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MH-235 Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent  With the most cohesive work of his career, Busdriver turns his razor sharp wit on his place in the music industry with his new full-length release, Fear Of A Black Tangent. It is the follow-up to his career establishing release, Temporary Forever. Songs covering small club touring, independent music promotion, and the barrage of uninspired hip-hop releases on the market all contribute to the album's theme of trying to break as a emerging artist. Busdriver has taken a year's worth of material and trimmed it down to thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed MCs Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9, and 2Mex. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Certainly the best I've heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| Busdriver is an undeniably gifted rapper who can reel off wry, observational rhymes full of cross-cultural reverences and scathing social critiques with ease. For you, this should be old news. Coming up via Project Blowed, he's among the indie hip-hop elite that keep real heads satiated in the rapidly gentrifying world of rap. Never one to shy away from the ironic realities of being an "underground star" (where all the street cred in the country can't match the lunch budget of a Jay-Z video shoot), Busdriver laments his decidedly existential situation at length over the course of these panoramically produced tunes: "What kind of name is Bus Drive? / It suggests a wack allegory / And it can't be justified by any background story / I heard he sucks live / Only appeals to hipsters who dress like Russian spies." But it's these internal struggles that fuel his potent lyricism - and his outstanding album. - Urb |
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