Hip-hop is a funny thing. Just when you’re about to throw up
\nyour hands and swear that you’ve heard it all, that there isn’t
\nanything new that can be done with it, along comes something
\nelse.<\/p>\n
I’ve been into hip-hop since the first grade — roughly when it
\nfirst emerged as a type of music. The Bee Gees and disco music in
\ngeneral were acting out the public’s need for a 1970s phenomena —
\nlike grunge, poodle-haired 80s metal, the boy-band crisis,
\nrap-metal, McPunk, or diet rock, that were all significant parts of
\nthe tiny eras they were\/are inhabiting. Hip-hop’s timing, at the
\npeak of Travolta and disco fevuh, only made the many naysayers seem
\nlike they were correct. When disco expired, though, and hip-hop
\nproved through Grandmaster Flash, UTFO, and LL Cool J (among
\nothers) that it was only beginning, it confused a bunch of
\nprog-rockers and\/or closet racists who only wanted to enjoy white
\nmusic made by white people. To them, James Brown is just that funny
\nblack dude who pops up in movies like
\nRocky 34<\/i> all the time, and sweats profusely, even at night.
\nTheir music collection is probably so sanitary and perfect, so
\nlily-white, that even the thought of having Run DMC’s “Walk This
\nWay” on the television when their friends popped over unannounced
\nwas a major source of embarrassment. A blow to their sense
\nof\u2026sense.<\/p>\n
The Anti Pop Consortium don’t make a lot of…sense. First off,
\ntheir name: They don’t have a bitch-killah moniker that lets people
\nknow that toying with them will put somebody’s momma in a black
\ndress in a few days. Plus they don’t loudly exhale pot-smoke on
\nSkit #3002 of their quadruple cd (each disc having over a half hour
\nof “intros”), and 89% of their album isn’t one big, long boring
\ndiatribe about A) how they are just preposterously endowed, and
\nmake mules self-conscious, B) the mind-boggling quantities of pussy
\nthat gets thrown at them daily, C) their names and faces being on
\nevery police blotter in the world, even in places they’ve never
\nbeen, or D) they’ll kill you two times for daring to make direct
\neye contact with them. Then they’ll give your momma anal sexual
\nhealing. On your coffin.<\/p>\n
If I was an A&R man that’s the kind of lyrics I’d expect to
\nget from either High Priest, Beans, Sayyid, or Earl Blaize. Instead
\nof that, I hear “Shark infested water, message in a bottle, no man
\nis an island. Individual visual MC. Me? I love life.”<\/p>\n
I’ve always had a list of what I thought were the best hip-hop
\nalbums of all time (in no order they are, thus far):
\nIt Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back<\/i> (by Public
\nEnemy),
\n36 Chambers<\/i> (The Wu-Tang Clan),
\nEndtroducing<\/i> (DJ Shadow),
\nTical<\/i> (Method Man),
\n3030<\/i> (Deltron),
\nHard to Earn<\/i> (Gang Starr), and
\nATLiens<\/i> (Outkast).
\nDr. Octagonecolgyst<\/i> (Dr. Octagon) has, since it came out in
\n1996, to me, been the ultimate, the
\nPet Sounds<\/i> of hip-hop. Having said that, I consider
\nTragic Epilogue<\/i> the rap
\nRevolver<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6847],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37602","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-anti-pop-consortium","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}