I should say that this is as pop as the album gets. Most of it is very nice roots reggae, updated, but not sucked dry of all the stuff I like from back in the 70s.
BTW I still rate the lyric "Get your ho, and another ho: Merry Christmas!", from "I Wanna Get High" as one of my favourite. I know I probably shouldn't, but I can imagine it being delivered in a jokey way, so that's OK.
BTW, and on the subject of gender politics, I'm wondering what feminists in general might think of this fire and brimstone approach to "the cause" ;-) :
Can't let this rare hip-hop set pass without this lot... The absolute zenith of US Hip-Hop music AFAIC! Creative, gifted, funny, unconventional, edgy. Pretty much everything I like about humanity. :-)
Can't let this rare hip-hop set pass without this lot... The absolute zenith of US Hip-Hop music AFAIC! Creative, gifted, funny, unconventional, edgy. Pretty much everything I like about humanity. :-)
Ah, yes! Always, for me, that perfect shade of macabre. That sweet spot of magnetic repulsiveness. I have no idea why "Bang your motherf***ing head" should make me giggle as much as it does. But it does !
Can't let this rare hip-hop set pass without this lot... The absolute zenith of US Hip-Hop music AFAIC! Creative, gifted, funny, unconventional, edgy. Pretty much everything I like about humanity. :-)
Ah, yes! Always, for me, that perfect shade of macabre. That sweet spot of magnetic repulsiveness. I have no idea why "Bang your motherf***ing head" should make me giggle as much as it does. But it does !
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Absolutely brilliant.
Very evocative.
BTW, and on the subject of gender politics, I'm wondering what feminists in general might think of this fire and brimstone approach to "the cause" ;-) :
Any excuse for some Portishead.
:-)