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Thursday August 02 2007
.jpg) Serengeti & Polyphonic "Lately I Haven't Been Feeling Well" Chicago-based emcee Serengeti is one of my favorite African Americans with a Jewish last name since Whoopie Goldberg. He's also one of my favorite Rap guys out right now. And he's ridiculously prolific too. 'Don't Give Up,' a collaborative effort with producer Polyphonic (of Juba Dance), is his third album of the year so far! It's easily one of the best Hip-Hop albums of 2007. I picked the song "Lately I Haven't Been Feeling Well" because lately I haven't been feeling well. I also like the ping-pongy electronic beat from Polyphonic and Serengeti's storytelling lyrics and sung vocals. .jpg) Brother Reade "The Loft Party Classics" North Carolina-bred, now California-based duo Brother Reade is something of an anachronism. I was kind of expecting them to make Hipster-Hop, but that's not the case. Vocally they're very North Carolina. Production-wise they're really Dilla-esque. As their album title suggests they really do just make 'Rap Music,' plain and simple. I picked the cut "The Loft Party Classics" because of it's titular allusion to classic Dance music, which the song itself has absolutely nothing to do with. But the beat knocks, and the rhymes are cool, so it's okay. .jpg) Grand Analog "Mixtapes : The Slow Ride" Hailing from Winnipeg, Canada, Grand Analog is out to corner the Rap meets Rock meets Dub meets Soul market dominated by fellow Canuck K-Os for the last few years. If you're into the sort of thing, and I don't see why you wouldn't be, his album 'Calligraffiti' is a must buy. The track "Mixtapes" is some outer-space Dub versus Trip-Hop shit with a heavy bassline and wonky synths. It reminded me of The Nonce's classic "Mixtapes" even though it's a really different kind of song. And Grand Analog's interpolation of a couple of Extra-P's lines from Main Source's classic "Just Hangin' Out" is pretty precious. .jpg) Monster Maker (Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz) "My Way" Former Imageyenation point man and occasional contributor Cereffsion is a huge C-Rayz fan. He doesn't like this album at all. He can suck it though, 'cause it's good stuff. It finds the Bronx-bred emcee teaming with DC-based DJ and producer Sharkey under the Monster Maker moniker, doing a mashup of Rap, Rock, Electronica and more. "My Way" was one of the first Monster Maker songs I heard via that promo video they released early in the year. The stomping beat, spitfire raps from C-Rayz and Sharkey's hook crooning still hold up. Comments There are no comments for this
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