
I thought that "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living" was unfairly panned. Yeah, the album was flawed, but so were the first two--it's a matter of how "Hardest Way" was flawed that made it disappointing. It wasn't that the beats were stale (they weren't, see: "Prangin Out" ) or that Mikey's flow was awkward (it always is, see everything), but it was the album's theme of pop-star indulgence that starts in the album title and continues to permeate all but one song on the album (the tribute to his father " Never Went to Church [...]