Archives of August 2012 (4)

A fierce and sinister face, the menacing look of a brute, a soldier outfit, war tanks, skulls, and a desolated landscape, all of this delivered by a Rick Ross protégé who featured once, in a video, with a mountain of cocaine. Two references to Nazi movies in the title, and a swastika (the individual, actually, has one tattooed his own body). The most outrageous lyrics ever, yelled without a pause on dirty and raw synthesizers. Yeah, you got it! Gunplay isn't too much into finesse on his Inglorious Bastard (The Prelude to Valkyrie) mixtape. And that is for the best.

This record of Dose One and Boom Bip is so typical of its time… Even if it wasn't released on this label, it symbolizes so well the rap deconstructionism logic launched in the late 90's by Anticon. It is bordering so much the absurd, that we are not sure we want to listen to it again, almost convinced that it failed the test of time; that today, it would sound horribly outdated; that like 99% of the people in its time, we would find it completely unlistenable.