I know he did some things with Little Brother but I don't think he was ever a full fledged Justus League member. Might've popped up on one or two of those Just Us bootlegs though.
But on this album, I'm halfway with you on his rapping. I actually think he flows his ass off on some songs, but lyrically man...pretentious, condescending, snobby, bougie...whatever you wanna call it, it's definitely a turn off.
There's a lot of sky and underneath it a lot of pie
And you don't need a bigger plate, just a smaller stomach
You fed up on the feeling once, and you convinced you want it
Well go and get it, be another statistic
Bit off more than you can chew and so you started to vomit
I don't go that route, I don't hang with them
I just go around the globe and not a turn for the stunting
And keep it all in house, the world is my backyard
Don't try and break my fence, nah
Or how about this hook:
Don't judge a book by its cover if you don't even read
There's no shame in saying that you're not up to speed
No you're just scared
Yeah you're just scared
I pretend that I listen a lot when people say things I don't really care about
In one ear and it goes out
And you wouldn't even notice that my head was in the cloud
But my inner voice really wanna shout
Quit crying you ain't dying
But I reply with legitimate advice like
"Keep trying they hiring"
But I really wanna tell them that they wasting time
More importantly they wasting mine
That's harsh and I'm not cold
Yeah I'm from the Capitol but I'm not bold
I guess I really am a nice guy
Keep handled that they don't win races
So I wanna be a track star
Laughing at the people tripping on they own laces
That's tasteless and I got style
And no, calling yourself out later on in the verse doesn't fix things.
Just a whole lot of talking down. I can take a materialistic rapper flossing on the next man because we all know it's bullshit, but for an "everyman" rapper to look down his nose at folks....nah breh.