Sorry for the delay, but we’re back with our ongoing DEHH Website Exclusive Solo Reviews. This time Myke C-Town takes on the new release by LA noise-hop group, Clipping entitled Midcity. Take a look and let me know what you thought! Reminder…please leave the comments on THIS page and not on the YouTube page.
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Hey Myke. Just wondered if you have heard the bands conversation with needle drop & wether it changed you opinion at all.
Im definitely ignorant to a lot of rap which is lyrically superior to the clipping dude and have a seriously ambivalent relationship to gangster rap. I think its telling though that i feel the same way almost the same about power electronics as i do with gangster rap although i would say the majority of power electronics(PE) lyrics are shit, yeah they got that MC Ride passion but with (PE) they be shouting about same old extreme misogyny, struggle, sado-masochism, oh and you dont got to dig too far to find those racist artists (im black if that matters) . Minus the racism gangster rap is PE light. So i see why they would marry those to genres.
So to contradict myself I mean i wouldn’t mind hearing Danny Brown dick poems over some Merzbow – Pornoise but then that might be a little to obvioius. I mean if they had someone shouting some horrorcore or black metal shit over Load or Intro it would be cool but we wouldn’t having this conversation because the wouldn’t be calling it hip hop. Aaah man is this argument futile? This is all really in defence of the rapper whom you said you dont totally think it wak…i mean i feel they managed to make this sound Clipping. Like i feel it was all calculated blah blah blah.
Now the beats! Those dude are freaking genius. I found noise via john cage, sound art, avant gard music and foley for film. So this shit almost blew my mind. They could of easily been marked as Death grips wanna b’s but they only really share to audible qualities with are noise and hip hop, beyond them two the directions are completely different.
I think the looped ‘get money’ the last track is a tribute/shout out to Steve Reichs “Come out” where he used this phase shifting technique.
I hear Kanye West influence too, do you? Or maybe i just think Kanye might actually really feel those beats some how and tear it up.
Peace.
Dope album. Great.
Could you please review Cult Favorite – For Madmen Only ?
You know I think that this album was going for an energy and I think it achieved it. From what I got I think the MC is a bit smarter than the surface of the album gives him credit for. In my opinion the MC did those types of lyrics on purpose. I may be reading too far into it but it seemed to me he was trying to paint a picture of the dissociated robotic lifestyle that a lot of people fall into. Thats why he repeated overused phrases and things like that as well as the spastc nature of the music. The dark disconnected sounds perfectly complimented this concept.
Also I watched an interview with the emcee and he said he purposely went through the whole album not using the word “I” or referring to himself specifically through the whole album. That goes along with what I am saying about the concept of this album. It is a portrait of the party, drug addled, sex crazed disjointed life that is pretty common nowadays.
The sound and the MC make this album seem like one crazy fucked up night. Even the outro makes a little more sense even if it was a bit long-winded. The buzz words “get money” get repeated so much that they just become a pool of soul-less noise. I think you should maybe try this album again with that concept in mind you may enjoy it more.
Yeah, I dunno. Your idea totally makes sense. But, at the same time, I think all of that could have been achieved user better rhymes. He would still use the overplayed, typical concepts, but just rhyme them better. At times it almost seemed like he was just grabbing words with little thought only because they rhymed. The idea was great. The execution…not so much.
This album is really spotty for me. There are a lot of things I absolutely love,and a lot of weird decisions that bug me. I’ll start with the production…
The production on this album was, for the most part, on point and awesome. I loved hearing the explosions of static on the intro and ‘guns up’, and a lot of the louder stuff made for some really interesting backdrops on Bullshit and Killer as well. That being said, there were some strange production choices at some points on this album. What was up with the weird mine pick sounds totally messing with the beat in the hook of Guns Up? And why the really cheesy, watery, faded hand claps in the background on Story?
As for the MC, I think “A broken clock is right twice a day” applies here. Most of his rhymes are mediocre at their best and downright corny at their worst. “Disney on these hoes, shouts to all my mickey mouses” “They tried to ground me so I joined the mile high club” “But she ain’t screaming’ no more because that dick up in her mouth”. In Loud he actually rhymes “Get my dick sucked” with “Spend them on something to put in this cup”. Ugh. That being said, on the song Story he’s describing a really intricate and disturbing tale of an unfortunate police officer who sees a horrible car wreck and struggles with the mental image to such an extent that he’s driven to alcoholism and becomes the antithesis of what a police officer should be. Where is that kind of story telling on the rest of this album? This is the kind of stuff we need over such gritty, explosive beats.
So, in future releases, I think these guys need to really look at their production critically and take out little production quirks that interrupt the flow of a song. In addition to this, the MC needs to step it up and start spitting like he was on Story.
I couldn’t agree with your assessment any more.