|
 |
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. |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reviews Summary |
| 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 |
| Reviews | |
|
| If underground demi-legend Labtekwon's latest release sounds old school, that's because it is. Mush Records has assembled a greatest hits collection for a Baltimore rapper who has released seven previous records and no hits. But some of the tracks on Song of the Sovereign are indeed great. Labtekwon has a history of lengthy lyrical exercises that ebb and flow over a spare beat, dirty-needle effect, thick bass line and the occasional flute hook. Take a listen to his dropped science and think back, way back, to the MC era, when lyrical dexterity meant more than providing an excuse for yet another uber-producer soundscape. - Exclaim! |
2XLP/Out Of Print