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of TTP got co-opted by the attraction of certain executives at Interscope with Don't Say Nuttin', so maybe, hopefully there are some tracks that were created that were really fresh, but simply didn't fit with the album.
I like the song well-enough, but i want to preface this by saying that i WILL buy the album on the day it's released, no doubt, so it's not like i'm not going to support the band.
* big exhale *
I think this is their best effort to take the 'mountain to muhammad'. it's a good song, it's straight forward, it's distinctive. i guess the best way to describe this song is 'effective' like he mentioned on the boards around the time TTP was about to drop.
It feels like I've listened to the band for the past 13 years, but I still don't know the band. When i heard the instrumentals on TTP (Melting Pot and Din Da Da) i thought the band had finally hit their stride, that they had found something different than what the average band could put together. kind of like a superband, but for hip-hop.
But that being said, i don't like the singles the group picks initially. and it takes the music a little while to grow on me before i actually 'get' it. if it sounds like i'm hating, i don't mean to and given what the band is up against (being on a new label, coming off an album that screwed with the band's psyche, being a near anachronism in their field) i think this is a solid song.
i was thinking that The Roots are as close to 'un-filtered' hip-hop as you can get. it's high-quality, well-thoughtout, and aesthetically pleasing. but that's the image that would work well to attract a music historian or someone new to music, i don't know what that means to the average hip-hop listener...
((( (( ( my rambling thoughts ) )) )))
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