but this Paradoxical State album is making me do like the "whoah, I better pay attention - this guy's really saying something" double-take for the first time since I first took notice of Billy Woods - Jestoneart drops like straight-up rocket science about innercity life at first, but after a while he starts spitting typical abstract nonsense patter with a side of angst. It's a really big fall from the heights of the first few tracks and it's legitimately kind of depressingly disappointing, plus it does go on, but at least there's a Yabby You sample!
I just started Bottle of Humans and uh see anytime I listen to a white emcee I basically have to ask myself the question "do I enjoy this enough and/or is it ~objectively~ good enough that it makes up for the shame that would come from being approached by a hypothetical Anti-Racist BloggerTM while listening to this and having to half-heartedly defend how much of an evil racist I am for listening to an Evil Devil Cracker Appropriator" and yeah Sole does not fit that bill. He's kind of putrid. Then again Aesop Rock and Invincible are the only two white emcees that I can half-heartedly defend, and maybe Paul Barman if I'm feeling feisty + perverse. I can't even listen to Qwel anymore. And speaking of Aesop Rock, the Cult Favorite album brings Elucid to my attention, and he sounds like a Chopped & Screwed constipated modern Ian Matthias Bavitz with no skills like whatsoever - and wait apparently he actually is black? Coulda' fooled me! Call it early Ugly Mane in reverse. Still pants. What the everliving fuck made me wanna' go through the abstract hip hop chart in the first place? I don't even usually like it when black guys rap shit like "perfunctory uncle factory creates combustible tupperware while we agnostically copy crop circles herky-jerkily" or wtfever, let alone Evil Devil Cracker Appropriators. Blah.
returning to my stomping ground of the previous few days/decades - I get why Potemkine aren't remembered as a first-tier zeuhl band, or fusion band in general, but their first two albums are ultimately perfectly satisfying and all three exist at a different notch on the Fusion-to-Zeuhl scale so there's no real feeling of worn paths, even if obviously they'd never possibly have existed without Mahavishnu and Magma having done so first. I was going to say that their last is their best after the first two tracks, because I've been craving old-school fusion guitar heroics, before that became code for "AGH OH GOD STOP PLEASE PLEASE STOP MY EARS AAAH" or at least avoiding the tastelesshalfmetalhalfsmoothjazzshredwank that was coming to dominate the genre and yet the further on the album goes the more the pleasing fusion bits turn into plain old gross RAWK GEETAR histrionics and nobody wants that ever now do they?
and now I really hate that album anyway because I noticed that the ohsocharmingly named RYMer "GoddamnRapist" put it on a list alongside the likes of Styx, Robin Trower, Tool, Alice in Chains, QOTSA, Mr. Bungle and Joe Satriani, so ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
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