I would like to see somebody who's into ASMR talk about some of the things Kendrick does with his voice here. Inspired by Kendrick's example, I wrote this on my phone with the shower running. We should just make things and let go of them and pretend it's a leak and worry about it later. Like all creative people, rappers tend to burden what they do with expectation, and it can undo them. While I still plan to take a couple weeks to get my head around this one, my first thought is that I like Kendrick even more when he's not trying to make his All Eyez on Me and his Aquemini simultaneously. I love Kanye and Rihanna and Earl, and I can't imagine listening to any of those records and feeling let down that they aren't double CDs with skits or whatever. Reaching back a little, Earl Sweatshirt's I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside has it, too - it feels like a concept album where the concept is "Wednesday night." And I'm more than fine with that. The Life of Pablo has that feeling - Imma fix Wolves – and so does the days-between-vacations Anti. It's an album, but it's a 2016 rap album, so it aspires to the first-thought/best-thought conditions of the mixtape - iterative, loosely sequenced, a document of an ongoing process, a slice of life rather than a whole wedding cake, the sound of an artist holding up yesterday's paper as proof of creative life, the blog post rather than the think piece. And stop me before I bring jazz into this. Pappademas: It's, what, 34 minutes long? Leave Home by the Ramones is 33 minutes.