There's a shred of truth in Des' point. Like Game, Jay Rock is one of those west coast rappers who doesn't have the melody or knack for songwriting like more versatile artists like Quik/Del/Snoop/Kendrick/etc. Still I feel like he has such great access to dope song shit - great beats, good in-house features, etc - that he should be able to make a dope project. Follow Me Home has a variety of flaws IMO but it showed more than enough promise to get me excited about him as a rapper.
Rock is going to have access to the best production he's ever had. He has SZA, Kendrick, and Q for hooks. He's had years to find himself as an artist. I'm going to assume he can do something dope with all that shit.
Everything about this post is wrong, goddamn it really is an intangible, blind faith for Rock, huh? Dude is so completely unremarkable in every sense of the word that it really is baffling to me.
He does not occupy a unique lane so effectively nothing is missing when he's gone (and Game does everything he does monumentally better, even at his worst as mentioned prior), the coast is the strongest it's been in a minute so it's not like we need him as a portion of that, the notion that he's a feature killer is super laughable as it implies dude does that on a consistent basis (let us pray one time for the GKMC babies), has a mediocre to bad track record to boot.
Des is right, y'all might as well be giving Troy Ave this shot with the benefit of the doubt given to Rock, at least Troy Ave has some character even if it's being a cornball. Y'all better be coddling Skeme, Nipsey, and all of those other ultra generic generic West Coast dudes who can semi-rap but lack pretty much every other part of the package (most importantly output) because nothing sets dude apart from those West Coast weirdos. Either that or nobody tells me a cosign doesn't mean shit again.
