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I was always a Organized Konfusion fan but with their third and final album as a duo, it was them trying to go with an concept album but still bring the same vibe from their second album.
I remember when it dropped, "Numbers" was already getting play on some radio, mostly college radio, and underground mix shows, but it better songs out during that time so it got lost in the mix, so when the album dropped I think most was thinking it was going to be a wordplay album with straight singles and dirty b-sides, but that wasn't the case.
The album had tons of skits inbetween that basically slowed it down to where you couldn't wait to hear the songs and just passed by the skits and straight to the songs; personally I liked a few of the skits, the songs followed the theme/story of the skits, but sometimes it wasn't necessary; I had a lot of my friends tell me the album was terrible or boring but a month after it came out I decided to finally cop the album and take a listen (which I was going to do anyways), and I understood why they wasn't feeling this album.
Like I said it was the skits that was holding the album back but to me I understood what Prince Po & Pharoahe Monch was trying to take it, but I guess boom-bap songs don't really need a storyline or subject matter in 1997 to entertain or to not bore the listeners on repeat listens but I think it went over fans heads a lil' too much.
I listened to it a few more times and after that I didn't listen to that album again until a year after Pharoahe Monch's solo album dropped (cause I played the shit out of "Internal Affairs" almost everyday) but when I did listen to "Equinox" I liked it even more and had it on rotation for almost two months.
Was it a sleeper, I'll say yeah, most didn't appreciate it for what they were trying to do but to me the songs were banging, beats were dope, rhymes had meaning, flows & styles were off the meter; but during that time you would think with Wu-Tang returning, Common & The Roots were making dope material, EPMD got back together, jiggy rap was big, you would think this was the perfect time for a underground hip-hop to be releasing an album.
So of my friends still don't care for that album but when I start playing songs from it or talk about it, they like that was dope or forget those songs were on that album...go figure.
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--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
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