El-P
Cancer 4 Cure
Fat Possum Records; 2012
Score (SSG Music scale): 9/10
I wrote over 1,140 words exalting praise on El-P’s third solo album, Cancer 4 Cure, and all I got was this damn crick in my neck. Click here to read my album review over at SSG Music.
Vast Aire, the MC with one of the illest slow flows in the game, is back with a new LP, Can Ox 2010: A Street Odyssey, set to drop May 31. When acclimating non-hiphop heads to the genre’s intimidating breadth, Cannibal Ox’s 2001 masterpiece, The Cold Vein, is required listening. Behind the strength of El-P’s frigid industrial production and the left-of-center vocal interplay between Vast Aire and fellow group member Vordul Mega, Vein was the definitive (ahem) Definitive Jux album, embodying everything that was unique about the now-defunct label’s streetwise mentality.
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