whtts has grown on me a lot
when it first dropped i thought it was an okay album but nothing too special, but now after some time has passed one day i came back to the album and from that point on it's been growing on me a lot and now i'm really liking it, to the point that i'd consider it one of my favorite 2025 albums. i feel like whtts has less of the traditional hard, menacing and villainous 21 and instead we see him at his most vulnerable and reflective, and even though it's not like super creative with the beats, whtts feels like an album where 21 fully takes his mask off and tells us his deepest traumas, what comes with growing up in the hood and why the street lifestyle ain't as cool as it's often portrayed in rap. and i know 21 has made a lot of personal songs before, but to me, songs like code of honor, gang over everything or atlanta tears hit especially hard. i am > i was is still my favorite 21 album, that horror movie vibe is just unbeatable, but whtts is definitely NOT his worst album imo, and i think that as it ages, people will start appreciating it for what it is instead of complaining about it not being what we expected.