh. Like getting punched in the stomach, and headbutted at the same time.

Sweet Serenade, 40 Acres and S.N.I.T.C.H. are okay, but I don't really care for autotuned Pharrel, he sounds just fine without, and in my opinion, autotune rarely adds anything to a songs. The Chris Brown hook seems like it was written in and recorded in a waiting room, cause it's pretty quiet.

Now to the bad. First things first, Hold On has a great beat, but it is completely destroyed so much that you only hear the smoldering ruins of what could have been, because of Kanye's annoying auto-tune crooning. I didn't like 808's, I don't like this. It is just so annoying, and steals the focus completely from one of the only Rick Ross verses I've ever been invested in. No Regrets just has this bad DJ Khaled-esque beat. It does not complement him in any way. Let Me Love You is just boring, and Who I Am sounds worse than blood in my urinSorry Plinkett

5/10

Some songs are fucking orgasmic, others are just shitty shit.

This is my opinion. I'm gonna keep some of the songs in rotation, but the full album is just too disorganised and meh.

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