Although the album is considered as hip-hop, it incorporates jazzy sounds of multi-layered piano, guitar, saxophone, and keyboards, with little vocals involved.
The music tended to be technology-centric, keyboard-ladden, melodic, with funk-oriented bass lines, synth riffs, dub music aesthetics, and background jazzy or blues-y piano layers.
From a jazz perspective, the ambivalence towards the jazz-funk genre arose despite commercial success because it was too jazzy and therefore too complex.