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I've long since backtracked and discovered the earlier stuff I'd missed which you guys hooked up with in real time, and I certainly love that too (Jehovahkill is a stone cold desert 'island' disc, pardon the pun). But his later work is key and no less essential, and should, I believe, be seen as both a natural progression (not a break) and part of a wider creative trip that includes his writings, activism, the side projects (am I the only fan of the Black Sheep VC?!), the Unsung/Address Drudion posts, and 131 with its ingenious tie-ins. In the final analysis, Cope's whole thing is greater than the sum of its considerable parts, as fine as those parts are: it's an eclectic, mythopoeic and open-ended worldview that invites us to engage with it, and expand upon it, on our own terms. Very few artists will give you that.