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| Release: | Headphone Music EP |
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| Media: | [Audio CD] | | Released: | 2000 |
| Recordlabel: | Indie (Independant Release) |
| Info: | 1. ...This old house
2. To: MC's - featuring 4th Command
3. No Challengers - featuring Vex DaVortex
4. Man's Wisdom - featuring Alon Auguste
5. The Art of Music - featuring Manchild & OyeBo
6. Vibin' - featuring Alon Auguste
7. Sea of Vocabulary - featuring Scott Bellows
8. Area Instrumental |
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| | Review: | There’s a difference between reviving an old school sound
and just plain sounding old. Unfortunately, The Headphone
Music EP from Vocab Malone and the Prism Cru falls under the
latter category when perhaps aiming for the former.
Instead of simply passing through familiar hiphop territory
in order to rekindle memories of the culture’s golden age (a
la KJ52’s “We Rock The Mic”), Malone and company seem
content to park the car and set up camp. As such, the
listener is fed tired kung-fu samples in the intro, a
ubiquitous guest appearance MC in Vex da Vortex, a hackneyed
geography-based hook (“To all my peoples in the
West/East/South/North…”), and an early Michael Jackson
sample that has been used by other artists two and three
times before.
It could be argued that some of these flaws should be
overlooked and are outshined by the brighter points on the
record. DJ Epic’s tablework throughout the piece isn’t half
bad, illtripp’s production on several tracks is up to par as
always, and Vex’s verse on “No Challengers” is fierce.
However, John Reuben’s recycling Jacko’s “I Can’t Help It”
from Off the Wall to produce “Divine Inspiration” is simply
unforgivable. Astute fans of the music will note the sample
has already been used in gospel hiphop on Peace 586’s “Where
Ya At?” and in the secular realm before that with De La
Soul’s “Breakadawn.”
Instead of finding The Headphone Music EP to be the
freshest new junk release from Vocab Malone and the Prism
Cru, most listeners will be disappointed to realize that it
sounds a lot like something they’ve had in their Walkmans
once before.
- Sketch the Journalist
| | source: ONE MIND, added: Jan 30, 2006 |  |
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