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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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| Baltimore, MD's Labtekwon has been making quiet waves in hip-hop circles for years. Though you may have never heard any of Lab's seven full-length releases (out on his own Ankh Ba Records), Mush Records obviously aims to blow the lid off Lab's down-low existence. Song of the Sovereign is a greatest hits of sorts, though it's more of an introduction - for those who have been sleeping - to Labtekwon's style, a truly inventive and unique delivery that can slow down to an apocalyptically slow trot and explode into a full gait that bobs and weaves through the music and always makes its way back to the beat's head. The music itself represents several albums' worth of beats, and is varied - from jazzy and funky to abstract and raw - which further highlights Labtekwon's skill on the mic. - Synthesis |
2XLP/Out Of Print