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I don’t think people gave this record the love that they should have. It’s fucked up and weird at times, but it just knocked. Like “M’$”—come on man, that’s one of the hardest records of the last 10 years! He really was saying some shit on this record.

Sometimes people just miss an artist’s progression because they have a definite idea of who that person is. Sometimes your timing is off, and by the time you want a progression from someone, you’ve ignored the fact that that actually already happened. That record was a progression for Rocky, but I don’t think people heard it that way. I really felt it was an opus. But this happens a lot. How many classic records also have a classically bad review?

On the one hand, it’s terrifying for an artist to put their shit out there for critical review, because you don’t want to be misunderstood, and it plays such a big part in the way people receive records. But on the other hand, seeing how this shit plays out over time, you can relax a little bit, because it doesn’t always all line up in the moment. I like the idea that people can reevaluate shit because I don’t think that records or films are 100 percent across the board meant to be digested in one sitting. They have to grow on you. If we were all quizzed about the records that we didn’t like at first but ultimately ended up liking, there would be a lot of surprising things mentioned.