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...albeit awesome) tracks by Del Tha Funky Homosapien, who did his best work before the Wu even existed. On “Fragments,” he sings off-key, raps conversationally, and generally acts bizarre, to great effect. “Preservation,” a duet with Aesop Rock, lyrically shines brighter than any other track.The saddest part lies is in the brief “ODB Tribute” in the middle of the album. A shining example of the difference a good producer can make (DJ Noize in this case), the track mixes samples...
...production, handled by Def Jux guru El-P, alongside other behemoths like DJ Shadow, Blockhead (Aesop Rock’s producer), as well as Cage’s long-time collaborator Camu Tao, snaps with aggressive buzzing thuds and lush melodic loops. El-P, who has a hand in more than half of the songs, opens with one of those rare productions where grinding guitar and a low end courtesy of the bassist from Yo La Tengo, actually work under the voice...
...brings the best production on the album, an accomplishment considering the big-name peers on board. The strongest tracks come at the end of the album, beginning with Camu’s superstar showcase “Left It To Us,” where El-P and Aesop Rock make you remember how awesome hip-hop collaborations can be. This is especially true in comparison to “Shoot Frank,” a pallid mournful-eyed pop-metal whiner with a disappointing RJD2 beat that deserves mention only because it is almost impossible to listen...
Lincoln and Douglass also shared many common interests. They loved music and literature and educated themselves (Douglass on the sly while a slave) by reading the same books: Aesop's Fables, the Bible, Shakespeare and especially The Columbian Orator, a popular anthology of speeches for boys. They were athletic, strong and tall: Douglass was about 6 ft., Lincoln 6 ft. 4 in., when the average height for men was 5 ft. 7 in. They refrained from alcohol and tobacco at a time when many politicians "squirted their tobacco juice upon the carpet" and drank on the job. They were ambitious...
During this process, he becomes equal parts writer and musician, all shades of categorization afterward inevitably falling prey to crude underlying cultural assumptions and models, both about poetry and rap. Aesop acknowledges that “some people like my shit, some don’t,” but refuses to get sucked into marketing himself as an “intellectual rapper...