Situations which have been rendered obsolete by the sands of time: reading a review of a Rap song in a magazine, thinking "hhhm sounds interesting", randomly hearing the song playing in record shop at a later date and being like "oh, that's that joint!" That's what happened to me when I read about Masterminds' I'm Gifted in On The Go magazine and then heard it playing in the Mr. Bongo record shop a few months later. I'm Talented sounds like a Labcabincalifornia era Pharcyde song if it were recorded by a New York backpack duo who didn't have their Jansports strapped too tight. True story: "steering clear of player hating and playing pretending all the while" is one of the main ingredients for good backpack-Rap. This shit still gets me open like Daniella Westbrook's nostrils.
(From The Cold War EP; 1997)
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"This shit still gets me open like Daniella Westbrook's nostrils." 🤣
Crazy how many great singles were reviewed in just that one issue.
Always preferred the OG version of Frankenstein's Pain over its remix, though.
Yeah, they really managed to capture an era with those reviews.
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