Wednesday, June 2, 2010

#087 Scarface - Mr. Scarface is Back

Lets try the South!

This is basically even more violent West coast gangsta, if you can believe that's possible, with double the murder fantasies and triple the gunshot samples of Staight Outta Compton. The rap style's even simpler, consisting almost entirely of end of liners, though with an emphasis on double-syllable rhymes there. Suffice to say, nonetheless, its not exactly unpredictable.

That said, I like it more than you might expect. The rapping is hard-edged in the delivery in a way I've learned not to take for granted, dude has a voice on him. And the production is still largely funk-based, but its hard edged and punchy, sounding more Gang of Four than Funkadelic. In the end, its not for me, but I grudgingly admire its single-minded aggression 3/5

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