This album feels more like a manifesto than it does your typical hip hop album. This thing is laced with attitude and poignant commentary on the current state of America's treatment of black people, and is delivered through some damn punchy guitar-driven instrumentals with a stank-face-worthy amount of dirt.
Good enough for the one-and-done but beyond that it's still relatively unremarkable melodic hardcore.
JUNE 2026 THRIFT HAUL
Entry 2/17
Mad Professor - Black Liberation Dub, Chapter 3: Evolution of Dub
This being my first experience with dub outside of a handful of tracks from Sublime's catalog, it was a pretty neat experience up until it began to run repetitive (which wasn't that far into the album). However, I did leave at least mildly intrigued to seek out more from this genre, because this album reminds me of vaporwave in a lot of ways, chiefly with its particular usage of effects ... read more
JUNE 2026 THRIFT HAUL
Entry 1/17
Fourplay - Fourplay (1991)
Being that I'm severely underexposed to the world of jazz and that I'm fresh off the awe-inspiring experience that was the Kansas City Folk Festival, I made sure to reserve a sizable portion of this haul for more jazz music so I could further acquaint myself. I had no idea when I grabbed it that this record would be the self-titled album from THE defining smooth jazz group (apparently), in arguably the most easy-entry ... read more