Personally, this album isn't something you "get" after listening to it 3 or 4 times.
Every little phrase is designed for y'all to rewind it
Every brittle phase has an expiration assignment
Eyes wide
The bad man walks alive with five dimes of sticky the bush and no 9
Who was trained by Ed Koch to hop a turnstyle
See cop smile
Peep cops gun
Now see little juvenile me in reeboks run
Through the projected transformation of the catacombs, son
Makin' it home's so fun
If you're alone, don't sweat
'Cause you're alone with the best
The underrated phrase mason who's leakin' pain to cassette
If you hate lies, don't fret
'Cause I can't lie about this
At least I'm honest when I tell you my mind's full of shit
[edit] I will try to make this the last time I defend El-P. When I listen to the voices of people around me complain about Hip Hop and the lack of creativity coming from rappers, I take those words personally, because I consider myself to be a part of Hip Hop. So what do I do? I stop burning CD's with albums they want. And they want these albums because they get their information from the radio, television and XXL. I try to open new doors for them. I see that people in this thread are enjoying The Overly Dramatic Truth. I'm glad. It's a great track, and on the album, it's probably the closest song to be "inside the box". So, I decided to introduce El-P to the people around me through The Overly Dramatic Truth. Guess what happened? After listening to it once, they dismissed it. They weren't feeling it. Now, everyone has a different taste, but a beat is a beat and The Overly Dramatic Truth is not that abstract, so I figure the painted image would be similar throughout. Then why aren't they feeling it? Because they are lazy. Because they are conditioned to like what they've heard already, and what they've heard already is what they don't like. They find comfort in routines. They're fine with the 6 bullshit songs that blocks the road noise while commuting. They find comfort in watching their favorite television show at the same time on the same day every week. They're fine with Kells and Usher clones singing boring RnB love songs that sound all the same because all that bullshit is universal, even Forrest can get it. They don't allow themselves to go further because they would rather sit and be a zombie. I get stronger and stronger, they get weaker and weaker.
The edit was not directed at Syns but something about a good album collecting dust caught my attention and I needed to go further with it.
