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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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| With the mic on his side and a Saul Williams-like fire in his mind and heart, Labtekwon spits out abstractions under the guise of murky, jazz-funk beats. It's no big secret as to why underground hip-hop is underground. Those flossing their P. Diddy and Mystikal records probably couldn't handle the verbal intellect and alternative rhythms provided by cats like Labtekwon and his producer-in-arms Professor Max Mineblo. The mic-checka takes street poetry and combines it with a variety of moods ranging from the Black Sheep-esque "CSD" which even pokes a little fun at Heavy D's tired 90's hit "Now that We Found Love." Song of the Sovereign is an updated throwback to the early 90's era where more qualified acts like Das Efx, Lords of the Underground and Leaders of the New School reigned supreme. This is your futuristic history lesson. Listen up. - Blue Divide |
2XLP/Out Of Print