Mixerr Album Reviews #145

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review MOSS - Erb-N-Reality. This album was released on BlewBack Entertainment from Flint in 1995. This album was different from the Ghetto Tech And Gangsta Rap coming from Flint at that time. It was more like East Coast and G-Funk blended and mixed together. It's not as sample crazy as a lot of rap was in the 90s. MOSS means Ministaz Of a Sinista Society. Members are Big G, Cognac, and G Storm.

No Escape tells us there's no escape from Flint. No Escape has samples from the film called Shocker.
Googiemac has Wu-Tang Clan sample in it. (36 Chambers is the sample!) It's dope! It really showcases MOSS's East Coast flow. The groups accents are lot different from the average Flint rapper and any rapper in Michigan. I am pretty sure as hell that there is a rapper out there named Googiemac.

I love the Isaac Hayes sample on Confessions. DJ Psycho does the cuts on Verbal Murder.
The track Erb-N-Reality shows us how life in Flint can be hell. How people can become fiends and how people can become crack heads. But life is not all that bad in Flint since the downtown are Flint is slowly rebuilding esp. with Kettering University. Don't forget that folks. It's not all prostitution and killings.

8 MC's has that deep dark and grimey mid 90's East Coast sound to it. Particularly that NYC sound. Think Stiky Fingaz of Onyx, Roxanne Shanté, Foxy Brown, or Mad Skillz. It has jazz samples like as manyu East Coast rap songs did at that time.

On Sodom and Gammorah, an unnamed voice tells us not to adjust the sound on our speakers for the next 34 minutes on the b side of the cassette. The voice tells us how city people are evil. For example calling them thieves and murderers. The voice tells that the city of Flint is like Sodom and Gammorah. People get robbed and beat out in these city streets of Flint. Flint has reached a point beyond redemption. The Jazz sample is from J. Blackfoot.

I loved that shit on the Fully Automatic song. It was dark with the high pitch note violin squealing in the background. It had that dark n grimey NYC sound as well. I don't why this tape was slept on. I really don't. Either way. It reminded me of Method Man, Native Nuttz, Skillz, Shyiem, U-God, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Kevin Brown, Nikki D, Main Force, Heather B., Monie Luv, FOE from Black Market Records, all mixed together.

D.I.D is a G-Funk track. Cap T and Basic Ballers should have both been singles. As I said, I don't why this tape was slept on. I really don't. Either way. But other than that, the producers were slept on as well.
This album was really different from all the rap albums in Flint at that time. MOSS should have done a 2nd album as a successor. That would have been the shit. The album cover for Erb-N-Reality stood out because there are 2 men laying in a pool of blood yet MOSS is NOT a gangsta rap group rather an intellectual lyrical group. Possibly looking at a shooting victim here. The origins of the photo are unknown because the members of MOSS refuse to reveal the origins.

I rate this album, Erb-N-Reality, 5/5*****!