Rae and ghost and Ross do. shyt redman does and did during his prime. No one begged and pleaded for redman to make anything other than what he makes and he gave us three straight classics and several good albums since.
Ghost was asked to go back to the coke shyt and he gave us fishcale. Same with rae
Don’t get me wrong, the tape is dope. So this is no criticism, but Malice showed a whole lot more diversity with the clipse and it was dope. Even related to street shyt he took it different places. Pusha is obviously a rather smart dude, so it would be dope to see him just stretch it a little bit in the future.
But with A1 bars, flows, delivery and production/creative song structures. Thin subject of matter (over time) is whatever. It’s like enjoying mafia movies, soul/rnb “love music” or superhero movies or even sports. It’s in the details and execution.