Wayne's albums have always been pretty long though, I think it's unfair to say it's just because of streaming. Carter II was 22 tracks (granted some skits but still). Kind of surprised how much I'm enjoying this actually. I wasn't necessarily expecting much.
Went back to rest of this after class and it’s actually quite good. Obviously overlong, but pretty much every track is good.
A good amount of good stuff on this, but as a whole it's a pretty exhausting listen. Probably the only time I'll do a front-back listen, and will just listen to the standouts going forward
Finished my full listen. This was surprisingly great, but there is a stretch of 5 songs towards the end that could've definitely been taken off. My favorites right now are Mona Lisa, Uproar, Let It All Work Out and the Snoop song. Definitely his best album since Carter 3, but I guess that isn't saying too much.
Snoop song and Open Safe are my favorite songs on here. Uproar and Used 2 also good. Mona Lisa slightly overrated off the bat but also still good.
"Famous" is the spitting image of a MMLP2/Revival Eminem song and it is godawful. I really enjoyed a lot of the tracks on this though. There's nothing like when Wayne gets fired up and just starts going off.
I actually saw a 525,000 projection. That's huge! I'm also surprised by how low Logic's projections are, currently at 110k. Pretty sure his last album was around 250k. Either way YSIV is surprisingly great. If you don't wanna check out the whole album I definitely recommend Wu Tang Forever and the title track.