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...really did know he was dying when he wrote his last album, Brainwashed (Capitol), it's unavoidable. During his lifetime, Harrison tested the limits of human patience with his fetish for Zen homilies, and in his final act as a songwriter he has left mystical portent in every rhyme. On Any Road, Harrison rasps, "I keep traveling around the bend/There was no beginning, there is no end." On Stuck Inside a Cloud he takes the mike with him to the great beyond: "Talking to myself/Crying out loud/Only I can hear me/I'm stuck inside a cloud...
...annoying. Instead of making like a good front man and lifting the band with his kinetic presence, de la Rocha screeched radical political slogans over the group's underappreciated guitarist and thunder-clap rhythm section. His four albums with Rage proved one thing: it is hard to find a rhyme for Zapatista. When de la Rocha quit the band in 2000, guitarist Tom Morello used the opportunity to marry up. He called former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell--one of the signature voices of grunge--and pitched him on joining Rage's remains. Cornell accepted. They renamed the group Audioslave...
...course, as a ballad, you also read "Blood Song" as much for the way it tells the story as for the story itself. With a traditional ballad you may notice the rhyme scheme or alliteration. Here you marvel at Drooker's skill as an artist. Reminiscent of Masereel's woodcuts, Drooker uses scratchboard, where you carve out the lines rather than draw them in. Over this he adds layers of slate-gray watercolor for tone and depth. Then, amidst this near-monochrome world, at sparingly particular moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood...
...ladder / Count the pieces you’ve managed to gather / Does it matter? What you trying to achieve? / Let go of your throat if you’re dying to breathe.” Riding producer Ant’s skeletal boom-bap, Slug spits each carefully sculpted rhyme with a clarity and understated resolve that unfailingly drives his thoughts home. The results can be poignant and oft-disturbing, but nearly always manage to captivate...
RJD2 does share his space with a couple of very carefully selected MCs: Jakki has a very capable, if not entirely unpredictable battle-rhyme on “F. H. H.” (discreet for “Fuck Hip Hop,” surprisingly). But it is on “June” with MC Copywrite that RJD2 demonstrates that not only can he back a dextrous rapper, he can steal the show back again. The dense, shifting atmospherics range from mournful guitar noodlings to the everpresent bass/high-hat tussle that comes forcefully to the fore...