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)
