
Dan Love , the man behind Oh Word's epic de-construction of Illmatic , returns with a sequel worthy of hoverboards and Gray's Sports Alamanac. A tip of the tilted brim to Hip-Hop is Read, for aiding and abetting the sample collection. Despite a plethora of highly acclaimed and commercially successful albums over a nearly two-decade career, there's little doubt that for fans of that New York boom-bap, Jay-Z's solo debut, Reasonable Doubt , remains his creative zenith. With his newly constructed Mafioso persona devastatingly realised [...]