''what happens when you take two prolific poets/lyricists, and combine their talent with underground's golden boy dj shadow? you get 'latyrx: the album'. this album came out in 1998, and it is so unappreciated.
it does things that no other rap album I have ever heard has done. the first track, for instance, is a futuristic space ride in which starts out with silence and then out of the silence comes the name latyrx, then dj shadow busts a space age beat that makes you think space mountain, and then both rappers take a channel, left and right, and rap different verses in different styles, but play off of each other, play catch with rhymes, and their emotions swell one peaking as the other reaches the low point and then they switch again. that is only the first track.
this album has freestyles, battles, some of the sickest beats ever made. this album changed my life, changed my view on hip hop, and i hope that everyone picks this up because it's the greatest hip hop album, and the most prolific hip hop album i've ever heard.'' - nick heller
it does things that no other rap album I have ever heard has done. the first track, for instance, is a futuristic space ride in which starts out with silence and then out of the silence comes the name latyrx, then dj shadow busts a space age beat that makes you think space mountain, and then both rappers take a channel, left and right, and rap different verses in different styles, but play off of each other, play catch with rhymes, and their emotions swell one peaking as the other reaches the low point and then they switch again. that is only the first track.
this album has freestyles, battles, some of the sickest beats ever made. this album changed my life, changed my view on hip hop, and i hope that everyone picks this up because it's the greatest hip hop album, and the most prolific hip hop album i've ever heard.'' - nick heller
extremely underrated album by latyrx (lateef the truthspeaker and lyrics born). it's neither 'the greatest hip-hop album,' nor 'the most prolific hip-hop album ever', like 'nick heller' is claiming in his review, but it is definitely -one- of the best. get this.
tracklist:
latyrx 01
say that 02
the quickening (the wreckoning part ii) 03
balcony beach 04
live 90.3 '94 05
the muzappers mix: aim for the flickering flame/rankin' #1 06
funky granules 07
bad news 08
off (with) their heads (be prompt) 09
interlude 10
burnt pride 11
scratchapella 12
the wreckoning (live 45 mix) 13
burning hot in cali on a saturday night (ft. blackalicious) 14
it's your choice: get it easy/support the artist.
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