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167124, you nailed it with this paragraph.
Posted by Dr Claw, Tue May-22-12 08:10 AM
>In many ways, El-P's bowing to the sound of Atlanta without
>compromising his desire to challenge is R.A.P. Album's
>greatest success story. "Go!" would have fit right in
>alongside Mike's work on I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II,
>while "Ghetto Gospel" cackles in the ears of those who would
>complain El-P is forever the soundtrack to white bread, coldly
>backpack-oriented abstraction. It's a minor footnote that a
>man known for such derogatorily defined "white rap" has made
>such an extremely southern, black record, but it's definitely
>an accomplishment that will dominant early sessions for folks
>intimate with his past works. But with the constantly
>transforming background details, squiggly synth basslines and
>AmeriKKKaz Most Wanted revivals like "Don't Die" and "Reagan",
>one would be very wrong to assume El-P held back from putting
>his foot in this album. He simply did it in a way that can
>only be defined as shockingly accessible considering his
>oeuvre.