Yeah Soul's album is one of those ones that goes on too long. Cudi was 19 tracks. Tory Lanez probably released ~60 songs this year. Ty$ went with 16 songs. Post Malone 18. Danny Brown at 15 felt like 5 too many. Game dropped 2 throwaway mixtapes/eps. PND went from 10 on his first project to 12 on his second to 16 on his third and each one gets progressively worse. I think Tech N9nes album was almost 40 but I'll never know. 

^ That was just me scrolling through a few albums I have (Tech excluded)
Sometimes it just feels like I'd hold a bunch of artists in way higher regard if they dropped like a 10 song album or a few 5 song eps. 

I'm nitpicky

I honestly don't think I'll ever be able to sit down and listen to Ready or Die front to back without dozing off and/or spacing out. 17 Biggie songs (I guess some of them are skits)? Really?
I guess my unpopular music opinion is that Biggie is pretty horrible and tremendously overrated.

And I don't really like a chunk of All Eyez on Me. I cannot listen to any of Tupacs slow/emotional/whatever songs.
Pac shits all over Biggie for me though

I think the hardest part is getting a label to agree to have an artist who wants to say, release 2 6 song EPs over a year or two or something weird like that
Like...nah. That's not going to happen.

I understand the industry of it.
The cycle could be a whole not worse. Like at least there's content.

nah that would never happen. but with a lot of artists trying to stay independent or at least only do publishing through majors u may see it happen more. but my opinion on it is biased because i usually spend months listening to mostly the same songs. or i may hear something and it won't grow on me until 3-4 months later. i don't think a lot of current music consumers are like that now and that's been perpetuated by the industry imo

mid-late 90s twista is top 10 all time

agreed. i liked everything twista did during that era, even his shit with the speednot mobstaz was good

Why do you guys only like rap? Do any of you listen to any other genre?

It's a question, buddy. 

why's blade gotten so weird all of a sudden?

Weird? Are you and al still mad at me because of the stuff I said about rap? :/

ignored

it has nothing to do with that. u've just been overly confrontational then u just go "i'm sorry guys, just playing"

u bipolar or something?

My issue is not with you guys btw. Don't ever think that for a moment. Only person I ever had legit issues on here with was Tom and briefly Jam over the summer. I just have an argumentative nature which is probably why you think I am confrontational. Once an argument is over, I just stop, pull back and return to normal. And no, it is not anger/temper issues lol

That's what I mean - people see he (or whoever) has made money and think everything stops there. No, life is much bigger than that. I have a fundamental issue with things that go against intellectualism and where success is judged not by knowledge but rather by the revenue generated. This is the very thing wrong with society nowadays where we put so much attention on money and the self to the point where we overlook what moves society forward - things like knowledge, ideas, science, technology, engineering, mathematics.

You know something is wrong when a rapper off the streets or athlete or coach is making 10-20x or more than someone highly respected in STEM position. You know it is a problem when entertainment is appreciated more than something that requires actual specialized knowledge of sorts. Do you put something like success in rapping or Kardashian show on same level as someone out there getting PhD in Physics or Computer Engineering or becoming a dentist or something? I don't. It just makes me disappointed how low our standards have become. 

I know I'm going off topic here, but I hope you see where I'm coming from. It worries me and keeps me awake at nights to see how we as society continue to go away from knowledge (using vague term in name of simplicity). It feels as if people are just being lazy. i.e. when it comes to reading: "I don't have time to read... Why would I want to read? ... I don't need to read bc I will never use it in life... etc etc." Reminds me of Floyd Mayweather who said something like he doesn't need to learn to read perfectly because he is not a journalist -- you don't have to be a damn journalist to read stuff lol.. People are quick to make BS excuses. We read and write and learn because we are part of the human race. We cannot afford to be complacent individually or collectively. Pretty much everyone and anyone can chase after knowledge and learn. There is no excuse. Floyd is smart enough to read, write, learn or whatever like anyone in the world - don't ever sell yourself short in life. That's just one example.