It takes a hell of a lot for a rap album to appeal to me. So often it's one track or two that's good while the rest is very mediocre. This one is a mixed bag surely but the overall impression is a very decent one. And Norwegian music to boot, it seems to be coming in leaps and bounds.

Having heard only a couple of tracks before I was excited to see what the album would be like. It was released in 2002 so by no means brand new but as I hadn't heard it before, it was all new to me. The opening track "Introducing" makes a very good impression (which is unusual) and from there it goes slightly downhill but still very worthwhile.

Track rating
Introducing :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
Last Lieutnants :cool: :cool:
Barcelona :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
Moving Up :cool: :cool:
Put It On :cool: :cool: :cool:
One Of Them Days :cool: :cool: :cool:
In Between :cool: :cool:
Trust Me :cool: :cool:
Ras Steven Skit
Feel It :cool: :cool: :cool:
Boatdrinks :cool: :cool:
It's Paper :cool: :cool:
No Cure For Life :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

7/10

Do you recognize a genius when you see one? You're looking at one right now. Hans Zimmer has composed and co-authored more movie soundtracks than most of us can keep track of here, here's an exhaustive list: show me all of em Not surprisingly, he's done it again. With Harry Gregson-Williams, he turned out yet another magnificent soundtrack for King Arthur. I haven't seen the movie and I don't plan to, it's supposed to be terrible. But the score is another masterpiece. If there was a way to keep a human being alive forever and there was one spot open for all of humanity, I'm hard pressed to find anyone who would be more fitting for it.

Unlike what one enthusiastic soul wrote on cdnow.com, I hardly consider this Hans' best work. There isn't enough substance nor consistency in it to really rank in the top group. But that doesn't mean I haven't been listening to it for 3 straight days and that's how you really identify a genius, a craftsman whose average work is a masterpiece...

All hail the king!!! :star:

It's been a while now since I first discovered rottenoradio.com, a pretty decent Canadian hip hop radio station. It was thanks to Winamp5 and the new media library that I came by it and it turns out to be pretty good. The only problem is that they have a short playlist so after a day or two you tend to hear a lot of the same tracks.

The other day I got a chance to listen to some old Public Enemy records from the album "He got game", official soundtrack for the movie of the same name. Most of the stuff is a bit to dull for my liking but there are some diamonds on it as well. Notably the following tracks.
"He got game"
"House of the rising son"
"Resurrection"
"What you need is Jesus"

I have to get around to watching the movie some time as well.

5/10

I really liked the lyrics for "What you need is Jesus" so they're given below.

Public Enemy - What You Need is Jesus Lyrics

[Charles Barkley] Halleluja Jesus, Halleluja!

Now here's the pop, turnaround jumper,
Hits the rim bounce away, the new slave trade.
Manchild, six feet five, but juvenile.
Thin line between getting bucks and gettin wild.
Brooklyn style, hundred thousand miles.
Parque tiles, leavin ankles broke in a pile.
Son got a ticket to fly, he can make it if he try,
To the sky, like a Coney Island ride.
Gettin pages, from his super agent,
Community raises at the clout or the cages.
No doubt, center stages, mad phases,
>From behind crazies flippin through the faces.
Paper chases, love that many places.
Pros and cons, flics between the races.
He hold the rock, call for sweat shops.
Guard the set shop replaced by sex shops.
The highest bidder, no room for the quitter.
Gave seven tickets, under counterfittas.
Three cities a week, droppin needles.
Like the black Beatles take heed, what you need is...

[Chorus:]
Jesus (The incredible)
Jesus (And in your existence, huh)
Jesus(The incredible, yea)
Jesus(Check it out)

Crack my picture, never swith up.
Smack the back ups, pack them pick ups.
Resurrection of the two man vocal section.
The spirit in your dark ass direction.
Duckin them spray ups on my way that i thought be lay ups.

Won the battle wars, a thousand one push ups.
Here marks the return of them rules about Ruff Ryders.
Risin, chargin hard from the point guard.
Watch what you prey for, but know the team that you play for.
Need I say more?
Uh, scared of the resurrection,
Sacrafice yours, them maybe the revolution is basketball.
Changes, generanges. Which means rearrange shit,
Erase shit, stuck on Playstations.
Then the new plantations, I said a millions heads.
Waitin for another nation.
To make your world be free.
No shoppin sprees, there ain't no stoppin me.
Here's the fee, not the weed.
Got to see, God speed. What you need is...

[Chorus 2x]

Sticky D gives you fits, on them turnaround hippocrytes.
Comin and goin like flics.
Hit em net scripts, like a butcher.
Gettin all the chips musta been a road trip against the Knicks.
On T.V. showcasin kicks.
Must be the fan cause his video gettin all the chicks.
Walk up on a replay on Monday.
Sportscenter highlights, last second steal kept em real.
What you need is...
Jesus
Jesus (What you need is)
Jesus
Jesus (What you need is)
Jesus
Jesus (What you need is)
Jesus
Jesus

Went to the Norwegian Hip Hop Awards last night.. frankly I didn't know what to expect, after all it's a Norwegian event. But it surpassed my worst expectations. First of all the music sucked. Apart from one group from South Africa all the groups were Norwegian, all of them rapping in their buttugly dialects. The noise was tremendous, I couldn't make up any of the words and it was just loud. The acoustics of course sucked so it was mostly a matter of noise, in whatever shape or form. It's funny how people go to concerts, not so much for the music as just for being there, as long as it's loud, no matter what the source of the noise actually is.

I'll gladly skip this bs next year.

2/10 for "Black noise", the rest was utter crap.