I can understand why this album would be alienating to a lot of people--Culdesac had themes of aspiring toward greatness and success, but not knowing how to handle it once you got it. Camp is more about personal identity, and that's not something everyone can relate to. But not feeling "black"...
How long did future Spock and "present" Spock know about each other?
And why the hell was he just chilling in the desert like that when there was a Starfleet outpost so close by?
Yeah, This Perfect Life runs in stark contrast to The Pink Lavalamp, which,aside from two tracks ("Music [Intro]" and "I'll be Around [Outro]"), was almost ENTIRELY optimistic.
Maybe it's because that one came out in December, and he was still on that Obama high or something.
Let's look at it like this: had there never been ANY controversy with Charles AT ALL--had he never had any beefs with Rhymefest or Soulja Boy, had he never got punched by a girl, had he never stole that beat, or listed J Dilla as his EP--had NONE of that ever happened, theySTILL couldn't market...
I just listened to the whole album. I can see why they shelved it.
It's not a BAD album (I know NT will hate it, but... ), but it's just... so DARK. There was no way they could have marketed that, even ifCharles HADN'T gotten all the bad press in the months prior.
The weirdest thing is, he...