Company Flow
Funcrusher Plus

THE REVIEW

Three guys in black were walking on the east coast, on July 28, '97. How beautiful the sun was. 
They had done their job: finally, their creature, in an embryonic phase for 3 years, was on the market.

A, um...Name: El-P
Another one: Mr. Len

Olé

Since you're my special friend, come closer for a special treat...

The Style hidden behind the skyscrapers.

One of the most freakish albums in the entire hip-hop scene sees the light, in the Eternal city of the genre: New York, the Big Apple... this album can only be described in one way: by rambling a bit of verses on this Fantastic page - yes, we were saying:

My shit is strange X-file number 2-6-7 whiplash
Triple felon emcee minus the melanin
When I bomb it the type of shit to make Baby Jessica jump in the well again
Sunshines or rain acid, El-P the battle master
Lactose breaking down your fucking fractals till you're flaccid

Seventy-three point fifty-two minutes of beat-minimalism, immersed in the glue of rhymes and voices; imagine staring like idiots at an egg, really concentrating on it, and all of a sudden finding yourself inside it. And guess what? You have no idea
how it happened... Plus Plus Plus.


Any work by 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Eminem* - 2 + 2 = 6 - 2 = 2, 3 + 1.7 = 3 + 1 = 4

*or any other overrated rapper you can't stand

Here, it never changes (unless you make Serious Errors), always 4, there's nothing you can do.
It always stays 4, and you can dedicate even 4049 listens to the album...

Funcrusher Plus - 2 + 2 = 6 - 2 = 2, 3 + 1.7 = 3 + 1 = 40000000000000000000000

Oops, I've just created one of those famous Serious Errors...
[ mischievous face that usually turns out very cool ] #2 Olé

8 Steps To Perfection a Chaz - they have surpassed it, perfection.

At the end of the marathon, Funcrusher arrived, the bastard took first place at Rawkus Records, it's the firstborn. Even cooler; everything progresses during the listening. Even the Sound that becomes more and more "dai play me again"...

Of course - if it's ALSO produced by El-P, what else can come out but a f-u-c-k-i-n-g masterpiece? of course, of course, they were Ahead of their times, the Company Flow, and the album. But you know: teachers prefer the student who arrives 5 minutes before Eight at School rather than the usual fool at Eight-Thirty.

1/ The Usual Fool
2/ A Link.