Most underrated LP/albums ever
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Yeah no - too intense and with the mustache
A record like a fucking scrapyard tornado. Raps like retching mutts, like kicking bucks, beats like pelted bitumen, scratch like spitting engine revs, rubble riffs stuffing the mids.
Tracks smear and stick like poured molasses, thick with dirty colour. Its tight 48 mins seem to melt on for days. Psych-rap I guess it must be, but none of that diaphanous cloud-iness here. It’s hardcore hiphop ‘on the road’ but no escape, no country for lost dawgs. The great outdoors cramped and sweaty with fear, the confining ghetto shot through with fever dreams. The inside and out of America like a horned lizard, mesmerising and ugly.
It’s also most surely a party record, sozzled with sleepy swing and brass. ‘Wild things are’ stomping monster fun. But the dread, glare and dust is there too for sure, a coppery under-layer, whilst the psych pill transmogrifies everything into a fire eater’s trick, a crowded phantasmagoria.
Big here and there on release (MM liked it if memory serves) but who ever talks about it now?
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bassbeyondreason
Chtonic Fatigue Syndrome
Love New Kingdom, their vibe is way closer to early UGK than any of their "alt. rap" contemporaries, that sweltering, fevered swamp-funk.
never heard of this band before - good sound. i like that grizzly vocal. i can't believe there are still bands like this to discover.
full album
i never thought of nk as rap-rock fusion as such. dunno how they made it/ how played it live, just thought they were great at sampling guitar-y textures, (and live sounding instruments) filling out those mids without giving everything this sort of gruesome midriff girth as with rap metal or whathavu. unlike loads of related stuff, sounds fully convincing appropriation of psych sonics, and what’s more it’s just slamming hiphop in the end. title track I put there is colossal boombap.
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woops
is not like other people
he sounds like an angrier version of the black sheep guy
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
This is a classic album to me and you never really hear about it. Obviously there were dozens of classic hip hop albums in 1994 and this is no Illmatic.
But the production is great and the rhymes are good unclean fun (with the odd genuinely unpleasant bar here and there). Also features perhaps the classic paean to cunnilingus in hip hop history.
I listened to this album all the time as a teenager. Probably because it was all about how great it is to drink beer and smoke blunts, which was what I aspired to do at that time.
But the production is great and the rhymes are good unclean fun (with the odd genuinely unpleasant bar here and there). Also features perhaps the classic paean to cunnilingus in hip hop history.
I listened to this album all the time as a teenager. Probably because it was all about how great it is to drink beer and smoke blunts, which was what I aspired to do at that time.