Fo-Deep - To Be Yours single review
To Be Yours is a typical slow jam from the 90s|R&B/Soul love ballad played on Late Nite radio. A typical slow jam. To Be Yours is similar to this context: I want to be yours forever, in your arms forever. Going deep." The acoustics are mostly on point. To Be Yours is obviously a love song and
about sexual intercourse.
Run Up In Ya is about sexual intercourse and sexual penetration with the dick. It is certainly not a surprise that this song was intended to be another slow jam. Yep it's another slow jam. You all have guessed it right.
4/5****
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Blaq Kush - Kush Record 22 album review
Blaq Kush is experimenting with different music sounds and genres for this album. It has various mad sounds of different style of music.Think Jazz, Pop, Electronic, and Rap. This album mainly has that internet mixtape sound of the 2010s era. Blaq Kush is very hot in the cypher sound scene. He is well known for doing cyphers especially on the internet. Producer jaguarclaw is all over the album. DKO Beats is tight! jaguarclaw seems to be the main producer that is all over this album so far.
Futuristic Revelations is about revelations in the future. It's normal to fear the future. No one really knows what lies ahead in the future. Who knows what lies in the future. Only you can control your destiny. Our heroes are not dead. You still have time to save yourself.
911 is a Joke is a track that reminds of Public Enemy track called 911 is a Joke & 9/11 is a Joke. It is a very anti-police political movement song. The song addresses mainly police brutality. The us vs. them mentality is present throughout the whole song. Abuse by police is very common these days.
Psychedelicguntalk reminds me of the southernplayalisticmuzik album sound by OutKast in the 90s. 1-900-worldeater should be 1-900-worldtheater!
5/5*****!
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Vallejo - Vallejo Spanish Album Sampler album review
Into The New (Live) is a live version of that song which is also on the Leftovers album from 2005. For those who don't know, it was recorded live at Waterloo Park here in Austin, Texas. This was in March of 2000. The Into The New (Live) recording is about three minutes long. The live version is so breath-taking and epic.
The Spanish Version of Classico is the second track. It was the Vallejo anthem of 2000 for them. Especially the Spanish version of this song which they would play at their live concerts in the early 2000s. You will remember this well.
La Familia was an overlooked Vallejo song. La Familia had so much potential to be a single and a music video.
[This was the album sampler for the Vallejo album Into The New in 2000 only on CD.]
5/5*****!!
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The Reynolds Number album review
Follow You starts off with a soft piano sound not pop piano. The person on the track sound like Eddie Van Halen and Bobby Steele of Misfits. This song is suitable for a soundtrack in a movie. In fact, this album has music that would be suitable for a soundtrack in a movie.
Follow You has that traveling on the road feeling as if you're in an RV on a desert road. On some days it's hard to get up and eventually it will all add up. At night, two lovers will make love.
Awake is a track that sounds like it came from Moby. As the early Moby sound from 1991-1995. Awake is about staying up late at night and spending time together.
Grow sounds a little bit more mainstream. Grow is about a boy who is becoming a man. Good things are ahead of him in his path. As the Father said he would. The Father says "Sit up, Brother. There's nothing I would never change." during all those years.
5/5*****
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RFTW - Oh Sheila! Greatest Hits album review
Ready For The World was overlooked and under promoted in their time as a band. Maybe it was because Michael Moore's Roger And Me documentary was giving Flint a bad reputation at the time. This was in the mid 80s mind you. The notable singles from this album were Love You Down, Oh Sheila, Tonight, and Digital Display. Oh Sheila! Greatest Hits ranges in a variety of by RFTW from the 80s to the 90s.
Digital Display was a song out of its world for the time because at the time the song was written, no one had a flat screen TV or a digital display. For those who saw the music video, you all should know why. Anyway, buy this album if you just want to listen to the charting cuts.
4/5****
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Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair album review
Fear, Emptiness, Despair by Napalm Death was released in 1994 on Earache Records from the UK. This album is more mid paced yet it didn't do as well as the previous album, Utopia Banished, did. There are a lot of 3 minute songs on this album. (Some versions of this album have 11 songs.)
Twist the Knife is one of those killing songs. One of those songs that makes you want to kill someone. One of those songs to kill somebody to. Think about the film scores and songs used in movies of the psycho thriller genre. Those horror movies and films.
Plague Rages has that 80s grindcore band sound to it. Think about the Scum album or Hatred Surge because there is more that meets the eye when it comes to Napalm Death. They are a grindcore band.
Primed Time and State of Mind are more intellectual tracks that are different from the rest of this album. Armageddon is a hardcore song! It fits very well with this album especially the title of the song. The Deception song is an OK song.
Even with all the media coverage and newspaper press this album got, it still didn't chart as well as Utopia Banished did. It was well favored by newspaper critics and music critics around the world. A lot of critics gave this album 5 stars. It was too bad that this album did not do as well as the last album had done.
5/5*****!!
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The Dayton Family - Psycho EP review
The Psycho EP by The Dayton Family EP was released on Psychopathic Records Sub-label Hatchet House in 2011.
Think of Rock and Hip Hop/Rap when you listen to this EP. This album is filled with 5 new banging tracks! The features groups are Top Authority from Flint and ICP. Philly Cocaine makes an appearance too. Mike E. Clack is the producer. Although this EP should have been much longer. The amount of artists and groups are perfect. Not too many guest features which is a good thing.
The song Cocaine is an ode to cocaine. Both Prostitute Killer and Cocaine are the cut tracks and are both the singles for this EP. TDF and Top Authority do a killer job with their live performances! Especially when they performed these songs! The title track Psycho should have been a single as well.
5/5*****!
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MOSS - Erb-N-Reality album review
MOSS - Erb-N-Reality album was released on Imperial 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, Scurvy, Googiemac, and G Storm.
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.
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 grimey NYC sound. Think Stiky Fingaz of Onyx, Fredro Starr, Necro, Ill Bill, Non Phixon, Orko, U-God, Bahamadia, and The Undatakaz. It has jazz samples like as many East Coast hip hop and rap songs did at that time. Flint was a gutta and ghetto place at that time and it still is.
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.
Fully Automatic was dark with the high pitch note violin squealing in the background. It had that dark and grimey NYC sound as well.
No Escape tells us there's no escape from Flint. No Escape has samples from the film called Shocker. D.I.D is a G-Funk track.The Isaac Hayes sample on Confessions is what makes Confessions great. DJ Psycho does the cuts on Verbal Murder.
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.
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. But other than that, the producers were slept on as well.
MOSS was a mixture of Method Man, Native Nuttz, Skillz, Shyiem, U-God, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Kevin Brown, Nikki D, Main Force, Heather B., Monie Luv, and FOE from Black Market Records all mixed together.
5/5*****!
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Candy Fresh - We Wanna Get Paid (Up The Money) EP review
We Wanna Get Paid (Up The Money) EP by Candy Fresh. was released on Two Sweet Records from Austin, Texas in 1990. Stanley K. Cobble was known as Baby Luke. He was the promoter for 2 Live Crew, Luke Records, Lil Troy, Candy Fresh, and SK back in the day. That is why Baby Luke has ties with the media/entertainment in Miami. And that is why this EP has that Miami bass sound.
Two Sweet Records was run by Baby Luke as a side project for promotional purposes. The artists that were signed to Two Sweet Records were Baby Luke, Candy Fresh, Wink-D, Lil Troy, Lil Buzzy, and SK.
Candy's Groove is an instrumental track sampling James Brown Getup Offa That Thang & The Big Payback. The track is only 3 minutes long though. [Candy's Groove is actually the instrumental for Revenge (I'm Mad).]
Do The Get Busy is a fast paced upbeat dance electronic rap song. This rocked the parties in Austin back in the 90s. This was often played at house parties. The bass is strong. Get Busy has that Miami bass sound. Probably going at 130 bpm. Get Busy has that Miami bass sound also
Now this ones for the ladies out there! Ladies have wants and needs the same as men do. It's not always about the men. I'm tired of the same ol' same ol'. Ladies wanna get paid on We Wanna Get Paid (Up The Money). We Wanna Get Paid (Up The Money)!
5/5*****!!
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South East 1 - I Ain't Trippin' EP album review
South East 1 was a group of four from San Diego, California in 1995. South East 1 was Ajamu, Chocolate T, Wendell B, and ANG. South East 1 was only a one time thing. They were on BottomLine Entertainment/Break Bread Records.
They group disbanded in 1996 because Wendall B was in jail at the time and the music game changed with life. Stuff happens. For those who don't know, Wendell B was in jail at the time for some of the recording process for the I Ain't Trippin' album.
Dago Luv is about having love for San Diego. All about that hometown love. Dago Luv is another great track! You’ll trip whenever you hear tracks and songs like this. This is shit you hardly ever hear from rap anymore. The intro starts off with the double guitars and deep bass along with the G-Funk sine wave. No one can fuck with the South East 1! It's dope! So brothas and sistas, don't trip! Dago Luv is about having fun, smoking fruits, and knockin' boots.
Back N Da Bottoms starts off with a game of pool and then the phone rings. It was Wendell B and he was calling from jail. As I explained earlier, Wendell B was in jail at the time for some of the recording process for the I Ain't Trippin' album. Wendell B should have had more of a presence on this track.
South East 1 is a self-explanatory track about what the South East 1 rap group represented and was about. South East 1 was bout having fun, smoking fruits, and knockin' boots.
[This Limited Edition EP Release came with an interview on video. The Limited Edition EP Release has 9 tracks with an interview video. The video interview is so dope.]
4/5****
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OZ - O.Z. album review
Despite O.Z. originally being from Sac-Town, Extra Records was/is from Vallejo, California which is near Oakland in the Bay Area. Well known Bay Area artists on the album were Mac Mall, Levitti, Mac Dre, Dubee aka Sugawolf, and the group Game Related who released Soak the same year on Corey Robbins' Robbins Entertainment. Brian Gardner mastered this album. OZ was the rapper behind the album Ozone.
O.Z. has super fast lyrical flows. This is something to jam to in your lowrider or whether you're at the club. The bass is super sick! The album is hyphy! This album is long out of print and very hard to find. If you liked the Ozone album, then you'll like this album!!
5/5*****!
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dope EP review
This EP was released in 2000 as a promotional cassette by dope the metal band.
The first song is called Sick which is similar to 16Volt - Too Late and Alice In Chains - Dirt.
The lead singers and the lead guitarists were killing it! Great guitar riffs! The crowd was going wild.
The Sick music video was a live video. Plus the blue and red lasers in the music video for Sick made it even more wicked than it already is!
The second song is called Fuck Tha Police. Fuck Tha Police is a rap metal cover of the N.W.A song of the same name. Fuck Tha Police is anti-corruption song that speaks out against police brutality. Henceforth the title.
The third and last track is Spine For You, which is for the felons and revolutionaries. The felons and revolutionaries that have a spine and stand up for themselves. Not the pussies out there who won’t do anything.
If Epic had promoted this more who knows where they could have been. However Epic did promote Spine For You and Sick interestingly well since both songs spawned off singles.
4/5****
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Stones Throw EP review
Stones Throw is a rock band from Austin, TX. This EP was self-released in 1998. It only has 3 songs.
Anyway… on with the album. This EP was recorded in a home studio. Jon Sheppard did the engineering. Damon Alexander did the drums. Dustin Tanner is on this EP too. He's a well known underground musician in Austin. Stones Throw is kind of similar to the early P.O.D! A very dark mood for this album cover.
Some music collectors might think about the front cover and probably think that this EP is a cheap CD-R bootleg when it's really not. Well don't judge a book by its cover as this is very common for indie artists and indie labels to do. A lot rock artists do this very often. For example, the promotional copies for this EP were burned onto a gold CD-R. Again this is very common for indie musicians.
The first song is Rooftop. Think about hanging out on the rooftop at night playing the guitar under the stars at night. Except there's no campfire, but that would be very cool if there was one. Rooftop is obviously a love song.
The last song is How Could You is about betrayal. Think about it this way! A woman cheats on another man even though she has a boyfriend. The boyfriend thought he could trust the girlfriend. Girlfriend betrayed his trust. She didn't keep her word. The boyfriend doesn't know what to do. So he finds another girlfriend to date at the end of the final song.
4 1|2/5****(.
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