Milo could be a fantastic hip hop case study of what happens when influence goes right. When influence goes wrong, at best, it results in a rather uninteresting revisitation of past ideas, at worst, the product is imitation, or as Rae and Ghost put it "Shark Niggas". Even though Milo is rarely one to be too overt, having joked about this himself on his last record in "@yomilo" ("yo Milo why you always rap in passcodes?"), there are some more than clear hints about what his influences are. Things like the amount of exclamation marks on the cover, a reference to The Roots' Do You Want More?!!!??!, the fact that the album opens up with James Baldwin and the fact that this is his jazziest - Madlib-esque - album yet lets the listener know where Milo is coming from.
