This is stellar music reporting. As someone who obsessed over this album for years and worked in hiphop (including at Talib's former label) I'm immensely impressed with Mr Mizell's insight into this pivotal duo. (My only objection is that "Children's Story" was a jam and rumored to be a direct shot at the the material excess and violent culpability of Puff Daddy, which was a necessary statement at the time)