producers: madlib, kan kick, oh no

11. Westcoastwildstyle feat. Rasco, Medaphoar

Declaime's album is here. And about half of you people wouldn't care about it, if not the Beat Konducta, Mr. Madlib himself, would be associated with this record. Yip, you'll get plenty of the invasion, also a bunch of Kan Kick, as well as a healthy amount of Oh No, splitting up the production duty on this record. And of course you will also get mouth watering and stomach filling servings of Declaim himself. And the dude with the Muppet Show voice deserves your attention, just like anything else up in here.

The up in here starts with the "Intro". Quite of course. And it's lifted from a rustling record, and it tells us that we'll get "a whole lotta slick, funky, down to earth, stinkin', motherfuckin' shit". "Move It" then opens the path of communication, with De's first words. And his flow is quite slow and quite eccentric. Here he talks a bunch of 'I'm kinda nice and this is what I do' rhetoric. Madlib on the other hand pleases himself with a guitar and little else. Then the first of a whole bunch of short interlude breaks appears as "Oxnardbangbreak". Kan Kick and Oh No then provide their first offering on "Shit Ain't Right". Declaime makes this more than babbling with giving us simple observations like "the new world order is at hand / it's time to make a stand". Continuing with showing support to those in the struggle, this revisits the old conscious days. The "Magicalmuzibreak" is forming the separation to the dope opening "The Movement" feat. the Lootpack. It then goes into a reggae-ish something, that's still cool enough. This reminisces and intends to reinstate the old greatness, with giving props to the names that are memorized.

After "Sickman Shit", we are getting "Asylum Walk", that lives up to Declaime's kind of 'illmindmuzik'. There's lyrics to profess the meaning of De's feelings and intentions, while Mad keeps it early 90s with his beat. "Exclaim The Name" is not another break, but a female singing enhanced Kan Kick & Oh No piece. The drum, the whole beat is resembling something of the Ummah. This can get us to move to the beat, it being formatted for the clubs. Then there's "Get 'Em Skit", before De' hooks up with Rasco & Medaphoar on "West Coast Wildstyle". This beat is butters and makes it easy for the emcees to sound good. The "Kizumsihtrofdogknaht" should be read the other way around, but we're already with "Thankful" feat. Kazi. This melancholy beat is fitting the seriously meant content of addressing the fake and destructing. "Cheebashit" is topically paving the way for "Roll 'Em Right The Sequal", that has more guests preventing De' from feeling lonely. Sauna and Phil Da Agony spit on this self explanatory track. Another skit is left out and we straight up go into the beatboxing and P Nut, Impact and Kan Da Man featuring "True MC". As basic this is, as lively are the background voices, with this cipher being mocking those that don't appear in real ciphers in the first place.

"Andsoitissaid" is another butter track, hence it being the title cut. Madlib puts a low bass behind little else in the foreground. Keeping things short, is nothing new for these cats, and so we already check out "Beatconductainsei", an almost a minute musical blood sport, secret martial art exhibition. Then on "Don't Trip", there's the collabo we all anxiously waited for, as Quasimoto finally appears. Once more he talks about what comes to his mind, without focusing on a limiting thread of though. So we get some spitting, touching upon the nasty, but also a bunch miscellaneous rambling. "Musikillmind" is taking something from a Doris Day movie, before with "2 MC Or Not 2 MC", we get another fresh track. This is not too elementary though, as the question is not discussed philosophically, but Declaime is simply talking about his music. Then there's "Bumpty- bumplebildamludeotis", that exactly sounds like that.

"Uplift The Opposite" is quite a clever name for this track, as Declaime and Taboo The Sweetest talk about what they look for in a mate and they do their talking over a cool drum. "Spybreak" takes us to "Reasons" that once more goes a Jay Dee route. "Unuthafatassdrumple" is over before it started and so our ears are put to the attention of the Kan Kick and Oh No produced "Caliwayz". Like a letter this is addressing the listener and a third party over a darkish piano. "Dayzend" is almost wrapping things up, as with "Last Days And Times" we get the last proper track. And while some hand clapping drums and a plucking piano are making this sound like a love letter, De' seems to fit in all that he wants to say into this one track, just like during final words, hence the rhyming is once more gaining in meaning. And finally there's the "Outro", that is "Last Days And Times" just faded after half a minute.

So then: Madlib is definitely keeping the sanity level normal. His beats are fresh and funky, as always, but him and Kan Kick and Oh No do rather make the jazzyness be of a soulness flavor, than of a 'holy heck, this is crazy' kind, what would be what we grew to like on the Quas' album. But with Declaime's silky flow, this is deservingly more soulish than free jazz, the combination is well fitting and chosen properly. And the De' cat does a fair amount of real content talking, as well as bragging and accusing, so at the end of the day, we get a proper hip hop record, that sounds effortless, to give us an effort that is no less but cool, stinkin', down to earth and funky.