Money Trees
I'm calling it early......Hip Hop Album of the Year
haven't enjoyed parents on an album this much since Common used to have his Pops come thru for poems. The last good one tho was on Finding Forever. Matter of fact, Common's usage of family on his albums always be proper. His gradma's VM was funny as hail (payback's a grandmother)
, especially the latter part. That half felt like it came straight outta 94/95
it was album of they year before the ish even dropped and as far as lupe goes....he was always corny to ME.
Can't even begin to imagine a whole project with them two 
after running through the album, he killed it man.
finally decided to give the album a real listen today, and i can honestly say this is one of the best albums ive heard, ever. It comes off as sincere, well thought, and packed with a profound sense of urgency and direction. I understand now that the album is really much more of a collective force in comparison to much of the albums that i have heard in the past. Each song is good, but is nothing without the next. 10/10 album for me, because it succeeded in formulating a message, delivering the message effectively and enjoyably, and on a personal note the album is held in such regard because the message speaks directly to me as a young black male aspiring to achieve successes. Kdot to me illustrates a world of trouble that is very much a ubiquitous tale, and like pac he realizes that successes from this "mad city" come with a unique and unspoken degree of responsibility to those trapped within the ills of the very city that he transcended from...been sitting here like this
well said . I have to agree with you. Only if some people understood -.- smhfinally decided to give the album a real listen today, and i can honestly say this is one of the best albums ive heard, ever. It comes off as sincere, well thought, and packed with a profound sense of urgency and direction. I understand now that the album is really much more of a collective force in comparison to much of the albums that i have heard in the past. Each song is good, but is nothing without the next. 10/10 album for me, because it succeeded in formulating a message, delivering the message effectively and enjoyably, and on a personal note the album is held in such regard because the message speaks directly to me as a young black male aspiring to achieve successes. Kdot to me illustrates a world of trouble that is very much a ubiquitous tale, and like pac he realizes that successes from this "mad city" come with a unique and unspoken degree of responsibility to those trapped within the ills of the very city that he transcended from...been sitting here like thisafter running through the album, he killed it man.
Good looks.
am i the only one that feels like The Art of Peer Pressure & Money Trees are the same song/scene just from different perspectives?
on TAPP he's ridin' w/ his patnas smokin', runnin' in houses, and rushin' ****** on the street, but he talks about it from such an introspective and dark level that we can tell these things are bad. then on Money Trees he says the exact same stuff. he even starts the song off "hit that house lick tell me is ya wit it ya bish/home invasion was persuasive, from 9 to 5 i know it's vacant ya bish" he ends up describing mostly all of the same acts just in a more light hearted tone which is probably how him and his patnas think about it on the surface level. which i think is pretty live.
