Due Rent (studio album) by lojii & Swarvy

The biggest surprise and the biggest contributing factor to its success was clearly the production, no doubt about it. There is a lot of stuff going on, enough diversity to keep you on your toes and not make you lose your interest , but at the same time it maintains the same mood throughout, lonely but also warm, fresh but also vintage if that makes any sense. The rapping was ok, but it never captured my attention fully, the direction of the album was always dictated by the production. To be honest, I 'm not sure it would make that much of a difference if the tracks were instrumental. Same story with the lyrics, I noticed some cool lines ("The realist villain that you never seen Schemin' like a mason on a mezzanine Out to get the cream Wu-Tang in '93 When I heard my first rap song now look at me", or "Need duckits for real 'till the duffel get filled Whether it's trapped in the rap or G'd a couple of deals So keep it real, too East-Coast for most niggas They just some pay to post niggas Spending money at the club just to post up Shoulda spent it on the dub gettin' dosed up"), but for the most part they were secondary, too. One complaint would be that it didn't fully justify its length, but that's likewise quiestionable. On the one hand, I can easily imagine it improving by being a bit shorter. On the other hand, it's not obvious to me which track I would kick out, all of them had something to offer.