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It is however a very common belief that his best projects are the first three and the following 8-ish never quite reach those highs. And while the quality of the music only went up and the craft of his lirycism never went down, it's puzzling why that's such a common belief.

And then you look at his first three projects (2 albums and an EP) and you see that they are all about a middle class, average joe's life in the big big city of Warsaw, describing the nightlife, the relationships and the biggest gripes and issues he has with it, and as he finds success with this kind of storytelling he becomes more and more detatched from that sphere, he's rich all of a sudden and he doesn't go outside among the average joe's and it's simply just less relatable to people. It's still compelling (tho he has that Bo Burnham thing called ''and now im gonna Make A Point'' and the point is sometimes more shoehorned in than others) but it's just not about the kind of people who mostly listen to him.

And it's not that music needs to be relatable to be good, but with his style of just describing what he sees and what he feels it evokes an entirely different reaction when the image painted is familiar and you can fill the gaps in yourself. A record about escaping from fame and a cult following and trying to find your new home, now that your home country is inhabitable to you and you can't even go grocery shopping without being recognized sounds compelling as shit, except you have to dig super deep in it to be able to find out what it's really about because it's described in such abstract and distant terms its almost like that theming was an afterthought. (Europa LP)

Another thing I have always had gripes with in his music is that he LOOOOVES to feature someone on his songs, which overall as the most popular artist in the country is a noble thing to do, you're launching the careers of so many people, but thing is when your wordgame is so much better than the scene you turn out lowering the quality of your art by letting other people on it and not workshopping their verses with them. His best features are with people who don't do Hip-Hop whatsoever (Dawid Podsiadło, Artur Rojek, Kacha, Rosalie, Daria Zawiałow) because it doesn't feel like competing, it's not distracting from eachother. You're not listening to the feature and thinking how much you would rather Taco to just write another verse here. My biggest beef with the Taconafide boysband (composed of Taco Hemingway and Quebonafide, two huge polish rappers) was that Quebo always sounds a step behind, always a tingle more sloppier, always a tiny bit less thought-through, which to me was so distracting istg. I feel like on his best day OKI can match him (Pieniądz i Terror).

This is partially why I think his latest 2023 album has one of the best cultural impacts of anything he released since 2016. Because it's so reserved with who it features and a big chunk of it are some of his most beloved duets with singers-songwriters. Reserves most of the feature runtime for the in-between narrative tracks that aren't songs and lets the fuckin main artist breathe for once.

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