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label:
family jewels
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| producer: granite
sandstone, molemen, scandls, seel, morty |
| guest: pugzlee
atoms, seel |
| year of release:
2001 |
| contact: email |
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| tracklisting |
| 1. Intro |
| 2. So Bogus |
| 3. Remember (Interlude) |
| 4. Get Outta Dodge |
| 5. Infinity F.U.'s |
| 6. If Words Could
Kill |
| 7. No Love |
| 8. Fat Broke &
Ugly |
| 9. M.F.G. (Skit) |
| 10. Momentum feat.
Pugzlee Atoms |
| 11. God Dammit |
| 12. Winning &
Losing (Interlude) |
| 13. The Scumbag Anthem
feat. Seel |
| 14. Caminando Sobre
Agua |
| 15. Outro |
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| Paradise
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Judging from the cover,
Matlock the rapper is from Chicago and not from Atlanta
like the lawyer. But there are more differences, like
the ATL one is Florida state's hero and the senior citizens
poster on the wall idol. And the Chi is still on the
way to be that. Okay, just bugging. But he tries to
become one of the hottest stars that shines over this
town that's strong with lyrical skills. So Matlock takes
the mic in a firm grip like the winter cold the city.
And all the halfass emcees might better get off their
lounger, and seriously sharpen their battle verses.
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Because Matlock is further
practicing his over the span of one album, hence on
"So Bogus" he lets
you know how wack you are, and one "Get
Outta Dodge" he aligns punchlines like empty
cans that he wants to target practice with. This cut
is however more than just the rhymes, cause Panik of
the Molemen steps to the board and he puts together
a melancholic piece, that's built around a piano and
takes us a couple of years back in style and flavor.
Another Molemen, this time it being Memo, provides a
beat on "Momentum".
It is heavily bouncy, and one definite neck attack.
On this cut fellow windy city emcee Pugzlee Atoms teams
up with Matlock to do some serious damage. And they
sounds great together and even inspire each other to
come with hotter fiery verses. This has to be the dopest
cut on here.
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Now if take a step back
to look at this in a more overall kinda deal, then one
complaint has to be that lyrically not much changes.
Matlock is going for the bragging and boasting pretty
much on each track. Sure he's able to always come with
another dope line, but it still keeps the lyrics one
dimensional. So it's mainly the hooks and the beats
that let us find a difference between the tracks. And
that can go bad, as well as good. But stuff like "God
Dammit" is rather boring, due to a boring
beat. There's nothing really wrong with "Fat
Broke & Ugly", where Matlock is talking about
'broads', but the beat takes a little time to adapt
to and sounds better loud than quiet. Finally, "The
Scumbag Anthem" that features Seel is a rather
standard orchestra sampling cut.
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Better are the slow
and sad "Infinity F.U.",
produced like the majority of the beats by Granite Sandstone.
Also good is the strangely sounding holed out "If
Words Could Kill", as well as the second
best track "No Love",
that gives us some dope ass samples that Morty found.
"Caminando Sobre Agua"
is then even flipping the lyrics, it going for the more
reflective and finding truths, over a dope rolling instrumentation.
So there's a healthy amount of dope tracks on here,
that will be a treasure to hunt down for all those cats
that can't get enough of battle hip hop.
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| review:
tadah |
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