producers: divine styler

guests: john tajada, hitomi okuno, dj rhettmatic, cokni o'dire, styles of beyond, exceed, others.

Divine Styler is most defenitely from another planet, and this on his already third album. His rocketship must have landed with smoke in the engines and we hear strangely changed basshits and sonic bleep effects. This sometimes sounds like a modern version of the Ultramagnetic MC's "Critical Beatdown" album. And this is more than just a flattering comparison. "Wordpower" is similarly creative, although not as pioneering and new. With "Make It Plain", we get treated to synthetic stripes to our ears, and don't be surprised, if there will be new experiences appearing to your left and right.

His lyrics are too complicated to talk about, in only a few sentences. However you should brush up on your Islam vocabulary. And bring out a pair of tweezers to pick apart the many levels of his rhymes. But they are worth it, because Divine has a message, which is probably understood the easiest on his track "Gift Of Love". And he remains meaningful, also when he shares the microphone with his guests, like Styles of Beyond. And with them, we get back full circle to his work on the monstrously phat "2000 Fold" album by Styles Of Beyond.

And then Divine Styler has this side to him, that makes him record tracks like "Invitation To Life": a almost pretty track, with a R'n'B piano, that would fit every R'n'B track, and with a young fellow singing the chorus. Not necessarily bad, but it hurts the vibe of the other tracks, like sunlight after a tunnel. And it continues with "Intel", that combines poetry with an acoustic guitar. And with that, we get back full circle to his work on "Whitey Ford Sings The Blues", the Everlast album.

This is a different album. Different to the other known material that we can get at record stores. Be read to widen your horizon in an intergalactic kind of way, and surrender to the power of the word.