Now I come from the old school of Hip-Hop and have always felt a nigga based on his skills and athletic delivery and charisma that backs up that skill and delivery, more so than a hot club song or an overly flashy video. But sometimes the nicest underground Emcees sound like bitches hating on what the masses like. Why? Shit I say if you know your eclectically different then let that shit speak for itself. Eventually the Matrix will follow. The Grit City disc is only fairly impressive to me. Only for the fact that I understand the need to be lyrically “untouchable” but I don’t understand the need not to explore different ranges in the background music. A lot of the music on the disc still sounds like some late 90’s underground shit. Even OC, one of my past time favorites who produced the timeless classics “Times Up” and “Dangerous” with the late Big L, falls short on the production side but comes through strong lyrically.
KRS-One stands up and does what he does on the “Still Spittin” remix, followed by Akbar, L Da Headtoucha, Illin P, Supastition and An Ion, this was a good display of the Artform of Emceeing.
“17 Emcees” is a wicked session by Insight, one just has to listen to the commanding charisma I speak of and vision a live show with this one.
Shine On Em” takes a chance and comes up smelling like roses as Soul Supreme and Shuman spit feverish intelligence using a sample from Peter Gabriel’s 80’s smash “Big Time” and Soul supreme tastes the production exquisitely.
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This ones nothing to scream home about but still has it’s defining lyrical moments.
7/10
