"I ain't passin my plate...": Making Sure Your Tastes Are Original (Part 2) Jun 03 '06    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Music The Dirtchamber Sessions, Vol. 1 by The Prodigy From $11 Jersey Boys [Original Broadway Cast Recording] by Original Broadway Cast From $8 The Bottom Line Mixed from and for you. Tasting something new is an great feeling, and it leaves us hopeful and engrossed. Exercising your flexibilities with those who speak differently in the same tongue exhibits difficulties and boundaries, but whenever you cross a rope, there’s always something you see that intrigues you. And the differentiating likes and dislikes of the rap reviewers that populate the music section interests many who are into the music form. Therefore, I am writing this as a sequel to my original “keep your tastes varied/original” write-up. It’s t-b-t. The Love Song - K-os: An evocative, remarkable song with a puzzling concept only melded together with a bridge that will keep us trumping those enemies and walking with a proud rhythm. 5/5 Ghetto Pop Life - Danger Mouse & Jemini: WOOOOP! Frantic, frenetic, fabulous, melodic, rhythmic, defiant, playful, all melded together in a huge pile. This is the predecessor to the time in which Danger Mouse is that producer we want for our favorite artist’s next album, and his ambition and creativity rise to create an invigorating, spectacular track. 5/5 Personal Journalist - Sage Francis: Disturbed, desolate, and frail – Sage analyzes and asserts beliefs and lack of hope, drowning in an eternal vat of helplessness. Puncturing and furious, his rhyme schemes follow the trail of Styles of Beyond, with unexpected multisyllables in which you would be surprised about their seamlessness. His Atheism sparks a bit of provoked fire on this track, with a distraught conclusion. 4/5 Lyrical Swords - Gza & Ras Kass: Some unrythmic, jumbled, yet fierce and brash guitars crowd this song – and Ras overtakes it with some witty punches and relaxed charisma. GZA drones a bit here, although his lyrics are descriptive and intense against the production. Decent. 3.5/5 World of Vibrations - Blackalicious: The title is correct – this song is quite cheerful and vibrant. The rapid and hasty emceeing from two members of the group inhabit the two verses, and a gleefully creepy hook is sung by inexperienced children, sounding way too strange. If you’re ears are fast-paced enough to understand and dissect the rapping, it seems like it’s a positive, hopeful attempt to try to improve rap – and they give it originality. Without a warning, a singer drowns the rest of the song, droning miserably for two and a half minutes. I didn’t really enjoy the rest of the samples on the iTunes music store – so it seems like they’re a group in which they’re attracted to weird, fast rhymes and grittiness, but sometimes it just seems a little too abnormal. 2.5/5 Axis - One Be Lo: I like it – it’s raw yet pleasurable, with some happy and persistent pianos rolling throughout the melody. And yeah, it’s one of the ideas I got from the constant admiration of “S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M”, with this song’s message indulging in thorough explanations and descriptions of America’s lack of empathy and heart. He says that especially during things like shootouts that you hear about in the background volumes of suburban newscasters’ droning, however he says it’s a depressing excuse to not care if it doesn’t affect you. Something about it dilutes the multisyllabic capabilities that would normally impress and enthrall me, maybe it’s the fact that the beat isn’t as engaging or innovative as other songs I’ve heard on the mix – or maybe it’s just a faint letdown from the devoted press and fans. -- 4/5 Coming Home - J Live featuring Dwele: The twinge of mundane-ness stretches flexibly up to this song too; even though I know it’s pleasant and smooth. Dwele’s hook is mellow and soulful, an adept blend with the frisky guitar production and J-Live’s tales of anxious touring. None of the esoteric and unexpected reformations of the successive Quasimoto track, none of the fantastic enthusiasm of the preceding Jemini track. It’s got some soul, it’s got some sunny, admiring optimism – but it’s also got something intangible and unknown to me that doesn’t really keep it too much of a standout. -- 3/5 Food for Thought - Buckshot & 9th Wonder: Slightly more majestic and elegant than most of 9th’s productions, although it fades and falters with it’s placid, uncreative combination of keys and samples. Buckshot works with those scratches and strings, broadening a regular rap metaphor, “food for thought” and speaking on beef, meals, and plates. He concludes each verse with a simplistic reiteration of a line, however it’s a useful song just for chilling and staying calm, if you don’t want to be more expansive than your normal tastes. -- 3.5/5 Champion - Brother Ali: Defiant pianos and strings enhance and enrich the stark, developing tune – mostly bassed off of bravado and braggadocio. The audacious melody instills something more rebellious than what the song actually is meant for, but the multisyllables and evolving anger is worthwhile for a production that doesn’t have the same grandeur measurements as the lyricism does. -- 4/5 Closer - Quasimoto & Madvillian: The explosive attitude and distorted deliveries from both Doom and alter-ego Quasimoto spits up braggadocio and randomness on the psychedelic, frantic production – and the malicious and alluring sample tries to make sure that it fits in with the vibe – which it does, for the most part of the equation. There’s a remainder left over, with only small verses from Quasimoto (but I guess the other twenty six tracks make up) and a nearly-inaudible Doom, but the wrestling alter-egos tie in their obscurity here, both as strong as the other. -- 4/5 Back Like That - Ghostface Killah featuring Ne-Yo: A standard, yet genuine R&B track most likely added for sensible diversity - but not categorization for a callous rapper such as Ghostface. It’s melodic with some very earnest chants from Ne-Yo (who sounds much more legit and professional on here than on his single), with the raw and coarse flows of Ghostface pleading and persuading his girl for whatever type of second chance he can attain. -- 4/5 Why haven’t I bought the K-os album yet? Why was it tough to enjoy J-Live? Rhetorics mix with inevitable answers on things like this. But there’ll never be a conclusion to any wide-eared music listener’s tastes. snik1

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