It's funny, I really do enjoy parts of this album, and have since I first checked for it back in '02. But it's just not very good. You can read this review here.

I think a shortcoming of this review is that it does seem like I assumed Q-Tip had this specific artistic intent -- that he wanted to combine jazz & hip-hop in a meaningful way -- that isn't really there, that maybe he was more interested in creating some kind of weird polyglot soul record. I hope that wasn't his intention, though, because to me that's even less interesting.