First listen, and I'm honestly impressed. After listening to that trainwreck at the Los Angeles stadium, I was ready to write this dude off. Incredible what they dead with the corpse that he put out previously.
The album is long and some tracks probably should have been cut. Some of the verses still sound like they were written by your local high school rapper. Overall this album was probably the best thing that could out of Christian CHUD Kanye, and for that I thank Yeezy. I could see a few of these songs getting regular airplay, which he probably hasn't seen since Cruel Summer. Give it a listen.
I don't really like it, the songs tend to go on for way too long like Ye forgets to end his verse or just lets the beat run. Also, some of the songs were better in their previous versions, especially Hurricane and Praise God which are basically ruined for me.
But when it's good, it's good. I don't really have any big complaints with Heaven and Hell, No Child Left Behind, 24, Jonah, New Again, Believe What I Say.
Some thing I did notice though is that at this point in his career, Ye can't really keep up with his features anymore. I'd go as far as to say he gets renegaded a most of the time. But of course he still got great lines here and there like "How we in my car, and you say we ain't in the same lane?" or funny ones like "Some say Aadam could never be blaaack cus a black man'll never share his rib, rib, rib, rib, rib, rib"
Hearing him try Grime bars kind of rubbed me the wrong way.