People swear up and down they know what REAL hip hop is, when Rap was FIRST created it was just party music, something for the folks that couldn't sing but still had skills to do, it didnt start off this lyrical....... Hip Hop is many things, not just what YOU think it is, just because you cant relate or feel the music doesn't mean someone else cant. Im so tired of non talented people trying to decipher what real Hip hop is. I can agree that I expected more out of this album but it is VERY solid. Mos def has great songs and he has songs that SUCK! To each his own. Talib is very underrated as well, but how the fuck do you sit here and act like jay-z and Kanye can't rap or arent just as much apart of Hip-hop as anyone else you named. I swear some of you old heads expect niggas to get on a 1980's beat for a whole album and rap like niggas back in the day, IT IS 20ANDFUCKING11. If you hate this album so much take yo ass home and download what you like and shut up.....Like its one thing to actually critique the album like @MH did, but you people are just coming on here to talk shit..... its not that deep.