dope cover art, decent album..
We actually went to go see American Gangster opening night, and I don’t quite understand what all the ruckus is about. The movie was good but not ‘best picture shoe-in’ good. Russell Crowe’s ridiculous attempt at a Jersey accent made my brains inadvertently shut down a few times. Actually, maybe it was that good considering I haven’t been to the theater in at least four months. Not that the movies have been exceptionally poor, but the last couple of time we’ve been to the theater we always end up near those inconsiderate assholes who talk the ENTIRE time. My focus wasn’t so much on the movies playing, but on where specifically I could hit these people in their throats hard enough to render them mute for the remainder of the movie. I think what made the movie ‘meh’ for me was the fact that I watched the American Gangster Series on the History Channel the night prior to seeing the movie and it just so happened to be on Frank Lucas.
Jay’s album is also uninspiringly average yet solid, but this set is A MILLION times better than Kingdom Come. I was so damn disappointed with that trash that I actually threw it away. I rarely give my opinion on an album until it’s been on constant rotation for the first few days, then put away, then re-introduced into the playlist—gotta let it simmer for a while. That shit sucked from the second I put it in the stereo till the second it flew across the room to it’s new trashcan home. I think my cow-lip regard for Jay’s newer stuff is his fault for making me love Reasonable Doubt so much. Same with Nasty Nas and Illmatic.
Maybe I need to let go of the fact that it ain’t 1994-96 anymore and there aren’t a constant stream of solid releases that have me actually buying albums. Ah well.