It was an album that’s quickly become much easier to look back on and think… “Yeah, I suppose that was all right” rather than actually listen to. Taylor Allderdice was announced as a sort of mea culpa to the more hardcore fans for his major label debut, Rolling Papers, an album which contained enough of Wiz’s more popular mixtape traits - smooth flow, dope beats, annoyingly engaging hooks - to keep lightweights coming back yet felt decidedly light on content as a whole. Granted that was a collaboration with Snoop Dogg, but even more enthusiastic fans of Snoop’s more recent work (such as myself) would have been surprised that project came out as anything other than a slobbered-over mess. I was (and am) also a huge fan of the most recent Wiz Khalifa project, Mac & Devin Go to High School. Atmosphere-wise it’s a perfect blend of Curren$y’s latest endeavors and a more, shall I say, dusty jazz template that speaks to me quite openly. It’s the sort of mixtape I should totally be predisposed to demanding yet I’m decidedly not.
