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 DJ Spinna
Sonic Smash
High Water | 2009
No Eminem (featured on Spinna’s ‘Heavy Beats vol. 1’) this time, but make sure to buckle up, get ready for DJ Spinna’s newest ‘Sonic Smash’. It’s a showcase of hungry young lions, rapping like every rhyme will feed them an antelope, and household stagers, whose verse delivery is more advanced than an experienced midwife’s, combined with a production that holds the midst between intergalactic and mid school. Besides a great producer, DJ Spinna is a fantastic A&R with a sharp eye for talent and more importantly; which talent matches with his beats.
Obviously this album is packed with great production, but DJ Spinna offers the opportunity for guest rappers to shine over his beats. The stress is definitely laid on lyricism, as Torae explains in his ‘The lyrics is back’. Besides the a-class appearances of known underground heroes such as John Robinson ('who ever did this beat for real got heat too'), Krym of Jigmastas ('this is the way we walk in New York, the lips get dark from L’s, they stay spark’), Breezly Brewin (with his well-known infollowable flow in ‘Making Your Way In The World’), Phonte (on the soulful ‘Guaranteed’ perfectly matching his emotive rap persona image), Elzhi (who probably uses every English expression with a colour ‘and say that every black cloud has a silver lining, and if it’s true, go and see it once in a blue moon’ in ‘Colours’) and Shabaam Sahdeeq (with a where-did-it-go-wrong-between-us-track), this compilation is an example of exquisite recruitment of artists who eagerly to blow up and rumble the current scene.
Much like we had with the release of Soundbombing or Superrappin album, the record has a refreshing, renewing sound to it, making us excited and look forward to what this generation of rappers will harvest in the future. Lots of energy is expressed by Senor ‘the flow, the man, the brain’ Kaos on ‘Call Me Senor’, the AOK Collective anthem ‘Get On Down’ gathers future underground heroes Fresh Daily (‘please pipe down with your tough guy frown’), Homeboy Sandman and P.casso, while the man-who-will-make-us-forget-about-Sadat X Dynas (‘we need more options than to be locked up and relocated’) brilliantly tackles the thumping electro bassline of ‘More’.
And so Spinna leaves us with a sonic enjoyment, a colourful music mosaic with blunt authenticity, and more importantly with rejoicing hope for the future of rap. Goddamn hip-hop is beautiful, and a billion milky ways away from being dead!
posted by: cpf | 10-07-2009 | rated: topnotch |
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