Them (Themselves)
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Date: 2000 Title: Them, Them Number of tracks: 12 Length: 55 mn |
| Now, normaly, all I should have to say is: "Dose One
and Jel", and that's when everybody claps and screams in joy and runs to their
favorite record shop and ask for 20 copies of the album. That would be in a world filled
with real Anticon enthousiasts. But thank God for skepticism, I get to stand a bit longer
in front of my comp. Now, if you want to know if one of your friends is honest, ask him to tell you if he understands everything that Dose says. If the answer is yes, then laugh at his face and never speak to him again (your friend, not Dose). Then again, maybe it's me, handicapped that I am by my French origins. That means that I'm not about to give you a detailed account of the lyrics, of how great they are, and so on. The most obvious track lyracal-wise is "Eating Homework", where Dose criticizes the fact the the educational system keeps students from being fully imaginative... "I wonder, has my doodling suffered? Who misses covering their textbooks?"What I can say is that if I don't always grasp 100% of the lyrics, they sound good, and that the bits of concepts I do understand are fully enjoyable, thank you very much. No need to grasp everything to understand that it's dope, be it the global concepts, as I've already said, or his delivery. And just because he talks funny doesn't mean you've got to compare him to B-Real all the time, cause I don't see the latter rhyming on a cut such as Glass Skirt and Fruit hat...but that's an example among many. Just like I don't see Dose saying "I wanna get high, so high....", but I'm getting dangerously away from the subject. Now, back to the production. Everybody knows that Jel is absolutely incredible, me included. The amazing thing being that he's able to pull this of with a simple SP 1200. And he's got that thing for changing beats and patterns in the middle of a song (check John Brown Vaporizer, for example), leaving you to wonder just how far he's gonna take you in the next cut. Very far if you consider that the last one is the infamous "It's Them", already present on the Anticon "Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop" LP. I love that cut, and I'm affraid I'll never live long enough to say it as much as I'd want to. Basically, to sum things up: great album that not everybody will like, simply because people aren't always receptive to challenging lyrics and peculiar voices. Uniformity will kill us all. Let them buy the album. |
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