Ahhh, Beware the Book Of Eli.
It’s an mixtape that has had one of the most confusing and muddled release situations
in recent memory.
But unfortunately, this confusion around Ski Mask the Slump God’s newest album is still
continuing to this day, even AFTER the albums release.
I’m a big Ski fan, but you see guys, I’m kinda letdown by The Book Of Eli, but it has
very little to do with the music itself.
So, this is CDTVProductions, and in this video, let me explain to you why I, and many other
fans, are kinda disappointed.
Why Did The Book Of Eli Disappoint?
And the primary reason for this is pretty simple.
Whilst I can still listen to the original leaked version of The Book Of Eli, I’m gonna
be talking about the officially released version here, because that’s the one most readily
available to me, and on this official version, the best tracks have been removed.
Like all of the tracks that were produced by Timbaland for this mixtape have been taken
off, with the exception of RUN which instead was given a new, non-Timbaland produced beat.
I’m not sure if there was an issue with releasing these songs commercially or something,
but I’m so sad they’re not here, because Worldwide and With Vengeance were among my
favourite tracks on the project.
Especially Worldwide, I’m struggling to cope without that song right now, it’s quite
emotional.
And the icing on this sh!t cake is the fact that SkiMeetsWorld, one of the songs which
mainly caused this album to be delayed, isn’t even on the final version of the project.
The sampling issue with that song was one of the biggest things holding this album back
from being released, and in the end it’s just not even there.
Now I know what some of you guys might be saying right now.
“Oh it’s your fault that you listened to the leaked version instead of waiting for
it to come out, so you can’t complain that you’ve already heard the music on there”.
And I understand that completely.
I knew that when I was listening to the leak.
But there’s one broken promise that is the whole reason I’m even making this video.
After the leak got deleted from SoundCloud, multiple reputable sites such as HotNewHipHop
reported that when The Book Of Eli officially released, it would be dropping with 5 more
tracks than were found on the leak. 5 more songs that we haven’t even heard yet.
I believe some places even said that it would include the Busta Rhymes feature on SkiMeetsWorld.
I was content after listening to the leak, but this news got me excited again.
I was thinking to myself “yes, this project is gonna drop again, but this time with more
music that I haven’t heard yet.”
So we were promised more, and we got less.
And we didn’t know this was the case until the second
the album released.
The mixtape was slated to be 18 tracks long, instead its 10.
And that is why I am letdown by Beware the Book Of Eli.
Conclusion:
So do you guys feel the same way about this, and are you somewhat letdown by
this mixtape?
Let me know
in the comments and we can of course discuss it if we have differing viewpoints.
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