[Music] Dilated Peoples - "20|20"

This was a disappointing release, for me. It felt like, they put out a commercially viable (although poorly produced) album with "Neighborhood Watch," but then screwed it up by sandbagging it on this one.

Rakaa, one of my favorite of the newer school, takes Dilated critics to task and drops the line "People says we're just battle raps & ganga." And then the album devotes itself almost entirely to just those very things. From the numerous interruptions by "Dr. Greenthumb," to Evidence's "I don't smoke weed more, but I don't smoke less;" almost the whole freaking album is as much a love letter to weed and dissing lesser rappers as Dre's "Chronic" was. Which I ordinarily wouldn't mind, except the crew fronts early in the album like they ain't all about that. That's like saying, "I hate homos," but you whack off sticking your thumb in your ass.

Plus, Evidence loses almost all street cred by saying, "I don't respect rappers/ I respect Kevin Federline," and I don't give a good goddamn how ironic he's trying or trying not to be; that's just stupid.

The Dilated Peoples album equation:
"20|20" > "Neighborhood Watch" > "The Platform" » "Expansion Team"

At least there's the prospect of a new Babu "Duck Season" comp this year.
This one gets a 2 count.