Mood Muzik 3: The Album

Hip-Hop · 2008 · 16 tracks · 1h 17m

Mood Muzik 3: The Album

Dense, soul-sampled hip-hop that trades club bravado for raw, uncomfortable self-reflection. A landmark of emotional transparency in the late 2000s rap scene.

It's like eavesdropping on a rapper's therapy session over some of the best soul beats of the 2000s.

A relentless, claustrophobic exploration of the self that finds a strange comfort in its own darkness.

Mood Muzik 3: The Album · vs · Joe Budden

Brooding+0.7σ

Brooding saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks · 1h 17m

01

Dear Diary

5:08

02

Hiatus

5:41

03

Family Reunion

6:50

04

Get No Younger

3:30

05

Un4given

5:21

06

All of Me

7:56

07

Long Way to Go

4:36

08

Thou Shall Not Fall

4:29

09

Ventilation

3:50

10

Warfare

2:56

11

Roll Call

4:07

12

Secrets

5:54

13

Send Him Our Love

4:15

14

Star Inside of Me

3:54

15

Still My Hood

4:39

16

4 Walls

4:41

Moments Worth Waiting For

The relentless eight-minute emotional purge on All of Me where the beat serves as a mere backdrop to a life story.

The way the soul sample on Family Reunion provides a warm contrast to the complex and often painful narrative of kinship.

The claustrophobic intensity of 4 Walls where the production mirrors the feeling of being trapped in one's own mind.

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