See for me , Vic Mensa was the bomb when he released the Innanettape idk how to spell it tbh . He came across very real and cool on that . But with this new project he seems like hes putting up a facade that isnt really him and hes trying too hard to be artsy not natural artsy like anderson paak of frank ocean or even Kanye , outta his way artsy or millennial new bae ? ??. Rodeo , to me , was pretty good . Definitely didnt wow me a lot . So i didnt have huge expectations for Birds , and honestly i kinda liked it . It had some clunkers but i really enjoyed a handful of songs on there . Views , as you said , was a good album but no where near the hype . It coulda been 1314 songs and been a realllly good album . But it had too much filler . Some pretty bad songs . But idk if it deserved as the extreme hate OR praise it got . Major Key lol cmon , some okay songs but the dj khaled train left in like 2008 and never came back Also youre right Trap Lord was immaculate and his new album didnt measure up . I liked it though . It was fine