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Listening guide

The Listening Guide

Every era in order, from the debut to the latest, with a persistent checklist so you can work through the catalogue at your own pace. Your progress is saved in your browser.

How to use this guide

Work top to bottom, one era at a time, and tick things off as you go. The boxes remember your progress, so you can disappear for a month and pick up where you left off.

The only rule

No skipping to the hits. The album tracks are where the real ones live.

Era one: the duo years

Start where the mixtapes started. Two albums, an unreasonable number of singles, and the b-sides that started this whole site.

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Era two: going solo

The reinvention records. Braver, stranger, and the reason the word “underrated” appears forty-one times on this blog.

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Era three: the return

The later records, made on nobody’s schedule but his own. Start here if you want to hear an artist entirely at ease.

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Done with all three?

Congratulations, you are now legally obliged to have opinions about track sequencing. The news feed will keep you supplied with fresh arguments.