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MH-207 Labtekwon - Song Of The Sovereign  Mush, in conjunction with Ankh Ba Records, has collected seventeen tracks from Labtekwon's extensive catalog for the career retrospective, Song Of The Sovereign. From his debut, Ghetto Gospel through The Future's Now... What's Next, Da Dawn, Da Helpless Won, Balti-Moorish Science, and Nile Child, to his lo-fi live recording Proverbs of Passion, and his most recent full-length, The Last Emcee/The Art of Love, Labtek's releases have been as innovative as they are impossible to find. Effortlessly shifting styles and content, running from hundreds-of-words-in-a-breath stream-of-consciousness channeling to take-no-prisoner battle raps, Song Of The Sovereign is the perfect introduction to one of the underground's most respected and influential emcees. |
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| An impressive album from an MC whose time has come - Vibe / Labtekwon is the revitalization of Brand Nubian, KRS-One, and A Tribe Called Quest all in one - Ghetto Blaster / The most unjustly slept-on rapper in underground hip-hop - CMJ / This is a great collection - Mixer / Raises the rhyme bar with brain-expanding efficiency - Pulse |
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| Labtekwon has been around a while without ever really breaking through, which is really surprising when you hear these tracks all together. Maybe it's the sparseness of Professor Max Mineblo's backing tracks, or perhaps it's just that Labtek is too wayward, too willing to mix up black power meditations with vocal risk and all kinds of other shit. Who cares-get the album and check out "Perversion" and save the analysis for your next counseling session. 5/5 - Muzik |
2XLP/Out Of Print