I wanted to be blown away by his new one; instead, I just like it. Same goes for "Internal Affairs." The dude is dynamite on the mic, & his (boom-bap loyalist) beats are solid. The "Terrordome" semi-cover on "Desire" is fan-fricking-tastic, Mr. Bigglesworth.
Great lyrics, great flow, great MC. Just needs some work polishing his albums a little better. Not crap at all!
Mr. Graham
rapper: pharoahe monch
13He's still the same dude after all these years -- I feel like his style hasn't budged and inch, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. NOT CRAP!
"Infernal Affairs" was the street record of the year in NYC when it came out, and I had high hopes that Monch would get some much-deserved mainstream shine. Then: bupkis! So it goes.
Stretch's blog and old WKCR shows have had me in a fog of 90's nostalgia for months now. People ask me "what rap are you feeling right now?" and I answer "Kurious, Pete Rock, some Nas demos".
"Infernal Affairs" was the street record of the year in NYC when it came out, and I had high hopes that Monch would get some much-deserved mainstream shine. Then: bupkis! So it goes.
Stretch's blog and old WKCR shows have had me in a fog of 90's nostalgia for months now. People ask me "what rap are you feeling right now?" and I answer "Kurious, Pete Rock, some Nas demos".
rapper: pharoahe monch
14This Desire album has some good shit on it.
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Linus Van Pelt wrote:I subscribe to neither prong of your false dichotomy.
rapper: pharoahe monch
15If we keep this up, we'll have to go over to Soulstrut and start threads about David Yow stories and Harmonic Percolator tips just to maintain the balance.