[adam]

Yeah, if you're hating on the "shoutiness" of it, then I don't really know what to say. But I'd say check Wiley's Gangsterz or No Lay's Unorthodox Daughter. Unorthodox Daughter is shouty, but if you're going to dismiss it for that reason, you're missing out. (I know you listed other criticisms...if I dismissed every album I liked because I thought the lyrics weren't very intelligent I'd be missing out on a ton of great music).

I always thought the Spaceape/Kode9 virus business was taken from Burroughs talking about the virus-like nature of language. I'm not saying that's not silly (I've read very little Burroughs but I did think he was very overrated), but that's what I took from the lyrics. Now, in some of that Burroughs shit, he's stressing the editing and resplicing of words and phrases, played in the background, from which new meaning emerges, which, I would suggest, if the reference is deliberate, supports the repititious nature of the album.