What is it with these New School rappers making better mixtapes than albums? More so than
Drake,
Kid Cudi and, arguably,
B.o.B, Wale's first
Seinfeld-themed mixtape,
The Mixtape About Nothing, was much, much better than his major label
debut, and the brand new sequel,
More About Nothing (
download here), is better still. There are a few more slow, introspective, spoken-word-ish songs, at which the D.C. MC has gotten better, a really outstanding go-go-ified
Lenny Kravitz sample on "The Flight," and an even better
Sam Sparro sample on the tape's best track, "The Black N Gold," contextualized with plentiful
Seinfeld snippets throughout. Listen to "The Black N Gold":
