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I bought the limited edition almost a year ago now.
There was the CD. There was the booklet, with many beautiful photo-pics. There were the lyrics, a patch for jeans, a wooden spoon, a Louis XVI nightstand, and a marble bust depicting Dr. Dre giving poppy to Eminem.
First of all: one must always consider how one arrives at releasing an album. Let’s pretend everyone knows El-P is the greatest Rap musician in history. Perhaps he is the only young person who can be defined as a Rap Musician. It follows that he is the best, given the lack of competition.
Second point: the sound. Not everyone in this scene is maniacs about it. Perhaps only very few (very few), have something more to equalize-balance-distort than just a simple sample over boom-cha. It follows that Producto is obsessed with making the table vibrate, because he has something to be obsessed with, to make the table vibrate. Not the usual sample, not the usual boom-cha. It follows that he is the best in terms of sounds and productions, and ice creams are good, but they cost millions.
Third point: whom you call. In Rap, it is necessary to have people on your album. Otherwise, you are either A) a newcomer fool who doesn't know anyone, or B) just a fool, and no one comes to your album. He could have called the whole Def Squad, D.I.T.C., the entire Anticon Label, Likwit, Wu, and even the neighbor of KRS-One’s grandmother if he had wanted to. But him? no, not him. He can afford to call the Mars Volta, Trent Reznor, Cat Power. And him? yes, he does. It follows that he's not the only fool to define himself as The Best.
What a nice pair of fools with Cat Power.
He breaks Break-Beats, blends them with some electro-clash sounds, and combines them into something that could be a rhythm... but it is more. He covers them with long and deep bass, some synth touches, and throws on his bastard metrics. He always seems to be at the mic with a sly grin, always seems to mock you. He glues it all back and distorts it, because it’s nice like that. He manages to get Trent Reznor to make a good track. In 2007. Stuff that you don't even see in Lourdes with a pirated Sky card.
The best Rap album since The Cold Vein, which was the best Rap album since Funcrusher Plus. Uhm, look at that: he is in all three. Uhm, look at that: Funcrusher is exactly ten years ago. Oh, look, he dominates the decade leaving millions of light years behind any guy who decides to rap.
Just a small regret. If the good lord is really good, then Oktopus must leave Dälek and join P. With an Oktopus & P. album, they could part the waters at Staten Island, the much-awaited seven plagues would fall on Compton, and on Easter, Joe Cassano would resurrect to do a feature with them.
I bought the limited edition almost a year ago now, yet every time I look at Dr. Dre's marble bust that I put on the Louis XVI nightstand, oh, always stuck in poppy with Eminem. How true: they're all mad with Eminem's ass.
This is the sound of what you don’t know killing you
This is the sound of what you don’t believe still true
This is the sound of what you don’t want still in you
TPC motherfucker, cop a feel or two
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