Sep 4, 2020 I'd like to hear your opinion on 1984 by Gashi, since he's getting little recognition despite making great music
Sep 4, 2020 Yeah his style definitely changed. His new album is, as the name suggests, heavily 80s inspired (and does it pretty well). Even got Sting as a feature
Sep 4, 2020 He truly is a modern day bard. Never a wasted bar and his projects always leave you finding a nugget of wisdom that you may not've caught the first few times around. Dense lyricism in the vein of GZA and a magnificent storyteller. Don't forget his Dr. Yen Lo or Night's Gambit albums that magnifies his concepts and parallels with his harsh upbringing. All of this from a man who hit his prime in his 40s and is a fire department captain! Obligatory f--- the New York Post on penning that disgraceful hit piece on Ka back in '16.
Sep 6, 2020 I usually do this chronologically, the worst part is I gotta get through Suicide Squad ST & a f---ing Flavor Flav album before this heals my eardrums I'll keep you posted though!
Sep 6, 2020 Bumping it right now, gonna have the review in a couple! Forgot how much I loved how this dude rapped, late 90s Rawkus was a goldmine for intricate rappers
Sep 6, 2020 @icecube #41: Pharoahe Monch - Internal Affairs [8.5/10] This is once again another case of pretending the objective score doesn't exist and me absolutely loving this album. Let's talk about Rawkus, back in my backpack days of high school I used to religiously bump Soundbombing II, Black On Both Sides, Train of Thought...it could go on forever. When it comes to premier penmanship that wasn't focused on punches & grittiness like Pun and DMX were doing around the same time, the label had multiple guests of backpack rap extraordinaries show up on the things like the Lyricist Lounge and just black out without the glossiness of high-end studio mixes. On the freestyle I linked, we had this dude Pharoahe Monch of Organized Konfusion fame, stand shoulder to shoulder with titans like Black Thought & Common and still hold his own, a year later we'd get his Rawkus debut... NY has a smorgasbord of various pens and performers around this time, practically everyone was a standout in their own right. In the case of Pharoahe's loud yelling a---, he takes every technical barometer to the extreme; it's an endless barrage of intricate rhymes, set-ups, metaphors coming at you with a rapid-flow if he deems it necessary. Whether it's his take on doing personified pov-storytelling, splitting atoms or him riding the Godzilla theme and tell us to shut the f--- up, Internal Affairs is an exhibition on how to be a technically great rapper and do the not so novel concept of rapping for rapping's sake at an enjoyable level. Even the feature list is something to marvel at, every guest is appropriately tailored for the mood of the song, truthfully my favorite to this day is still his song with Organized Konfusion cohort Prince Po, they have such amazing chemistry together. Honestly I'm just gonna be bumping these oldies all day, once I hear those dusty break loops I can't go back.
Sep 6, 2020 am your write ups are something else! Absolutely love them just as much as I enjoy the album in question!
Sep 6, 2020 Meant to respond earlier. I was just giving you a hard time lol. Really curious to see your take on the album. Also, you are a brave soul for journeying through the Suicide Squad st and a flavor flav album. May god have mercy on your ears.
Sep 7, 2020 @Donkey Kong Cuntry #42: Suicide Squad: The Album [4.5/10] So Fire Squad reviews Suicide Squad (the soundtrack), beautiful. I am no film connoisseur but I do love DC Comics, like most fans that saw this film, it was a mixed bag of a movie. There were a couple of big screen debuts for some beloved characters that were either portrayed appropriately or downright atrociously. Taking that into mind, it's important to establish how much music can accentuate movies; imagine Tarantino flicks without his eclectic selections of songs or what if Prince was convinced to not mold an entire movie out of his music. Heh, I could only wish this whole experience was as good as Purple Rain. This was a soundtrack of diminutive peaks and bottomless valleys to say the least. Much like the movie itself, it's chaotic and all over the place, it's bombastic for the sake of being bombastic and truthfully I'd rather take a baseball bat to the skull (via Harley Quinn) than to ever listen to a Twenty One Pilots song ever again. I don't know in what A&R's imagination would you ever think it's a great idea of placing Imagine Dragons, that biracial loser Logic & Lil Wayne into a song together, for all I know he probably has a portrait of Fred Durst hanging in his living room. Why is Panic! At the Disco covering Queen? Why is Fortunate Son on a superhero flick that doesn't involve the Vietnam War? I think the only semblances of joy I had were listening to the Action Bronson song and vintage goofball Eminem. I get it, it isn't a bad idea of tacking popular sounds and artists together in hopes to generate a buzz, but at least take into mind the various elements that make a soundtrack good: cohesion, balance & more importantly, a lack of Twenty One Pilots.
