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| Cumulus is a cloud and Rob Rush, well, is a standard rap name. Cumulus is however also a member of the Moonies, just like that other guy. And they are both from Santa Cruz and they like their rap to sound like something old. |
| What's not a bad thing though. Especially once after the very quick "The Truth 2003", "The Blues" appears. It opens with a little piano lick, one of those extra little samples that appear throughout
the record. But once that's gone, the horns take over, there's a lady singing on the hook, and the whole impression is only a bit spoiled by the rhyming. It's too damn fast. The rolling beat could be the horse these cowboys ride. But instead they try to rhyme as fast as that Seabisquit relative runs.
So that takes quite a bit away from the song on the first verse. But on verse two, where the rapper mocks himself in telling us about his blues, we're happy again. Plus, this beat is just so darn good. |
| After another little quick sample braggadocio (on some: see, we got samples for days and waste them at the beginning of each song), we enter "Day In The Life". The vibe takes us to the front porch, with a glass of Kool Aid in our pawn, as we blink into the sun, think
about the days in the lives of everyone, as much as themselves. |
| "Free Flow Rap" corrects the error of fast rapping over a rolling beat. How? It does fast rapping over a fast beat. And man, those dudes have tongues. Somewhere into the song they say "smile more, I wanna see
you laugh". So get your grin on. They are definitely on a more relaxed type vibe again on "Dirty Laundry", even though the drum has a certain Drum-N-Bass air to it. Here the two talk about women, but it's still hard to follow what
exactly they are saying, cause they just talk to damn fast. So let's be like a girl you asked about anything mechanical or technical: huh? |
| Even though we must say that we rather have Cumulus and Rob rap fast, if the alternative is the pseudo singing of "Folk Hop". Plus the whole mix of folk and rap is a bad idea, unless your name is Everlast. A better, while not necessarily original idea is taking rappers
names and titles of songs and explain yourself with 'em. The two do it on "Jukebox", and as the beat is good too, actually getting the rhymes to fit, this is one of the strongest songs on here. |
| We can bypass "Full Co-Operation" rather quickly and then stop with "Operation Free Flow" again, which is somewhat of an explanatory song. The vibes sample is cool, the horn quite magical and the whole
is uptempo and good. The party/live performance song appears last with "Diggin' In Your Head", with the melancholic mood fighting against the intended getting the crowd hype rhetoric. |
| Okay, we had a good time listening to this record. We enjoy it and we don't feel too guilty about it. At the same time however, it's not incredibly good. The emcees are so stuck in an off everything flow, they often struggle to mix with the beat, as well as allow our ears to catch
up. Therefore we like 'em better as producers than emcees. Not even because they are wack on the mic, but because many of their beats are exquisite and the samples are just incredible. But there's still much to desired here. We'd rather have the two rhyme more like on "Diggin' In Your Head"
than on "The Blues". But you can put the emphasis of that sentence on the word 'more', because more of Cumulus & Rob Rush still sounds like a good idea. |
| review: tadah |
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