The next song is Inside Looking Out, one of the most emotionally striking tracks on All Screwed Up Vol. II. It’s mellow, and more forgiving to listeners used to constancy in music. Basically it’s less psychedelic than other songs on the album. The lyrics are both literal and metaphorical, dealing with heavy topics like incarceration, regret and isolation. It sounds like it was recorded over a phone, which happens sometimes when rappers write songs when they’re in prison. The atmosphere of feeling different on the inside to how you are perceived on the outside is universally relatable.
20-2-Life’s simple observations and assertions of the unfairness he witnesses are vulnerable in a way I wouldn't readily associate with gangster rap. It really was a liferaft to listen to in my post COVID haze. This is probably one of my top albums of all time.
