• His 2014 mixtape is better than any album he's released since โ€” with reason

    The mixtape era forced constraints: free beats required cleverness with limited production resources, distribution through community channels required actual connection with the audience, no label filtering meant authentic expression. The 2014 work has a rawness that studio polish removed from later releases. The constraints were the quality.

  • The mixtape era forced constraints: free beats required cleverness with limited production resources, distribution through community channels required actual connection with the audience, no label filtering meant authentic expression. The 2014 work has a rawness that studio polish removed from later releases. The constraints were the quality.