dude... listen. and never judge any artist who you don't familiarize yourself with ever again. cardinal sin.. i've been seriously listening to his work for like... two months...

my involvement in hip[ hop went as follow (brief version)

1. heh , you'll laugh again but.... Dave's chappelle's block party. i watched for kicks and was touch by the intelliegnce and justice i saw. about a year ago

+ alot of my friends are rappers or producers

2. then i downloaded "the ecstatic" by mos-def which kicked my ass. about 2 months ago,

3. then i got into Outkast hard. like every single track ever kinda hard. capped off by Andre 3000's "Alter Ego"(seminal) - 1 month ago

4. Dug jay-z alot and had tremendous respect as the king of the game. download "The Black Album" and "The Blueprint 3" the blueprint gets put aside until further understanding 2 weeks ago.

5. went to jail for 3 days 1 night. like jail jail. 1 week ago

6. friend juno plays lil' wayne for me. 4 days ago

7. downloaded "The Carter 3" where Jay'z et alum cradle lil' wayne fragile and perfect consciousness in his loving arms. 3 days ago

8. pressed play on "the blueprint 3" 24 hours on the dot pretty much.

9. Entered A Higher Dimension of Reality.