It's like their work was done at Habro
Tryna dog me out because they think my style is Alpo
But F**K NO!
Tell an enemy that I’m the pedigree
Feed him kibbles n bits until he dribble 'n' spit
Pitiful shit is what I am hearing on the airwaves
That stuff is soon to die out like that jheri curl hair phase"
Edan - Eyeblink (2nd version)
(From no idea where; 200?)
Here at The Martorialist we don't approve of jheri curl disses, but we do approve of this Edan song. Eyeblink is a Top 3 song on Edan's debut CD-R album, but here's a 2nd version of it which is even better. It's the same beat and lyrics, but with re-recorded vocals where he delivers his lines with more boldness. Song is that vintage super-scientific smartarse Percee's Boutique type Edan shit where he says "as a syllable spitter, I kill a bullshitter/my rhymes are skull-grippers which frustrate ya like dull scissors". Lewis Recordings or one of youse boutique raer materialz labels to stop effin' around and give Artchitecture the deluxe remastered reissue treatment on CD with this song and Drop Some Smooth Lyrics as bonus cuts. Make it happen like Ultramagnetic.
My copy of that thst book about independent Rap circa 1995 to 2005 arrived a few days ago. Alas, the author doesn't argue the case why Edan & his m8 Eric "Skillz" Ferguson were a better Rap duo than Mos Def & Talib Kweli. And on that note, I let the facts float: Mos Def & Kweli have two killer tracks together, while Edan & Ferguson have three killer tracks together.
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I like to stir up shit by saying Eminem isn’t even the best white rapper whose name starts with an E
Realest shit you ever stirred.
Is Lewis Recordings even around?
Sporadically, yeah.
Ideal scenario would be Mike reissues Artchitecture and then finally convinces Edan into dropping a new album.
So I finally had time to dig into Independent As Fuck and was left sorely disappointed and annoyed really. Outside of the uncalled for 'mainstream rap after 1998 sucks' and the elevation of middle of the road rap as Little Brother and INI, three quarters of the book is just a compilation of Wikipedia pages masquerading as biographies of groups or artists without any insight outside of 'group xyz put city abc on the map'. This book had some of the dryest, least descriptive writing on rap I've ever read, and for a writer who champions underground lyricism as much as Pendroche I was surprised to see barely any actual lyrical highlights quoted (or even discussed).
Then again, with the tired blanket 'mainstream rap only concerns itself with money, sex and drugs' analysis, I'm not sure if I'd even want to read any musical analysis from his pen.
Martorialist book in stores 2035?
I'm definitely never writing a book. I now find music writing which doesn't include embeds of/hyperlinks to the music it's discussing annoying.
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