#1515 Mobb Deep - The Infamous

Quintessential 90's East Coast rap: gritty stories, dark production, epic scope. Or, translated for the haters: toughguy bullshit, boring beats, waytoolong runtime. I fall on either side of that opinion; the rapping's a balance of intricate and straightforward, but it all gets daunting by the end, without any particular attempts at hooks or brightness to pull in the casual rapfan whiteguy 3/5