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You Already Know What It Is - Reviews of 9/11 Releases · by Oh Word
Another slow week for new releases, eh?
50 Cent – Curtis
The problem with catering to 15 year old white kids is that eventually they get girlfriends and drop you for “My Chemical Romance”.
- Sach
Kanye West – Graduation
If you buy one overblown, overhyped, overrated rap record this week, make sure it’s the one by the guy talking about his clothes and money, NOT the one with the guy talking about his guns and money. The future of our Hip Hop depends on it.
- Sach
Kenny Chesney – Just Who I Am
This guy is really taking the competition seriously. Chesney was spotted selling cd’s out of the trunk of a dusty red pickup parked outside a Kansas Chick-Fil-A.
Motherfuck him and John Wayne.
- Rafi
Little Brother – Separate But Equal (Import)
Even the 101st Airborne couldn’t integrate their entirely white fanbase.
- R.H.S.
Shout Out Louds – Our Ill Wills
Despite the album’s title, this Swedish rock group’s second offering has little (if anything) to do with Nas’s fallen homey.
- Rafi
Lionel Richie – Live in Paris (DVD)
The Episode of “The Simple Life” Nicole did NOT want you to see.
- Sach
Young Bleed – Once Upon a Time in Amedica
Once upon a time people other than underlaid southern bloggers cared about spell-check impaired mid 90’s Louisiana gangsta rap.
- Sach
Pitch Black – The Revenge
I’d also be gunning for revenge if I had spent my “Primo banger” cash on what was supposed to be riveting cover art and got this lousy photoshop edit instead.
- R.H.S.
Necro – Death Rap
In certain municipalities on the North Shore of Long Island this album is predicted to outsell Kanye and 50 Cent’s new offerings combined.
- R.H.S.
Timbaland Presents Shock Value (Limited Edition 2-CD Import)
I thought this was another gimmicky contrarian blog post by Sach. Then I realied it was something even more ephemeral: a Timbaland album!
- R.H.S.
The World Inferno Friendship Society – Addicted to Bad Ideas
The World Inferno Friendship Society is rock’s way of tellin Hip Hop “see, Tum Tum isn’t such s a bad stage name after all!”
- Sach
Cupid – Time for a Change
This is the same record label that refused to put out the Juggaknots first album, in case you were keeping score.
- R.H.S.
Film School – Hideout
Assuming they live up to their band name, expect low budget, crappy looking confusion by untalented assholes trying to pass off this crap as “experimental” to justify their parents’ investment.
- Sach
Rainman – Bigga Than Life
He gets mystical, physical … VERY autistical…
- R.H.S.
The Good Life – Help Wanted Nights
Releasing this on september 11 is the equivalent of owning the misspelling of a popular web domain. Be careful shoppers – this is not the Kanye/T-Pain maxi-single.
- Rafi
Viva La Vulva: Women’s Sex Organs Revealed by Betty Dodson (DVD)
And here I thought Viva La Vulva was a Reggaeton track.
- Sach
B5 – Don’t Talk, Just Listen
I tried to like B5, but the truth is that to make such a bold statement in favor of schmaltzy kidz-bop, you have to, like, be five.
- R.H.S.
Comments for "You Already Know What It Is - Reviews of 9/11 Releases"
It’s funny how Kanye is being marketed as hip hops savior even though he isn’t very lyrical and he’s just as matrialistic as Young Dro.
You guys forgot that DJ Muggs and the Outlawz released albums today also.
— E aka Fidel Cashflow Sep 13, 02:43 PM
What could you possibly have against John Wayne?
— Tray Sep 13, 04:00 PM
^^^^
Is that a joke? I can’t even tell anymore.
— eauhellzgnaw Sep 13, 09:37 PM
clearly Sach’s tastes are too old and boring to appreciate the Kanye album.
my guess is mid-20s. which translates to about 83 in rap years.
can anyone really call ‘Ye’s “overrated” yet though? i mean at least let it be actually out for a few days. i’ve already seen just as much predictable hate as people calling it the greatest thing since sliced bread.
— T.R.E.Y. Sep 13, 10:20 PM
I got 30 e-mails telling me B5 was coming out Tuesday. I’m not even exaggerating – THIRTY OF THEM, all from the same damn BlackVibes publicist. Needless to say their account had been suspended already when I tried to reply.
— DJ Flash Sep 13, 10:21 PM
T.R.E.Y. – sach’s taste too old? im 17 and even i am sick of this kanye bullshit. Im looking forward to gettin Necro’s album though. Hopefully Muggz’ new one is better than Cypress Hill’s last album. Urgh.
— mac n cheese Sep 13, 11:09 PM
LOL@the guy above me
enjoy your Necro
— T.R.E.Y. Sep 14, 03:21 AM
The Greyskul record came out this week, too. I mean, I’m assuming Oh Word has nothing good to say about it, but we don’t have to listen to Thumper’s Mother on this one.
— Henry Casey Sep 14, 10:48 AM
Enjoyable post. Layoff John Wayne thought, not cool.
— Little Daddy Shane Fan Sep 14, 11:01 AM
John Wayne was in some of the best American movies ever made. The Searchers, Red River, Rio Bravo, Stagecoach… everyone who knows anything about film knows that. The Searchers is a little overrated, but I think it says something when both Scorcese and Spielberg are on record as saying it’s their favorite film. Ever. And Graduation, straight garbage, ersatz Trey.
— Tray Sep 14, 12:36 PM
This is Chuck D, he heads the seminal hip-hop act Public Enemy. He’s mad at you right now Tray because you didn’t do your homework.
This is Spike Lee. He made a classic Public Enemy song the centerpiece of a film called Do The Right Thing.
Spike is sad because he thinks this is a dead-end.
And below is the cover art for the single off the Do the Right Thing Soundtrack known as “Fight the Power” which contains the Chuck D line “motherfuck him and John Wayne”. I won’t ruin the surprise of who “him” refers to in the original song.
On the internet, you’ll find “Fight the Power” as an MP3 or perhaps with the rest of Fear of a Black Planet (get familiar) – the album it appeared on the following year.
This is your assignment for next week Tray: Do the Right Thing, Fight the Power (song and video) and the rest of Fear of a Black Planet.
Report back on your experience.
— rafi Sep 14, 01:15 PM
You know, as essential as Public Enemy are and all… I never much liked them. I bought A Nation of Millions and my favorite song, by far, was Cold Lampin with Flavor. Of course 5 years later I might feel different.
— Tray Sep 14, 02:39 PM
^^ What are you a fuckin’ twelve year old republican? Jesus-H-Alex-P-Keaton. John Wayne > PE = Not Hip Hop.
— B. Ware tha Siniq Sep 14, 02:44 PM
other Tray: i hear ya talkin’, but i don’t hear ya sayin’ anything.
— T.R.E.Y. Sep 14, 08:21 PM
hmph…
— cdub Sep 16, 12:56 AM
That Pitch Black is laced with Premier, Marley Marl, Pete Rock, Alchemist, Scram Jones, & Cool & Dre actually. Haven’t listened to it yet, but I definitely plan to check it out. LOL at your comment though Thun.
— B. Ware tha Siniq Sep 17, 01:15 PM