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...group at its most focused. It's an unusual place for them to be. Wu-Tang revels in its own unpredictability, its own inscrutability and its own ungainly nature. Wu-Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star MC), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A tenth rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose. All of the members have...
...eyes. In its time, hip-hop's gone from Hollis to Hollywood to the halls of museums. Now it's time to wade through the enormous creative output of the last two decades to separate the wheat from the chaff, the hits from the misses, the heroes from the (MC) Hammers. Is Rakim the microphone god before whom we all must bow down? Is KRS-One still number one? Was Vanilla Ice an unappreciated genius? Is LL a phony hero or really the G.O.A.T? Here's your chance to name...
...Check the Rhime" A Tribe Called Quest My all-time favorite - breathtaking rhyming skills, tricky abstract poetics creating mental aerobics for the listener, and a profound musical commentary on the MC as bebop inheritor...
...roots are not Jamaican, nor Puerto Rican, nor African American, but African. It's part of the continuum of African art forms - in some traditional African societies, for example, we find the "griot," who is the storyteller or oral historian. How is that much different from an MC telling a story (think of Slick Rick, Ice Cube, or Snoop Dogg) or rhyming about the past...
Long before closing time, the Mix Master ceded his set to a freestyle free-for-all that proved to be a second highlight. Canadian MC Choclair, blatantly pushing all things Toronto in his Raptors jersey, offered some quality pro-Canadian rhymes over Black Rob's "Like Whoa," and Rahzel continued to amaze, though his freestyle abilities are clearly an order of magnitude weaker than his skills as the human beat...