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2927503, Went back and listened again today. Sequencing on side A is perfect
Posted by spenzalii, Sun Apr-12-15 12:39 AM
Contract on the World Love Jam is like the fuse. The vocal snippets just get you set up for something big, something controversial. When the scratch comes in and the beat drops on Brother's Gonna Work It Out, you're ready to act, ready to mobilize, ready to riot, and Chuck gives you all the vocal reasoning to do so. Then as if to cool things down, keep the peace, you get a Flavor Flav track. He's funny, right? But while you're laughing, 911 Is A Joke is skewering the PFD, and rightfully so. So you're laughing, but the anger is still simmering. They turn the heat up a bit on Incident at 66.6FM. You can get your dance on if you want, but the clips from the news interview will do nothing but anger you. Then the monster comes on. You get the TS Monk sample, the HARD ass scratch and a SONIC WALL OF TOTAL CHAOS that id Welcome To The Terrordome. Samples come at you from every angle, as Chuck manages to piss off white people, black people, Jewish people and Asian people. But at this point you're ready to sign up to be a S1W because you're so riled up. At this point PE knows they can do and say whatever they want and you're gonna listen, so they go in on AIDS (Meet The G That Killed Me), inter relationships and self hate in the community (Pollywannacracka), racism in Hollywood (Anti-Nigga Machine and Burn Hollywood Burn) before they close out the first side with the 'we shall overcome' message of Power To The People. You're simultaneously wiped out and extremely focused for side 2. It's really amazing.