In reply to Interac.

Had a chance to listen to about 9 songs on my run this morning, and I felt the exact same way about the album as you felt. I will say that it’s nice that she’s staying R&B through and through. R&B in 2020 is still alive and kicking.

The fact that she was able to get the reclusive Lauryn Hill on this album is amazing enough, let alone all the other features.

The length of the album might be a bit jarring for some people, but, to put it into context, her last project had like 7 songs on it, and we all complained about how short it was. Now she’s given us what we wanted, and then some. I don’t think she put all these songs on there for the purpose of streaming and getting more plays. This album reminds me of albums in the 90’s in that the runtime is long, and people were ok with that, since their fave artist hadn’t put out music for 2-3 years. Back then, there was no social media, so an album would literally have to last 2 years.

The samples are crazy so far. I think my fave one is the ‘808’ by Blaque sample on ‘Boomin’.