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Saul Williams and Trent Reznor team up to single-handedly destroy rap music.

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Meta:
Grammar'd.

I'm not a racist, I listen to Bill Withers! (lul)

Jackie Blue:

--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 30 Nov 2007, 13:23 ---Sorry, zoned out at the mention of rap  :-D

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Dismissing whole genres is awesome.

Tom:
It iz a skill that killz.

KvP:
The record's not terribly inconsistent with Williams' past work. If anything, it's more akin to your average hip hop record than his self-titled was. And like with a lot of slam poets, he's a lot better live than he is on record. Slam poetry does, after all, have a heavily aleatory element to it. It's just not the same on record.

That having been said, I don't like it a whole lot either. The new Little Brother, for example, is better. But I still think you're overreacting, particularly in it being worse than 50 Cent. The biggest problem is that the music (mostly unreleased stuff from The Fragile) doesn't jibe with the vocals like it optimally should. I really disliked it at first, but it's growing on me, though I'll never think it's great. It's one of those albums that would work better as an EP.

For Saul at his best, look for a Blackalicious track called "Release".

Jackie Blue:
In the interest of full disclosure I'll admit that I've hated Saul Williams for like 12 years, because I used to be a slam poet and met him several times, and was at Nationals with him (though luck of the draw never saw my team directly compete against his team).

I think he's pretty much just awful in general.  It's just that this album took it to such a new level of awful.

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