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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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| 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 |
| This is the kind of album that inspires inverse snobbery in many white rap reviewers (rap reviewers that are white, that is - not reviewers of white rap). Not me though, I'm still naive and idealistic enough to appreciate the playful seriousness of an artist like Busdriver. Irreverence has always been a big part of hip-hop, from Soulsonic Force to Digital Underground to Ultramagnetic MCs, and while this element is currently its commercial rebirth in the crunkzone of Li'l Jon et al. It's refreshing to know others are augmenting their sense of fun with hardcore intellect. Fear of a Black Tangent may not be the future of hip-hop, but Busdriver is beyond such petty temporal concerns. He is the master of his own psychedelic pocket universe, and normal rules do not apply. - Rock Sound |
1XLP/Out Of Print