"Like Brady, gets better with time / Didn’t have to reinvent the wheel, just a better design" sums up this album. It lacks the heater-heater brutality of Daytona, but it just so damn good and fun even if it is not genre-defining (or even Pusha T-defining). And that Kanye track is the first good Kanye-related thing in my eyes in like...three

★★★★★

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