Luckily we are not introduced to the character only through his bad actions which easily could become rather cliché. The story is not told in chronological order as it's not even a "traditional story" instead each song works as a glimpse into Redford's mind and with each peak we gets closer to understanding who he is and why he is doing the things he are. There's not many emcees that could pull off an album like this with such belivability but luckily Black Thought's portrayal of Redford Stephen's could be an Oscar nominee if this was an actual flick.
Therein also lies its brilliance and trust me when I say that The Roots have made another brilliant record with "undun".
SMIF N WESSUN DAH SHININ RAR FULL
The casual listener might not even notice that the music in fact follows (or rather forms) a storyline and it will most likely take you several listens before you can really grasp the full scale of events. It is true that "undun" is a concept album, but it is not at all as direct or as obvious as "A Prince Among Thieves" or Sticky Fingaz's "Black Trash".
It's new year's eve and although I've written these reviews beforehand and just finetuned them, I'm out to celebrate the new year so check out my original, more extensive, review of the EP if you're interested), Tomorrow I will reveal my #1 favorite album of 2011, any guess or thoughts on my list so far? K-Def / LL Cool J - "Year Of The Hip-Hop"Īll in all it's a super dope record that I strongly recommend that you pick up before it's out of print. "The Night Shift" is either an EP or a mini-album depending on what fornat you choosed to pick up (and fuck a downloader as far as small indie records like this goes) the vinyl version is a typical EP with 8 songs and 20 minutes in time while the CD and Cassette versions features five additional bonus tracks (inclúding the three mindblowing tracks from the previously released tracks from the 7" single he released through Reddefintion this summer a mega fat hardcore but still atmospheric remake of Jay Dee's instrumental to De La's classic " Stakes is High"and at the end is an unlisted track that happened to be the classic but just to this year previously unreleased monster K-Def collaboration with LL Cool J that was recorded for "14 Shots to the Dome" along with some uncredited goodies such as " Funkadelic Relic" and probably other unknown heaters from that LP. He recently hooked up with very respectable underground label Redefinition Records a label that treat the artists with 100% respect, giving them full creative control over their own projects. He's clearly the master at that and I doubt anyone will come along that's better pr even on the same level. These days he's a respected, but misunderstood, super creative and original artists with an almost all all digital set-up that enables him to totally rearrange and recompose classic tracks K-Def style without even using samples. K-Def has come along way from the '94 days back then he was creating classic hip-hop tunes with Marley Marl The House of Hits using an all analog set-up. Other suprcharged guest features that add to the overall product is the BCC features Rock on " Feel Me" that also features a killer verse from Bun B Buckshot on the grimey " Night Life" that features both one of the albums hottest beats and one of those classic Pete Rock interludes that helpe make him his name from day #1. Pete Rock himself appear on two joints himself and it's evident that he's a much better emcee than he has been since at least the "Soul Survivor" LP more than a decade ago. Unlike their debut though, there's alot of guest artists that I guess Pete had the biggest hand in getting together but for the most part these collaborations are fantastic and the few joints with just Tek N Steele like the "instant classics" " Go Off" and the beautiful album closer " Time to Say". I know he said in an interview that he wanted to create an album that was their best joint since Smif-N-Wessun's classic "Dah Shinin'" (1995) and despite other dope releases from the Brownsville duo, I think they actually pulled it off.
You can tell that Pete was an actual part in the record studio when the tracks went down which gives the album a sound of authenticity.
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