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When you look into my eyes you see tradition and soul

I say I’m down to make a difference, walk a righteous pathīrick City resident, activist, past and present “Many ask: what’s the purpose and my cause in this craft? Still reppin’ Newark, he relies on his veteran status to weigh in on the eternal battle for hip-hop’s soul: Where cats get robbed on _Any Given Sunday_ with no delay” Uniqueness from a man whose lifestyle is quite candid To come across raw for sure so folks can understand this Much too complicated, so I’m slowin’ the pitch But he isn’t going esoteric on us by any means: The absence of his former partner, the musical changes, and most certainly personal experience may have mellowed this “Polo nigga to the death” down. He calls it “the early ’90s flow / slam up on tracks like Booker T on Monday Nitro,” but it’s not really an aggressive delivery. The music may be different, one thing that definitely hasn’t changed is MC El’s guttural flow that has a warm, welcoming quality. P Original puts a modern gloss on the jazz formula with the funky “Eternally” and then flips the whole thing with the menacing “Focus”. You can almost feel the summer breeze on his swingin’ “Summer Time Bluez”, while “So Easily” is a very solid jazz-influenced track that can well hold his own even after the rapper has finished. Also coming correct is Malito, apparently a producer close to El’s homebase. Rawls who is as sublime as usual on “Speakin'” and “We Bouncin'”, or Croatia’s Koolade, who makes sure that the Sadat X-featuring “On and On” reaches further than just from the “Bricks to the BX.” He tops himself with the bouncing “So Think Again”, introduced by what sounds like Greek guitar playing intriguingly chopped up for your listening pleasure. Other notables behind the boards include Lone Catalyst J. No need to get nervous as you get into the verses” Well fuck that, real tracks at your service “‘What happened to the sounds?’ what everybody’s askin’ Switzerland’s DJ Sebb goes first, with “Relax”, a optimistic tune that supports El’s attempts to calm things down: The beats selected by El for his solo venture are definitely up to today’s standards. Still, even if snippets of Artifacts highlights introduce this record, it can hold its own. It made way for much simpler tracks, where melody is introduced by delicate violin chords and slick guitar riffs rather than triumphant fanfares of horns and towering basslines. In most cases, the sonic boom of the ’90s East Coast sound has been reduced to a mere whisper. Since 2002 is neither 19 and El Da Sensei and DJ Kaos without Tame One are not the Artifacts, don’t expect “Relax Relate Release” to pick up where the criminally slept-on “That’s Them” left off. With the DJ on deck, all El Da Sensei has to present are the lyrics and the hot beats. Technician with precision, switch the fader all day”

El da sensei relax relate release plus#

You had to have lyrics and plus hot beats to get the mixture Yeah kid, it goes deeper but you get the picture (Like Moe Dee, Busy Bee, MC Shan and KRS?) Showin’ your skill up on the mic, originality was keyĪnd the law was not to bite in the highest degree (I hear that) Only a single got you city-wide appeal (Damn!)

No video, car, crib or large deals (Huh?) When your favorite MC’s had no major airplay (What?) “Aight little man, let me tell you ’bout the days After teaching biters a lesson himself in a short interlude called “Be Original”, Kaos plays the naive but eager to learn kid discovering the wonders of yesteryear’s hip-hop music: In between, DJ Kaos also takes on the role of the youngster who is getting schooled on the ways of old in “Questions and Answers”, the type of history lesson that hip-hop needs more than ever. What’s more, by contributing a batch of scratches, Kaos gets an amount of exposure that is rare for DJ’s these days. On his recently released solo debut, “Relax Relate Release”, he tries to rekindle the fond memories of an era when, as Fat Beats owner Joe Abajian says somewhere on this record, “that was the hip-hop at the time, it wasn’t split up as it is now.” Those of us old enough to remember those happy days, who may even remember the Artifacts specifically, will be glad to hear that El is still down with DJ Kaos who had become an official member by the time they released their sophomore joint in 1997. Apparently, so did El Da Sensei, the down-to-earth half of this dope New Jersey duo. Back in the late 90’s, I felt really sorry to see the Artifacts break up.