Every now and then, along comes a project that restores your faith in hip-hop and Ras Kass’ All Day I Dream About Spittin’ (A.D.I.D.A.S.) is one such project.  That is not to say that it’s perfect, but it’s an admirable effort put forth by a great MC with proper motivations.  A.D.I.D.A.S. cannot be found through what are now considered the norms of music purchases.  Ras took a visionary approach by cutting the distributor out of the mix.  If you so choose to purchase A.D.I.D.A.S., your $8.99 goes directly to Ras which is worth noting because, this unlike so many albums, is one that has the artist’s stamp throughout because he has only himself to thank for the success and/or blame for the failure.  The former will likely be the case.

I hate mixtapes.  I don’t have time to listen to 32 2:00 snippets of random tracks that sound like they were recorded in a garbage can with somebody yelling ad libs throughout.  That said, I want to be clear.  I don’t care if it is free and is a follow-up 2008′s Mixtape About Nothing, Wale’s More About Nothing is an album.  Wale again revisits the Seinfeld theme that graced the first and the result is a concept album that belongs in the elite company of Masta Ace’s A Long Hot Summer and Prince Paul’s Politics of the Business.