Duets: The Final Chapter

Duets: The Final Chapter feels like a high-budget Hollywood blockbuster that was filmed across two different decades. It is a sonic collage that attempts to bridge the gap between the gritty, sample-heavy realism of 1990s New York and the polished, digital sheen of the mid-2000s radio era. The listening experience is inherently bittersweet; you are hearing one of the greatest voices in music history being recontextualized by producers and peers who are essentially acting as curators of a museum. It is less an album and more an event, a grand gathering of hip-hop royalty paying respects to a king who is no longer in the room.

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